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

Your natal chart shows which days in the months ahead support asking for a raise.

The best day to ask for a raise can come when the Sun supports your Mercury, or Mercury supports your Sun.

Use your natal chart to find out when you’ll have them.

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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 watches the Sun, Saturn and Mercury and the part of your chart for career and standing, then Venus and Jupiter and the part for income. A supportive contact from any of them raises the day’s score; a tense Saturn lowers it—the kind of day to wait out.

The planets that matter

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

The parts of your chart that matter

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

Example: a strong day might come from Jupiter supporting your natal Sun, the tradition’s planet of vitality and visibility. Our astrology engine names a reason like that 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 leans supportive, below 50 leans tense.

The transits behind it

  • JUPMER

    worksupportivesextile

    Jupiter supports your Mercury (speech and deals), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

  • SUNMER

    worksupportivesextile

    The Sun supports your Mercury (speech and deals), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

  • JUPASC

    worksupportivesextile

    Jupiter supports your rising sign (how you come across), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

Every transit behind a work score

The same reasoning the product shows you—in plain words first, with the astronomy underneath.

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

    worksupportive

    Jupiter supports your Mercury (speech and deals), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

    sextile · orb 0.4° · house 10

  • SUNMER

    worksupportive

    The Sun supports your Mercury (speech and deals), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

    sextile · orb 0.4° · house 10

  • JUPASC

    worksupportive

    Jupiter supports your rising sign (how you come across), passing through the part of your chart about career and standing.

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

    sextile · orb 0.5° · house 10

  • SATJUP

    worktense

    Saturn puts pressure on your Jupiter (growth), which sits in the part of your chart about career and standing.

    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

+ 10 more supportive contacts 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 close the contact is, and the day's overall strength.

The sky this month and next

  1. The Sun and Jupiter at odds.

    square

  2. The Sun and Mars at odds.

    square

  3. The Sun moves into Sagittarius.

  4. The Sun and Uranus at odds.

    opposition

  5. Saturn turns forward again in Aries.

  6. The Sun and Jupiter in harmony.

    trine

  7. The Sun moves into Capricorn.

  8. The Sun and Mars in harmony.

    trine

These dates are the same for everyone, so they can’t be precise for you. Read them on my natal 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 every part of it, 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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