Sign / commit — August 2026
The best days to buy a car in August 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 purchase on the calendar. Here is August 2026, 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 Fri, Aug 7, 3:00 AM EDT and holds until Sat, Aug 8, 3:00 AM 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 | Sat | 56 | waning |
| Aug 2 | Sun | 44 | conjunction Saturn 7:21 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:33 AM – Sun 4:36 PM |
| Aug 3 | Mon | 49 | conjunction Saturn 7:21 PMwaning |
| Aug 4 | Tue | 47 | waningvoid Tue 2:51 PM – Tue 10:35 PM |
| Aug 5 | Wed | 56 | waning |
| Aug 6 | Thu | 51 | waningvoid Thu 7:25 PM – Fri 2:07 AM |
| Aug 7 | Fri | 60 | sextile Saturn 2:29 AMwaningvoid Thu 7:25 PM – Fri 2:07 AM |
| Aug 8 | Sat | 57 | sextile Saturn 2:29 AMwaning |
| Aug 9 | Sun | 44 | square Saturn 3:30 AMwaningvoid Sun 1:27 AM – Sun 3:45 AM |
| Aug 10 | Mon | 31 | square Saturn 3:30 AMwaningvoid Mon 3:30 AM – Tue 4:38 AM |
| Aug 11 | Tue | 60 | trine Saturn 4:28 AMwaningvoid Mon 3:30 AM – Tue 4:38 AM |
| Aug 12 | Wed | 43 | trine Saturn 4:28 AMwaningwaxingvoid Wed 1:36 PM – Thu 6:18 AM |
| Aug 13 | Thu | 28 | waxingvoid Wed 1:36 PM – Thu 6:18 AMvoid Thu 3:23 PM – Sat 10:19 AM |
| Aug 14 | Fri | 18 | waxingvoid Thu 3:23 PM – Sat 10:19 AM |
| Aug 15 | Sat | 26 | opposition Saturn 12:27 PMwaxingvoid Thu 3:23 PM – Sat 10:19 AM |
| Aug 16 | Sun | 38 | opposition Saturn 12:27 PMwaxing |
| Aug 17 | Mon | 34 | waxingvoid Mon 7:30 AM – Mon 5:46 PM |
| Aug 18 | Tue | 46 | waxing |
| Aug 19 | Wed | 45 | waxingvoid Wed 10:46 PM – Thu 4:30 AM |
| Aug 20 | Thu | 50 | trine Saturn 9:02 AMwaxingvoid Wed 10:46 PM – Thu 4:30 AM |
| Aug 21 | Fri | 51 | trine Saturn 9:02 AMwaxing |
| Aug 22 | Sat | 42 | square Saturn 9:21 PMwaxing |
| Aug 23 | Sun | 35 | square Saturn 9:21 PMwaxing |
| Aug 24 | Mon | 22 | waxingvoid Mon 2:30 AM – Tue 5:01 AM |
| Aug 25 | Tue | 45 | sextile Saturn 8:21 AMwaxingvoid Mon 2:30 AM – Tue 5:01 AM |
| Aug 26 | Wed | 42 | sextile Saturn 8:21 AMwaxingvoid Wed 5:59 PM – Thu 3:03 PM |
| Aug 27 | Thu | 27 | waxingvoid Wed 5:59 PM – Thu 3:03 PM |
| Aug 28 | Fri | 43 | waningwaxingvoid Fri 12:14 PM – Sat 10:37 PM |
| Aug 29 | Sat | 29 | conjunction Saturn 11:18 PMwaningvoid Fri 12:14 PM – Sat 10:37 PM |
| Aug 30 | Sun | 48 | conjunction Saturn 11:18 PMwaning |
| Aug 31 | Mon | 47 | waningvoid Mon 3:47 PM – Tue 4:01 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 August 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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