When is the best day to send a pitch in October 2026?

The month's best stretch opens Fri, Oct 16, 9:00 AM EDT and holds until Sun, Oct 18, 12:00 AM EDT, scoring 64 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. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Send / pitch — October 2026

The best days to send a pitch in October 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 pitch on the calendar. Here is October 2026, scored for sending: 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 Fri, Oct 16, 9:00 AM EDT and holds until Sun, Oct 18, 12:00 AM EDT, scoring 64.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Oct 1	Thu	45	waningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM
Oct 2	Fri	33	trine Mercury 9:35 PMwaningvoid Thu 10:41 PM – Fri 3:54 PM
Oct 3	Sat	34	waningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM
Oct 4	Sun	24	square Mercury 5:43 AMwaningvoid Sat 11:08 AM – Sun 6:54 PM
Oct 5	Mon	44	square Mercury 5:43 AMwaning
Oct 6	Tue	30	sextile Mercury 2:56 PMwaningvoid Tue 6:22 AM – Tue 10:52 PM
Oct 7	Wed	43	sextile Mercury 2:56 PMwaningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 8	Thu	21	waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 9	Fri	41	waningvoid Wed 2:56 PM – Fri 4:10 AM
Oct 10	Sat	46	waningwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM
Oct 11	Sun	46	conjunction Mercury 2:48 PMwaxingvoid Sat 7:07 PM – Sun 11:21 AM
Oct 12	Mon	59	conjunction Mercury 2:48 PMwaxing
Oct 13	Tue	37	waxingvoid Tue 4:45 AM – Tue 8:59 PM
Oct 14	Wed	54	waxing
Oct 15	Thu	48	waxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM
Oct 16	Fri	51	sextile Mercury 11:07 PMwaxingvoid Thu 5:55 PM – Fri 8:57 AM
Oct 17	Sat	64	sextile Mercury 11:07 PMwaxing
Oct 18	Sun	44	square Mercury 1:42 PMwaxingvoid Sun 12:12 PM – Sun 9:39 PM
Oct 19	Mon	44	square Mercury 1:42 PMwaxing
Oct 20	Tue	48	square Mercury 1:42 PMwaxing
Oct 21	Wed	59	trine Mercury 11:31 PMwaxingvoid Wed 4:42 AM – Wed 8:35 AM
Oct 22	Thu	68	trine Mercury 11:31 PMwaxing
Oct 23	Fri	37	waxingvoid Thu 11:31 PM – Fri 3:53 PM
Oct 24	Sat	36	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Oct 25	Sun	29	Mercury retrogradeopposition Mercury 5:11 AMwaxingvoid Sun 6:59 PM – Sun 7:34 PM
Oct 26	Mon	10	Mercury retrogradeopposition Mercury 5:11 AMwaningwaxing
Oct 27	Tue	9	Mercury retrogradeopposition Mercury 5:11 AMwaningvoid Tue 10:51 AM – Tue 9:01 PM
Oct 28	Wed	24	Mercury retrogradewaning
Oct 29	Thu	19	Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 3:01 AMwaningvoid Thu 5:43 PM – Thu 10:05 PM
Oct 30	Fri	38	Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 3:01 AMwaning
Oct 31	Sat	20	Mercury retrogradetrine Mercury 3:01 AMwaningvoid Sat 5:59 PM – Sun 12:18 AM

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 October 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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