Weekly Astrology and Art Magic for Entrepreneurs: Art Spell for the Full Moon in Gemini and Insights for December 1-7, 2025

In this post, I talk about the astrology for the week of December 1-7, 2025 and how it affects highly sensitive entrepreneurs. I also talk about offering grace and I share an art spell for the full moon in Gemini.

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INTRODUCTION

In this blog post, I walk you through the astrology for the week of December 1–7 specifically for highly sensitive entrepreneurs with a history of childhood trauma or emotional neglect. We look at how this Full Moon in Gemini might stir up reactivity, self-criticism, and comparison in your business and how, later in the week, the Cancer and Jupiter energy can help you soften and choose a more grounded response.

The theme that kept coming up for me as I sat with the moon and stars this week is grace: grace for the people we love who can’t always meet us emotionally and grace for ourselves when we don’t show up as perfectly as we wish we could.

You’ll also find a step-by-step art spell called “My Grace Map” to help you work with this astrology in a tangible, creative way. It’s designed to help you map out the milestones between where you are now in your business and where you want to be then gently identify where fear, doubt and insecurity tend to stop you from reaching your goals. We then look at the grace you can offer yourself when you fail, mess up or get stuck. If you like to art journal with the moon, practice simple witchy rituals for your business, or blend traditional astrology with emotional healing and creativity, this spell will give you a practical way to turn this week’s energy into the magic you need to grow yourself and your business.

Let’s start with the full moon because it’s an active one.

The Full Moon

On Thursday we greet a Full Moon in Gemini. It’s a moon full of words, thoughts, conversations, and ideas. It’s the kind of energy that fills the mind and heart with “a lot.” A lot of information, a lot of feelings, insight, movement and socializing all at once.

Right after the full moon reaches its peak, it walks straight into the heat of Mars. This is something my teacher, Kelly Surtees, brought to my attention and Mars is in Sagittarius alongside a lot of other planets so the full moon opposes all that hot, reactive energy at a time when it is already full of a lot.

That combination can feel like lighting a match in a room that’s already full of paper. Everything feels quicker, sharper and more charged. The urge to react, decide, speak, post, or take action right now gets louder. As my teacher explained, for some of us, that’s a blessing. If you tend to move slowly or hesitate to make changes, this can feel like the nudge you’ve been waiting for. For others, especially if you already run hot or have a fiery temperament, this can feel like extra reactivity, impatience and pressure in an already overloaded system.

But the movement of the moon and stars doesn’t end there this week and as my teacher explained the whole journey, I saw the sky unfolding in a way that can really serve us as we grow our businesses.

The Moon Keeps Changing

Later in the week, after the peak of the full moon and the heat and activation of Mars, the moon does what the moon does and it moves on to other things. It leaves the quick mental air of Gemini and slips into the softer, watery energy of Cancer. The heat begins to cool. The focus shifts from thinking and reacting to feeling and tending. Instead of being pushed to sort through all the information at once, we’re invited to sit with what actually matters and work through it while we soothe and comfort ourselves.

At the same time, Mercury, which is the planet of thought, voice, and stories, is blessed by Jupiter in Cancer who is a big, generous and encouraging force. That brings a wave of emotional wisdom and support to the way we think about ourselves and others. Suddenly it becomes easier to zoom out, to see the bigger picture with kindness, to have conversations that heal instead of hurt.

The journey the sky is taking us on this week is from mental overload and possible reactivity, through a burst of heated action, into a softer, wiser space where we can digest, feel, and grow.

The Gift of Grace

As I’ve been sitting with this story in the sky, the word that keeps circling back to me is grace. The Full Moon with Mars energy made me think about the moments when I am not at my most graceful. These are the times I react quickly, make mistakes in relationships, criticize myself harshly or feel the urge to make big decisions from a place of overwhelm or fear.

I thought about how easy it is, especially as a highly sensitive artist and healer, to be flooded by information and emotion in our own inner worlds, in our businesses, online and in our communities and how quickly that can push us into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. And then I thought about what becomes possible when we offer ourselves and others grace despite it all.

I’m thinking of the kind of grace that says, “You’re human. Of course you are going to make mistakes. It doesn’t make you a monster.” Or, “You have a history of trauma, of course you’re overwhelmed or activated and next time maybe it’ll be easier to slow down, soften, and choose your response but I understand you can’t always catch yourself soon enough.”

A Scream and a Fuck Up

This week, I wanted to scream at someone I love but instead, I chose to offer them grace. I also royally fucked up this week and hated myself for it but eventually chose to offer myself grace as well.

Let’s start with the scream.

