Talk / discuss — January 2026
The best days to have a hard conversation in January 2026.
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 January 2026, 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 Fri, Jan 16, 7:00 AM EST and holds until Sun, Jan 18, 11:00 AM EST, scoring 67.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Thu | 47 | waxing |
| Jan 2 | Fri | 45 | opposition Mercury 9:57 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:23 AM – Fri 8:09 AM |
| Jan 3 | Sat | 53 | waningwaxing |
| Jan 4 | Sun | 54 | waningvoid Sun 7:59 AM – Sun 8:43 AM |
| Jan 5 | Mon | 55 | waning |
| Jan 6 | Tue | 59 | trine Mercury 3:01 AMwaningvoid Tue 8:04 AM – Tue 11:56 AM |
| Jan 7 | Wed | 57 | trine Mercury 3:01 AMwaning |
| Jan 8 | Thu | 52 | square Mercury 7:33 PMwaningvoid Thu 6:22 PM – Thu 7:05 PM |
| Jan 9 | Fri | 45 | square Mercury 7:33 PMwaning |
| Jan 10 | Sat | 43 | waningvoid Sat 12:54 PM – Sun 5:55 AM |
| Jan 11 | Sun | 56 | sextile Mercury 4:43 PMwaningvoid Sat 12:54 PM – Sun 5:55 AM |
| Jan 12 | Mon | 62 | sextile Mercury 4:43 PMwaning |
| Jan 13 | Tue | 54 | waningvoid Tue 5:58 PM – Tue 6:33 PM |
| Jan 14 | Wed | 55 | waning |
| Jan 15 | Thu | 55 | waning |
| Jan 16 | Fri | 64 | conjunction Mercury 10:47 AMwaning |
| Jan 17 | Sat | 67 | conjunction Mercury 10:47 AMwaning |
| Jan 18 | Sun | 56 | conjunction Mercury 10:47 AMwaningwaxingvoid Sun 4:56 PM – Sun 5:17 PM |
| Jan 19 | Mon | 47 | waxing |
| Jan 20 | Tue | 45 | waxingvoid Tue 9:16 PM – Wed 1:49 AM |
| Jan 21 | Wed | 45 | waxingvoid Tue 9:16 PM – Wed 1:49 AM |
| Jan 22 | Thu | 47 | waxing |
| Jan 23 | Fri | 51 | sextile Mercury 6:16 PMwaxing |
| Jan 24 | Sat | 39 | waxingvoid Sat 4:36 PM – Sun 1:05 PM |
| Jan 25 | Sun | 27 | square Mercury 5:50 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:36 PM – Sun 1:05 PM |
| Jan 26 | Mon | 44 | square Mercury 5:50 AMwaxing |
| Jan 27 | Tue | 48 | trine Mercury 3:00 PMwaxingvoid Tue 12:57 PM – Tue 3:55 PM |
| Jan 28 | Wed | 56 | trine Mercury 3:00 PMwaxing |
| Jan 29 | Thu | 44 | waxingvoid Thu 2:56 PM – Thu 5:31 PM |
| Jan 30 | Fri | 47 | waxing |
| Jan 31 | Sat | 41 | opposition Mercury 8:55 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:51 PM – Sat 7:08 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 January 2026. 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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