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Sign / commit — December 2023

The best days to sign a contract in December 2023.

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.

This month has passed. The current month is sign a contract in September 2026.

You’ve got the contract on the calendar. Here is December 2023, scored for signing: 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, Dec 8, 11:00 PM EST and holds until Sat, Dec 9, 2:00 AM EST, scoring 68.

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

DateDayScoreThe computed sky
Dec 1Fri52waningvoid Fri 8:06 AM – Fri 11:00 AM
Dec 2Sat56waning
Dec 3Sun54opposition Saturn 1:26 AMwaningvoid Sun 9:11 PM – Sun 10:50 PM
Dec 4Mon55opposition Saturn 1:26 AMwaning
Dec 5Tue56waning
Dec 6Wed52waningvoid Wed 8:50 AM – Wed 11:34 AM
Dec 7Thu56waning
Dec 8Fri54trine Saturn 1:33 AMwaningvoid Fri 8:05 PM – Fri 10:34 PM
Dec 9Sat57trine Saturn 1:33 AMwaning
Dec 10Sun56waning
Dec 11Mon51square Saturn 9:13 AMwaningvoid Mon 3:57 AM – Mon 6:10 AM
Dec 12Tue54waningwaxing
Dec 13Wed17Mercury retrogradesextile Saturn 1:38 PMwaxingvoid Wed 1:48 AM – Wed 10:31 AM
Dec 14Thu24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 15Fri23Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Fri 11:03 AM – Fri 12:55 PM
Dec 16Sat24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 17Sun14Mercury retrogradeconjunction Saturn 6:31 PMwaxingvoid Sun 7:03 AM – Sun 2:58 PM
Dec 18Mon24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 19Tue23Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Tue 4:03 PM – Tue 5:46 PM
Dec 20Wed24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 21Thu25Mercury retrogradesextile Saturn 2:07 AMwaxing
Dec 22Fri25Mercury retrogradesextile Saturn 2:07 AMwaxing
Dec 23Sat24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 24Sun20Mercury retrogradesquare Saturn 7:58 AMwaxingvoid Sun 1:39 AM – Sun 3:14 AM
Dec 25Mon24Mercury retrogradewaxing
Dec 26Tue19Mercury retrogradetrine Saturn 3:29 PMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 2:55 AM – Tue 10:15 AM
Dec 27Wed34Mercury retrogradewaning
Dec 28Thu32Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Thu 5:57 PM – Thu 7:23 PM
Dec 29Fri34Mercury retrogradewaning
Dec 30Sat34Mercury retrogradewaning
Dec 31Sun23Mercury retrogradeopposition Saturn 1:23 PMwaningvoid Sun 12:18 AM – Sun 6:53 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 December 2023. 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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