I had a conversation with someone in my family I love a lot. We were on the phone for about an hour. For most of that time, I was listening to them talk about their experience. We were exploring what’s been hard, what’s confusing and what they’re hoping for. I was genuinely present. I cared. I asked questions. I held space for their feelings, because that’s what I do. That’s part of who I am in my family and in my work: I’m the one people bring their emotional world to.

Near the end of the call, I took a few minutes to share something that had been hard for me. I told them about a recent MCAS reaction, how intense it was and how it felt like my body got hit by a truck. I sounded sad because it was really hard. It wasn’t a long story. I wasn’t spiraling. I was just being honest about what my week had been like and how it impacted me. For me, that’s not “being negative.” That’s just naming what is.

Difficult Feelings 

But almost immediately, I felt them pull away. To them, my sharing sounded like negativity. That’s a familiar pattern in my family. Difficult feelings get labeled as negative. Talking about pain, or fear, or grief lands as “too much.” We can talk about light things, fun things, maybe even some struggles but if you talk about how hard it is, you whining, complaining or being negative. And because I’m someone who feels deeply and doesn’t know how to pretend otherwise, that’s a very lonely place to be.

I tried to explain this to them. I said something like, “When you can’t be with me in this, it leaves me feeling very alone. It means I’m the one who has to hold myself through it, again. It would mean a lot if you could grow your capacity to just sit with me while I share what’s really happening in my body and my life.” Saying that actually felt good. It felt honest and clear. But underneath that clarity, there was also this familiar ache.

An Old Grief

It brought up grief for the younger me who never had anyone emotionally there for her when things were hard. And it brought up sadness for adult me, who can still feel like she doesn’t quite belong anywhere because she’s “too transparent” or “too much” emotionally. I move through my feelings quickly. I process them. I don’t ask anyone to fix them or take them on. I just want to be real. But in moments like this, it feels like unless I keep things light and easy, there isn’t room for me.

I found myself thinking, “Why is me saying, ‘I had a bad reaction and it wiped me out’ considered negative? Why is simply telling the truth about my reality seen as something that needs to be avoided?” It made me notice, again, how often I’m the one doing emotional labor. I’m the one listening, holding and understanding and how rarely that same depth is available for me in return. And that’s the part that hurts: not that this person doesn’t love me, but that they don’t yet have the emotional capacity to sit with pain and suffering, mine or their own. And I’m tired of feeling alone in that.

What It Really Means

When my family (and most everyone in this world and especially in love and light circles) hears me share honestly about something hard and calls it “negative,” they’re using that word as a kind of shortcut for a whole cluster of judgments that usually sound like:

“You’re complaining.”

“Stop whining. There are so many people who have it much worse than you.”

“Don’t dwell on it.”

“You’re bringing the mood down.”

“Things will get worse by talking about it.”

“You’re too sensitive/dramatic.”

“Focus on the positive. Can’t you find the gift in it?”

Hard Feelings Are Uncomfortable

In other words, “being negative” really actually means “You’re talking about something I don’t want to feel.”

When I share what happened and how I felt, I’m naming my reality. I’m just saying, “This happened. It was intense.” Maybe I’m still even emotional about it and as I’m talking about it I’m expressing those emotions but they hear me saying, “Things are bad. Life is awful. I’m suffering and there’s nothing good.”

And because they don’t know how to be with hard feelings, their own or anyone else’s, they slap the “negative/complaining” label on me to shut it down. It’s not that I’m actually complaining. It’s that my honesty wakes up feelings in them that they don’t want to deal with. Maybe it’s fear, helplessness, guilt, sadness or discomfort. I don’t know what it is but I know I’m making them uncomfortable.

So instead of listening to me share and thinking, “Wow, that sounds really hard, I don’t know what to say but I can listen,” their system most likely thinks, “This feels heavy. I can’t handle this. Make it stop.”

And the way they make it stop is by judging my sharing as “negative” or “complaining,” so that I will stop.

Underneath their response of “You’re being negative” is often:

“I don’t know how to be with pain.”

“I’m scared if we go there, I’ll drown in bad feelings.”

“I feel helpless and I hate that feeling, so I’d rather shut this down.”

“I was taught that good people stay upbeat and don’t talk about hard things.”

What Is Actually True

The complaining judgment especially has a sting, because it implies that I’m making a big deal out of nothing and that I’m choosing to suffer instead of looking on the bright side or that I’m dumping on other people or I’m weak for not pushing through. I get so angry now that I see this clearly because none of it is true.

