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Talk / discussApril 2026

The best days to have a hard conversation in April 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.

This month has passed. The current month is have a hard conversation in September 2026.

You’ve got the conversation on the calendar. Here is April 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 Wed, Apr 8, 9:00 AM EDT and holds until Fri, Apr 10, 8:00 AM EDT, scoring 65.

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

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Apr 1Wed47waningwaxing
Apr 2Thu34waningvoid Thu 4:55 AM – Fri 8:10 AM
Apr 3Fri54trine Mercury 6:24 PMwaningvoid Thu 4:55 AM – Fri 8:10 AM
Apr 4Sat66trine Mercury 6:24 PMwaning
Apr 5Sun51square Mercury 12:44 PMwaningvoid Sun 5:28 PM – Sun 7:31 PM
Apr 6Mon43square Mercury 12:44 PMwaning
Apr 7Tue48square Mercury 12:44 PMwaning
Apr 8Wed58sextile Mercury 7:44 AMwaningvoid Wed 5:51 AM – Wed 8:04 AM
Apr 9Thu65sextile Mercury 7:44 AMwaning
Apr 10Fri57sextile Mercury 7:44 AMwaningvoid Fri 6:23 PM – Fri 7:55 PM
Apr 11Sat55waning
Apr 12Sun55waning
Apr 13Mon54waningvoid Mon 3:42 AM – Mon 4:55 AM
Apr 14Tue55waning
Apr 15Wed54conjunction Mercury 11:15 AMwaningvoid Wed 9:07 AM – Wed 10:03 AM
Apr 16Thu55waning
Apr 17Fri45waningwaxingvoid Fri 7:51 AM – Fri 11:57 AM
Apr 18Sat47waxing
Apr 19Sun50sextile Mercury 12:18 AMwaxingvoid Sun 11:44 AM – Sun 12:17 PM
Apr 20Mon24sextile Mercury 12:18 AMwaxingvoid Mon 1:17 AM – Tue 1:00 PM
Apr 21Tue27square Mercury 7:29 AMwaxingvoid Mon 1:17 AM – Tue 1:00 PM
Apr 22Wed43square Mercury 7:29 AMwaxing
Apr 23Thu52trine Mercury 6:20 PMwaxing
Apr 24Fri53trine Mercury 6:20 PMwaxingvoid Fri 6:20 PM – Sat 9:04 PM
Apr 25Sat23waxingvoid Fri 6:20 PM – Sat 9:04 PM
Apr 26Sun47waxing
Apr 27Mon30waxingvoid Mon 7:11 AM – Tue 5:02 AM
Apr 28Tue28opposition Mercury 4:51 AMwaxingvoid Mon 7:11 AM – Tue 5:02 AM
Apr 29Wed31opposition Mercury 4:51 AMwaxing
Apr 30Thu32opposition Mercury 4:51 AMwaxingvoid Thu 4:51 AM – Thu 3:01 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 April 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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