Launch / publish — August 2023
The best days to release music in August 2023.
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 release on the calendar. Here is August 2023, scored for releasing: 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 16, 8:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Aug 18, 2:00 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 | Tue | 46 | square Jupiter 9:37 PMwaningwaxing |
| Aug 2 | Wed | 32 | waningvoid Wed 5:15 PM – Wed 11:05 PM |
| Aug 3 | Thu | 45 | sextile Jupiter 9:19 PMwaning |
| Aug 4 | Fri | 36 | waningvoid Fri 9:20 PM – Fri 11:19 PM |
| Aug 5 | Sat | 38 | waning |
| Aug 6 | Sun | 38 | waning |
| Aug 7 | Mon | 46 | conjunction Jupiter 4:10 AMwaningvoid Mon 12:12 AM – Mon 2:24 AM |
| Aug 8 | Tue | 40 | conjunction Jupiter 4:10 AMwaning |
| Aug 9 | Wed | 35 | waningvoid Wed 6:38 AM – Wed 9:05 AM |
| Aug 10 | Thu | 38 | waning |
| Aug 11 | Fri | 34 | sextile Jupiter 12:05 AMwaningvoid Fri 1:27 PM – Fri 6:52 PM |
| Aug 12 | Sat | 46 | sextile Jupiter 12:05 AMwaning |
| Aug 13 | Sun | 38 | sextile Jupiter 12:05 AMwaning |
| Aug 14 | Mon | 29 | square Jupiter 12:44 PMwaningvoid Mon 3:46 AM – Mon 6:36 AM |
| Aug 15 | Tue | 34 | square Jupiter 12:44 PMwaning |
| Aug 16 | Wed | 44 | trine Jupiter 1:48 AMwaningwaxingvoid Wed 5:38 AM – Wed 7:14 PM |
| Aug 17 | Thu | 76 | trine Jupiter 1:48 AMwaxing |
| Aug 18 | Fri | 63 | trine Jupiter 1:48 AMwaxing |
| Aug 19 | Sat | 59 | waxingvoid Sat 4:50 AM – Sat 7:53 AM |
| Aug 20 | Sun | 62 | waxing |
| Aug 21 | Mon | 57 | opposition Jupiter 12:48 AMwaxingvoid Mon 4:30 PM – Mon 7:22 PM |
| Aug 22 | Tue | 50 | opposition Jupiter 12:48 AMwaxing |
| Aug 23 | Wed | 59 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 12:48 AMwaxing |
| Aug 24 | Thu | 51 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Thu 1:10 AM – Thu 4:07 AM |
| Aug 25 | Fri | 54 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Aug 26 | Sat | 60 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 10:57 AMwaxingvoid Sat 7:56 AM – Sat 9:05 AM |
| Aug 27 | Sun | 60 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 10:57 AMwaxing |
| Aug 28 | Mon | 47 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 11:11 AMwaxingvoid Mon 7:48 AM – Mon 10:31 AM |
| Aug 29 | Tue | 50 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 11:11 AMwaxing |
| Aug 30 | Wed | 46 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 10:24 AMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 11:04 PM – Wed 9:56 AM |
| Aug 31 | Thu | 34 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 10:24 AMwaning |
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 2023. 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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