Gorgeous Soul,
Welcome to June. We have lots to discuss today as with the June energy there are some glorious changes happening over here.
However, can we just take a moment to acknowledge how quickly we arrived here?
One minute it felt like we were crawling our way through the mud and intensity of spring, blinking at the chaos of the world and trying to remember where we put our nervous systems… and now suddenly the roses are blooming, the bees are drunk with pollen, the evenings are stretching long and golden, and Summer Solstice is peeking around the corner.
And honestly? I can feel her already.
There is something about June that feels alive in a different way. The air itself feels fuller somehow. Richer. Like the earth has exhaled and said, “Right then sweetie, let’s begin.”
Because that’s the interesting thing about Summer Solstice. Even though it marks the height of the Sun’s power, the longest day of the year, it is also somehow just the beginning.
The beginning of summer.
The beginning of the true growing season.
The beginning of something new inside ourselves.
And that has always fascinated me.
Summer Solstice has been celebrated since Neolithic times. Humans have gathered around fires, honoured the Sun, danced, feasted, prayed and whispered wishes into the warm night air for thousands upon thousands of years. There is something deeply ancient about this moment on the Wheel of the Year. Something instinctive.
Something our bones remember.
And if you know me at all, you know I adore the old stories surrounding Solstice. The veil is thin at this time of year. The Fae are said to wander more freely. The world becomes a little more enchanted, a little more slippery, a little more alive with possibility and mischief.
I mean honestly, even Shakespeare was writing about midsummer magick in the 1500s, so clearly humans have been enchanted by this energy for a very long time. Muhahaha.
But beneath the whimsy and flower crowns and bonfires, there is something incredibly powerful happening energetically this month.
The Sun reaches its highest point in the sky here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes this invitation for us to rise too.
Not in the hustle-until-you-collapse kind of way.
But in the authentic kind of way.
The kind where you stop apologising for who you are.
The kind where you stop dimming yourself to make others comfortable.
The kind where you finally allow yourself to say, “Actually… this is what I want. This is who I am becoming. This is the life I want to create.”
That is the energy I keep feeling over and over again for June.
Creative liberation.
Authentic expression.
The beginning of a new era.
There is this sense that many of us are standing at a threshold right now. Something has reached its pinnacle. Something has completed. Something is quietly asking to be released with love.
And at the exact same time, something new is stretching awake inside of us.
I keep hearing the words “right-sizing your life.”
Not making your life smaller.
Not making yourself smaller.
But creating a life that actually fits who you are now instead of who you used to be.
And if I’m being honest, this energy has been moving through my own life in a very big way these last few months.
I have been sitting quietly with a lot. Listening. Watching. Allowing things to unfold instead of forcing answers before they are ready.
And somewhere in all of that, I realised something that genuinely startled me.
I have been doing weekly readings for fourteen years.
Fourteen.
Years.
When that landed in my body, I just sat there blinking for a minute because it has been such a huge part of my life and my work and my connection with all of you. I have loved writing them. Loved tapping into the energy every week. Loved the rhythm and ritual of it.
But I have also changed. My work has changed.
The way I want to create has changed.
And June, with all this glorious Solstice energy of authenticity and creative liberation, feels like the right moment to lovingly loosen my grip on what has been and make space for what wants to arrive next.
So there will still be weekly readings through June, but during July and August we are going to slow things down and work more deeply with the monthly energies, the seasonal shifts and the other magickal bits and pieces that are asking to come through.
However prior to stepping into the monthly, as many of you have asked – yes there will be a Summer Solstice Reading Special (it will be the last one I will be doing). There will be 21 spots available and if you are part of our glorious email community – you will find out about it on Thursday!
And then in September… oh sweetie… September feels big.
Because I am being guided toward creating more spaces of community.
Not polished, curated, performative community.
Real community.
The kind where people can show up messy and grieving and hopeful and magical and exhausted and joyful all at once. The kind where we gather around metaphorical fires and remember we were never meant to do this human thing alone.
And honestly? I am pig wiggly excited about it.
At the same time, this season has also held deep grief for me.
It was recently the second anniversary of losing the Mothership, and grief is such a strange companion. It sneaks up in unexpected moments. A smell. A sentence. A memory. A flower blooming at the wrong time.
There is something profoundly disorienting about becoming an adult orphaned child. About realising there is no longer anyone alive who has known you from the very beginning.
And layered within that has been the grief of rupture. Of family. Of endings. Of becoming someone new while also carrying the ache of what has been lost.
Perhaps that is also part of Solstice wisdom.
The understanding that life is always asking us to hold both.
Joy and grief.
Endings and beginnings.
Fire and tenderness.
Release and becoming.
So if you have been feeling stretched between worlds lately, if you have been feeling the ache of change alongside the excitement of possibility, you are not alone.
The Sun is asking all of us to rise right now.
To tend our inner flame.
To stop abandoning ourselves.
To trust what is trying to bloom.
Because as the outer Sun reaches the height of its power this month, your own inner Sun has the potential to rise too.
Your fire. Your creativity. Your ability to create, act, love, express and become.
All of it is being touched by this energy. So breathe that in for a moment.
Let the warmth of it settle into your bones. Let it ignite the parts of you that are ready to come alive again.
And when you are ready, sweet soul, pick the card — or cards — that are calling to you.
Did you remember to pick?
Let’s go see shall we?
GO DARK
Your darkness is not your enemy.
It can seem scary, but it’s where new life grows and develops. You do too.
This moment calls you to be willing to be with your own darkness. It asks you to embrace your dark as your beloved ally. To cradle your uncertainty.
The dark night of the soul holds secrets for you that you wouldn’t be able to see in the brightness of glaring certainty.
Poet Mary Oliver spoke about a box of darkness as a priceless gift in her life.
Chaos, crisis and suffering want to gift you a new understanding of who you really are beyond who you always thought yourself to be.
COURT THE FEMININE
The word cunning is closely associated with the fox.
Cunning, like foxes and women, has been given a bad rap.
Many have twisted the word’s sacred origins into something manipulative and conniving.
But the word cunning comes from an older Middle English word “ken”, a range of knowledge or sight.
A cunning person understands that deep internal sight and wide-range vision lead to building an authentic life. Excavate your deep knowing and trust its messages.
This is the way your soul-sight grows sharp, and your instincts return to the untamed power you were born with.
Sharpen your cunning to cut away what no longer serves.
No matter your gender, your life deserves the fierce protection that feminine discernment can bring.
CRAFT YOUR FOCUS
Your vision is a magnifying energy source, amplifying and expanding what it perceives.
In any single moment you have one choice. You can turn your gaze toward what you don’t want, what isn’t working, what you are fearful of, what you worry about.
Or, you can look at what you treasure, what you love, and what you hope for, despite what reality tells you is possible.
Either way, what you focus on grows, right?
Now is the time to use this very simple power to direct the energy and flow of your experience.
When you focus on what you already have with gratitude, and what you want with love and appreciation, you create the energy version of your vision before there is any proof in the material world.
This moment invites you to consciously choose your focus.
Okay, have to say – love these cards! All deep, rich and meaningful! Wishing you a glorious beginning of June, may you step into your authenticity and make sure you are part of our glorious email community so you can take one of the 21 spots.
Massive hugs and rose petals.
