Talk / discuss — August 2025
The best days to have a hard conversation in August 2025.
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 August 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. 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 Wed, Aug 20, 8:00 PM EDT and holds until Thu, Aug 21, 3:00 PM EDT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1 | Fri | 22 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Aug 1, 2025, 6:56 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 2 | Sat | 23 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Aug 2, 2025, 9:06 PM EDT – Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT |
| Aug 3 | Sun | 29 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 3:59 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Aug 2, 2025, 9:06 PM EDT – Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT |
| Aug 4 | Mon | 25 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 5 | Tue | 23 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 11:28 AM EDT – Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 1:04 PM EDT |
| Aug 6 | Wed | 14 | Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 1:39 PM EDT – Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 9:18 PM EDT |
| Aug 7 | Thu | 0 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Fri, Aug 8, 2025, 5:51 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 1:39 PM EDT – Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 9:18 PM EDT |
| Aug 8 | Fri | 21 | Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Fri, Aug 8, 2025, 5:51 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 9 | Sat | 10 | Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 3:55 AM EDT – Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 2:50 AM EDT |
| Aug 10 | Sun | 30 | Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 3:55 AM EDT – Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 2:50 AM EDT |
| Aug 11 | Mon | 29 | Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 2:54 AM EDT – Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 6:32 AM EDT |
| Aug 12 | Tue | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 1:59 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 2:54 AM EDT – Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 6:32 AM EDT |
| Aug 13 | Wed | 50 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 6:54 PM EDT – Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 9:21 AM EDT |
| Aug 14 | Thu | 40 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:48 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 6:54 PM EDT – Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 9:21 AM EDT |
| Aug 15 | Fri | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 16 | Sat | 47 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 10:33 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 1:12 AM EDT – Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT |
| Aug 17 | Sun | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 18 | Mon | 46 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:53 AM EDT – Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 3:05 PM EDT |
| Aug 19 | Tue | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 20 | Wed | 45 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:13 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 8:27 AM EDT – Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:16 PM EDT |
| Aug 21 | Thu | 53 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:13 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:13 PM EDT – Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 1:24 AM EDT |
| Aug 22 | Fri | 29 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:13 PM EDT – Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 1:24 AM EDT |
| Aug 23 | Sat | 46 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:13 PM EDT – Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 1:24 AM EDT |
| Aug 24 | Sun | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 25 | Mon | 51 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 10:06 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 9:53 AM EDT – Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 10:08 AM EDT |
| Aug 26 | Tue | 56 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 10:06 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 10:06 PM EDT – Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 9:27 PM EDT |
| Aug 27 | Wed | 22 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:47 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 10:06 PM EDT – Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 9:27 PM EDT |
| Aug 28 | Thu | 35 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:47 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Aug 29 | Fri | 33 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:47 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:47 PM EDT – Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 10:04 AM EDT |
| Aug 30 | Sat | 43 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Sep 1, 2025, 7:36 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Aug 29, 2025, 8:47 PM EDT – Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 10:04 AM EDT |
| Aug 31 | Sun | 61 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Mon, Sep 1, 2025, 7:36 PM EDTWaxing 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 August 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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