Talk / discuss — December 2023
The best days to have a hard conversation in December 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 December 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 Fri, Dec 8, 11:00 PM EST and holds until Sat, Dec 9, 1:00 PM EST, scoring 65.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | Fri | 52 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 8:06 AM EST – Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 11:00 AM EST |
| Dec 2 | Sat | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 3 | Sun | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 5:12 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 9:11 PM EST – Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 10:50 PM EST |
| Dec 4 | Mon | 58 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 5:12 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 5 | Tue | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 6 | Wed | 46 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 11:00 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 8:50 AM EST – Wed, Dec 6, 2023, 11:34 AM EST |
| Dec 7 | Thu | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 8 | Fri | 53 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 12:46 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 8:05 PM EST – Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 10:34 PM EST |
| Dec 9 | Sat | 60 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 12:46 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 10 | Sun | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 11 | Mon | 52 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 3:57 AM EST – Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 6:10 AM EST |
| Dec 12 | Tue | 53 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 13 | Wed | 24 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 12:46 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 1:48 AM EST – Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 10:31 AM EST |
| Dec 14 | Thu | 26 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 12:46 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 15 | Fri | 24 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 15, 2023, 11:03 AM EST – Fri, Dec 15, 2023, 12:55 PM EST |
| Dec 16 | Sat | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 17 | Sun | 21 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 1:20 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 7:03 AM EST – Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 2:58 PM EST |
| Dec 18 | Mon | 26 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 1:20 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 19 | Tue | 21 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 12:42 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 4:03 PM EST – Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 5:46 PM EST |
| Dec 20 | Wed | 24 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 12:42 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 21 | Thu | 26 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 12:21 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 22 | Fri | 26 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 12:21 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 23 | Sat | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 24 | Sun | 10 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 24, 2023, 1:39 AM EST – Sun, Dec 24, 2023, 3:14 AM EST |
| Dec 25 | Mon | 9 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 26 | Tue | 16 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 2:55 AM EST – Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 10:15 AM EST |
| Dec 27 | Wed | 33 | Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 28 | Thu | 33 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 3:59 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 5:57 PM EST – Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 7:23 PM EST |
| Dec 29 | Fri | 47 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 3:59 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 30 | Sat | 42 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 3:59 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 31 | Sun | 18 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 3:54 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 12:18 AM EST – Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 6:53 AM EST |
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 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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