There is a particular quality to the light in June. Not just longer. Fuller somehow. Like the sun has decided, this month, to mean it.

I have been sitting with June for a while now, feeling it approach the way you feel a ceremony approaching. Not with dread. With something that is the opposite of dread. A kind of readiness that arrives before you have decided to be ready.

And I think I understand why this year feels different. The sky is holding something it hasn’t held since 1691. A configuration so rare, most of us will never see it again in this lifetime. And it is building toward the Summer Solstice on June 21 like water building toward a falls.

This is my June astrology letter. It is longer than what I send in the Muse-Letter on Sunday mornings, because this month deserves the full telling. Pour something warm. Find a few minutes that are only yours. I will try to make this worth your time.

What Is Actually Happening in the Sky

Uranus, the planet astrologers call the great awakener, moved into Gemini at the end of April. It will remain there for the next seven to eight years. But what is happening right now, in June, is something rarer still within that already-rare transit.

Uranus is bending the nodes of fate. In astrology, the north and south nodes of the moon represent our collective trajectory, what we are building toward and what we are releasing. When a planet squares both nodes simultaneously, it is called a nodal bending. It is a turning point. A pivot in the story at both the personal and collective level.

This exact configuration, Uranus in Gemini bending the north node in Pisces, last occurred in 1691. Before that, the 1300s. It is not a pattern most of us have lived through before. We have no memory in our bodies of what this feels like. We are learning it fresh.

The energy becomes most precise on June 12th (mean node) and June 20th (true node), the day before the Solstice. But the field is already active. You have likely been feeling it since late May, a kind of pressure at the edges of your ordinary life, a sense that something is asking to turn.

In 1691, the last time this configuration appeared, the world was at the crossroads between the scientific revolution and the coming age of enlightenment. Mathematical theorems were being born that would reshape navigation, physics, engineering. Underwater exploration technology appeared for the first time. And in Ireland, warring neighbors signed a treaty. None of it was permanent. But all of it was a turning. A pivot. A door that opened and changed what was possible on the other side.

This time, Uranus carries the energy of artificial intelligence, of quantum physics, of the mind meeting something that challenges its old definitions of itself. Gemini is the sign of the mind, of twins, of the two voices we carry, the one we were told we were and the one we actually are. Uranus in this sign is the Promethean fire arriving in the place of the intellect. An awakening that is also a disruption. Both things, at once.

Tuesday June 10th: Venus Conjuncts Jupiter

Alongside the rare and the vast, this week also brings one of the most purely beautiful days in the astrological calendar: on Tuesday June 10th, Venus and Jupiter meet in an exact conjunction in Cancer.

These are the two benefics, the two planets astrologers have always understood as bringers of grace and expansion. Venus brings love, beauty, artistry, and the capacity to receive. Jupiter brings abundance, wisdom, faith, and the willingness to grow. When they meet, they celebrate each other. And this particular conjunction carries extra weight, because Jupiter will be leaving Cancer on June 30th. This is the last time Venus will see Jupiter while he is in his sign of exaltation, the sign where he is most at home, most generous, most fully himself.

What this means practically: Tuesday June 10th is an extraordinary day for love and for creativity. Any intention planted under a Venus-Jupiter conjunction carries the energy of both grace and expansion. New romances that begin around this conjunction carry the potential for something lasting. Financial seeds planted now grow with Jupiter’s generosity behind them. And your inner artist, on this day, has more creative energy available than on almost any other day this month.

The invitation is simple: on Tuesday, write down one thing you are ready to receive. Not ask for. Receive. There is a difference. Asking comes from lack. Receiving comes from a quiet confidence that what belongs to you is already on its way.

What the North Node in Pisces Is Asking

The north node represents the direction of growth for the collective. Our evolutionary pull. For the past eighteen months it has been in Pisces, and it will remain there until late July.

Pisces rules depth. The inner life. The sacred. The dissolution of the smaller self into something it cannot name but can feel. Dreams. Meditation. The knowing that arrives not through the mind but through something older than the mind.

The north node in Pisces, bent now by Uranus, is asking us to stop treating our inner life as a supplement to our real life. It is asking us to consider that the inner life might be the realest thing we have. That what happens in stillness, in dreams, in the quiet that most of us are too afraid to enter, is not escapism. It is the source.

Mercury moved into Cancer on June 1, where it will remain through early August. Mercury in Cancer communicates through feeling, not through argument. It asks us to say what we mean and mean what we feel and stop editing ourselves into versions of ourselves that are easier for other people to accept. This Mercury says: the feeling is the message. Let it be what it is.

Jupiter in Cancer is squaring Chiron in Aries through June 19. Jupiter expands everything it touches. In Cancer, it is expanding emotion, longing, the awareness of what we want that we have been afraid to want. Chiron in Aries holds the wound of not believing we deserve to begin. The square between them is the exact tension that produces growth: I know what I want, and I have to face the old voice that says I am not ready.

You are ready. That is not encouragement. It is what the sky is saying.

