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Talk / discussFebruary 2024

The best days to have a hard conversation in February 2024.

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.

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You’ve got the conversation on the calendar. Here is February 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. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

The month’s best stretch opens Thu, Feb 1, 4:00 PM EST and holds until Sat, Feb 3, 11:00 PM EST, scoring 65.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Feb 1Thu44sextile Mercury 10:24 PMsquare Mercury 4:03 AMwaningvoid Thu 4:03 AM – Thu 3:36 PM
Feb 2Fri65sextile Mercury 10:24 PMwaning
Feb 3Sat64sextile Mercury 10:24 PMwaningvoid Sat 10:24 PM – Sun 1:28 AM
Feb 4Sun53waningvoid Sat 10:24 PM – Sun 1:28 AM
Feb 5Mon55waning
Feb 6Tue47waningvoid Tue 12:06 AM – Tue 7:08 AM
Feb 7Wed55waning
Feb 8Thu54conjunction Mercury 6:25 PMwaningvoid Thu 2:52 AM – Thu 8:59 AM
Feb 9Fri46waningwaxingvoid Fri 5:59 PM – Sat 8:42 AM
Feb 10Sat37waxingvoid Fri 5:59 PM – Sat 8:42 AM
Feb 11Sun47waxing
Feb 12Mon52sextile Mercury 5:44 AMwaxingvoid Mon 7:31 AM – Mon 8:25 AM
Feb 13Tue50sextile Mercury 5:44 AMwaxing
Feb 14Wed35square Mercury 3:35 PMwaxingvoid Wed 5:20 AM – Wed 10:02 AM
Feb 15Thu39square Mercury 3:35 PMwaxing
Feb 16Fri48trine Mercury 6:21 AMwaxingvoid Fri 10:00 AM – Fri 2:39 PM
Feb 17Sat61trine Mercury 6:21 AMwaxing
Feb 18Sun51trine Mercury 6:21 AMwaxing
Feb 19Mon47waxing
Feb 20Tue47waxing
Feb 21Wed39waxingvoid Wed 1:37 AM – Wed 8:40 AM
Feb 22Thu47waxing
Feb 23Fri22opposition Mercury 11:51 PMwaxingvoid Thu 11:18 PM – Fri 8:37 PM
Feb 24Sat52waningwaxing
Feb 25Sun55waning
Feb 26Mon47waningvoid Mon 2:35 AM – Mon 9:29 AM
Feb 27Tue44waningvoid Tue 1:21 PM – Wed 10:09 PM
Feb 28Wed31trine Mercury 11:18 PMwaningvoid Tue 1:21 PM – Wed 10:09 PM
Feb 29Thu69trine Mercury 11:18 PMwaning

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 February 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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