When is the best day to launch a business in December 2024?

The month's best stretch opens Thu, Dec 5, 12:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Dec 6, 5:00 AM EST, scoring 68 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.

Launch / publish — December 2024

The best days to launch a business in December 2024.

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 launch on the calendar. Here is December 2024, scored for launching: 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, Dec 5, 12:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Dec 6, 5:00 AM EST, scoring 68.

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

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Dec 1	Sun	44	Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 3:44 PMwaningwaxing
Dec 2	Mon	48	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Mon 10:47 AM – Mon 4:09 PM
Dec 3	Tue	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 4	Wed	49	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 6:34 PM – Wed 11:21 PM
Dec 5	Thu	68	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 4:52 AMwaxing
Dec 6	Fri	53	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 4:52 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM
Dec 7	Sat	42	Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 8:55 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM
Dec 8	Sun	51	Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 8:55 AMwaxing
Dec 9	Mon	54	Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 11:24 AMwaxingvoid Mon 3:44 AM – Mon 8:37 AM
Dec 10	Tue	52	Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 11:24 AMwaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM
Dec 11	Wed	43	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM
Dec 12	Thu	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 13	Fri	54	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 1:42 PMwaxingvoid Fri 7:39 AM – Fri 12:21 PM
Dec 14	Sat	61	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 1:42 PMwaxing
Dec 15	Sun	32	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Sun 9:31 AM – Sun 2:21 PM
Dec 16	Mon	38	waning
Dec 17	Tue	34	sextile Jupiter 9:40 PMwaningvoid Tue 1:33 PM – Tue 6:39 PM
Dec 18	Wed	45	sextile Jupiter 9:40 PMwaning
Dec 19	Thu	38	waning
Dec 20	Fri	29	square Jupiter 6:55 AMwaningvoid Fri 12:19 AM – Fri 2:36 AM
Dec 21	Sat	36	square Jupiter 6:55 AMwaning
Dec 22	Sun	37	trine Jupiter 6:51 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:27 AM – Sun 2:07 PM
Dec 23	Mon	49	trine Jupiter 6:51 PMwaning
Dec 24	Tue	19	waningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM
Dec 25	Wed	34	waningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM
Dec 26	Thu	38	waning
Dec 27	Fri	28	opposition Jupiter 4:49 PMwaningvoid Fri 9:23 AM – Fri 2:46 PM
Dec 28	Sat	30	opposition Jupiter 4:49 PMwaning
Dec 29	Sun	33	waningvoid Sun 6:34 PM – Sun 11:37 PM
Dec 30	Mon	44	waningwaxing
Dec 31	Tue	62	waxing

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 December 2024. 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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