Is the Moon void of course right now?

Right now the Moon is in Aquarius, first quarter. Venus and Saturn are retrograde.Computed Oct 19, 07:58 UTC. The tool shows your own time.

The void windows, next two weeks

1. Wed, Oct 21, 3:58 am Central

   to Wed, Oct 21, 7:36 am Central

   Moon void in Aquarius, then into Pisces

   Oct 21, 08:58 UTC to Oct 21, 12:36 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

2. Thu, Oct 22, 10:36 pm Central

   to Fri, Oct 23, 2:54 pm Central

   Moon void in Pisces, then into Aries

   Oct 23, 03:36 UTC to Oct 23, 19:54 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

3. Sun, Oct 25, 6:24 pm Central

   to Sun, Oct 25, 6:36 pm Central

   Moon void in Aries, then into Taurus

   Oct 25, 23:24 UTC to Oct 25, 23:36 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

4. Tue, Oct 27, 10:06 am Central

   to Tue, Oct 27, 8:03 pm Central

   Moon void in Taurus, then into Gemini

   Oct 27, 15:06 UTC to Oct 28, 01:03 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

5. Thu, Oct 29, 5:03 pm Central

   to Thu, Oct 29, 9:06 pm Central

   Moon void in Gemini, then into Cancer

   Oct 29, 22:03 UTC to Oct 30, 02:06 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

6. Sat, Oct 31, 5:06 pm Central

   to Sat, Oct 31, 11:19 pm Central

   Moon void in Cancer, then into Leo

   Oct 31, 22:06 UTC to Nov 1, 04:19 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

7. Mon, Nov 2, 6:19 pm Central

   to Tue, Nov 3, 2:29 am Central

   Moon void in Leo, then into Virgo

   Nov 3, 00:19 UTC to Nov 3, 08:29 UTC. Nothing new started in this stretch tends to come to much; finish, tidy, rest.

When the Moon changes sign

• Wed, Oct 21, 7:36 am CentralMoon enters Piscesrest and drift. Imagination; the edges go soft.
• Fri, Oct 23, 2:54 pm CentralMoon enters Ariesquick and direct. Good for starting, poor for waiting.
• Sun, Oct 25, 6:36 pm CentralMoon enters Taurusslow and steady. Money, food, comfort, what lasts.
• Tue, Oct 27, 8:03 pm CentralMoon enters Geminitalk and errands. Messages fly, nothing sits still.
• Thu, Oct 29, 9:06 pm CentralMoon enters Cancerhome and feeling. Protective, close to the base, the Moon's own sign.
• Sat, Oct 31, 11:19 pm CentralMoon enters Leowarm and visible. The stage, the heart, pride.
• Tue, Nov 3, 2:29 am CentralMoon enters Virgosorting and fixing. The small useful things get done.

Central (Daylight or Standard as the date falls) and UTC. Computed hourly from the real positions of the Moon and the classical planets with astronomy-engine. The window checker below shows the same windows in your own time.

The Moon moves through a sign in about two and a half days. On its way it makes aspects to the other planets: conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines, oppositions, the five the classical astrologers counted. After its last exact aspect in the sign, and until it enters the next sign, the Moon is said to be void of course. It has nothing left to do where it is.

The old reading is blunt. William Lilly, in 1647, following the medieval election manuals: a matter begun with the Moon void of course "seldom comes to good". Nothing started then grows. The same rule appears in Sahl ibn Bishr eight centuries earlier. Rhythm's timing engine gives it the heaviest negative weight of any rule, for every action but one.

What not to start

• Contracts and agreements. The thing drifts or comes back for renegotiation.
• Launches and announcements. They go unnoticed.
• Purchases that matter. The thing disappoints.
• Journeys. The classical warning was for setting sail; it holds for setting out.
• Anything you want to last: the first day of a project, a habit, a hire.

What it is good for

Rest, finishing, and clearing the desk, the inbox and the backlog. Routine work goes fine, because it has no beginning in it, and so does the conversation you would rather have no consequences. The void Moon is the one condition of the sky the window checker counts in favour of resting, and the rest is free: nothing is lost by stopping, because nothing started would have come to much.

Three choices decide the times, and calendars make them differently. Which planets count: Rhythm uses the seven classical bodies, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, with the Moon, and not the outer planets, which the classical rule did not know. Which aspects count: the five major ones, and no minor aspects. And the time zone, which this page names on every line.

A calendar that counts the outer planets will show shorter void windows, because Uranus, Neptune and Pluto give the Moon more last words. Neither is wrong; they are different frames. Rhythm keeps the classical one because that is where the rule comes from.

The Moon's position is computed at thirty-minute resolution and each sign change is then found to the minute. The windows are recomputed every hour.

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