For someone like me who moves through emotions quickly, processes them, doesn’t ask others to fix them, and is generally strong and positive, I’m not wallowing. I’m narrating my reality. I’m processing and digesting and I’m integrating. I’m saying, “This is what my body just went through,” without asking them to rescue me.

Being negative isn’t really about the content of what I’m saying. It’s about their limited capacity to tolerate emotional truth or their fear that if they let it in, it will overwhelm them or their conditioning that says only happy is allowed and anything else is complaining.

Grace Under Pressure

That is why I wanted to scream but this is where the grace comes in.

I get that this is all extra painful for me because it replicates the dynamic I grew up with. I was the one doing emotional labor when I should have been receiving it.  I attuned to everyone’s inner world but had no idea how to attune to my own emotional experience. I emotionally held people who were older than me and who should have been emotionally caring for me so now I carry an emptiness here.

When someone I love responds in a way that shows me they don’t have capacity for my experience, it’s not just about this one conversation. It triggers my old wounds. I think, “Great. Once again, I’m here for you, but you’re not here for me and my reality is too heavy for you or you don’t want to see it so here I am having to hold myself alone.”

In the middle of that conversation, I could feel two things happening at once. On one hand, I could see exactly what was going on: someone I love was bumping up against their own limit for being with pain, and instead of saying “This is hard for me,” they were framing my reality as “negative.”

On the other hand, I could feel my younger parts bracing and hurting, because this is such a familiar pattern for me. I’m there for other people emotionally, I listen and hold and care and when I share something real about my own struggle, the door quietly closes.

How Can I Offer Grace Here?

In the past, I might have either swallowed that hurt completely or exploded in anger and shut down. This time, I stayed present. I named how it felt for me. I said that when someone can’t sit with what I go through, it leaves me alone in my experience. And as I did that, I could feel how much I wanted to not repeat the old pattern of abandoning myself just to keep the peace.

After we hung up, that was the question I sat with: How can I offer grace here without abandoning myself? Grace, for me, doesn’t mean pretending I’m not hurt, or minimizing my needs, or deciding, “Oh well, they just can’t handle it, I’ll never bring this up again.” Grace is not making excuses for harmful patterns. Grace is seeing the whole picture.

I can see that this person is very sensitive as well, that they struggle to be with their own pain and that they weren’t taught how to sit with suffering either. I can feel compassion for that. I can remember that they’re not rejecting me on purpose; they’re hitting the edge of their capacity.

And at the same time, I can still be honest that it’s not enough for me. I need relationships where my reality is welcome. I need spaces where I don’t have to edit out my hard days to be lovable. Living in a highly sensitive body with a chronic condition makes this especially important to me.

Grace in Relationships

But, and this is key if you ask me, not everyone has to be this for me.

To me, grace in relationship means remembering accepting and loving someone despite their limitations.

Not everyone is built like me. My whole life is steeped in emotional and spiritual work. I swim in those waters every day. I’m constantly diving into deep inner realms with my clients, my art journal and even my spells and rituals. This is my home base. I feel comfortable naming feelings, unpacking patterns, talking about trauma, getting to the emotional root of things, facing my shadows and sitting in the dark until my eyes adjust. But the people I love have their own home bases. They have strengths and wisdom in areas I know nothing about. They see the world in ways I can’t. They carry skills I don’t have. And just because emotional healing is central to my life’s work doesn’t mean it has to be central to theirs.

Where Can We Meet?

So part of grace, for me, is letting the people I love be who they are without constantly wishing they were more like me or can give me everything I need. I don’t want to spend my life trying to turn everyone into an emotional process buddy. I want to find the places where we can meet and connect, and allow the relationship to be what it is, even with its limitations.

That might mean we talk more about their interests than mine sometimes. It might mean I don’t go to them for certain kinds of support, not because they’re bad or wrong, but because it’s just not where their capacity or calling lies. And that’s okay. I can still appreciate who they are and what they bring to the relationships even if they can’t always show up for me in the exact way I want.

Being Human

What I’m really aspiring to is holding my boundaries and my needs without hardening my heart. I don’t want to build walls of protection so tall that love can’t get in or cut people off every time they show me their limits. A heart that understands being human and having limitations and can offer compassion and grace from that place is what I want. That doesn’t mean I want to tolerate everything now or ignore how I feel. It means I’m learning to say, “This is what I need and this is what you can give, and I will take the real, imperfect relationship we can have, instead of demanding a version of you that doesn’t exist.” I want to love people as they are, while still loving myself enough to get the deeper emotional holding I need.

Which brings me to the way I fucked up.

