Void-of-Course Moon Today

While the Moon crosses a sign, it makes exact aspects to the Sun and the planets. After the last of them it makes no more until it enters the next sign, and that stretch is the void of course. The Moon is quick: in November it spends between 48 and 61 hours in each sign, so a void comes round every two to three days.

To take the current sign as an example (as of 16:05 UTC): the Moon's last aspect in ♏ Scorpio is a square to Jupiter at 23:25 UTC on November 9. From that moment until it enters Sagittarius at 08:35 UTC on November 10, a span of 9 hours 11 minutes, it makes no other exact aspect, so it is void.

The times here count conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines and oppositions to the Sun and the planets through Pluto. Astrologers who count only the planets known before 1781 get earlier start times on some days; the void-of-course calendar shows by how much for the whole year. How positions are calculated is set out on the methodology page.

Find the moment of commitment. The convention concerns the instant something begins: the signature, the payment, the button that sends the application. A meeting to discuss a deal is not the deal. If that instant falls inside a window above, move it before the last aspect or after the Moon enters the next sign.

Check the date as well as the hour. Voids often run overnight, and a period that starts in the evening in UTC can start the next morning in Asia or Australia. Compare the window with your own clock, not with UTC.

Short voids are easy to wait out. None of November's 13 voids is under an hour, while 2 run past 12 hours. A long void that covers a whole working day is where the choice is real: start early, wait for the next sign, or go ahead and accept it.