Talk / discuss — January 2024
The best days to have a hard conversation in January 2024.
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 January 2024, 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 Tue, Jan 2, 8:00 PM EST and holds until Thu, Jan 4, 6:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Mon | 22 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 3:54 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 2 | Tue | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 5:24 PM ESTApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 3:54 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 6:36 PM EST – Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 7:46 PM EST |
| Jan 3 | Wed | 65 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 5:24 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 4 | Thu | 62 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 5:24 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 5 | Fri | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Jan 5, 2024, 6:40 AM EST – Fri, Jan 5, 2024, 7:39 AM EST |
| Jan 6 | Sat | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 7 | Sun | 57 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 1:24 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 3:22 PM EST – Sun, Jan 7, 2024, 4:08 PM EST |
| Jan 8 | Mon | 67 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 1:24 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 9 | Tue | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 1:24 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 1:24 PM EST – Tue, Jan 9, 2024, 8:33 PM EST |
| Jan 10 | Wed | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 11 | Thu | 48 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 9:33 PM EST – Thu, Jan 11, 2024, 10:01 PM EST |
| Jan 12 | Fri | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 13 | Sat | 28 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 4:58 AM EST – Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 10:29 PM EST |
| Jan 14 | Sun | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 15 | Mon | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 16 | Tue | 44 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 4:04 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 17 | Wed | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 18 | Thu | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 12:41 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 19 | Fri | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 20 | Sat | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 21 | Sun | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 22 | Mon | 41 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 3:53 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 3:39 PM EST – Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 4:50 PM EST |
| Jan 23 | Tue | 36 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 3:53 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 24 | Wed | 40 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:58 PM EST – Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:36 AM EST |
| Jan 25 | Thu | 47 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:58 PM EST – Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:36 AM EST |
| Jan 26 | Fri | 47 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 4:19 PM EST – Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 2:11 PM EST |
| Jan 27 | Sat | 44 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:37 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 4:19 PM EST – Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 2:11 PM EST |
| Jan 28 | Sun | 69 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:37 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Jan 29 | Mon | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:37 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:19 PM EST – Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 3:04 AM EST |
| Jan 30 | Tue | 41 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 4:03 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 6:19 PM EST – Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 3:04 AM EST |
| Jan 31 | Wed | 43 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Thu, Feb 1, 2024, 4:03 AM ESTWaning 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 January 2024. 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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