Bumping Up Against My Limitations

Last week I had a session that really shook me. A new client came in and we were going to start with an Intuitive Reading, which is usually something I love doing. But about halfway through, I realized I was shutting down. It’s something that hasn’t happened to me in over ten years, but I recognized the feeling right away.

Every once in a very blue moon, I shut down and can’t do a reading because of the emotional landscape. It’s like a switch flips in my system. I can’t feel my connection to Cassandra as easily, I can’t hear anything clearly, and everything I say feels wrong or judged. I know other psychics and intuitives who can easily read in those conditions, but I can’t. My nervous system and my intuition don’t work well in certain emotional atmospheres and I judge myself harshly for this. I have this expectation that I should be able to be like everyone else. The problem with this expectation is that it doesn’t meet my reality. I expect myself to be someone I’m not and to have skills that I don’t.

Messing Up Sucks

I didn’t handle the session the way I wish I had. Instead of framing it as my limitation, I ended up addressing the experience in a way that I’m sure must have been hurtful for them. I didn’t word my needs with the care and precision the way I would have liked to. I made it sound like they were the problem instead of saying, “This is my limitation.”

It was an awkward and yucky experience. I even broke down and cried.   It was not at all the grounded, professional presence I usually bring. I didn’t hold my client emotionally or help them feel safe enough to soften. And afterward, I could immediately see the pieces I wanted to do differently.

Loud Inner Critic

When the session ended, my inner critic took over. I felt guilty and terrible, like I’d epically failed this person. My mind went straight into that old familiar spiral: “You’re a monster. You hurt them. You should know better by now. Why can’t you show up as perfectly as everyone else seems to? Why can’t you be like those intuitives who can read anyone under any conditions?”

I replayed the session over and over, magnifying my rough edges and feeling terrible about having them. I worried about all the damage I might have caused, about how they might feel and about all the terrible things they might think of me and say about me. The story in my head was basically: “I shouldn’t be allowed to get it wrong. I should always be safe and perfect.” And because I’m highly sensitive and I live with MCAS, that emotional storm didn’t just stay in my mind. My body reacted. My mast cells started firing. I started to feel really sick from the stress of attacking myself. It was like my body was saying, “We can’t survive you treating us this way. Something has to shift.”

My Body is Loud

I realized in order to help my body feel better I had to find a different way to hold this. I picked up my journal and started writing everything out including the facts of what happened, what I wished I’d done instead, how much I care about not hurting people and how awful it feels when I do. As I wrote, a softer voice started to appear alongside the harsh one. It sounded more like, “You were in a hard situation. You hit a real limit and you didn’t show up the way you wanted to but you were still honest. The tears were there because you care. You’re already looking at how to do better next time.”

I could see that I do have work to do like work around how I frame my limitations, around setting clearer expectations for my Intuitive Readings and around only offering what I can genuinely deliver but none of that requires me to call myself a monster. I made a mistake and had a very human moment under pressure. That deserves repair, reflection, and change but it also deserves compassion.

The Gift of Grace for Me

Offering myself grace here looks like letting both truths exist at the same time: yes, I wish I had handled it differently, and yes, I’m allowed to be human. Yes, I care deeply about not causing harm, and yes, I’m still learning where my edges are as a sensitive intuitive with a very particular nervous system. Grace sounds like, “I will figure out what needs to change in my business so I’m not putting myself in situations I can’t hold. I will refine how I communicate my limits. I will apologize if needed. And I will not keep beating myself up as if cruelty toward myself somehow makes me more ethical.”

It’s much harder for me to extend that kind of grace inward than it is to offer it to someone I love, but I’m practicing. The intensity has calmed down. I still feel guilt and regret but I can also feel the kindness I’m trying to show myself and the wisdom in my body saying, “It’s okay to learn from this and still be worthy. There is a way to grow from this without destroying myself in the process.”

I want to love myself as I am, while still loving myself enough to keep learning and growing.

This week, with the sky moving from a lot of heat, busyness and noise into cooling waters and emotional support, it feels like an invitation to notice where we’re quick to react and to practice turning toward grace instead.

What does grace look like to you?

The Full Moon this week brings that swell of thoughts, feelings and reactions to the surface. It lights up the parts of us that want to lash out, shut down, compare, catastrophize, or demand perfection from ourselves or from other people. It shows us where we’re quick to judge our own humanity and where we get disappointed that the people we love can’t always meet us in the ways we long for. Then, as the Moon moves into Cancer and Mercury is lifted and supported by Jupiter, there’s this invitation to soften, feel and tend. To step back from the intensity and ask: “What would it look like to offer grace here? What would grace to myself and grace to others look like without abandoning my truth?”

