Ask / request — December 2026
The best days to ask for a raise in December 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 December 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 Tue, Dec 15, 12:00 AM EST and holds until Tue, Dec 15, 5:00 PM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | Tue | 42 | waning |
| Dec 2 | Wed | 31 | waningvoid Wed 4:10 AM – Wed 3:03 PM |
| Dec 3 | Thu | 42 | waning |
| Dec 4 | Fri | 36 | waningvoid Fri 5:40 PM – Fri 11:35 PM |
| Dec 5 | Sat | 42 | conjunction Venus 12:41 AMwaning |
| Dec 6 | Sun | 42 | waning |
| Dec 7 | Mon | 36 | waningvoid Mon 4:07 AM – Mon 10:06 AM |
| Dec 8 | Tue | 45 | waningwaxing |
| Dec 9 | Wed | 52 | sextile Venus 6:49 AMwaxingvoid Wed 4:06 PM – Wed 10:08 PM |
| Dec 10 | Thu | 51 | sextile Venus 6:49 AMwaxingvoid Thu 2:12 PM – Sat 11:05 AM |
| Dec 11 | Fri | 33 | waxingvoid Thu 2:12 PM – Sat 11:05 AM |
| Dec 12 | Sat | 42 | square Venus 12:05 AMwaxingvoid Thu 2:12 PM – Sat 11:05 AM |
| Dec 13 | Sun | 58 | square Venus 12:05 AMwaxing |
| Dec 14 | Mon | 52 | waxingvoid Mon 5:39 PM – Mon 11:35 PM |
| Dec 15 | Tue | 68 | trine Venus 4:32 PMwaxing |
| Dec 16 | Wed | 58 | waxing |
| Dec 17 | Thu | 49 | waxingvoid Thu 12:42 AM – Thu 9:34 AM |
| Dec 18 | Fri | 58 | waxing |
| Dec 19 | Sat | 50 | opposition Venus 1:13 PMwaxingvoid Sat 11:39 AM – Sat 3:29 PM |
| Dec 20 | Sun | 51 | opposition Venus 1:13 PMwaxing |
| Dec 21 | Mon | 53 | waxingvoid Mon 12:26 PM – Mon 5:27 PM |
| Dec 22 | Tue | 58 | waxing |
| Dec 23 | Wed | 56 | trine Venus 7:09 PMwaningwaxingvoid Wed 12:01 PM – Wed 4:58 PM |
| Dec 24 | Thu | 50 | trine Venus 7:09 PMwaningvoid Thu 7:09 PM – Fri 4:12 PM |
| Dec 25 | Fri | 22 | square Venus 10:28 PMwaningvoid Thu 7:09 PM – Fri 4:12 PM |
| Dec 26 | Sat | 34 | square Venus 10:28 PMwaning |
| Dec 27 | Sun | 38 | sextile Venus 5:17 AMwaningvoid Sun 11:38 AM – Sun 5:12 PM |
| Dec 28 | Mon | 50 | sextile Venus 5:17 AMwaning |
| Dec 29 | Tue | 27 | sextile Venus 5:17 AMwaningvoid Tue 5:17 AM – Tue 9:26 PM |
| Dec 30 | Wed | 42 | waning |
| Dec 31 | Thu | 41 | waningvoid Thu 10:27 PM – Fri 5:15 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 December 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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