When is the best day to ask for a raise in November 2026?

The month's best stretch opens Sun, Nov 15, 5:00 AM EST and holds until Tue, Nov 17, 3:00 AM EST, scoring 72 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Ask / request — November 2026

The best days to ask for a raise in November 2026.

Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time); every interval prints its UTC offset. A different timezone shifts the day boundaries — the sky doesn’t change, but the local days it lands in can.

You’ve got the raise on the calendar. Here is November 2026, scored for asking: every hour rated on the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon’s phase, and its next applying aspect for this decision — then averaged per day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

The month’s best stretch opens Sun, Nov 15, 5:00 AM EST and holds until Tue, Nov 17, 3:00 AM EST, scoring 72.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Nov 1	Sun	31	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 7:10 PMwaningvoid Sat 5:59 PM – Sun 12:18 AM
Nov 2	Mon	26	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 7:10 PMwaningvoid Mon 7:10 PM – Tue 3:27 AM
Nov 3	Tue	20	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Mon 7:10 PM – Tue 3:27 AM
Nov 4	Wed	1	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Wed 1:57 AM – Thu 9:38 AM
Nov 5	Thu	21	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 5:49 AMwaningvoid Wed 1:57 AM – Thu 9:38 AM
Nov 6	Fri	36	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 5:49 AMwaning
Nov 7	Sat	18	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Venus 5:49 AMwaningvoid Sat 8:19 AM – Sat 5:39 PM
Nov 8	Sun	24	Mercury retrogradewaning
Nov 9	Mon	33	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Mon 6:25 PM – Tue 3:35 AM
Nov 10	Tue	42	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 1:11 AMwaxingvoid Mon 6:25 PM – Tue 3:35 AM
Nov 11	Wed	48	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 1:11 AMwaxing
Nov 12	Thu	29	Mercury retrogradesextile Venus 1:11 AMsquare Venus 1:55 PMwaxingvoid Thu 6:29 AM – Thu 3:27 PM
Nov 13	Fri	42	Mercury retrogradesquare Venus 1:55 PMwaxing
Nov 14	Sat	43	square Venus 1:55 PMwaxingvoid Sat 1:55 PM – Sun 4:24 AM
Nov 15	Sun	64	trine Venus 2:43 AMwaxingvoid Sat 1:55 PM – Sun 4:24 AM
Nov 16	Mon	72	trine Venus 2:43 AMwaxing
Nov 17	Tue	52	trine Venus 2:43 AMwaxingvoid Tue 9:25 AM – Tue 4:19 PM
Nov 18	Wed	58	waxing
Nov 19	Thu	55	waxingvoid Thu 8:46 PM – Fri 12:52 AM
Nov 20	Fri	45	opposition Venus 7:09 PMwaxingvoid Thu 8:46 PM – Fri 12:52 AM
Nov 21	Sat	48	opposition Venus 7:09 PMwaxing
Nov 22	Sun	55	waxingvoid Sun 2:38 AM – Sun 5:09 AM
Nov 23	Mon	58	waxing
Nov 24	Tue	58	trine Venus 10:51 PMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 5:09 AM – Tue 6:09 AM
Nov 25	Wed	55	trine Venus 10:51 PMwaning
Nov 26	Thu	31	square Venus 12:40 AMwaningvoid Thu 12:23 AM – Thu 5:51 AM
Nov 27	Fri	34	square Venus 12:40 AMwaning
Nov 28	Sat	41	sextile Venus 5:10 AMsquare Venus 12:40 AMwaningvoid Sat 12:40 AM – Sat 6:20 AM
Nov 29	Sun	50	sextile Venus 5:10 AMwaning
Nov 30	Mon	40	sextile Venus 5:10 AMwaningvoid Mon 5:10 AM – Mon 9:12 AM

How to read this

Void-of-course— after the Moon’s last exact aspect in a sign, before it enters the next. The classical read: finish things; don’t start them. Exact times are in the void calendar for November 2026. Mercury retrograde — the traditional caution for messages, deals, and signatures; station times to the second are in the retrograde dates. Waxing / waning — growing favors starts, thinning favors finishing. The applying aspect— the Moon’s next exact contact with this decision’s planet, easy angles helping, hard angles dragging. The full rulebook — which conventions Orrery follows and which it refuses — is in Method.

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