That’s really the heart of this week for me. Grace doesn’t mean pretending the hurt isn’t real. It doesn’t mean lowering your standards so much that anything goes or ignoring where you need to make changes, set clearer boundaries, or take responsibility. Maybe grace is what happens when you can see the full picture: your history, your nervous system, your limits, your intentions and your very real humanity while holding it all with compassion instead of cruelty.

It’s what helps you say, “Yes, this was painful,” and also, “Yes, I’m still worthy of love, support, and growth.” It allows you to love the people in your life as they are, even while you stop abandoning yourself to make the relationship work. It’s what lets you make mistakes in your business or your art and learn from them, repair what you can, and keep going instead of deciding you’re a terrible person who should never try again.

Moon Magic

So as we move through this Full Moon and the days that follow, that’s the lens I’m holding for both you and I: grace under fire (does anyone remember that show from the nineties?). Grace when I react, when other people hit their emotional limits and when I make mistakes in my business and my healing.

The sky is giving us a week where things might feel big and fast and charged at first, then slowly more tender, spacious, and supported. In the rest of this week’s update, I’ll walk you through how to work with that energy in your business. But if you remember nothing else, remember this: you are allowed to be human. You are allowed to grow and still be imperfect. And every moment you choose even a tiny bit more grace for yourself and for others, you’re practicing a kind of magic that grows more softness and kindness in the world.

Astrology Highlights for the Week of December 1-7, 2025

Beginning of the Week (Monday–Tuesday)

The week starts with the moon in a waxing phase in Taurus, which means the energy is growing but it wants to grow slowly, steadily, and safely. This is not manic “do all the things” energy. It’s more like, “Let’s build something solid, one brick at a time.” Your body and your business both want grounding right now so think simple routines, practical steps, and choices that support your nervous system. At the same time, there’s a helpful current running underneath everything: the energy of your values and what you truly care about is working well with deeper transformation or, in other words, what wants to change at the root of things. You might notice you’re more aware of what you really want your business to stand for and where you feel called to be braver and more honest about who you are and who you’re here to help.

This is also a good couple of days to look at your relationships with your community and audience. You may feel a pull to be more open about your beliefs, your magic, your story or your offerings. There’s support here for sharing from a place of truth instead of performance. It’s a clean out the closet and only keep what fits your soul kind of vibe so focus on simplifying, grounding, and aligning.

Business To Do

• Look at your current offers get rid of what doesn’t feel solid or sustainable anymore
• Do one grounded money task like review subscriptions, send an invoice, clean up your payment systems or update pricing.
• Revisit your website or sales page and see if it still reflects what you truly value and want to be known for.
• Choose one simple habit that supports your business (like a weekly money hour) and commit to it in a realistic way.

Inner Work and Art Magic To Do

• Create an art journal page around the theme: “What does safety in my business feel like?” Use earthy and grounding imagery.
• Spend extra time in your body with stretching, walking, breathwork or anything that makes you feel more present. You might even want to try adding more movement as you create in your art journal.
• Light a candle and create a page in your journal that speaks about what you most value in your work: “In my business, I stand for…” and let the words flow.
• Ask the earth (or the land where you live) to help you build a stable foundation for your business. You might do this by sketching the landscape around you as you ask the earth for help.

Midweek (Wednesday–Thursday)

Midweek, the moon is still in that growing phase as it moves from Taurus into Gemini. On Wednesday it has relationships with several different planets, most of them supportive, so the day can feel busy but helpful. There are lots of small tasks, interactions, ideas, and intuitive nudges that move things along. This is a good day for communication, small decisions, and tying up loose ends. You might feel a bit more mentally active, but it’s the kind of activity that can actually help you if you stay anchored to your dreams for your business like conversations that clarify things, ideas for content or new ways to explain what you do.

On Thursday we greet the Full Moon in Gemini, and this is where the energy gets big. A Full Moon in Gemini lights up your mind and your voice with thoughts, ideas, stories, messages, conversations, social media, emails and all of that gets louder. There’s usually a lot of insight and information flooding in at once.

A Hot Full Moon

Right after the Full Moon peaks, it connects with fiery, action-oriented energy, which can make you feel more impulsive or reactive than usual. This can show up as wanting to send the angry email, feeling the pressure to make a big decision on the spot, completely changing your offer or say something online you might regret later. For some of you, especially if you tend to move slowly or hesitate, this can actually be helpful energy because it gives you the push you need. For others who already run hot or have a lot of internal fire, it can feel like too much, too fast.

