Launch / publish — April 2024
The best days to release music in April 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 April 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 Thu, Apr 18, 11:00 AM EDT and holds until Sat, Apr 20, 7:00 AM EDT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1 | Mon | 49 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 7:43 AMwaningvoid Sun 8:15 PM – Mon 12:05 AM |
| Apr 2 | Tue | 35 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 7:43 AMwaning |
| Apr 3 | Wed | 20 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 11:43 AMwaningvoid Wed 1:40 AM – Wed 5:07 AM |
| Apr 4 | Thu | 26 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 11:43 AMwaning |
| Apr 5 | Fri | 29 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 1:12 PMwaningvoid Fri 1:39 AM – Fri 7:12 AM |
| Apr 6 | Sat | 35 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 1:12 PMwaning |
| Apr 7 | Sun | 27 | Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sun 4:26 AM – Sun 7:24 AM |
| Apr 8 | Mon | 38 | Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Mon 10:38 PM – Tue 7:23 AM |
| Apr 9 | Tue | 54 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 3:19 PMwaxingvoid Mon 10:38 PM – Tue 7:23 AM |
| Apr 10 | Wed | 62 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 3:19 PMwaxing |
| Apr 11 | Thu | 52 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Thu 6:03 AM – Thu 8:58 AM |
| Apr 12 | Fri | 54 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Apr 13 | Sat | 54 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 4:05 AMwaxingvoid Sat 10:46 AM – Sat 1:44 PM |
| Apr 14 | Sun | 62 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 4:05 AMwaxing |
| Apr 15 | Mon | 52 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 4:05 AMsquare Jupiter 4:11 PMwaxingvoid Mon 7:22 PM – Mon 10:23 PM |
| Apr 16 | Tue | 46 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 4:11 PMwaxing |
| Apr 17 | Wed | 48 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 4:11 PMwaxing |
| Apr 18 | Thu | 60 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 6:13 AMwaxingvoid Thu 8:02 AM – Thu 10:10 AM |
| Apr 19 | Fri | 68 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 6:13 AMwaxing |
| Apr 20 | Sat | 55 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 6:13 AMwaxingvoid Sat 8:19 PM – Sat 11:08 PM |
| Apr 21 | Sun | 54 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Apr 22 | Mon | 50 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Mon 7:24 PM – Tue 11:19 AM |
| Apr 23 | Tue | 32 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 7:54 AMwaningwaxingvoid Mon 7:24 PM – Tue 11:19 AM |
| Apr 24 | Wed | 18 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 7:54 AMwaning |
| Apr 25 | Thu | 29 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 7:54 AMwaningvoid Thu 7:16 PM – Thu 9:37 PM |
| Apr 26 | Fri | 38 | waning |
| Apr 27 | Sat | 38 | waning |
| Apr 28 | Sun | 46 | trine Jupiter 12:39 AMwaningvoid Sun 3:30 AM – Sun 5:37 AM |
| Apr 29 | Mon | 52 | trine Jupiter 12:39 AMwaning |
| Apr 30 | Tue | 35 | square Jupiter 5:28 AMtrine Jupiter 12:39 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 April 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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