Things start off with a generous and friendly morning but grow more challenging as the day unwinds. Avoid overreacting and it will be easier. Happy Birthday to the Universal Product Code, first seen in Troy, Ohio on June 26, 1974 with a stick of chewing gum sold at a Marsh Supermarket.

On the day before the new moon, discipline and patience are what’s most needed to deal with stubborn cosmic energy. If delays are encountered, they may prove to be helpful. The ATM, or automatic teller, was first operated in England on June 27, 1967.

Two major events today, first Neptune goes retrograde in Pisces. When a planet changes direction, there is an intensification of its themes. When Neptune goes retrograde, old dreams, desires, fantasies, longings, feelings we haven’t fully processed resurface, demanding our attention. What makes Neptune different from other planets is its subtlety. Neptune is not the Uranian lightbulb moment, nor the Plutonian slap in the face.

And late tonight, we have a New Moon in Cancer. The New Moon is conjunct the Black Moon Lilith (the moon is at  its furthest point from the earth), and it is exactly square Jupiter. This is a bold, action-oriented New Moon. Jupiter in Aries gives us the impulse to act upon what it is that we hold most dear. Our emotions (Cancer) fuel our actions (Aries) and the other way around. The impulse to take action is very strong, almost Pavlovian. It may be raw and taboo, but it will eventually set us on a new trajectory, a trajectory that is more aligned with who we truly are. Born in South Africa, educated at Queen’s University in Kingston and now the richest man the world, Elon Musk turns fifty-one today.

A good day to be open to new ideas and to build bridges that  help heal old wounds. It was June 29, 1613 that Shakespeare’s Globe  Theatre burned to the ground. During a performance of Henry VIII.

As the moon moves from her home sign of Cancer into Leo we have activity with Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Mars and Pluto. It’s  a very busy day. A fair bit of stress may see us choosing to get lost in our imaginations. Better, get found in your imagination and solve stress swiftly. It was June 30, 1955 that the Johnny Carson Show first aired on CBS. This was seven years before the “Tonight Show” aired on NBC.

Happy Canada Day! Even though it’s a holiday, activity between Mars and Pluto make for tons of energy which is put to best use strategizing on very deep and important spiritual goals. While Canada turns 155 today, Princess Diana would be 62 today. By numerology, 155 is eleven which is a Sagittarian number and sixty-two is eight, a Scorpionic one. Will Canada shoot over the hill and hit the unseen target? Will Princess Diana rise back into the sky?

Mercury in Gemini connects with both Saturn and Neptune making for sensible ideas that work well and dreamy ideas that may be brilliant or may be baloney. Happy 85th to Richard Petty, winner of 7 NASCAR Championships and 7 Daytona 500’s.