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Black Music Month has arrived in June, and this month's pick-a-card asks a simple question: What kind of healing is your spirit craving right now?

Choose LEFT or RIGHT — After you choose a side, check out the alchemy message (for the collective) what everyone is expecting overall this month for self-care.

🌿 LEFT • HYSSOP — Spiritual cleansing, liberation, testimony, and reclaiming your voice.

🌸 RIGHT • ALOE VERA — Rest, softness, emotional nourishment, and tending to burnout.

🥣 THE ALCHEMY — The collective medicine for June: balancing truth with tenderness.

Here are some fun historical facts that connects to Juneteenth 🌻 / Black Music Month 🎶, corresponding with each herb and music genre.

Mira Nedyalkova

Good morning to all my rivers, lakes and oceans, to the free and flowing water, to the sky and her clouds, to the ice and the blankets of snow.

Good morning to every stone, crystal, and grain of sand.

Good morning to all beings, large and small, and good morning to all souls, simple and extravagant.

No man can say his eyes have had enough of seeing, his ears their fill of hearing. ~ Ecclesiastes 1:8

Third-eye seeing is the way the mystics see. They do not reject the first eye (thought or sight); the senses matter to them, but they know there is more. Nor do they reject the second eye (the eye of reason, meditation, and reflection); but they know not to confuse knowledge with depth, or mere correct information with the transformation of consciousness itself. The mystical gaze builds upon the first two eyes—and yet goes further.

It happens whenever, by some wondrous “coincidence,” our heart space, our mind space, and our body awareness are all simultaneously open and nonresistant. I like to call it presence. It is experienced as a moment of deep inner connection, and it always pulls you, intensely satisfied, into the naked and undefended now, which can involve both profound joy and profound sadness at the very same time.

Richard Rohr: Adapted from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, p. 28