Talk / discuss — October 2023
The best days to have a hard conversation in October 2023.
Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Event and interval times include their Eastern Time zone label (EDT or EST). A different timezone shifts the day boundaries — the sky doesn’t change, but the local days it lands in can.
You’ve got the conversation on the calendar. Here is October 2023, scored for talking: 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. Scores start at 50. Higher scores mean more favorable conditions under Orrery’s rules, not a higher chance of success. Check the times against your availability.
The month’s best stretch opens Sun, Oct 1, 12:00 AM EDT and holds until Mon, Oct 2, 7:00 PM EDT, scoring 69.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
Rows list factors in that day’s hourly samples. An applying aspect’s exact date can fall on a later day.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | Sun | 69 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 6:41 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 2 | Mon | 64 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 6:41 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 9:19 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 3, 2023, 1:03 AM EDT |
| Oct 3 | Tue | 53 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 9:19 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 3, 2023, 1:03 AM EDT |
| Oct 4 | Wed | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 5 | Thu | 48 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 10:32 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 2:34 AM EDT – Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 8:31 AM EDT |
| Oct 6 | Fri | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 7 | Sat | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 7:47 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 3:11 PM EDT – Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 7:24 PM EDT |
| Oct 8 | Sun | 58 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 7:47 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 9 | Mon | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 10 | Tue | 52 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 5:36 AM EDT – Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 8:01 AM EDT |
| Oct 11 | Wed | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 12 | Thu | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 4:57 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 4:10 PM EDT – Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 8:22 PM EDT |
| Oct 13 | Fri | 67 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 4:57 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 14 | Sat | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 4:57 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 15 | Sun | 43 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 3:01 AM EDT – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 7:04 AM EDT |
| Oct 16 | Mon | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 17 | Tue | 46 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 2:24 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 11:43 AM EDT – Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 3:36 PM EDT |
| Oct 18 | Wed | 57 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 2:24 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 19 | Thu | 46 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 2:24 PM EDTApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 2:00 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 3:02 PM EDT – Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 9:54 PM EDT |
| Oct 20 | Fri | 35 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 2:00 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 21 | Sat | 35 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 2:00 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 22 | Sun | 46 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 2:00 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 23 | Mon | 38 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 4:32 AM EDT |
| Oct 24 | Tue | 45 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 10:56 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 4:32 AM EDT |
| Oct 25 | Wed | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 26 | Thu | 43 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 2:39 AM EDT – Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 6:01 AM EDT |
| Oct 27 | Fri | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 28 | Sat | 35 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 3:00 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 4:19 AM EDT – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 7:44 AM EDT |
| Oct 29 | Sun | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 3:00 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 30 | Mon | 51 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:35 AM EDT – Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 11:07 AM EDT |
| Oct 31 | Tue | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
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 October 2023. 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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