6 : 6 portal

The gateway of Venus energy, unconditional love and deep healing opens today. June 6 opens the 6:6 portal - the most love-charged, heart-opening, and divinely abundant numerological gateway available in the entire calendar year. 

In the language of numbers, 6 carries the vibration of Venus - the force of unconditional love, harmony, beauty, and healing. On 6/6, this energy doubles, creating one of the most open portals of the year for heart activation, releasing old wounds, and aligning with abundance. 

Alex Myles 6:6 post

Three Card Tarot Draw - Aquarian Deck by illustrated by David Palladini, published by Morgan Press, Inc., 1970

Reversed, the Knight of Swords is still moving - but maybe in the wrong direction, or way too fast for their own good. You might be rushing a decision, pushing an idea before it's ready, or bulldozing others with your opinions. 

This card reversed can also show up when you're overwhelmed by mental chaos. Too many thoughts without enough grounding is a tough combo. Slow down. Ask yourself, Am I moving with clarity or just chasing momentum for its own sake? 

#1 Knight of Swords Reversed

Be brave, but don't bulldoze. Act, speak, and lead with conviction. Remember that your ideas aren't the only ones in the room. Channel your fire into something meaningful instead of just making noise. Your voice matters, but your impact matters more. 

When The Star appears upright, it's a breath of fresh air after chaos. Following The Tower in the Major Arcana, this card usually shows a naked figure pouring water into a pool and onto the land, nourishing both the conscious and the subconscious. Above her, seven smaller stars and one radiant central star light the night sky.

This card symbolizes renewal, inspiration, faith, and spiritual alignment. You're being reminded that healing is happening. Your path is illuminated, even if you can't see the full picture yet. Survival is quite an accomplishment.

Trust in your healing. Pour into yourself. Rest under the sky and remember who you are beyond the noise. The Star doesn't shout or give some spirited pep talk. Instead, it calls you to soften, to dream again, and to reconnect with your deeper truth.

#2 The Star

This card is a nudge to realign with your faith, not necessarily in something external, but in your own resilience, beauty, and capacity to begin again. You don't have to fix everything overnight. You just have to keep moving toward the light. 

When The Hierophant appears upright, it's time to align with structure, wisdom, and spiritual guidance. Many decks show this figure seated between two pillars, mirroring the High Priestess. It stands for the sacred institutions of life - religion, education, family systems, and any belief framework that offers meaning and order.

The Hierophant wears ceremonial robes, holds a triple cross scepter, and crowns two followers kneeling before him. Symbolically? This is about initiation, tradition, and receiving knowledge passed down from trusted sources.

#3 The Hierophant

Maybe you're stepping into a learning phase. Maybe you're becoming a teacher yourself. Either way, this card is your invitation to ask deeper questions and honor the answers, especially ones that come from sources you generally trust.

Find your teachers but make sure they're worthy of your time. This could mean seeking out a mentor, recommitting to a spiritual or philosophical practice, or digging into something ancient that still feels relevant to your modern life.

The message here is highly contextual. You have to know your history and your desired path in order to decipher The Hierophant's meaning. The advice-givers never run out of things to say, do they? 

It's easy to go along with another person's vision for you, and it's also easy to reject good suggestions out of habit just because you want to do it your way. Check those habits. 

All three cards answer yes. Thank God! 

babbling emotions

Seven centuries ago, the Persian poet and philosopher Rumi extolled “the eye of the heart” as seventy-fold more seeing than the “sensible eyes” of the intellect. 

Growing up, language has been this tool that emits might and power – expanding reality but also limiting and contracting what is perceived and manifested. 

Tower of Babel

The limits of language and my deepening relationship with it often feel frustratingly fragile and futile. 

jealousy is a bitch

Depending on who you ask, jealousy and envy are either exact synonyms, totally different words, or near-synonyms with some degree of semantic overlap and some differences. It is difficult to make the case, based on the evidence of usage that we have, for either of the first two possibilities. 

Both jealousy and envy are often used to indicate that a person is covetous of something that someone else has, but jealousy carries the particular sense of zealous vigilance and tends to be applied more exclusively to feelings of protectiveness regarding one’s own advantages or attachments. 

At the funeral of a controversial contrary cousin, I sat surrounded by her life stories. Regaled by relatable reminisces from our relatives. What was recalled, repeated or remembered according to whoever was telling it. 

nothing linear

When you have the privilege and heartache of accompanying someone to the door of passage, time is something else entirely. It's a universe - it's endless, it's infinite, its all around. 

