When is the best day to buy a car in August 2027?

The month's best stretch opens Tue, Aug 24, 8:00 PM EDT and holds until Thu, Aug 26, 8:00 PM EDT, scoring 64 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.

Sign / commit — August 2027

The best days to buy a car in August 2027.

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 2027, 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 Tue, Aug 24, 8:00 PM EDT and holds until Thu, Aug 26, 8:00 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	Sun	52	square Saturn 10:58 AMtrine Saturn 10:30 AMwaningvoid Sun 11:54 AM – Sun 2:24 PM
Aug 2	Mon	61	trine Saturn 10:30 AMwaningwaxing
Aug 3	Tue	48	trine Saturn 10:30 AMwaxingvoid Tue 10:30 AM – Tue 1:57 PM
Aug 4	Wed	24	waxingvoid Wed 4:46 AM – Thu 2:54 PM
Aug 5	Thu	23	opposition Saturn 3:04 PMwaxingvoid Wed 4:46 AM – Thu 2:54 PM
Aug 6	Fri	32	opposition Saturn 3:04 PMwaxing
Aug 7	Sat	33	opposition Saturn 3:04 PMwaxingvoid Sat 3:04 PM – Sat 6:52 PM
Aug 8	Sun	46	waxing
Aug 9	Mon	19	waxingvoid Mon 12:54 AM – Tue 2:35 AM
Aug 10	Tue	53	trine Saturn 9:18 AMwaxingvoid Mon 12:54 AM – Tue 2:35 AM
Aug 11	Wed	58	trine Saturn 9:18 AMwaxing
Aug 12	Thu	41	square Saturn 9:57 PMtrine Saturn 9:18 AMwaxingvoid Thu 9:18 AM – Thu 1:34 PM
Aug 13	Fri	34	square Saturn 9:57 PMwaxing
Aug 14	Sat	33	square Saturn 9:57 PMwaxingvoid Sat 9:57 PM – Sun 2:19 AM
Aug 15	Sun	50	sextile Saturn 10:48 AMwaxingvoid Sat 9:57 PM – Sun 2:19 AM
Aug 16	Mon	54	sextile Saturn 10:48 AMwaxing
Aug 17	Tue	52	sextile Saturn 10:48 AMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 10:48 AM – Tue 3:11 PM
Aug 18	Wed	41	waningvoid Wed 10:32 AM – Fri 2:54 AM
Aug 19	Thu	28	waningvoid Wed 10:32 AM – Fri 2:54 AM
Aug 20	Fri	46	conjunction Saturn 8:17 AMwaningvoid Wed 10:32 AM – Fri 2:54 AM
Aug 21	Sat	48	conjunction Saturn 8:17 AMwaning
Aug 22	Sun	52	conjunction Saturn 8:17 AMwaningvoid Sun 11:15 AM – Sun 12:32 PM
Aug 23	Mon	41	waningvoid Mon 10:42 AM – Tue 7:26 PM
Aug 24	Tue	34	sextile Saturn 7:20 PMwaningvoid Mon 10:42 AM – Tue 7:26 PM
Aug 25	Wed	64	sextile Saturn 7:20 PMwaning
Aug 26	Thu	58	sextile Saturn 7:20 PMwaningvoid Thu 7:20 PM – Thu 11:20 PM
Aug 27	Fri	44	square Saturn 8:46 PMwaning
Aug 28	Sat	42	square Saturn 8:46 PMwaningvoid Sat 8:46 PM – Sun 12:42 AM
Aug 29	Sun	66	trine Saturn 8:43 PMwaningvoid Sat 8:46 PM – Sun 12:42 AM
Aug 30	Mon	65	trine Saturn 8:43 PMwaningvoid Mon 10:41 PM – Tue 12:43 AM
Aug 31	Tue	51	waningwaxingvoid Mon 10:41 PM – Tue 12:43 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 2027. 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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