The AstroTarot Lowdown for June

✨ It’s Your Turn Again Now ✨

✨ The AstroTarot Lowdown for June ✨

Dearest Gentle Reader, 💌

I am back.

And although I may not be Lady Whistledown, this moment feels like nothing less than the above address will do.

Welcome to my first blog in so long that I can barely remember the last. The strange half decade of the early 20s arrived in my late forties and demanded I adult in ways that meant I could no longer continue in what I always called 'my life's work.'

Two hip replacements, one business, and a menopause later, as I often say:

✨ Life isn't in the way, it is the way. ✨

And then June 12th 2025 happened.

One of my previous students, Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, who was quite literally flying higher and higher while I had been retreating deeper and deeper into Tarot retirement, boarded the Air India plane with his husband Jamie, never to arrive 'home' — at least not in the sense we understand the word.

From that moment, the dream visitations and nudges began. I became aware that Fiongal was urging me to come back.

Even in daily life, the symbols arrived. A literal toy plane landed in my garden with two little men inside it, and with it the whispers began gently, before growing louder:

✨ It's your turn again now. ✨

As Easter approached, I could no longer hold back, and reopened my doors with a gusto-filled 14-day journey through the Wands in the Tarot called 'Back To Life'. 🔥

So many of us had been pulled back into the matrix during the 20s and could feel the call back to ourselves once again. I knew it was time.

And what wonderful confirmation I received the very next day, when a stranger contacted me asking if I still taught Tarot, saying she had found out about me in the strangest way.

On June 12th, the news had rocked her so deeply, despite never having met either Fiongal or Jamie, that she dreamt Fiongal himself told her to find his teacher. She too had quietened the urge for almost a year, but the call was getting stronger.

It could no longer be denied.

And so, welcome to my first blog in a good half decade — and to my commitment to you going forward.

Once a month I will deliver my version of Lady Whistledown:

✨ The AstroTarot Lowdown ✨

But before we arrive fully in June, we need to rewind the clock.

Back to around Halloween — Samhain — last year. 🎃

The season where Persephone, The High Priestess, finds herself first unwillingly, and then willingly in the underworld, preparing to rise again in spring.

Where were you planted?

And what then came forth when spring arrived? 🌱

Last Halloween I was invited to be part of a Tarot Improv show at Bristol Theatre.

Bang. ⚡

Back on stage. Back in front of a live audience where I could finally be my true quirky self again.

Yes.

I got a taste of what it felt like to be home.

The universe was not offering a gentle nudge back towards centre stage anymore. Yet between that moment and Easter, the movement remained mostly internal — a quiet stirring beneath the surface.

And then came February 17th this year.

The arrival of the Fire Horse and the eclipse in Aquarius. 🐎🔥

To me, this felt like a genuinely shocking arrival point in the collective story.

I saw it reflected in the macro through escalating war, soaring fuel prices, and the growing instability of the world around us. But I also saw it in the micro, where an extraordinary number of friends experienced sudden and devastating shocks involving Aquarius family members.

The kind of events that change life permanently.

The kind you don't simply 'move on' from.

There was so much hope, energy, and optimism surrounding the Fire Horse year, yet it felt as though he had broken free from the pulpit and run wild, leaving destruction in his wake.

And yet… I feel his return is imminent.

Because fire creates.

But first, it burns. 🔥

And this is where we find ourselves now, as midsummer draws near. ☀️

June is naturally a reflection point — the first half of the year complete.

And if you are feeling anything like me, then you know life is changing, but the clarity is not here yet.

Even as I write this today, all I can see outside in the beautiful surroundings of where I find myself these days (Wookey Hole) is deep, thick fog. 🌫️

So where is summer?

Where is the ability to see clearly?

It has been a long time coming, but apparently, its arrival is finally near.

✨ The AstroTarot Lowdown for June ✨

June arrives beautifully with Mercury entering Cancer (The Three of Cups) on the 1st, placing words of love upon the tips of our tongues.

Every kind of love imaginable.

💗 Romantic. 🤱 Maternal. 🌿 Healing. 🙏 Grateful. 💫 Bittersweet reunions. 🥂 Celebrations.

Like the weather finally changing, good news begins to find its way home.

And even if the news itself carries sorrow alongside it, it still brings healing, reconciliation, and the possibility of powerful emotional reunion.

