Launch / publish — October 2026
The best days to launch a business in October 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 launch on the calendar. Here is October 2026, 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 Tue, Oct 13, 9:00 PM EDT and holds until Thu, Oct 15, 5:00 PM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 | Thu | 45 | sextile Jupiter 10:41 PMwaningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM |
| Oct 2 | Fri | 21 | waningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM |
| Oct 3 | Sat | 26 | waningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM |
| Oct 4 | Sun | 21 | conjunction Jupiter 6:22 AMwaningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM |
| Oct 5 | Mon | 50 | conjunction Jupiter 6:22 AMwaning |
| Oct 6 | Tue | 25 | conjunction Jupiter 6:22 AMwaningvoid Tue 6:22 AM – Tue 10:52 PM |
| Oct 7 | Wed | 29 | waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM |
| Oct 8 | Thu | 13 | waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM |
| Oct 9 | Fri | 39 | sextile Jupiter 7:07 PMwaningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM |
| Oct 10 | Sat | 52 | sextile Jupiter 7:07 PMwaningwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM |
| Oct 11 | Sun | 46 | square Jupiter 4:45 AMwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM |
| Oct 12 | Mon | 54 | square Jupiter 4:45 AMwaxing |
| Oct 13 | Tue | 45 | square Jupiter 4:45 AMtrine Jupiter 4:57 PMwaxingvoid Tue 4:45 AM – Tue 8:59 PM |
| Oct 14 | Wed | 76 | trine Jupiter 4:57 PMwaxing |
| Oct 15 | Thu | 66 | trine Jupiter 4:57 PMwaxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM |
| Oct 16 | Fri | 53 | waxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM |
| Oct 17 | Sat | 62 | waxing |
| Oct 18 | Sun | 52 | opposition Jupiter 6:49 PMwaxingvoid Sun 12:12 PM – Sun 9:39 PM |
| Oct 19 | Mon | 50 | opposition Jupiter 6:49 PMwaxing |
| Oct 20 | Tue | 52 | opposition Jupiter 6:49 PMwaxing |
| Oct 21 | Wed | 58 | waxingvoid Wed 4:42 AM – Wed 8:35 AM |
| Oct 22 | Thu | 62 | waxing |
| Oct 23 | Fri | 50 | trine Jupiter 8:36 AMwaxingvoid Thu 11:31 PM – Fri 3:53 PM |
| Oct 24 | Sat | 69 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 8:36 AMwaxing |
| Oct 25 | Sun | 57 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 10:51 AMtrine Jupiter 8:36 AMwaxingvoid Sun 6:59 PM – Sun 7:34 PM |
| Oct 26 | Mon | 23 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 10:51 AMwaningwaxing |
| Oct 27 | Tue | 16 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 12:17 PMsquare Jupiter 10:51 AMwaningvoid Tue 10:51 AM – Tue 9:01 PM |
| Oct 28 | Wed | 38 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 12:17 PMwaning |
| Oct 29 | Thu | 29 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 12:17 PMwaningvoid Thu 5:43 PM – Thu 10:05 PM |
| Oct 30 | Fri | 30 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Oct 31 | Sat | 24 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sat 5:59 PM – Sun 12:18 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 October 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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