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Talk / discussMarch 2025

The best days to have a hard conversation in March 2025.

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 2025, 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 Sun, Mar 9, 7:00 PM EDT and holds until Mon, Mar 10, 10:00 AM EDT, scoring 61.

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

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Mar 1Sat46waxingvoid Sat 3:05 AM – Sat 4:51 AM
Mar 2Sun31waxingvoid Sun 8:51 AM – Mon 5:36 AM
Mar 3Mon40waxingvoid Sun 8:51 AM – Mon 5:36 AM
Mar 4Tue47waxing
Mar 5Wed47sextile Mercury 1:01 PMwaxingvoid Wed 5:53 AM – Wed 7:29 AM
Mar 6Thu47waxing
Mar 7Fri39square Mercury 10:05 PMwaxingvoid Fri 9:56 AM – Fri 11:28 AM
Mar 8Sat47waxing
Mar 9Sun49trine Mercury 9:56 AMwaxingvoid Sun 5:32 PM – Sun 6:58 PM
Mar 10Mon53trine Mercury 9:56 AMwaxing
Mar 11Tue39waxingvoid Tue 4:16 PM – Wed 3:55 AM
Mar 12Wed43waxingvoid Tue 4:16 PM – Wed 3:55 AM
Mar 13Thu47waxing
Mar 14Fri47opposition Mercury 10:11 AMwaningwaxingvoid Fri 1:47 PM – Fri 2:58 PM
Mar 15Sat28Mercury retrogradeopposition Mercury 10:11 AMwaning
Mar 16Sun14Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sun 5:53 AM – Mon 3:30 AM
Mar 17Mon29Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sun 5:53 AM – Mon 3:30 AM
Mar 18Tue33Mercury retrogradewaning
Mar 19Wed36Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 7:55 AMwaningvoid Wed 3:28 PM – Wed 4:16 PM
Mar 20Thu38Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 7:55 AMwaning
Mar 21Fri33Mercury retrogradewaning
Mar 22Sat26Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 3:13 PMwaningvoid Sat 2:52 AM – Sat 3:28 AM
Mar 23Sun33Mercury retrogradewaning
Mar 24Mon36Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 7:06 PMwaning
Mar 25Tue33Mercury retrogradewaning
Mar 26Wed23Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Wed 6:15 AM – Wed 3:31 PM
Mar 27Thu33Mercury retrogradewaning
Mar 28Fri34Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 6:02 PMwaning
Mar 29Sat27Mercury retrogradewaningwaxing
Mar 30Sun16Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:42 PMwaxingvoid Sun 5:17 AM – Sun 4:15 PM
Mar 31Mon35Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:42 PMwaxing

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 2025. 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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