Launch / publish — December 2024
The best days to release music in December 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 December 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, Dec 5, 12:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Dec 6, 5:00 AM EST, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | Sun | 44 | Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 3:44 PMwaningwaxing |
| Dec 2 | Mon | 48 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Mon 10:47 AM – Mon 4:09 PM |
| Dec 3 | Tue | 54 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Dec 4 | Wed | 49 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 6:34 PM – Wed 11:21 PM |
| Dec 5 | Thu | 68 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 4:52 AMwaxing |
| Dec 6 | Fri | 53 | Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 4:52 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM |
| Dec 7 | Sat | 42 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 8:55 AMwaxingvoid Fri 7:01 PM – Sat 4:48 AM |
| Dec 8 | Sun | 51 | Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 8:55 AMwaxing |
| Dec 9 | Mon | 54 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 11:24 AMwaxingvoid Mon 3:44 AM – Mon 8:37 AM |
| Dec 10 | Tue | 52 | Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 11:24 AMwaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM |
| Dec 11 | Wed | 43 | Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 5:13 PM – Wed 10:54 AM |
| Dec 12 | Thu | 54 | Mercury retrogradewaxing |
| Dec 13 | Fri | 54 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 1:42 PMwaxingvoid Fri 7:39 AM – Fri 12:21 PM |
| Dec 14 | Sat | 61 | Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 1:42 PMwaxing |
| Dec 15 | Sun | 32 | Mercury retrogradewaningwaxingvoid Sun 9:31 AM – Sun 2:21 PM |
| Dec 16 | Mon | 38 | waning |
| Dec 17 | Tue | 34 | sextile Jupiter 9:40 PMwaningvoid Tue 1:33 PM – Tue 6:39 PM |
| Dec 18 | Wed | 45 | sextile Jupiter 9:40 PMwaning |
| Dec 19 | Thu | 38 | waning |
| Dec 20 | Fri | 29 | square Jupiter 6:55 AMwaningvoid Fri 12:19 AM – Fri 2:36 AM |
| Dec 21 | Sat | 36 | square Jupiter 6:55 AMwaning |
| Dec 22 | Sun | 37 | trine Jupiter 6:51 PMwaningvoid Sun 8:27 AM – Sun 2:07 PM |
| Dec 23 | Mon | 49 | trine Jupiter 6:51 PMwaning |
| Dec 24 | Tue | 19 | waningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM |
| Dec 25 | Wed | 34 | waningvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Wed 3:06 AM |
| Dec 26 | Thu | 38 | waning |
| Dec 27 | Fri | 28 | opposition Jupiter 4:49 PMwaningvoid Fri 9:23 AM – Fri 2:46 PM |
| Dec 28 | Sat | 30 | opposition Jupiter 4:49 PMwaning |
| Dec 29 | Sun | 33 | waningvoid Sun 6:34 PM – Sun 11:37 PM |
| Dec 30 | Mon | 44 | waningwaxing |
| Dec 31 | Tue | 62 | waxing |
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 December 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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