The deeper invitation here is about grace under pressure. You may be shown exactly where your mind goes when things feel intense: self-criticism, comparison, shame, catastrophizing, or trying to fix everything at once. You may also be shown where you’re tempted to snap at others or assume the worst. This full moon is like a spotlight on your reactive patterns. Meanwhile, there’s also healing courage and a sense of direction in the background: a nudge to grow into who you’re becoming, to follow a path that’s more aligned and to let old painful stories begin to soften.

Business To Do

• Use Wednesday for focused communication so write content, respond to messages, clarify your offers or brainstorm ideas.
• On Thursday, notice any urges to make big business moves in the heat of the moment (quitting something, changing everything, confronting someone). Write them down instead of acting immediately.
• If you’re someone who never takes action, choose one small, brave step you can take like send the email, share the post or make the ask. Let the full moon give you a gentle push.
• Capture insights instead of forcing decisions. Let this be a time to see what’s true rather than fix it all instantly.

Inner Work and Art Magic To Do

• During the full moon, cast the art spell I describe below called “A Map of Grace“
• Don’t forget to add those small grace scrips for yourself.  These are sentences you can say when you’re spiraling, like, “Of course I’m activated. This is a lot. I’m still safe. I can pause.”
• Spend time in quiet after any intense conversations or emotional spikes. Step away from screens, breathe and let your nervous system settle.
• If you want to deepen the moon magic you do in your art journal, charge your journal or your favorite supplies under the full moon with the intention that your words become kinder and more honest with yourself and others in the coming year.

End of the Week (Friday–Sunday)

The end of the week brings a much softer and more supportive tone. On Friday, there’s a beautiful connection between deep, emotional insight and growth. It’s like your inner therapist and your inner business mentor are sitting down at the same table. This energy helps you understand your own patterns more clearly and then translate that insight into wise choices for your business. It’s especially supportive for those of us who are witches, intuitives, and spiritual entrepreneurs who walk between worlds because your ability to receive messages from Spirit and your ability to make grounded, practical plans can work together here instead of fighting each other.

Also on Friday, the moon moves into Cancer, and over the weekend it slowly moves toward and then joins up with the same energy that’s supporting growth and nurturance. Emotionally, this feels like coming home after a busy, intense few days. There’s an emphasis on comfort, safety, nourishment, and being with people who feel like family (chosen or otherwise). In business terms, this can highlight community, memberships, group spaces, and the emotional atmosphere of your work. It asks: “Does my business actually feel like a supportive home for me and the people I serve?”

At the same time, there’s a helpful influence between deep thinking and spiritual responsibility on Saturday and Sunday. This is energy that loves to make things real and to take the emotional and spiritual insights you’ve had and give them structure. It’s wonderful for planning, writing, creating outlines, setting boundaries, and making gentle but firm commitments. It supports you in turning your ideas and healing into containers like programs, memberships, schedules, pricing, policies, and plans that honor both your sensitivity and your long-term growth.

Business To Do

• Use Friday to journal about what you’ve learned about yourself and your business this year. Then, pick one practical adjustment to make (even a tiny one).
• Look at your offers through a “home and hearth” lens. Does your membership, coven, or client space feel emotionally safe and nurturing for you as well as your people? Note any changes you’d like to move toward.
• Over the weekend, set aside a quiet hour to plan and map out the next month of content or sketch a launch timeline or outline a new workshop or program. Let your spiritual insight guide the plan, but actually put it in writing.
• If you’re working on something like a program, mentorship, mastermind, membership or long-term container, think about the structure that will make it sustainable such as the frequency, boundaries, support and pricing.

Inner Work and Art Magic To Do

• Let yourself soften into coziness with blankets, tea, comfort food, safe people or simply enjoy som time alone. Your nervous system will thank you.
• Do an art journal spread around the theme: “What does a supportive business ‘home’ feel like for me and my clients?” Use imagery of houses, nests, oceans or anything that feels protective and nurturing.
• Spend some time in intentional conversation with your guides, ancestors, or Spirit about your business. Ask: “What am I being asked to commit to next? What needs more structure so I can grow?”
• On Sunday, when the moon is together with that supportive, expansive energy, take a moment to bless your plans: place your hands on your notebook, calendar, or art journal and ask for emotional and spiritual support from the moon and stars as you grow yourself and your business in the coming year.

Summary

The week as a whole takes us from slow, grounded building through a big, mentally and emotionally charged full moon into a softer, supported, spiritually-wise planning space. You don’t have to ride every high and low at full volume. You’re allowed to move gently and choose grace when you can.

