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Talk / discussMarch 2024

The best days to have a hard conversation in March 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 March 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 Fri, Mar 29, 4:00 PM EDT and holds until Sun, Mar 31, 7:00 PM EDT, scoring 69.

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

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Mar 1Fri55waning
Mar 2Sat41square Mercury 6:39 PMwaningvoid Sat 2:47 AM – Sat 8:56 AM
Mar 3Sun46square Mercury 6:39 PMwaning
Mar 4Mon51sextile Mercury 7:54 AMwaningvoid Mon 10:40 AM – Mon 4:15 PM
Mar 5Tue65sextile Mercury 7:54 AMwaning
Mar 6Wed53sextile Mercury 7:54 AMwaningvoid Wed 2:35 PM – Wed 7:38 PM
Mar 7Thu55waning
Mar 8Fri47waningvoid Fri 1:55 PM – Fri 8:03 PM
Mar 9Sat55waning
Mar 10Sun45conjunction Mercury 11:15 PMwaningwaxingvoid Sun 3:45 PM – Sun 8:19 PM
Mar 11Mon47waxing
Mar 12Tue33waxingvoid Tue 7:07 AM – Tue 8:28 PM
Mar 13Wed47waxing
Mar 14Thu42waxingvoid Thu 6:29 PM – Thu 11:15 PM
Mar 15Fri55sextile Mercury 6:10 PMwaxing
Mar 16Sat47waxing
Mar 17Sun33square Mercury 10:28 AMwaxingvoid Sun 12:42 AM – Sun 5:40 AM
Mar 18Mon42square Mercury 10:28 AMwaxing
Mar 19Tue51trine Mercury 5:56 AMwaxingvoid Tue 2:52 PM – Tue 3:32 PM
Mar 20Wed61trine Mercury 5:56 AMwaxing
Mar 21Thu50trine Mercury 5:56 AMwaxing
Mar 22Fri46waxingvoid Fri 2:33 AM – Fri 3:41 AM
Mar 23Sat47waxing
Mar 24Sun37opposition Mercury 7:08 PMwaxingvoid Sun 11:49 AM – Sun 4:37 PM
Mar 25Mon38opposition Mercury 7:08 PMwaningwaxing
Mar 26Tue37opposition Mercury 7:08 PMwaningvoid Tue 7:08 PM – Wed 5:02 AM
Mar 27Wed48waningvoid Tue 7:08 PM – Wed 5:02 AM
Mar 28Thu55waning
Mar 29Fri55trine Mercury 6:54 PMwaningvoid Fri 11:39 AM – Fri 3:51 PM
Mar 30Sat69trine Mercury 6:54 PMwaning
Mar 31Sun63trine Mercury 6:54 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:15 PM – Mon 12:05 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 March 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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