Launch / publish — January 2024
The best days to release music in January 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 release on the calendar. Here is January 2024, 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 Mon, Jan 22, 5:00 PM EST and holds until Tue, Jan 23, 6:00 AM EST, scoring 70.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Mon | 30 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Jan 2 | Tue | 37 | waningvoid Tue 6:36 PM – Tue 7:46 PM |
| Jan 3 | Wed | 38 | waning |
| Jan 4 | Thu | 38 | waning |
| Jan 5 | Fri | 31 | opposition Jupiter 6:35 PMwaningvoid Fri 6:40 AM – Fri 7:39 AM |
| Jan 6 | Sat | 38 | waning |
| Jan 7 | Sun | 37 | waningvoid Sun 3:22 PM – Sun 4:08 PM |
| Jan 8 | Mon | 38 | waning |
| Jan 9 | Tue | 32 | trine Jupiter 6:14 AMwaningvoid Tue 1:24 PM – Tue 8:33 PM |
| Jan 10 | Wed | 42 | trine Jupiter 6:14 AMwaning |
| Jan 11 | Thu | 54 | square Jupiter 7:28 AMwaningwaxingvoid Thu 9:33 PM – Thu 10:01 PM |
| Jan 12 | Fri | 59 | square Jupiter 7:28 AMwaxing |
| Jan 13 | Sat | 44 | sextile Jupiter 8:07 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:58 AM – Sat 10:29 PM |
| Jan 14 | Sun | 65 | sextile Jupiter 8:07 AMwaxing |
| Jan 15 | Mon | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 16 | Tue | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 17 | Wed | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 18 | Thu | 68 | conjunction Jupiter 2:05 PMwaxing |
| Jan 19 | Fri | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 20 | Sat | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 21 | Sun | 62 | waxing |
| Jan 22 | Mon | 63 | sextile Jupiter 5:12 AMwaxingvoid Mon 3:39 PM – Mon 4:50 PM |
| Jan 23 | Tue | 64 | sextile Jupiter 5:12 AMwaxing |
| Jan 24 | Wed | 56 | waxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 25 | Thu | 44 | square Jupiter 3:46 PMwaningwaxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 26 | Fri | 31 | waningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 27 | Sat | 28 | trine Jupiter 4:10 AMwaningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 28 | Sun | 41 | trine Jupiter 4:10 AMwaning |
| Jan 29 | Mon | 33 | waningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 30 | Tue | 34 | waningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 31 | Wed | 38 | waning |
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 January 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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