HOW TO HARNESS THIS WEEK’S ASTROLOGY IN YOUR ART MAGIC TO GROW YOURSELF AND YOUR BUSINESS

To finish this week’s update, I want to leave you with some art magic you can do with the full moon in Gemini called, My Grace Map.

This spell is meant to help you map the emotional journey between where you are now with a business dream and where you want to go and to make grace the way you walk towards it. Instead of trying to bully yourself into growth or collapsing when your scared parts freak out, you’re going to draw yourself a map that shows how you move from first reaction to a more graceful response.

In this spell, you create a path from where you are now to your dream fully realized. Each step along the way is a concrete milestone you’ll reach in your business and at every step, you’ll show two things:

• how your inner parts react
• and what offering yourself grace looks like there

So you’re not just dreaming the destination. You’re also making space for the very human journey it takes to get there.

Before You Start: A Short Reflection

Before you sit down with your journal, grab a notebook or open a fresh page and spend a few minutes reflecting. This helps your spell be clear and focused. You can also do what I do which is write on the pages you will later paint over for the spell.

Your Starting Point

Ask yourself, Where am I right now in my business with this dream? Write this in one short sentence, for example:

• • “I have 3 clients.”
  • “My membership has 5 people.”
  • “I’m just starting to share my work online.”

This will be your Start point on the map.

Your Dream Realized

Then ask, What does my dream look and feel like when it’s realized? Imagine it as clearly as you can and write it in a sentence or two:

• • “I’m supporting myself financially with my art.”
  • “My membership is full of hundreds of people who love being here.”
  • “My practice is fully booked with dream clients who feel safe and supported.”
  • “My business supports me financially and emotionally and I feel proud of my work.”

Include how it feels in your body when this dream is real. Do you feel grounded, joyful, spacious, safe, etc.

This will be your Finish point.

The Milestones Along the Way

Now ask: What are the concrete steps or milestones between Start and Finish?

Think in simple, realistic jumps, not magic leaps. For example:

• “First 10 members.”
• “Sold my first painting.”
• “Launching my first group program.”
• “Raising my prices.”
• “Hiring part-time help.”
• “Doing my first webinar or workshop.”

Write down 4–8 key milestones that feel like natural stepping stones between where you are and where you’re going.

How Your Parts React

For each milestone, ask: What are the first doubtful, scared or helpless thoughts that come up when I imagine this dream actually coming true? Write the raw responses without editing, for example:

• “That’s too many people, I can’t handle it.”
• “Who do you think you are?”
• “What if I mess it up?”
• “Everyone will see I’m a fraud.”
• “I’ll get too tired.”

You’ll use these on the map.

What Grace Looks Like at Each Step

Then ask, If I were to offer myself grace at this step, what would that sound or look like? Examples:

• “I don’t have to handle it alone. I can build support as I grow.”
• “I’m allowed to learn as I go.”
• “It’s okay to be scared and still take one step.”
• “I don’t have to be perfect to be worthy of success.”
• “I can grow at the pace that feels kind to my body.”
• “I can handle failure or disappointment and keep going.”

As you explore this, consider what would make the journey feel safer and kinder for you. Think about gentleness. What would help me walk this path without abandoning myself? What are the gentle supports that feel okay to my body?

For each gentle milestone you name, ask yourself what would I need in place at this point to feel supported? For example, help with admin, clearer work hours, tech support, co-facilitator, more rest, therapy, more subconscious clearing with things like MAP sessions or fewer 1:1s?

Consider what soothes your nervous system when you think about this dream. Maybe a warm bath, walking outside, art journaling, talking to one safe person, MAP sessions, prayer, ritual, lying on the floor or listening to certain music.

Who or what reminds me that I’m not doing this alone? Spirit guides, ancestors, the moon, the land, a partner, a friend, your future self? If my dream could grow at the pace of kindness, not urgency, what would that pace look like? All of this becomes the Grace Stations on your map.

You don’t have to write pages and pages. Just write enough to get a sense of your dream, your fears and what helps you feel supported.

Now you’re ready to create your map.

Supplies

• your art journal
• a pen or marker
• scissors
• glue
• any mixed media art supplies you like (colours, collage, etc.)

You can do this all in one sitting or start the map and add to it over a few days.

Step 1: Draw Your Path

Open your art journal to a new spread.

On one side of the page, draw a small “Start” symbol like you would see on a game board.

1. • Label it with where you are now in your business or according to the goal or dream you’re moving towards.
   • For example: “5 members in my program,” “Just starting my business,” “Sharing my work with a small audience.”

On the opposite side of the other page, draw a “Finish” symbol.

