Talk / discuss — July 2025
The best days to have a hard conversation in July 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.
You’ve got the conversation on the calendar. Here is July 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 Wed, Jul 16, 1:00 AM EDT and holds until Thu, Jul 17, 4:00 AM EDT, scoring 69.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1 | Tue | 48 | sextile Mercury 6:29 AMwaxingvoid Tue 4:46 PM – Tue 5:16 PM |
| Jul 2 | Wed | 41 | sextile Mercury 6:29 AMwaxingvoid Wed 3:30 PM – Fri 5:32 AM |
| Jul 3 | Thu | 21 | waxingvoid Wed 3:30 PM – Fri 5:32 AM |
| Jul 4 | Fri | 32 | square Mercury 12:28 AMwaxingvoid Wed 3:30 PM – Fri 5:32 AM |
| Jul 5 | Sat | 46 | square Mercury 12:28 AMwaxing |
| Jul 6 | Sun | 50 | trine Mercury 5:00 PMwaxing |
| Jul 7 | Mon | 51 | trine Mercury 5:00 PMwaxingvoid Mon 5:29 PM – Wed 4:54 AM |
| Jul 8 | Tue | 21 | waxingvoid Mon 5:29 PM – Wed 4:54 AM |
| Jul 9 | Wed | 42 | waxingvoid Mon 5:29 PM – Wed 4:54 AM |
| Jul 10 | Thu | 42 | waningwaxingvoid Thu 4:36 PM – Fri 1:21 PM |
| Jul 11 | Fri | 33 | opposition Mercury 3:45 PMwaningvoid Thu 4:36 PM – Fri 1:21 PM |
| Jul 12 | Sat | 36 | opposition Mercury 3:45 PMwaningvoid Sat 3:45 PM – Sun 7:44 PM |
| Jul 13 | Sun | 33 | waningvoid Sat 3:45 PM – Sun 7:44 PM |
| Jul 14 | Mon | 55 | waning |
| Jul 15 | Tue | 44 | waningvoid Tue 1:09 PM – Wed 12:32 AM |
| Jul 16 | Wed | 67 | trine Mercury 3:20 AMwaningvoid Tue 1:09 PM – Wed 12:32 AM |
| Jul 17 | Thu | 54 | trine Mercury 3:20 AMwaningvoid Thu 8:37 PM – Fri 3:58 AM |
| Jul 18 | Fri | 20 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 6:07 AMwaningvoid Thu 8:37 PM – Fri 3:58 AM |
| Jul 19 | Sat | 30 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 6:07 AMwaning |
| Jul 20 | Sun | 36 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 7:35 AMwaningvoid Sun 2:43 AM – Sun 6:21 AM |
| Jul 21 | Mon | 28 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 7:35 AMwaningvoid Mon 3:51 PM – Tue 8:26 AM |
| Jul 22 | Tue | 23 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Mon 3:51 PM – Tue 8:26 AM |
| Jul 23 | Wed | 30 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Wed 8:42 PM – Thu 11:28 AM |
| Jul 24 | Thu | 23 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 10:58 AMwaningwaxingvoid Wed 8:42 PM – Thu 11:28 AM |
| Jul 25 | Fri | 30 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 10:58 AMwaxing |
| Jul 26 | Sat | 15 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 7:01 AM – Sat 4:55 PM |
| Jul 27 | Sun | 25 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Jul 28 | Mon | 22 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Mon 8:56 PM – Tue 1:43 AM |
| Jul 29 | Tue | 32 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 10:11 PMwaxingvoid Mon 8:56 PM – Tue 1:43 AM |
| Jul 30 | Wed | 0 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 11:58 PM – Thu 1:25 PM |
| Jul 31 | Thu | 5 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 6:56 AMwaxingvoid Tue 11:58 PM – Thu 1:25 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 July 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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