Launch / publish — May 2024
The best days to release music in May 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 May 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 Wed, May 15, 6:00 PM EDT and holds until Sat, May 18, 3:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | Wed | 30 | square Jupiter 5:28 AMwaning |
| May 2 | Thu | 30 | sextile Jupiter 8:22 AMsquare Jupiter 5:28 AMwaningvoid Thu 5:28 AM – Thu 2:51 PM |
| May 3 | Fri | 46 | sextile Jupiter 8:22 AMwaning |
| May 4 | Sat | 40 | sextile Jupiter 8:22 AMwaningvoid Sat 3:06 PM – Sat 4:40 PM |
| May 5 | Sun | 38 | waning |
| May 6 | Mon | 24 | conjunction Jupiter 12:30 PMwaningvoid Mon 1:57 AM – Mon 5:42 PM |
| May 7 | Tue | 50 | conjunction Jupiter 12:30 PMwaning |
| May 8 | Wed | 66 | conjunction Jupiter 12:30 PMwaxingvoid Wed 5:55 PM – Wed 7:20 PM |
| May 9 | Thu | 62 | waxing |
| May 10 | Fri | 60 | waxingvoid Fri 9:48 PM – Fri 11:13 PM |
| May 11 | Sat | 70 | sextile Jupiter 12:52 AMwaxing |
| May 12 | Sun | 70 | sextile Jupiter 12:52 AMwaxing |
| May 13 | Mon | 56 | sextile Jupiter 12:52 AMsquare Jupiter 12:41 PMwaxingvoid Mon 5:12 AM – Mon 6:36 AM |
| May 14 | Tue | 54 | square Jupiter 12:41 PMwaxing |
| May 15 | Wed | 56 | square Jupiter 12:41 PMtrine Jupiter 2:41 AMwaxingvoid Wed 12:41 PM – Wed 5:32 PM |
| May 16 | Thu | 76 | trine Jupiter 2:41 AMwaxing |
| May 17 | Fri | 76 | trine Jupiter 2:41 AMwaxing |
| May 18 | Sat | 63 | trine Jupiter 2:41 AMwaxingvoid Sat 5:08 AM – Sat 6:22 AM |
| May 19 | Sun | 50 | waxingvoid Sun 11:48 AM – Mon 6:34 PM |
| May 20 | Mon | 40 | opposition Jupiter 3:13 AMwaxingvoid Sun 11:48 AM – Mon 6:34 PM |
| May 21 | Tue | 50 | opposition Jupiter 3:13 AMwaxing |
| May 22 | Wed | 50 | opposition Jupiter 3:13 AMwaxing |
| May 23 | Thu | 45 | opposition Jupiter 3:13 AMwaningwaxingvoid Thu 3:27 AM – Thu 4:24 AM |
| May 24 | Fri | 38 | waning |
| May 25 | Sat | 37 | waningvoid Sat 10:47 AM – Sat 11:35 AM |
| May 26 | Sun | 38 | waning |
| May 27 | Mon | 39 | trine Jupiter 5:32 PMwaning |
| May 28 | Tue | 38 | waning |
| May 29 | Wed | 27 | square Jupiter 10:12 PMwaningvoid Wed 10:19 AM – Wed 8:32 PM |
| May 30 | Thu | 38 | waning |
| May 31 | Fri | 37 | waningvoid Fri 10:54 PM – Fri 11:28 PM |
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 May 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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