Sign / commit — January 2024
The best days to sign a contract in January 2024.
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 contract on the calendar. Here is January 2024, 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, Jan 5, 8:00 AM EST and holds until Fri, Jan 5, 3:00 PM EST, scoring 68.
Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.
| Date | Day | Score | The computed sky |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Mon | 35 | Mercury retrogradewaning |
| Jan 2 | Tue | 55 | waningvoid Tue 6:36 PM – Tue 7:46 PM |
| Jan 3 | Wed | 56 | waning |
| Jan 4 | Thu | 56 | waning |
| Jan 5 | Fri | 58 | trine Saturn 2:48 PMwaningvoid Fri 6:40 AM – Fri 7:39 AM |
| Jan 6 | Sat | 56 | waning |
| Jan 7 | Sun | 51 | square Saturn 11:11 PMwaningvoid Sun 3:22 PM – Sun 4:08 PM |
| Jan 8 | Mon | 56 | waning |
| Jan 9 | Tue | 49 | sextile Saturn 3:28 AMwaningvoid Tue 1:24 PM – Tue 8:33 PM |
| Jan 10 | Wed | 57 | sextile Saturn 3:28 AMwaning |
| Jan 11 | Thu | 48 | waningwaxingvoid Thu 9:33 PM – Thu 10:01 PM |
| Jan 12 | Fri | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 13 | Sat | 25 | conjunction Saturn 5:50 AMwaxingvoid Sat 4:58 AM – Sat 10:29 PM |
| Jan 14 | Sun | 44 | conjunction Saturn 5:50 AMwaxing |
| Jan 15 | Mon | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 16 | Tue | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 17 | Wed | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 18 | Thu | 49 | sextile Saturn 11:56 AMwaxing |
| Jan 19 | Fri | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 20 | Sat | 41 | square Saturn 6:32 PMwaxing |
| Jan 21 | Sun | 46 | waxing |
| Jan 22 | Mon | 48 | trine Saturn 3:14 AMwaxingvoid Mon 3:39 PM – Mon 4:50 PM |
| Jan 23 | Tue | 48 | trine Saturn 3:14 AMwaxing |
| Jan 24 | Wed | 39 | waxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 25 | Thu | 47 | waningwaxingvoid Wed 5:58 PM – Thu 2:36 AM |
| Jan 26 | Fri | 48 | waningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 27 | Sat | 33 | opposition Saturn 2:20 AMwaningvoid Fri 4:19 PM – Sat 2:11 PM |
| Jan 28 | Sun | 54 | opposition Saturn 2:20 AMwaning |
| Jan 29 | Mon | 50 | waningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 30 | Tue | 51 | waningvoid Mon 6:19 PM – Tue 3:04 AM |
| Jan 31 | Wed | 56 | waning |
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 January 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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