The best day to ask for a raise

Worth, not just persuasion

Asking for money is a different act from asking for a job. It is not mainly about explaining yourself well — it is about value being recognised, by someone with a budget and their own pressures. So the reading leans hardest on the planet of value and on the planet of increase, with your public standing behind them.

Saturn is watched more closely here than almost anywhere else, and not as superstition. Saturn is the principle of limits and of the answer that hardens into policy. A "no" given on a Saturn-heavy day tends to be the kind that is difficult to revisit for months, which is a practical reason to prefer a different week.

Waxing rather than waning

A growing Moon counts for more here than it does for an interview, because you are asking for an increase rather than for a decision. Tradition is consistent on this: things begun while the Moon fills tend to grow, and asking for more while it empties works against the grain of the request.

It is a modest factor rather than the deciding one, and the ranking will say so — a strong day with a waning Moon still beats a weak day with a full one.

Timing is the part you control

Most of what decides a raise is not in the sky: the company’s finances, your last twelve months, whether your manager has the authority, whether anyone else has asked first. None of that is what this tool is for, and it will not pretend otherwise.

What it offers is the one variable you can usually choose freely and which most people choose at random — which day, and which hour of it, you walk in and ask.

What the scoring weighs for asking for a raise

Money and worth: Venus and Jupiter for value, the Sun for standing, Saturn watched closely because it hardens a "no".

A favoured day or planetary hour ruled by ♃ Jupiter, ♀ Venus, ☉ Sun adds a little more. The numbers are multipliers on each aspect found, not a score out of ten — they decide what counts, not what the answer is.

What it warns you about

• Venus retrograde

  The planet of worth and value, moving backwards. The traditional warning against renegotiating what something is worth — and here it carries the heaviest penalty of any factor.

• A void-of-course Moon

  The Moon has perfected its last aspect before changing sign. Classically barren for beginnings: the conversation happens and nothing follows from it.

• Hard Saturn contacts

  Saturn hardens a refusal into a settled position. The concern is less that you are told no and more that you are told no in a way that closes the subject.