When is the best day to launch a business in August 2025?

The month's best stretch opens Wed, Aug 27, 10:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Aug 29, 9:00 AM EDT, scoring 76 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 — August 2025

The best days to launch a business in August 2025.

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 August 2025, 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 Wed, Aug 27, 10:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Aug 29, 9:00 AM EDT, scoring 76.

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

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Aug 1	Fri	62	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 1:25 PMwaxing
Aug 2	Sat	52	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 9:06 PM – Sun 2:00 AM
Aug 3	Sun	51	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 9:06 PM – Sun 2:00 AM
Aug 4	Mon	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Aug 5	Tue	47	Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 1:39 PMwaxingvoid Tue 11:28 AM – Tue 1:04 PM
Aug 6	Wed	37	Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 1:39 PMwaxingvoid Wed 1:39 PM – Thu 9:18 PM
Aug 7	Thu	31	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 1:39 PM – Thu 9:18 PM
Aug 8	Fri	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Aug 9	Sat	13	Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Sat 3:55 AM – Sun 2:50 AM
Aug 10	Sun	39	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 2:54 AMwaningvoid Sat 3:55 AM – Sun 2:50 AM
Aug 11	Mon	17	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 2:54 AMwaningvoid Mon 2:54 AM – Tue 6:32 AM
Aug 12	Tue	25	square Jupiter 6:51 AMwaningvoid Mon 2:54 AM – Tue 6:32 AM
Aug 13	Wed	30	square Jupiter 6:51 AMwaningvoid Wed 6:54 PM – Thu 9:21 AM
Aug 14	Thu	32	sextile Jupiter 10:14 AMwaningvoid Wed 6:54 PM – Thu 9:21 AM
Aug 15	Fri	42	sextile Jupiter 10:14 AMwaning
Aug 16	Sat	27	waningvoid Sat 1:12 AM – Sat 12:00 PM
Aug 17	Sun	38	waning
Aug 18	Mon	34	conjunction Jupiter 6:02 PMwaningvoid Mon 7:53 AM – Mon 3:05 PM
Aug 19	Tue	48	conjunction Jupiter 6:02 PMwaning
Aug 20	Wed	27	waningvoid Wed 8:27 AM – Wed 7:16 PM
Aug 21	Thu	29	waningvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM
Aug 22	Fri	13	waningvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM
Aug 23	Sat	64	sextile Jupiter 8:14 AMwaningwaxingvoid Thu 2:13 PM – Sat 1:24 AM
Aug 24	Sun	65	sextile Jupiter 8:14 AMwaxing
Aug 25	Mon	57	square Jupiter 7:23 PMwaxingvoid Mon 9:53 AM – Mon 10:08 AM
Aug 26	Tue	54	square Jupiter 7:23 PMwaxingvoid Tue 10:06 PM – Wed 9:27 PM
Aug 27	Wed	40	trine Jupiter 8:38 AMwaxingvoid Tue 10:06 PM – Wed 9:27 PM
Aug 28	Thu	76	trine Jupiter 8:38 AMwaxing
Aug 29	Fri	64	trine Jupiter 8:38 AMwaxingvoid Fri 8:47 PM – Sat 10:04 AM
Aug 30	Sat	51	waxingvoid Fri 8:47 PM – Sat 10:04 AM
Aug 31	Sun	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 August 2025. 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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