Where this unfolds for you depends entirely upon where Mercury and Cancer live within your own chart — as does the rest of the AstroTarot Lowdown.

This chapter deepens further from the 13th, when Venus (The Empress) enters Leo (Strength and The Sun). ☀️🦁

Whatever arrived at the beginning of the month now takes on a grand lifeform of its own, ready to carry you into a completely new — and perhaps unexpected — direction.

Venus in Leo also carries the energy of the Page of Wands:

✨ enthusiastic ✨ creative ✨ impulsive ✨ instantly magnetic

Be warned — whatever you touch now has manifestation power.

Things may begin to feel slightly out of control, as though they are developing a life of their own.

And they probably are.

But control is futile.

Give it up.

Stand back and look at it all with awe and wonder instead. 🌟

Then, on June 14th, the New Moon in Gemini arrives. 🌑

My goodness.

Now The Magician enters the room! 🪄

Alongside the clarity of Ace and Queen of Swords, and the sacred choice of The Lovers, we begin waking up to just how powerful this moment truly is.

This is the time to release the fog of the past.

To understand that your dreams exist because they are seeking manifestation through you.

Not fantasy.

Alignment. ⚡

June 19th brings Chiron — the wounded healer — into Taurus, the sign of the universal farmer and corn goddess, both deeply connected to The Empress. 🌾

Here, seeds are being planted that will not fully harvest for several years.

Which means where you find yourself this summer matters.

It sets the emotional and spiritual landscape for the next chapter of your life.

And there is no need to force anything.

No need to push.

No need to cajole.

Everything is unfolding precisely as it should.

Chiron in Taurus will continue drawing forward the deepest and oldest wounds:

🖤 The primal wound. 🖤 The mother wound. 🖤 Land. 🖤 Security. 🖤 Self-worth. 🖤 Body image. 🖤 The collective karma of colonisation.

To be fair, we have already seen these themes surfacing more and more as this transit approached, and they are only set to intensify.

The wound must first be addressed before it can ever truly heal.

June 21st sees the Sun move into Cancer, and suddenly the universal backdrop begins softening into late-summer gold. 🌞

Gone is the blinding, dazzling intensity of Gemini season.

And perhaps this is where the Fire Horse finally returns.

Only now, he comes back as the Water Horse. 🌊🐎

The Chariot.

The Sun in Cancer.

This time he is mounted by an older, wiser Phaethon — one who once rode too close to The Sun, but survived long enough to tell the tale.

We begin adjusting to this new lease of life.

Yet as we settle, we may also begin processing — or over-processing — everything this extraordinary month has brought.

A week later Mars enters Gemini (The Nine of Swords), intensified further by Mercury turning retrograde in Cancer on the 28th. 🗡️

The shadow side of Gemini — mental imbalance.

The shadow side of Cancer — emotional overwhelm.

Both may rise to the surface asking to be witnessed.

Hopefully by now you have established a spiritual practice strong enough to steady you.

Because over the coming weeks, that practice will become the rock that prevents you from being endlessly rocked.

June 29th brings an even more serious atmosphere as the Full Moon in Capricorn arrives carrying the energies of The Devil and The World. 🌕

The universe now begins asking much deeper questions.

Where are you truly showing up in the world?

And how?

These are not the kinds of questions that deliver instant results.

But they are the kinds that alter destinies.

And yet, despite everything, we end the month exactly as we began.

With hope. ✨

The Magician's wand finally blossoms into six upon the Fire Horse's back as Jupiter enters Leo (The Six of Wands) on June 30th. 🏆

So go gently with yourself.

Look back at all you have survived.

At all you have achieved.

Keep your head high and your heart strong.

You have far more to be proud of than you realise.

And as June closes and we ride forward into July, one thing feels undeniable:

✨ It has been one of those truly momentous months. ✨

And regarding the spiritual practice that may steady and strengthen you through what comes next, I am opening the doors once again.

This month belongs to Gemini.

To the suit of Swords.

A suit both feared and revered.

Yet ultimately, it is the suit that offers us freedom, clarity, discernment, and razor-sharp intuition unlike any other.

⚔️ Like the Knight. ⚔️ Like the Gladiator.

It asks us to meet ourselves through integrity, courage, and strength of character.

But once the quest is complete, the victory is immense.