Launch / publish — April 2026
The best days to release music in April 2026.
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 2026, 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 Tue, Apr 21, 2:00 PM EDT and holds until Wed, Apr 22, 7:00 PM EDT, scoring 74.
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 | Wed | 53 | square Jupiter 4:55 AMwaningwaxing |
| Apr 2 | Thu | 17 | square Jupiter 4:55 AMwaningvoid Thu 4:55 AM – Fri 8:10 AM |
| Apr 3 | Fri | 37 | trine Jupiter 3:42 PMwaningvoid Thu 4:55 AM – Fri 8:10 AM |
| Apr 4 | Sat | 47 | trine Jupiter 3:42 PMwaning |
| Apr 5 | Sun | 36 | waningvoid Sun 5:28 PM – Sun 7:31 PM |
| Apr 6 | Mon | 38 | waning |
| Apr 7 | Tue | 38 | waning |
| Apr 8 | Wed | 27 | opposition Jupiter 5:10 PMwaningvoid Wed 5:51 AM – Wed 8:04 AM |
| Apr 9 | Thu | 29 | opposition Jupiter 5:10 PMwaning |
| Apr 10 | Fri | 37 | waningvoid Fri 6:23 PM – Fri 7:55 PM |
| Apr 11 | Sat | 38 | waning |
| Apr 12 | Sun | 38 | waning |
| Apr 13 | Mon | 48 | trine Jupiter 11:22 AMwaningvoid Mon 3:42 AM – Mon 4:55 AM |
| Apr 14 | Tue | 45 | trine Jupiter 11:22 AMwaning |
| Apr 15 | Wed | 33 | square Jupiter 2:53 PMwaningvoid Wed 9:07 AM – Wed 10:03 AM |
| Apr 16 | Thu | 33 | square Jupiter 2:53 PMwaning |
| Apr 17 | Fri | 54 | sextile Jupiter 4:01 PMwaningwaxingvoid Fri 7:51 AM – Fri 11:57 AM |
| Apr 18 | Sat | 68 | sextile Jupiter 4:01 PMwaxing |
| Apr 19 | Sun | 61 | waxingvoid Sun 11:44 AM – Sun 12:17 PM |
| Apr 20 | Mon | 39 | waxingvoid Mon 1:17 AM – Tue 1:00 PM |
| Apr 21 | Tue | 52 | conjunction Jupiter 6:52 PMwaxingvoid Mon 1:17 AM – Tue 1:00 PM |
| Apr 22 | Wed | 72 | conjunction Jupiter 6:52 PMwaxing |
| Apr 23 | Thu | 62 | waxing |
| Apr 24 | Fri | 57 | waxingvoid Fri 6:20 PM – Sat 9:04 PM |
| Apr 25 | Sat | 40 | sextile Jupiter 7:11 AMwaxingvoid Fri 6:20 PM – Sat 9:04 PM |
| Apr 26 | Sun | 70 | sextile Jupiter 7:11 AMwaxing |
| Apr 27 | Mon | 48 | sextile Jupiter 7:11 AMwaxingvoid Mon 7:11 AM – Tue 5:02 AM |
| Apr 28 | Tue | 50 | square Jupiter 5:06 PMwaxingvoid Mon 7:11 AM – Tue 5:02 AM |
| Apr 29 | Wed | 56 | square Jupiter 5:06 PMwaxing |
| Apr 30 | Thu | 55 | trine Jupiter 4:47 AMwaxingvoid Thu 4:51 AM – Thu 3:01 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 April 2026. 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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