1. • Label it with your dream, goal or intention. What are you trying to accomplish, create or grow into?
   • For example: “Hundreds of members,” “Steady clients,” “Fully booked offers,” “Consistent income.”

Now draw a winding path between Start and Finish. It can be a curvy line, stepping stones, or little boxes like a board game trail. On each section of the path, write the milestone that belongs there. Make sure the milestones move in order from Start to Finish so the path tells the simple story of how you get from where you are now to where you want to go.

Step 2: Mark the Reaction Spots

For each milestone, on one side of that step (left side, under it or beside it), write the reaction that comes up when you imagine reaching that point.

You can show these reactions with sharper shapes or more intense colours if you want, just to visually mark that these are the “hot” or “fearful” spots. These are the real feelings that show up as you grow.

This is where you bring in what you discovered when you were reflecting. Think about what happens inside you when you imagine your dream coming true. What are the first scared, doubtful, or critical reactions? These are the places where your parts tend to get loud or, in other words, the “hot spots” under this Full Moon/Mars kind of energy. It’s the places where you think things like,

• • “I can’t handle more people.”
  • “Who do I think I am anyway?”
  • “Other people can do this, not me.”
  • “If this succeeds, something bad will happen.”
  • “I’ll be used / depleted / unsafe.”
  • “I want to hide.”
  • “This is too much.”
  • “I’m going to mess it up.”
  • “What if I fail?”

1. • “No one wants my art.”
   • “I’ll be overwhelmed.”
   • “I don’t deserve this.”

These are also the reactions where, under a Gemini/Mars full moon, you’d be tempted to:

• Get impatient with yourself.
• Compare yourself to others.
• Freeze, numb, or overthink.
• Decide “this is too much,” and shrink your dream.

You’re not judging these reactions. You’re just mapping them out on your board. These are the places where your inner parts tend to panic, shut down, or want to run when your dream gets real.

Step 3: Add Grace Stations

Now you’re going to create Grace Stations. These are places along the path where you meet your reactions with tenderness instead of attack. On the other side of each milestone (opposite the reaction), write your grace response. For example:

1. • Reaction: “I can’t handle more people.”
     • Grace: “I’ll grow at a pace that feels safe, and I can ask for support.”
   • Reaction: “Who do you think you are?”
     • Grace: “I’m learning as I go. It’s okay to grow and learn at the same time.”
   • Reaction: “If this works, something bad will happen.”
     • Grace: “I can let good things in and still be kind and ethical.”

Let these grace statements sound like the kind, wise version of you talking to your scared parts.

Decorate these Grace Stations so they look and feel softer. Use hearts, moons, cups of tea, gentle colours, flowing shapes or anything that feels like comfort and kindness to you. You’re teaching your system: I don’t have to bully myself to grow. I can walk this path with grace.

Now each step on your path clearly shows:

• Reaction on one side
• Grace on the other

You’re training your system to expect both and to choose grace more often.

Bless Your Path

When your map feels complete for now, look at the path from Start to Finish and take it in. Let your eyes travel along each milestone, each reaction and each grace statement as you put your hands on the page and say something like:

“I’m walking towards my dream. At every step, parts of me will react and that’s okay. At every step, I can offer myself grace. I can be kind to myself. I choose to walk the path to my dreams with compassion.”

Take a breath and really try to feel that.

How to Use Your Grace Map Going Forward

You can come back to this page in your art journal any time you feel scared or resistant. Ask yourself, “Which milestone am I at right now?” Find it on your map, read the reaction you wrote, and then place your finger or a tiny stone or token that represents YOU on the grace side. Take a moment to breathe in the grace like medicine. Over time, this map shows you that your reactions are predictable and human and it reminds you that grace is always an option.

Do You Want To Grow Your Business With the Moon and Stars and Me?

If you want to work with this powerful energy together this week and you’re craving a space where you can tend to both your tender inner world and your big, beautiful business dreams, I’d love to invite you to join me in The Creative Witch’s Business Coven. You can join as an ongoing member of just drop in this week. 

It’s where we share gentle, sacred, creative space together. It’s where we gather in rhythm with the moon and the astrology to do the inner healing work, hold space for each other, and grow our businesses in ways that feel nourishing, spiritually aligned, and rooted in who we truly are.

You don’t have to figure this all out alone. Inside the coven, we weave art spells together, locate ourselves in the astrology and support each other through the ups and downs of showing up as highly sensitive creatives and entrepreneurs. If your heart is calling for a safe, magical place to grow emotionally, spiritually, and professionally, come join us. I’d love to have you. 

Learn More Here

Hi. I’m Dana.

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