When is the best day to have a hard conversation in November 2026?

The month's best stretch opens Thu, Nov 26, 6:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Nov 27, 10:00 AM EST, scoring 69 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Talk / discuss — November 2026

The best days to have a hard conversation in November 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 November 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 Thu, Nov 26, 6:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Nov 27, 10:00 AM EST, 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
Nov 1	Sun	20	Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 1:25 AMwaningvoid Sat 5:59 PM – Sun 12:18 AM
Nov 2	Mon	28	Mercury retrogradesquare Mercury 1:25 AMwaningvoid Mon 7:10 PM – Tue 3:27 AM
Nov 3	Tue	37	Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:57 AMwaningvoid Mon 7:10 PM – Tue 3:27 AM
Nov 4	Wed	10	Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:57 AMwaningvoid Wed 1:57 AM – Thu 9:38 AM
Nov 5	Thu	22	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Wed 1:57 AM – Thu 9:38 AM
Nov 6	Fri	33	Mercury retrogradewaning
Nov 7	Sat	26	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 8:01 AMwaningvoid Sat 8:19 AM – Sat 5:39 PM
Nov 8	Sun	38	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Mercury 8:01 AMwaning
Nov 9	Mon	21	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Mon 6:25 PM – Tue 3:35 AM
Nov 10	Tue	21	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Mon 6:25 PM – Tue 3:35 AM
Nov 11	Wed	25	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Nov 12	Thu	19	Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:40 AMwaxingvoid Thu 6:29 AM – Thu 3:27 PM
Nov 13	Fri	38	Mercury retrogradesextile Mercury 1:40 AMwaxing
Nov 14	Sat	36	waxingvoid Sat 1:55 PM – Sun 4:24 AM
Nov 15	Sun	36	square Mercury 3:27 PMwaxingvoid Sat 1:55 PM – Sun 4:24 AM
Nov 16	Mon	47	waxing
Nov 17	Tue	44	trine Mercury 5:46 AMwaxingvoid Tue 9:25 AM – Tue 4:19 PM
Nov 18	Wed	50	trine Mercury 5:46 AMwaxing
Nov 19	Thu	44	waxingvoid Thu 8:46 PM – Fri 12:52 AM
Nov 20	Fri	46	waxingvoid Thu 8:46 PM – Fri 12:52 AM
Nov 21	Sat	47	waxing
Nov 22	Sun	32	opposition Mercury 12:27 AMwaxingvoid Sun 2:38 AM – Sun 5:09 AM
Nov 23	Mon	46	opposition Mercury 12:27 AMwaxing
Nov 24	Tue	51	waningwaxingvoid Tue 5:09 AM – Tue 6:09 AM
Nov 25	Wed	55	waning
Nov 26	Thu	60	trine Mercury 9:30 AMwaningvoid Thu 12:23 AM – Thu 5:51 AM
Nov 27	Fri	61	trine Mercury 9:30 AMwaning
Nov 28	Sat	40	square Mercury 4:44 PMwaningvoid Sat 12:40 AM – Sat 6:20 AM
Nov 29	Sun	46	square Mercury 4:44 PMwaning
Nov 30	Mon	56	sextile Mercury 4:10 AMwaningvoid Mon 5:10 AM – Mon 9:12 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 November 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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