Launch / publish — May 2025
The best days to release music in May 2025.
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 2025, 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, May 8, 4:00 AM EDT and holds until Sat, May 10, 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 | Thu | 58 | waxingvoid Wed 11:48 PM – Thu 3:22 AM |
| May 2 | Fri | 62 | waxing |
| May 3 | Sat | 64 | sextile Jupiter 12:43 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:02 AM – Sat 7:29 AM |
| May 4 | Sun | 70 | sextile Jupiter 12:43 AMwaxing |
| May 5 | Mon | 53 | sextile Jupiter 12:43 AMsquare Jupiter 12:30 PMwaxingvoid Mon 9:03 AM – Mon 3:39 PM |
| May 6 | Tue | 54 | square Jupiter 12:30 PMwaxing |
| May 7 | Wed | 58 | square Jupiter 12:30 PMwaxing |
| May 8 | Thu | 71 | trine Jupiter 2:17 AMwaxingvoid Thu 12:11 AM – Thu 3:06 AM |
| May 9 | Fri | 76 | trine Jupiter 2:17 AMwaxing |
| May 10 | Sat | 50 | trine Jupiter 2:17 AMwaxingvoid Sat 2:17 AM – Sat 3:58 PM |
| May 11 | Sun | 62 | waxing |
| May 12 | Mon | 51 | waningwaxing |
| May 13 | Tue | 26 | opposition Jupiter 4:54 AMwaningvoid Tue 2:36 AM – Tue 4:34 AM |
| May 14 | Wed | 26 | opposition Jupiter 4:54 AMwaning |
| May 15 | Thu | 34 | opposition Jupiter 4:54 AMwaningvoid Thu 2:28 PM – Thu 3:57 PM |
| May 16 | Fri | 38 | waning |
| May 17 | Sat | 38 | waning |
| May 18 | Sun | 50 | trine Jupiter 12:12 AMwaningvoid Sun 12:26 AM – Sun 1:29 AM |
| May 19 | Mon | 52 | trine Jupiter 12:12 AMwaning |
| May 20 | Tue | 33 | square Jupiter 5:27 AMtrine Jupiter 12:12 AMwaningvoid Tue 7:58 AM – Tue 8:28 AM |
| May 21 | Wed | 30 | square Jupiter 5:27 AMwaning |
| May 22 | Thu | 40 | sextile Jupiter 7:43 AMsquare Jupiter 5:27 AMwaning |
| May 23 | Fri | 46 | sextile Jupiter 7:43 AMwaning |
| May 24 | Sat | 34 | sextile Jupiter 7:43 AMwaningvoid Sat 7:43 AM – Sat 1:38 PM |
| May 25 | Sun | 38 | waning |
| May 26 | Mon | 39 | conjunction Jupiter 9:00 AMwaningvoid Mon 9:51 AM – Mon 1:21 PM |
| May 27 | Tue | 74 | conjunction Jupiter 9:00 AMwaxing |
| May 28 | Wed | 63 | conjunction Jupiter 9:00 AMwaxingvoid Wed 9:00 AM – Wed 1:32 PM |
| May 29 | Thu | 62 | waxing |
| May 30 | Fri | 60 | sextile Jupiter 7:38 PMwaxingvoid Fri 12:50 PM – Fri 4:16 PM |
| May 31 | Sat | 70 | sextile Jupiter 7:38 PMwaxing |
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 2025. 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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