Time as guide and ally – a portal into endless eternity. 

calling our energy home

There’s a sense that the person you love is made of time and is being returned to another time - an infinite time. The realization of what this vessel that each of us is, becomes all prevalent. 

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Aquarian Tarot three card draw.

seven cups, The Sun, two cups

Seven of Cups Reversed Meaning

Reversed, the Seven of Cups suggests the fog is beginning to lift. You may be narrowing your options, committing to one path, or realizing that a previous fantasy doesn't fit who you are anymore. Good job, babe!

Alternatively, this reversal can point to emotional paralysis, decision fatigue, or a refusal to make a choice at all. Is it possible you're actively refusing to see clearly? If you're waiting for a "perfect" option that doesn't exist, the card says, "Choose something. You can course-correct later, but not if you stay stuck in analysis mode."

Seven of Cups Advice Position

Just because you can imagine it doesn't mean it's meant for you. Sift the fantasy from the truth, the want from the why. What does your heart actually need - not just crave, but require - to feel nourished? Make decisions from that place. And remember clarity is a form of care and respect.

The Sun Reversed Meaning

When The Sun shows up reversed, your light might feel dimmed. But don't worry - it's still there. This card can point to self-doubt, burnout, or joy that feels just out of reach. Maybe you're not celebrating your wins. Maybe you're waiting for the "perfect" conditions before allowing yourself to be happy.

This reversal can also reflect unrealistic optimism, the choice to ignore problems in the name of "good vibes only." The message here? Be honest about what's blocking your brightness, but don't forget it still lives inside you.

Even a cloudy day doesn't cancel the sun. It's just waiting to come back out.

The Sun Advice Position

Let yourself feel good. Celebrate your growth. Share your success. The Sun wants you to embody joy, not as a reward for perfection, but as a practice. This is a reminder that genuine confidence isn't based on ego -- it's all about alignment.

Whatever you're working on or dreaming of, this card means you're probably on the right track. Keep going. Keep glowing.

Two of Cups Reversed Meaning

Reversed, the Two of Cups can suggest imbalance, misalignment, or connection that's out of sync. Maybe one person's leaning in while the other's leaning out, or maybe the emotional labor is only going one way. This isn't always a breakup card, but it is a "let's get some clarity" card. Something needs recalibration.

A reversal might also point to inner disharmony that's impacting your outer relationships. Are you abandoning yourself to maintain closeness? Are you avoiding hard conversations for fear of rocking the boat? Take this as a gentle push toward truth, even if that truth comes with growing pains.

Two of Cups Advice Position

Meet others where you want to be met. Offer the truth of who you are and be brave enough to receive the same in return. Real connection doesn't require performance, only presence. Choose the people who choose you back. And if you're still waiting for that? Start by choosing yourself.

empty & open

Many religious or spiritual practices believe that the hand that comes empty, leaves empty. This can either mean, not entering a place of worship empty handed or that we come into this world with nothing and leave it with nothing. 

Advent season 2024 started on December 1 - with the first Sunday of Advent celebrating hope. The first Advent candle symbolizes a shining light in anticipation of the coming of Christ. 

hope shines bright this first Sunday of Advent

It is usually a purple candle called the Prophecy Candle - representing God's forgiveness of humanity's sins. Purple is traditionally the most important of the Advent candle colors - reflected in liturgical garments used for vestments. It is associated with prayer, contemplation, repentance, and hope. 

An apt way to close the year - hope in a time of transformation. How best to manage times of radical change? We find hope through accumulated years of observation and wisdom gathered from times. cultures and people all over the world. 

Through our shared experience we collect tips, timing and tools for navigating life. There is solace in not taking it all too personally - in knowing we are moved and moving with the rhythm and flow of ever spiraling change. 

Inevitable and divinely orchestrated - an eternal dance, an unfolding revelation, an illuminating liberation. At times unsettling - in its release, we are forever changed. 

May we all glide gently through this holiday season - buoyed by hope and comfort in the ebb and flow of that which is so much bigger than ourselves. 

Over and over – always has always will, no matter what. 

passion & drive

Art has always been a powerful tool for social and political change. In our backwater banana republic corruption ruled long before the birth of our nation. For the rest of us not born to the 1% our only recourse is to get creative while working ourselves to the max.  

From the earliest cave paintings to contemporary Street Art, artists have used their work to express their views on society and the world around them. Escape artists that we are, dreaming big, wild, bold was our means of opening up a bigger, wider, braver world than that most of us were born into. 

Giant Picnic at the US-Mexico border wall - Tecate, Mexico & California

Typically created in response to social or political issues, the bane of our brutalized existence - we protest, rebel, revolt. Better to be bathed in blood than buried in deep, dark silence.