Talk / discuss — October 2025
The best days to have a hard conversation in October 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 October 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 Thu, Oct 16, 3:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Oct 17, 10:00 PM 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 | Wed | 47 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 2:15 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Oct 1, 2025, 11:33 AM EDT – Wed, Oct 1, 2025, 3:51 PM EDT |
| Oct 2 | Thu | 61 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 2:15 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 3 | Fri | 47 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 2:15 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 2:15 PM EDT – Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 10:07 PM EDT |
| Oct 4 | Sat | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 5 | Sun | 44 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Oct 5, 2025, 8:29 PM EDT – Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 12:47 AM EDT |
| Oct 6 | Mon | 46 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Oct 5, 2025, 8:29 PM EDT – Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 12:47 AM EDT |
| Oct 7 | Tue | 45 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT – Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 1:12 AM EDT |
| Oct 8 | Wed | 50 | Applying Moon–Mercury opposition · exact Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 5:14 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 2:23 PM EDT – Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 1:12 AM EDT |
| Oct 9 | Thu | 52 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 8:31 PM EDT – Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 1:11 AM EDT |
| Oct 10 | Fri | 53 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 8:31 PM EDT – Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 1:11 AM EDT |
| Oct 11 | Sat | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 10:55 PM EDT – Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 2:37 AM EDT |
| Oct 12 | Sun | 61 | Applying Moon–Mercury trine · exact Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 6:10 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 10:55 PM EDT – Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 2:37 AM EDT |
| Oct 13 | Mon | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 14 | Tue | 41 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 5:40 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 1:05 AM EDT – Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 6:47 AM EDT |
| Oct 15 | Wed | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 5:40 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 16 | Thu | 45 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 9:09 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 1:06 AM EDT – Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:05 PM EDT |
| Oct 17 | Fri | 64 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Fri, Oct 17, 2025, 9:09 PM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 18 | Sat | 48 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 18, 2025, 5:10 PM EDT – Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT |
| Oct 19 | Sun | 54 | Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sat, Oct 18, 2025, 5:10 PM EDT – Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT |
| Oct 20 | Mon | 55 | Waning Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 21 | Tue | 53 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:56 AM EDTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 8:25 AM EDT – Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 11:42 AM EDT |
| Oct 22 | Wed | 59 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:56 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 23 | Thu | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury conjunction · exact Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:56 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 24 | Fri | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 25 | Sat | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 26 | Sun | 52 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:17 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 27 | Mon | 57 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:17 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 28 | Tue | 57 | Applying Moon–Mercury sextile · exact Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 11:17 PM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 29 | Wed | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 30 | Thu | 47 | Waxing Moon (sampled hours) |
| Oct 31 | Fri | 40 | Applying Moon–Mercury square · exact Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 11:32 AM EDTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 2:15 AM EDT – Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 7:46 AM 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 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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