Your intuition is louder than you think.
The new moon is asking for quiet, not clarity.
We are in the final exhale before the new moon.
Two days from now, the New Moon in Gemini resets the cycle. But today we're still in the dark, still in the quiet, still in that place where the old energy hasn't fully left and the new hasn't arrived yet.
And today Mercury enters its retrograde shadow, which means the themes that will surface when Mercury goes fully retrograde on June 29 are beginning to make themselves known. Not loudly. More like a low hum. A conversation you keep almost having. A thought that keeps returning.
Pay attention to what shows up this week. It's giving you a preview.
This is not a week for conclusions. It's a week for listening.
✨ SPELL
This ritual isn’t about belief. It’s about repair.
Capitalism has broken your relationship to time—flattened your rhythms, punished your rest, and convinced you every moment must be productive.
The moon disagrees.
Each new and full moon, I’ll hand you a small ritual. Not to “manifest” or optimize, but to reattune your body to a different pace. One that honors cycles, not calendars.
Pay attention to the moon. It’s not aesthetic—it’s antidote.
The Whisper Test
For unclear intuition on the edge of a new cycle.
Supplies:
—Paper and pen
—A candle
Steps:
Light your candle.
Write down one question you wish you had clarity on.
Fold the paper in half toward you.
Hold it to your chest and ask out loud: "What is the truth beneath the noise?"
Sit quietly for 60 seconds.
Whatever sensation arrives first (warmth, pressure, resistance, relief) is the answer. Not the whole answer. Just the next breadcrumb.
✊ HEX
You don’t need a rundown of the headlines. You’re living them. Whether you’re in the U.S. or just suffering under its ripple effects, the harm is real—and relentless.
This isn’t catharsis. It’s counter-spell.
Each HEX is a ritual of refusal—a channel for holy rage, spiritual disruption, and deliberate, directed dissent.
Here’s who we’re targeting. And what to do about it.
They Call It Speech. We Call It Torture.
If I haven’t said it to you yet, Happy Pride!
On March 31 of this year (Trans Day of Visibility, a date that was either chosen with deliberate cruelty or landed there by a coincidence too perfect to be comfortable), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that conversion therapy can be protected speech under the First Amendment.
Let's be clear about what conversion therapy is before we go any further. Have you ever known anyone who’s undergone conversion therapy? I have. It’s a horrific practice. And if you’ve experienced it yourself, I’m so sorry. You didn’t deserve that. And I hope you are surrounded by people who love and accept you for who you are now.
Conversion therapy is the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity through psychological intervention. It has been condemned as harmful and ineffective by every major medical and psychological organization in the United States: the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and dozens more.
It does not work. It causes serious harm. It is practiced disproportionately on children who cannot consent to it and whose parents have been told it will fix something that is not broken.
Colorado banned it in 2019. Twenty-two other states and the District of Columbia followed with similar bans. Those laws existed because children were being harmed and the medical community said clearly: this must stop.
The Supreme Court put all of those bans in jeopardy.
The majority opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that Colorado's law regulated speech based on viewpoint and therefore required strict constitutional scrutiny. A standard that will be extraordinarily difficult for states to meet. The ruling sent Colorado's case back to the lower courts, but the message to the other 22 states is unmistakable: your bans are next.
Eight justices signed this opinion. Including Sotomayor. Including Kagan.
Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. She wrote: "There is no right to practice medicine which is not subordinate to the police power of the States. Many states have now chosen to exercise their police powers to ban conversion therapy based on the medical profession's broad consensus that this medical treatment is ineffective and harmful."
She was right. She was alone.
And the Court issued this ruling on Trans Day of Visibility — the day set aside to affirm that trans people exist, that their lives matter, that they deserve to be seen — and used it to open the door to a practice whose entire purpose is to make queer people disappear.
Here is what they are calling speech:
Telling a child that who they are is wrong. Telling a child that their love is sinful. Telling a child that if they just try hard enough, pray earnestly enough, want it badly enough… they can become someone their parents won't be ashamed of.
They are calling that speech. We call it torture.
Every major medical organization in this country calls it harmful. The research is unambiguous. The children who survive it carry the damage for the rest of their lives. Some do not survive it.
The Trevor Project, which runs the crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth, has documented consistently that conversion therapy is associated with significantly higher rates of suicide attempts among young people who are subjected to it. We are not talking about a practice that causes discomfort. We are talking about a practice that kills children.
And the Supreme Court just decided that the right to inflict it is protected by the First Amendment.
On Trans Day of Visibility.
So today, we invoke the power of Pride Month to hex the ruling.
We hex the legal framework that calls psychological torture speech and grants it constitutional protection. We hex the 8-1 decision that puts 23 states' protections for queer youth in jeopardy. We hex the deliberate or indifferent cruelty of a ruling issued on Trans Day of Visibility. We hex the therapists who call this healing when every medical organization in the country calls it harm. We hex the parents who consent to this on behalf of children who cannot protect themselves. We hex the religious institutions that lobby for its continuation and call it love. We hex the systems that tell queer children they are broken and then charge their parents for the privilege of breaking them further.
And we bless what cannot be converted, cannot be corrected, cannot be prayed away:
The queer child who knows who they are before anyone gives them permission. The trans teenager holding on through another Pride Month under this administration. The adult survivor of conversion therapy who is still here. The medical professionals who filed amicus briefs said, "We will not be silent about what this does to children.”
You are not broken. You never were. The Court is wrong. The science is clear. And we are not going anywhere.
🔥 On Visibility
They issued this ruling on Trans Day of Visibility.
The most generous interpretation is that it was a coincidence. The most honest interpretation is that it doesn't matter, because the effect is the same either way.
See yourselves clearly. We see you.
📞 Action
Contact your state legislators and demand they strengthen your state's conversion therapy ban with language that can withstand strict scrutiny, because that is now the legal standard.
Support The Trevor Project at thetrevorproject.org. Their crisis line exists because of exactly the harm this ruling enables.
If you or someone you know needs support, The Trevor Project's crisis line is available 24/7: call 866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678.
With quiet and attunement,
Keli Lyn Jewel
PS: If your intuition has been trying to tell you something you haven't been ready to hear, The Deep End is where we create the space to actually listen. 1:1 support when you're ready to go beneath the surface.
