Talk / discuss — December 2024
The best days to have a hard conversation in December 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 December 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 Fri, Dec 27, 3:00 PM EST and holds until Sat, Dec 28, 11:00 PM EST, scoring 67.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | Sun | 36 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sun, Dec 1, 2024, 8:28 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 2 | Mon | 18 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 10:47 AM EST – Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 4:09 PM EST |
| Dec 3 | Tue | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 4 | Wed | 20 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 6:34 PM EST – Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 11:21 PM EST |
| Dec 5 | Thu | 35 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 12:56 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 6 | Fri | 21 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 12:56 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 7:01 PM EST – Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 4:48 AM EST |
| Dec 7 | Sat | 10 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 12:57 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 7:01 PM EST – Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 4:48 AM EST |
| Dec 8 | Sun | 24 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 12:57 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 9 | Mon | 28 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 12:19 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 3:44 AM EST – Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 8:37 AM EST |
| Dec 10 | Tue | 19 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 12:19 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:13 PM EST – Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:54 AM EST |
| Dec 11 | Wed | 13 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:13 PM EST – Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:54 AM EST |
| Dec 12 | Thu | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 13 | Fri | 12 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 11:19 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 7:39 AM EST – Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 12:21 PM EST |
| Dec 14 | Sat | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 15 | Sun | 33 | Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 9:31 AM EST – Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 2:21 PM EST |
| Dec 16 | Mon | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 17 | Tue | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:14 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 1:33 PM EST – Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 6:39 PM EST |
| Dec 18 | Wed | 60 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 7:14 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 19 | Thu | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 20 | Fri | 45 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 6:45 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 12:19 AM EST – Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 2:36 AM EST |
| Dec 21 | Sat | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 22 | Sun | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 11:22 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 22, 2024, 8:27 AM EST – Sun, Dec 22, 2024, 2:07 PM EST |
| Dec 23 | Mon | 60 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 11:22 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 24 | Tue | 36 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 5:43 AM EST – Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 3:06 AM EST |
| Dec 25 | Wed | 51 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 5:43 AM EST – Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 3:06 AM EST |
| Dec 26 | Thu | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 27 | Fri | 54 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 10:00 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:23 AM EST – Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 2:46 PM EST |
| Dec 28 | Sat | 66 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 10:00 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 29 | Sun | 50 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 6:34 PM EST – Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 11:37 PM EST |
| Dec 30 | Mon | 53 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Dec 31 | Tue | 47 | Waxing 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 December 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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