The Solstice as Portal

Every culture that has ever lived close to the earth understood the Solstice as something other than an astronomical event. The Balinese mark it with ceremony. Ancient Mexico built its pyramids to catch the exact quality of light that arrives on this day. Sadhguru, the mystic and yogi with whom I have studied, teaches that the Solstice is one of the most powerful days of the year for meditation and intention, because the earth herself is in a particular receptive alignment with the sun, and what we offer inward receives a kind of amplification that is not available at any other time.

I think of Solstices as portals. Not metaphorically. Actually. The membrane between the life we have been living and the life that is available to us grows thinner on this day. Intentions set here are not just written in the journal and forgotten. They are planted in something larger than intention alone.

The Summer Solstice of 2026 arrives on June 21 carrying the energy of this once-in-330-years nodal bending. Venus enters Leo on June 13, bringing warmth and radiance and a call to be seen not for what you produce but for who you are. The Gemini New Moon on June 15 opens a portal of beginnings, with the sun and moon sextile to Chiron, activating deep healing energy in a harmonious way. And then the Solstice itself, the longest day, the turning point of light.

These are not coincidences. They are a sequence. The sky building toward something. And what it is building toward is you, making a choice about what the second half of this year is going to be about.

Why I Am Going to the Ashram This Month

It is not by accident that I am scheduled to be at the ashram with Sadhguru later this month, with my whole family, for two weeks.

I am there to study Shoonya. It is a meditation program whose name means zero, or nothingness, and whose practice is precisely what the north node in Pisces is asking all of us to find our own version of: the capacity to turn off the noise of the outer world and go into the deep interior stillness that is always there, waiting, beneath the thinking and the planning and the worrying and the wanting.

Shoonya changes lives. I say that not as promotion but as simple fact, the way you state something you have witnessed enough times to know. When you learn to touch the place in yourself that is not anxious, not performing, not trying to become something, when you find that the stillness is not emptiness but the fullest thing you have ever felt, the outer life reorganizes. Not because you planned it to. Because what you needed was always the inner alignment, and now you have it.

I am going into this retreat during the same weeks that the sky is holding this rare and precious configuration. I do not think this is coincidence either. The outer and inner are not separate. The astrology of this month and the practice of going inward are the same invitation, arriving in different languages.

I will write to you from the other side of it. I always do.

What You Can Do With This Energy

You do not need to go to an ashram. You do not need a two-week retreat. What the sky is asking is much more intimate and immediate than that.

In the days between now and June 21, the Solstice portal is open. Here is how I would work with it.

On Tuesday June 10th, under the Venus-Jupiter conjunction, write down one thing you are ready to receive. Not ask for. Receive. There is a difference.

Find ten minutes of deliberate stillness each day. Not scrolling. Not thinking about tomorrow. Actual stillness. Even if the mind does not cooperate at first. Especially then. This is the practice the sky is recommending, and you do not need a teacher or a program to begin it. You need only to stop, to close your eyes, and to notice that something in you was already still.

Name one intention out loud, in real air, before June 21. Not a resolution. An offering. Something you are giving your conscious attention to, and asking the turning of the earth to witness. The Solstice amplifies what is spoken into it.

Clear something in your physical space. The outer and the inner move together. One drawer. One corner. One relationship that has needed a conversation. The nodal bending is asking us to release what belongs to the old timeline and make room for the new one.

And, if it feels right: wear something that belongs to who you are becoming. I have always believed that dressing is ceremony. That the first choice of the morning, what we put on our bodies, is not vanity. It is an act of self-recognition. Of saying, without words, this is who I am today. This is the person I am choosing to be in the world.

A Homecoming: The La Flora Set

I have been sitting with this piece for months before I released it. Because La Flora is not like anything else I have made.

For years, this brand has lived at the intersection of three cultures. My Mexican roots. Robindra’s Indian heritage. The Balinese artisan families who make everything with us. But La Flora is the first time I have reached all the way back into my own childhood and pulled something forward into the collection.

My father came from a village in Mexico where women stitched flowers onto cloth. Morning glories. Roses. Sunbursts in gold thread. Emerald vines. Not because anyone commissioned them or hung their work in a gallery. Because some things need to be made beautiful. Because beauty, in the hands of a woman who has no institution behind her, is itself an act of devotion and of testimony. We were here. We believed in beauty. We passed this on.

Flora, in Roman mythology, is the goddess of flowering things. Of spring. Of the moment the earth remembers it is alive. Her festival, the Floralia, was a celebration of abundance and color and the return of warmth after a long cold. The Solstice is that return. La Flora is that remembering.

Each set is hand-embroidered by one of the Balinese artisan families who have been building this brand with me since the beginning. One thread at a time, on 100% natural linen. The florals are stitched from living observation, not pattern. No two sets are identical. The top is ruffle-layered with wide straps and a soft elastic gather. The shorts are high-waisted and relaxed, with real pockets. Both pieces are made after you order them.

I released the first batch of ten this week. After those are gone, La Flora becomes made to order only. I hope it is the beginning of a much longer conversation with where I come from, with all the women who made things in villages without names, whose art has no museum, but whose hands taught me everything I know about what it means to make something beautiful because beauty matters, full stop.

The Solstice is asking all of us: what did you receive that you have not yet passed forward?

La Flora is my answer. In linen and thread and flowers stitched by hand in Bali, by women who understand exactly what it means to keep something alive.

With love from Bali,
Myrah