Sign / commit — August 2025
The best days to buy a car in August 2025.
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 purchase on the calendar. Here is August 2025, scored for committing: 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 Sat, Aug 16, 1:00 PM EDT and holds until Sat, Aug 16, 2:00 PM EDT, scoring 64.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1 | Fri | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 2 | Sat | 22 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 9:06 PM – Sun 2:00 AM |
| Aug 3 | Sun | 22 | Mercury retrogradetrine Saturn 5:08 AMwaxingvoid Sat 9:06 PM – Sun 2:00 AM |
| Aug 4 | Mon | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 5 | Tue | 21 | Mercury retrogradesquare Saturn 3:53 PMwaxingvoid Tue 11:28 AM – Tue 1:04 PM |
| Aug 6 | Wed | 12 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 1:39 PM – Thu 9:18 PM |
| Aug 7 | Thu | 0 | Mercury retrogradesextile Saturn 11:48 PMwaxingvoid Wed 1:39 PM – Thu 9:18 PM |
| Aug 8 | Fri | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 9 | Sat | 9 | Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Sat 3:55 AM – Sun 2:50 AM |
| Aug 10 | Sun | 30 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sat 3:55 AM – Sun 2:50 AM |
| Aug 11 | Mon | 28 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Mon 2:54 AM – Tue 6:32 AM |
| Aug 12 | Tue | 47 | conjunction Saturn 8:33 AMwaningvoid Mon 2:54 AM – Tue 6:32 AM |
| Aug 13 | Wed | 50 | waningvoid Wed 6:54 PM – Thu 9:21 AM |
| Aug 14 | Thu | 44 | waningvoid Wed 6:54 PM – Thu 9:21 AM |
| Aug 15 | Fri | 56 | waning |
| Aug 16 | Sat | 44 | sextile Saturn 1:38 PMwaningvoid Sat 1:12 AM – Sat 12:00 PM |
| Aug 17 | Sun | 56 | waning |
| Aug 18 | Mon | 46 | square Saturn 4:33 PMwaningvoid Mon 7:53 AM – Mon 3:05 PM |
| Aug 19 | Tue | 56 | waning |
| Aug 20 | Wed | 44 | trine Saturn 8:34 PMwaningvoid Wed 8:27 AM – Wed 7:16 PM |
| Aug 21 | Thu | 46 | waningvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM |
| Aug 22 | Fri | 28 | waningvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM |
| Aug 23 | Sat | 45 | waningwaxingvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM |
| Aug 24 | Sun | 46 | waxing |
| Aug 25 | Mon | 44 | opposition Saturn 11:00 AMwaxingvoid Mon 9:53 AM – Mon 10:08 AM |
| Aug 26 | Tue | 45 | waxingvoid Tue 10:06 PM – Wed 9:27 PM |
| Aug 27 | Wed | 20 | waxingvoid Tue 10:06 PM – Wed 9:27 PM |
| Aug 28 | Thu | 46 | waxing |
| Aug 29 | Fri | 42 | waxingvoid Fri 8:47 PM – Sat 10:04 AM |
| Aug 30 | Sat | 27 | square Saturn 9:38 PMwaxingvoid Fri 8:47 PM – Sat 10:04 AM |
| Aug 31 | Sun | 34 | square Saturn 9:38 PMwaxing |
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 August 2025. 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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