This weekend is all about the Sixes.

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God created all things in six days because the number is perfect.
– St. Augustine

Sixes represent centeredness, adjustment, and harmony. In Tarot, they bring about stability after the chaos caused by the fives.

2-card spread for this weekend.

Lord of Earned Success
The energy of the 6 of Knives (Swords) is connected to both The Magician (Will) and The Star (Divine insight). The crow – a symbol of magick and hidden mysteries – is a messenger whispering secrets in our ear. These messages may present themselves as things, symbols, encounters, dreams, and synchronities.

Lord of Victory
A symbol of magickal creative power, the 6 of Scepters (Wands) points to your ability to fix your Will on a goal and push towards inevitable success. (With the aid of my trusty Black Panther, of course.)

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June 1, 2026

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We might think we are nurturing our garden,
but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.
– Jenny Uglow

I was out in the Concrete Jungle early yesterday, potting and repotting, and rescuing an impatiens that had mysteriously sowed itself into the mandevilla’s hanging basket. (It had become entangled in the netting I’d installed to keep the squirrels from digging in the basket.) Isn’t Nature grand.

Tradescantia pallida is my favorite Tradescantia because it’s easy to grow indoors and out. I now have several pots of it because it’s also a BREEZE to root: just cut off a stem, shove it into some soil, give it some water and watch it grow!!! And grow, and grow, and grow… It’s one of those plants, as are all Tradescantias, that you have to keep pinching back to keep it compact – something I never, ever seem to do in a timely fashion.

This is the time of year when everything is lush in my little oasis and I’ve become quite fond of the golden creeping jenny (aka Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’) because of it’s trailing habit and the neon green-yellow just POPS. Note: Considered invasive, it’s best grown in containers or hanging pots.

You can see them in the video I shot yesterday:

I am seriously considering growing morning glories. You really can’t go wrong with vines of ANY kind. Their fragrant, colorful flowers come in pink, purple-blue, magenta, or white and pollinators love their trumpet-shaped blooms. My only quandry: It requires full sun so where on Earth (Or in this case, the Concrete Jungle.) would I grow it? Food for thought… Although they are easily grown from seed…

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On this day in 1969

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While the Zio-turds keep bombing – in spite of a “ceasefire” (Laughable. All they ever do is lie, lie, lie. Cue the Thompson Twins.) – we need this now more than ever.

Video courtesy of johnlennon.

On June 1, 1969, John and Yoko recorded Give Peace a Chance on an 8-track tape machine while in a bed surrounded by celebrities (Lennon and Tommy Smothers played acoustic guitars) and the press in Montreal, Canada. The song was written in Room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel during their famous “Bed-In For Peace”, when a reporter asked what he was trying to achieve by staying in bed. Lennon answered spontaneously “All we are saying is, give peace a chance”. He liked the phrase and set it to music, singing the song several times during the week-long bed-in.

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