Talk / discuss — October 2024
The best days to have a hard conversation in October 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 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. 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 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | Tue | 56 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 6:21 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 1, 2024, 5:38 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 1, 2024, 6:19 PM EDT |
| Oct 2 | Wed | 62 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Wed, Oct 2, 2024, 6:21 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 3 | Thu | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 4 | Fri | 46 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 6:40 AM EDT – Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 7:22 AM EDT |
| Oct 5 | Sat | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 6 | Sun | 48 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 1:53 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 6:52 PM EDT – Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 7:34 PM EDT |
| Oct 7 | Mon | 57 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 1:53 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 8 | Tue | 53 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 1:53 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 9 | Wed | 34 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 5:35 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 1:53 AM EDT – Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 5:38 AM EDT |
| Oct 10 | Thu | 35 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 5:35 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 11 | Fri | 43 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 5:35 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 11:53 AM EDT – Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 12:31 PM EDT |
| Oct 12 | Sat | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 13 | Sun | 42 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Oct 13, 2024, 10:11 AM EDT – Sun, Oct 13, 2024, 3:55 PM EDT |
| Oct 14 | Mon | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 15 | Tue | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 16 | Wed | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 17 | Thu | 47 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 3:14 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 18 | Fri | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 3:14 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 19 | Sat | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 3:33 PM EDT – Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 4:07 PM EDT |
| Oct 20 | Sun | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 21 | Mon | 56 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 8:21 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 4:59 PM EDT – Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 6:49 PM EDT |
| Oct 22 | Tue | 67 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 8:21 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 23 | Wed | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 24 | Thu | 43 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 12:41 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 12:47 AM EDT – Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 1:23 AM EDT |
| Oct 25 | Fri | 48 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 12:41 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 26 | Sat | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 9:15 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 26, 2024, 4:03 AM EDT – Sat, Oct 26, 2024, 11:47 AM EDT |
| Oct 27 | Sun | 65 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 9:15 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 28 | Mon | 59 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 9:15 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 29 | Tue | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 11:54 PM EDT – Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 12:29 AM EDT |
| Oct 30 | Wed | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 31 | Thu | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 12:57 PM EDT – Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 1:29 PM EDT |
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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