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The best day to ask for a raise, by your natal chart

Astrology can help you identify a lucky day to ask for a raise, but only if it’s precise and personal—and that’s what Kalendom does best.

An almanac says: “Ask for a raise on a Tuesday morning.”

That’s nonsense. The right day to ask depends on a very specific combination of transits to your chart.

Your best days to ask for a raise, scored from your own birth chart—with the exact transits behind every score.

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What our astrology engine watches for this

Asking for a raise leans on work and money at once. Our astrology engine weighs transiting Sun, Saturn and Mercury against your 10th house of standing, and Venus and Jupiter against your 2nd house of income—a day scores high when those fall in supportive aspect, and a hard Saturn contact is the kind of day to wait out.

Key transiting planets

  • Sun
  • Saturn
  • Mercury
  • Mars
  • Venus
  • Jupiter

Houses that matter

  • 2nd house income & self-worth
  • 6th house daily work & routine
  • 8th house shared & invested resources
  • 10th house career & public standing
  • 11th house gains & networks
Sunwork

Example: a strong day for this might be driven by transiting Jupiter trine your natal Sun—our astrology engine shows you exactly that, in plain language, for every day it scores.

Reflective insight from your chart, not financial advice—the decision is always yours.

A real day, scored across every area

A real day, scored

Actual output from the Kalendom engine for 28 July 2026—not a mock-up.

JUPMERSUNMERJUPASC+10
28 July
SATJUPSATNEPURAMERNEPASC

Day scores

Overall61
  • Love46
  • Money54
  • Work63
  • Energy54

Above 50 is good for the area, below 50 is tense.

The transits behind it

  • JUPMER

    Transiting Jupiter sextiles your natal Mercury (0.4° separating); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · work · good

  • SUNMER

    Transiting Sun sextiles your natal Mercury (0.4° applying); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · work · good

  • JUPASC

    Transiting Jupiter sextiles your natal Ascendant (0.5° applying); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · work · good

Every transit behind a work score

The same reasoning the product shows you, in plain language.

Might support

vitality and what you are visibly known for; talking, writing, deals and the fine print; scope, generosity and where things widen.

From this day’s Sun, Mercury and Jupiter.

Handle carefully

structure, patience and what has to be earned; disruption and the sudden change of plan.

From this day’s Saturn and Uranus.

  • JUPMER

    Transiting Jupiter sextiles your natal Mercury (0.4° separating); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · orb 0.4° · house 10 · work

  • SUNMER

    Transiting Sun sextiles your natal Mercury (0.4° applying); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · orb 0.4° · house 10 · work

  • JUPASC

    Transiting Jupiter sextiles your natal Ascendant (0.5° applying); moving through your 10th house, a work house.

    sextile · orb 0.5° · house 10 · work

  • SATJUP

    Transiting Saturn squares your natal Jupiter (1.1° separating); touching your natal Jupiter in your 10th house, a work house.

    square · orb 1.1° · house 10 · work

+ 10 more good transits behind the “+10” in the column.

How they become your day scores

Each number is the astrology engine's weighted sum of those transits—graded by what each planet rules, how exact the angle is, and the day's overall strength.

The sky this month and next

  1. Sun meets Mars by sextile.

  2. Mercury meets Saturn by opposition.

  3. Sun enters Libra.

  4. Sun meets Neptune by opposition.

  5. Sun meets Saturn by opposition.

  6. Sun meets Jupiter by sextile.

  7. Mars meets Saturn by trine.

  8. Sun enters Scorpio.

These are general transits—the same dates for everyone. Precision needs the transits against your natal chart. Read them against my chart

This page describes the general pattern

Your chart is unique—use the free calculator to see your exact dates, and test past dates free to check the Kalendom engine against your own life before you trust it forward.

Best day to ask for a raise—FAQ

Is there really a best day to ask for a raise?
There are days when your chart is more supported for a confident work ask, and days better spent preparing. Our astrology engine scores each day from your birth chart and names the transit behind it—you still choose when to act.
How is this different from a generic horoscope?
A horoscope reads your sun sign alone; this scores your whole natal chart, every planet and house, so two people born the same week get different best days. It is your chart, not your sign.
Can I check how a past review went, for free?
Yes—backtesting past dates is free. Checking the day of a past review or raise against its score is the honest way to see whether the timing reads true for you before you rely on it.

The method

We read four hundred years of transit theory and programmed it into the Kalendom astrology engine.

Of everything astrology contains, one tradition exists to answer a single question: when. The Kalendom engine encodes that tradition whole—four centuries of transit doctrine, rule by rule, source by source—and turns it into something anyone can read: a 0–100 score for love, money, work and energy, every single day.

  • 1,460

    scores in your year ahead

    365 days × love, money, work, energy

  • 10 × 5 × 12

    planets, aspects, houses

    every combination pre-graded by the rulebook, nothing improvised

  • ~400 years

    of transit doctrine behind our algorithm

    from William Lilly’s tables to the modern transit literature—cited line by line

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