Talk / discuss — July 2026
The best days to have a hard conversation in July 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 July 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, Jul 31, 9:00 AM EDT and holds until Sat, Aug 1, 12:00 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 | Wed | 19 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Mercury 7:50 AMwaningvoid Wed 7:50 AM – Wed 3:32 PM |
| Jul 2 | Thu | 33 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Jul 3 | Fri | 22 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Fri 1:27 PM – Sat 2:30 AM |
| Jul 4 | Sat | 42 | Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 1:21 AMwaningvoid Fri 1:27 PM – Sat 2:30 AM |
| Jul 5 | Sun | 47 | Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 1:21 AMwaning |
| Jul 6 | Mon | 17 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 5:24 AMtrine Mercury 1:21 AMwaningvoid Mon 1:21 AM – Mon 11:07 AM |
| Jul 7 | Tue | 21 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 5:24 AMwaning |
| Jul 8 | Wed | 31 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 6:13 AMsquare Mercury 5:24 AMwaningvoid Wed 2:41 PM – Wed 4:30 PM |
| Jul 9 | Thu | 43 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 6:13 AMwaning |
| Jul 10 | Fri | 23 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 6:13 AMwaningvoid Fri 6:13 AM – Fri 6:41 PM |
| Jul 11 | Sat | 28 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sat 6:11 PM – Sun 6:46 PM |
| Jul 12 | Sun | 15 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 2:26 AMwaningvoid Sat 6:11 PM – Sun 6:46 PM |
| Jul 13 | Mon | 45 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 2:26 AMwaning |
| Jul 14 | Tue | 14 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 2:26 AMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Tue 6:35 PM |
| Jul 15 | Wed | 20 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 6:26 PM – Thu 8:07 PM |
| Jul 16 | Thu | 4 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 2:49 AMwaxingvoid Wed 6:26 PM – Thu 8:07 PM |
| Jul 17 | Fri | 35 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 2:49 AMwaxing |
| Jul 18 | Sat | 21 | Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 2:49 AMwaxingvoid Sat 6:13 PM – Sun 12:56 AM |
| Jul 19 | Sun | 12 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 8:18 AMwaxingvoid Sat 6:13 PM – Sun 12:56 AM |
| Jul 20 | Mon | 20 | Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 8:18 AMwaxing |
| Jul 21 | Tue | 31 | Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 5:48 PMwaxingvoid Tue 7:05 AM – Tue 9:34 AM |
| Jul 22 | Wed | 29 | Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 5:48 PMwaxingvoid Wed 5:48 PM – Thu 9:06 PM |
| Jul 23 | Thu | 6 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 5:48 PM – Thu 9:06 PM |
| Jul 24 | Fri | 47 | waxing |
| Jul 25 | Sat | 33 | waxingvoid Sat 10:58 AM – Sun 9:44 AM |
| Jul 26 | Sun | 27 | opposition Mercury 8:08 PMwaxingvoid Sat 10:58 AM – Sun 9:44 AM |
| Jul 27 | Mon | 33 | opposition Mercury 8:08 PMwaxing |
| Jul 28 | Tue | 26 | waxingvoid Tue 2:11 AM – Tue 9:46 PM |
| Jul 29 | Wed | 51 | waningwaxing |
| Jul 30 | Thu | 48 | waningvoid Thu 5:26 PM – Fri 8:13 AM |
| Jul 31 | Fri | 54 | trine Mercury 10:58 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:26 PM – Fri 8:13 AM |
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 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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