Talk / discuss — October 2024
The best days to have a hard conversation in October 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.
You’ve got the conversation on the calendar. Here is October 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 Sat, Oct 26, 12:00 PM EDT and holds until Mon, Oct 28, 10:00 AM EDT, scoring 65.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | Tue | 56 | conjunction Mercury 6:21 PMwaningvoid Tue 5:38 PM – Tue 6:19 PM |
| Oct 2 | Wed | 62 | conjunction Mercury 6:21 PMwaningwaxing |
| Oct 3 | Thu | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 4 | Fri | 46 | waxingvoid Fri 6:40 AM – Fri 7:22 AM |
| Oct 5 | Sat | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 6 | Sun | 48 | sextile Mercury 1:53 PMwaxingvoid Sun 6:52 PM – Sun 7:34 PM |
| Oct 7 | Mon | 57 | sextile Mercury 1:53 PMwaxing |
| Oct 8 | Tue | 53 | sextile Mercury 1:53 PMwaxing |
| Oct 9 | Wed | 34 | square Mercury 5:35 AMwaxingvoid Wed 1:53 AM – Wed 5:38 AM |
| Oct 10 | Thu | 35 | square Mercury 5:35 AMwaxing |
| Oct 11 | Fri | 43 | square Mercury 5:35 AMwaxingvoid Fri 11:53 AM – Fri 12:31 PM |
| Oct 12 | Sat | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 13 | Sun | 42 | waxingvoid Sun 10:11 AM – Sun 3:55 PM |
| Oct 14 | Mon | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 15 | Tue | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 16 | Wed | 47 | waxing |
| Oct 17 | Thu | 47 | opposition Mercury 3:14 AMwaningwaxing |
| Oct 18 | Fri | 52 | opposition Mercury 3:14 AMwaning |
| Oct 19 | Sat | 54 | waningvoid Sat 3:33 PM – Sat 4:07 PM |
| Oct 20 | Sun | 55 | waning |
| Oct 21 | Mon | 56 | trine Mercury 8:21 PMwaningvoid Mon 4:59 PM – Mon 6:49 PM |
| Oct 22 | Tue | 67 | trine Mercury 8:21 PMwaning |
| Oct 23 | Wed | 55 | waning |
| Oct 24 | Thu | 43 | square Mercury 12:41 PMwaningvoid Thu 12:47 AM – Thu 1:23 AM |
| Oct 25 | Fri | 48 | square Mercury 12:41 PMwaning |
| Oct 26 | Sat | 52 | sextile Mercury 9:15 AMwaningvoid Sat 4:03 AM – Sat 11:47 AM |
| Oct 27 | Sun | 65 | sextile Mercury 9:15 AMwaning |
| Oct 28 | Mon | 59 | sextile Mercury 9:15 AMwaning |
| Oct 29 | Tue | 54 | waningvoid Mon 11:54 PM – Tue 12:29 AM |
| Oct 30 | Wed | 55 | waning |
| Oct 31 | Thu | 54 | waningvoid Thu 12:57 PM – Thu 1:29 PM |
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 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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