Pride Month Horoscope - June 2026

Hello to the inquiring minds of the Inglenook readers. I am bringing you an offering as your Transformation Features Writer. This reading starts familiar but takes on a different shape than my typical readings. This is not a reflection reading. This is a message.

It started with my letter box filled with magnetic words for fridge poetry. From my word box, I usually get nouns, adjectives, verbs, but today I received the pronoun “they.” And then I asked my Sapphomanteion, my oracle book of Sappho’s poetry:

Is this reading "they" as in gender, or "they" as in the collective?

And I rolled 6-1-6, which corresponds to: “outstanding as the Lesbian singer compared to those elsewhere.” So naturally I feel I am being pulled to a divination about sexuality and gender, and *gasp* it’s not even Pride month. Good thing I’m queer all year round.

I pull from my Enochian cards, asking: What do you wish to translate through me about gender and sexuality?
Answer: 32. AAETPIO The First Senior of Fire (Inverted)

The angel depicted on this card carries two tools that represent the attributes of the ether or reality in which the angel resides.

The first tool is the Rod of Love, which sounds quite cheeky, like a 70s porn, but it actually contains a key clue to understanding this reading. Through the Rod of Love, the First Senior of Fire can bestow either feelings of unbridled love OR anger.

The second tool is an olive branch, which bestows recognition by others and vitality.

The First Senior of Fire comes with a potent energy, but we received this card inverted, which now means: “Fatigue, weakness, a lack of love, any calm and controlled action.” No unbridled love or anger. No recognition. No vitality. The artwork of this card shows the angel as an erupting force, so I can’t help but feel a twisting in my stomach that this reading is a warning.

For the past two years, I have vended my customized, upcycled clothing at Pride in my city. It is my most lucrative market, because only queer people seem to like my clothing. I am not participating this year because the Pride event has come under new management that has decided to charge people for admission and is not being forthcoming about what it's charging its vendors, among other security concerns. I believe they have gone too far in compromising the core values of Pride.

Pride at its core is a riot against policy brutality and a stage for human rights advocacy. There has been growing unrest for years over the corporate presence in Pride festivities. But today, the rising anti-LGBTQIA+ movement has reached the corporations. Corporations are pulling out of Pride all over.

Corporations are listening to those who hate queer people and deciding that their dollar is more important. While the increase of homophobia and transphobia is dire, I do not weep for the loss of corporations. My city had an opportunity to restructure towards collectivism and transparency, but has instead moved towards a panicked clinging to capitalism.

Why do I bring this up in this reading?

I present this as an example of how queerness was codified in capitalism. Collectively, we associated our safety with that capitalistic approval: products turning rainbow, more TV and movies about us, more queer influencers. But when we are not profitable, that support is withdrawn, leaving us vulnerable without the infrastructure to care for the community.

This reading is to underline that the collective violence towards queer people has been systematic. The law has always been used against queer people, and there is still horrific homophobic and transphobic violence.

But the gay rights and visibility that increased in the 2000s are being slowly dismantled before our eyes. As Laverne Cox articulates in her interview with Jennifer Hudson, “Dehumanization happens primarily with words and language. When you dehumanize people, you can take away their rights and commit violence. Dehumanization has preceded every genocide in history.”

Dehumanization at this scale is strategic. It is not the fiery and unbridled energy of this card upright. It’s “calm and controlled action,” sapping away our vitality as it refuses to acknowledge our humanity.

There are many strategies to combatting this systematic erasure, and we need all of them. I ask my cards: What is the wisdom you want to share to most effectively combat or transform homophobia and transphobia, specifically, wisdom that can move us towards liberation and collective joy?
Answer: 85. MAOO Lesser Angels of Earth (Inverted)

MAOO is the card that represents healing and repair. The artwork is of many angels working together to plant small trees. These angels and their ether offer “…physical, emotional, and mental healing to anyone who comes before them.”

It’s also not as simple as healing.

Enochian magick, at least according to my guidebook, uses the term karma a lot. By using the term karma, they refer to the energy of lessons and experiences accumulated over many lifetimes. Karma shapes where you are in your journey. My energy work takes it a step further from the passive, suggesting that you can also shape Karma directly. You are not merely a subject to karma’s will.

Karma is important to understand here because these angels will not offer healing if someone’s karmic burden does not permit it. It’s not as abstract as it sounds. You’ve seen this before. It’s the idea that you cannot help people if they don’t want to help themselves. You’ve come across stubbornness or bitterness, which means you cannot move forward to repair a relationship, or a friend isn’t accepting your advice. If the pattern of your lives refuses to be healed, these angels cannot help.

HOWEVER, this card is inverted, which means not only does it point to illness or lack of healing, but it also points to “a strong karmic burden that must be worked out.”

In essence, the wisdom of this card is grounding us in the reality that the lesson of homophobia and transphobia is one of the deepest burdens of our collective consciousness. Anytime we see bursts of change depicting the latter, such as rainbow capitalism making us feel like we’re accepted, we should be a healthy degree of suspicious.

Yes, legislation is important, but legislation supporting queer and trans rights is not the definition of the healing of this burden. We cannot lessen our liberation when we see shiny beacons of change. Systematic oppression uses those beacons to distract us.

If you have the flu and you give yourself all the soup, bed rest, meds, etc., and in a day or two you feel better but not all the way. Because you feel a little bit better, you dive right back into all your work, and guess what, you feel awful again. You did not complete the process of healing your body. I’m using sickness only as a metaphor; logistics around sickness and work vary from person to person.

Bottom line: This is a deep lesson that we must put continual labor into transforming, regardless of the world around us. We must be strategic in return.

How can you strategize for the liberation of queer and trans people?

In Love and Abundance,
Malachi
The Magick 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.