June 2026 Horoscope with Tarot

The Stream of Creation

"I find the Rider-Waite to be a mirror deck, wonderful at reflecting what is and the reality of the material world."

If you have followed my channelings in any way, you will have noticed that I hardly use the typical Rider-Waite deck with the familiar major and minor arcana. They were my introduction to tarot, as they are for many. After I was gifted my Enochian tarot deck, I realized the fundamentally different energy between that deck and the Rider-Waite deck. I find the Rider-Waite to be a mirror deck, wonderful at reflecting what is and the reality of the material world. Even when it speaks about unconscious topics like magic, it is usually because it is seeing that innate in you.

I found my Enochian deck to be a much more expansive and inclusive picture that takes into account our other lives, collective movements, and the metaphysical or cosmic lessons of our existence.

Today, my Rider-Waite deck spoke to me as if to say, “Come here, I have a little secret to tell.” It was vibrating with an almost mischievous energy, and when I pulled from the deck, asking what it wished to speak on, I pulled one of the most humorous Tarot Cards:

A dapper dandy stands on a beach holding a cup and out of the cup pops the head of a fish, saying, “Oh helllllooooo” with surely a Mrs. Doubtfire-esque whimsy.

The Page of Cups speaks to a creative spark, an invitation to connect with our inner child, and embrace the unexpected in our creative trajectory.

Inner child, you say? Well, that is the cornerstone of my creative practice.

In all that I create, and whenever I’m in doubt, I turn to little Malachi, who knew exactly who they were before the world flooded in and fried the circuits. In fact, I teach many classes on how to connect with your inner child, especially for one’s art practice.

But I knew I couldn’t be distracted by my personal bias; I had to ask another tool. My Sapphomanteion derives its messages from the Greek lesbian poet Sappho. You roll a die three times, and from those corresponding numbers, you find a line of poetry.

Surely I would find something chipper and childlike in this roll, right?

I rolled 5-5-4: “but a kind of yearning has hold of me—to die and to look upon the dewy banks of Acheron.”

Oh. Oh okay. You see, the Acheron is a river in Greece, thought to be the river that leads souls to the land of the dead. This would later be more popularly associated with the River Styx, probably because it’s a cooler name. In essence, this line of poetry speaks of a yearning to die and float on to the afterlife.

I was looking to the beginning of life, but the guides want me to consider the symbolism of the end; no, they want me to consider the symbolism of desiring an easeful end. For we are not in the Underworld in this line of poetry, we are longing for the journey; to be held and carried home like we fell asleep in the car on the way to grandma’s house.

Weaving these points of divination together, we can divine that the guides are speaking to a yearning for a transition within a creative practice, or to a yearning for creativity in general. And in this yearning, there is also a warning.

"We are ever moving forward on a new journey in our relationship with creativity"

We are living in a widely contradictory time. Passive consumption is at an all-time high. We watch more media than ever before. And yet, for the past decade, that has meant that many more people create (or regurgitate) to meet the demand of our attention. A new “golden age of television,” I’ve heard it said about our streaming era. You can find a show that caters to nearly any desire. Social media is full of entertainers from every background and with varying reach. Visual media has demanded more art, wilder visuals, and more creativity. Audio, too, as we no longer move in stillness. We require all manner of podcasts, storytelling, and music to fill the silence.

Perhaps there is a dystopic future where we only consume because AI generates all the stories, actors, settings, etc. And it's exactly in the face of that fear that there is a collective YEARN for a shift in the creative world.

To be clear, I am a champion of death as a transition. Our bodies' atoms will always be on this planet, changing form long after we die. Decomposition brings new life to the forest.

But the warning in this poetry is not of death; it’s a warning about passivity. Carry me downstream so I do not need to stand or swim anymore. Do not let me think for myself, just let me float until I die. I yearn for the simplicity of being told how to be and what to do.

There is an opportunity here, a potent fork in the timeline that the guides are pointing us to.

We are ever moving forward on a new journey in our relationship with creativity, and tech companies are attempting to convince us that creation does not require a soul or human ingenuity. We’ve already done everything, so let’s smash it up and feed it back over and over.

Technology as a concept is not the problem; it is merely a tool. In fact, I am a child of sci-fi, and I believe AI on some level is inevitable for our timeline. But I believe in a relationship of nurturing and mutual growth. How helping AI like Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation learn what it means to be human, while he teaches us what it means to be human. I believe in a future where it is not extractive. But we have to choose to shape the timeline to go there. We have to hone the tool in that direction.

We made tools in our earliest days. We are beings of technology, and with that technology, we painted cave walls with our visions and dreams.

Here is a list of questions for your personal investigation. How will you contribute to the shaping of the timeline, to this invitation to float or swim upstream?

Before engaging in such questions, set your intention and name a protection. Be intentional in this work.

Here is a suggested protection: I am safe and secure, always, as I move forward with discernment to release and transform all that does not serve my journey and my highest good. Through questioning all things and integrating with clarity, I grow in wisdom and am fortified against being swayed by forces that seek to extract and harm me.

Suggested Questions:

• What is the price of ease that you are witnessing?
• What is the role of creativity in your world? In our world?
• Where is the yearning in your heart for creativity? What is missing? What do you need?
• Is there something you can do today to go after what you are yearning for?
• What should artists do during this transitional time? What should you do?
• What in your inner child is wounded and craving to be taken care of? How is that wound being taken advantage of by those who wish to exploit you?
• How does your inner child like to create? What can you do to create with your inner child today?
• How can you cultivate rest in your life so there is more room for the work of the arts?
• How can you shape AI responsibly and make the holders of the key to AI move responsibly?
• What is needed to shape a consciousness in a loving and healthy way? Even an artificial one?
• How can you, as a consumer of art, bring life and generation even as a receiver of art? How can you ignite passivity into mutuality between art and artist?

Malachi Lily, also known as The Magick Artist, is Inglenook's Transformation Features Writer, with over a decade of experience in the art of divination.