Friday, June 16, 2023.
Gemini moon, Gemini Sun. Gemini is Ray 2.
Friday’s are guided by Venus – Ray 5.
Venus is Gemini’s Soul ruler. Venus unifies all separations.
Tomorrow is the Gemini new moon at 27 degrees.
And Saturn retrogrades. Saturn retrogrades in the morning.
New moon is in the night time.
Saturn retrogrades at 7.13 Pisces. Retrograde ’til Nov. 3 back to 0 Pisces. Saturn turns us inward to assess our thoughts, ideas, structures, limitations. Ray 3 is Divine Intelligence, Right Thinking, Right Choice, Right Actions. Libra & the Earth are also Ray 3.
The color is green, the color of nature here on Earth.

Today’s national celebrations.
Waterfall Day.
Fresh Vegetables Day.
Arborist appreciation day.
Sea Turtle Day.
National Fudge Day – it was a mistake while making caramels.
(Famous Ice cream parlor C.C. Browns in Hollywood is credited with inventing the hot fudge sundae).
In Literature – Bloomsday –
Commemorating the life and legend of Irish writer James Joyce on Bloomsday, every June 16, we take a moment to honor and celebrate all we’ve gained from his works. The significance of June 16 is taken from his 1922 novel, “Ulysses,” which takes place on June 16, 1904, and follows a day in the life of the story’s protagonist (Leopold Bloom). It is also the day Joyce went on his first date with his then wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle.
National Bloomsday commemorates these two occasions every year on June 16. The story of Leopold Bloom is recognized as one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been largely considered a catalyst for the entire movement. Today, people in Ireland and Joyce fan’s around the world celebrate with festivals, readings, dramatizations, pub crawls, and more to honor a man (writer James Joyce) who changed literature forever.

More on Ulysses by Joyce – Ulysses
Ulysses, a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, is a key text of literary modernism. Divided into 18 chapters, it follows the structure of Homer’s Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem about Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War to his wife Penelope in Ithaca.

Joyce told a student in 1917 that he thought the Odyssey’s ‘all-embracing’ theme was ‘greater, more human, than that of Hamlet, Don Quixote, Dante, Faust’, and referred to Ulysses (Odysseus in Latin) as a pacifist, father, wanderer, musician and artist. In Ulysses, Joyce uses the format of Homer’s poem to tell his own everyday version of the epic tale. Here, Odysseus becomes Joyce’s quixotic anti-hero, Leopold Bloom, and the voyage home is condensed to a single day, 16 June 1904, in Dublin. (Joyce was an Aquarius, Feb. 2, 1882).