Keeping tuning in to the cosmos and download the stream of innovative ideas and inspiration that can be yours when mental Mercury makes an easy connection to Uranus, the rebel genius, at 9:28AM ET.  Serious ambition — or feeling of loss — is suggested by the Moon (in cerebral Libra) in a tight hook-up with disciplined Saturn at 11:22AM ET. Those are the two exact aspects setting the tone for the day.

After the Moon-Saturn hook-up, Moon goes void of course until 10:29PM ET, and then enters Scorpio.Go with the flow of whatever twists or flakes you encounter during the void — and maybe spend some more time brainstorming on those nifty ideas that hit you in the past 24 hours.

Or, if you’re more moved by the gravitas suggested by the Moon-Saturn connection, combined with nebulous Neptune (film, escape, drugs, vision) currently running wild, and you’re also moved by last week’s Colorado theater shootings (Mars-Pluto-Uranus), why not take two hours and watch Bowling for Columbine. This brilliant 2002 Academy Award-winning documentary seeks answers in the aftermath of another massacre in Colorado — this one at a high school. Why is there so much gun violence in America — compared to other nations? Watch the film for free on this YouTube link — courtesy of the filmmaker, Michael Moore. The issues raised may well be related to the challenges posed by the First Quarter Moon (to the New Moon agenda set on 7/19), exact at 4:56AM ET on Thursday.