When is the best day to release music in December 2024?

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 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Scores start at 50. Higher scores mean more favorable conditions under Orrery’s rules, not a higher chance of success. Check the times against your availability.

What does void-of-course mean?

The interval after the Moon's last exact major aspect in a sign, until it enters the next. Orrery uses a modern definition and assigns a score penalty to starts during this interval.

Launch / publish — December 2024

The best days to release music in December 2024.

Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Event and interval times include their Eastern Time zone label (EDT or EST). 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. Scores start at 50. Higher scores mean more favorable conditions under Orrery’s rules, not a higher chance of success. Check the times against your availability.

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.

Rows list factors in that day’s hourly samples. An applying aspect’s exact date can fall on a later day.

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Dec 1	Sun	44	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter opposition · exact Sun, Dec 1, 2024, 3:44 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 2	Mon	48	Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 10:47 AM EST – Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 4:09 PM EST
Dec 3	Tue	54	Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 4	Wed	49	Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 6:34 PM EST – Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 11:21 PM EST
Dec 5	Thu	68	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter trine · exact Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 4:52 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 6	Fri	53	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter trine · exact Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 4:52 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 7:01 PM EST – Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 4:48 AM EST
Dec 7	Sat	42	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter square · exact Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 8:55 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 7:01 PM EST – Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 4:48 AM EST
Dec 8	Sun	51	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter square · exact Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 8:55 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 9	Mon	54	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter sextile · exact Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 11:24 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 3:44 AM EST – Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 8:37 AM EST
Dec 10	Tue	52	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter sextile · exact Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 11:24 AM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:13 PM EST – Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:54 AM EST
Dec 11	Wed	43	Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 5:13 PM EST – Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 10:54 AM EST
Dec 12	Thu	54	Mercury retrogradeWaxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 13	Fri	54	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter conjunction · exact Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:42 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 7:39 AM EST – Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 12:21 PM EST
Dec 14	Sat	61	Mercury retrogradeApplying Moon–Jupiter conjunction · exact Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:42 PM ESTWaxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 15	Sun	32	Mercury retrogradeWaning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 9:31 AM EST – Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 2:21 PM EST
Dec 16	Mon	38	Waning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 17	Tue	34	Applying Moon–Jupiter sextile · exact Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 9:40 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 1:33 PM EST – Tue, Dec 17, 2024, 6:39 PM EST
Dec 18	Wed	45	Applying Moon–Jupiter sextile · exact Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 9:40 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 19	Thu	38	Waning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 20	Fri	29	Applying Moon–Jupiter square · exact Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 6:55 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 12:19 AM EST – Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 2:36 AM EST
Dec 21	Sat	36	Applying Moon–Jupiter square · exact Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 6:55 AM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 22	Sun	37	Applying Moon–Jupiter trine · exact Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 6:51 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 22, 2024, 8:27 AM EST – Sun, Dec 22, 2024, 2:07 PM EST
Dec 23	Mon	49	Applying Moon–Jupiter trine · exact Mon, Dec 23, 2024, 6:51 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 24	Tue	19	Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 5:43 AM EST – Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 3:06 AM EST
Dec 25	Wed	34	Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 5:43 AM EST – Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 3:06 AM EST
Dec 26	Thu	38	Waning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 27	Fri	28	Applying Moon–Jupiter opposition · exact Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 4:49 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:23 AM EST – Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 2:46 PM EST
Dec 28	Sat	30	Applying Moon–Jupiter opposition · exact Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 4:49 PM ESTWaning Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 29	Sun	33	Waning Moon (sampled hours)Void-of-course Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 6:34 PM EST – Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 11:37 PM EST
Dec 30	Mon	44	Waning Moon (sampled hours)Waxing Moon (sampled hours)
Dec 31	Tue	62	Waxing Moon (sampled hours)

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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