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Art Journal with the Moon November 21-27 2022

Art Journal with the Moon November 21-27, 2022 –

This is a summary of the moon’s energy for the upcoming week and the inner work and magic you can do in your art journal to make the most of the opportunities the cosmos is gifting us with.

Every week the emotional and magical opportunities the moon is sending you are different because the energy she is drawing down from the planets and stars changes moment to moment. Planets and stars and moon phases and moon signs each carry their own unique energy .This is my weekly update (Mon-Fri) of the moon’s comings and goings to support you in aligning with her energy.

Get your art journal or a scrap of paper you see lying around, your art supplies or those pencil crayons you have hidden away somewhere and have fun. Spend 10 – 20 minutes focusing on the themes the moon is supporting you to explore that day while you play with colors and shapes and watch what happens over time.

It’s amazing what a little consistent creative time can do.

A Few Thoughts Before We Get Started

Hoorah!! We have entered the realm of Sagittarius season.

Hopefully you are feeling lighter already.

I love the depth and darkness of Scorpio season but I’m also grateful it doesn’t last forever. There’s a heaviness that accompanies diving deep into the subconscious realms. Even traveling between worlds is taxing on my nervous system. Last Scorpio season I had some amazing healing conversations with my ancestors. This Scorpio season helped me reach inner parts who had been stuck alone in exile since I was very young. They were parts I hadn’t been able to reach before. That is the magic of Scorpio season. It pulls up from the depths that which is ready to be received but it’s hard emotional labor and Sagittarius season is a welcome reprieve.

I’m ready to focus on my BIG dreams. What about you?

Sagittarius is ruled by the planet Jupiter so this lunar cycle is carrying a little of that lucky planet’s energy as well. Jupiter wants to bring harmony, well-being, kindness, justice, abundance, growth, expansion, good luck and balance to your life. That’s a lot of yummy energy to soak in.

Sagittarius energy is helpful for allowing yourself to vision a future without doubts and fears restricting you. It’s a big green light saying “Go chase your dreams. You are allowed to imagine more for yourself. How BIG can you allow your dreams to get?”

It’s not easy to dream BIG, especially if you’ve experienced a lot of heart-breaking attempts to reach your dreams in the past. It can feel scary and downright vulnerable to let your wild dreams run free in your imagination. There’s something painful about dreams not coming true and so sometimes we create these inner parts who try to protect us. They don’t want us to feel the same kind of crushing disappointment we felt in the past. They want us to be practical or logical or safe.

Dreaming BIG isn’t about safety and there are definitely no guarantees. I might never achieve everything I want to achieve but to stop dreaming and expanding and growing is not an option. My spirit wants to run wild and free imagining all kinds of wonderful things for my future and for the future of the world. Building fences and walls around my dreams only makes me feel lifeless and defeated.

There have been times in my life where I had to tread slowly and gently towards my dreams. My heart was fragile and slowly putting itself back together. It wasn’t ready. Allowing my dreams to run wild when my heart was still recovering would not have been kind. I needed to be patient. I needed to allow my heart to mend. If this is the case for you, move slowly and thoughtfully towards your dreams. Dream as big as your heart is ready to dream. There is no rush. Making your way step-by-gentle step is still moving in the right direction. When you’re ready to leap, you’ll leap.

I may never be ready to leap again. I may walk step-by-gentle-step towards my BIG dreams for the rest of my life and it will be perfect.

Monday

Today the moon is in the balsamic phase. This phase is when the moon is once again a silver sliver in the sky. She is retreating and preparing to hide away in the darkness of the New Moon.

This is a time to move inward; to grow still and quiet and change the direction of your looking and to look within and trust your own wisdom and truth. Communing with Spirit and your deepest self is helpful during this phase.

I use this phase to make time to communicate with the angels and my core self. I try to tune into the wisdom and support I carry within me. The veil between Spirit and my conscious mind is thinner at this time of the moon cycle so it eases communication and intuition. It’s also when I’m focusing on my intuition, paying attention to Spirit Signs, making notes of my sleeping dreams and communicating with Spirit.

It is a good time to address the shadow aspects of my personality and to get curious about what I have buried in my subconscious. Sometimes, when life is busy, we don’t have time to process the emotions and triggers that arise in our everyday life and in our relationships. This phase of the Moon is a good time to deal with whatever you didn’t have time to deal with earlier on in the moon cycle. Taking this time to make friends with your shadow before a new moon cycle begins will help you to be clearer and less influenced by my wounded parts as I make my New Moon intentions.

You can’t always see what needs to be tended to.

Ask your subconscious mind to show you what you most need to tend to today.

Is it something from your past?

Is there a belief or a memory that has been holding you back?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents the memory or belief you’d like to tend to today.

For those of you who have joined the Moon Mapping Year and receive the MAP Your Mornings podcast, on Monday, the moon is in the balsamic phase. The balsamic phase is a great time to move inward and address inner parts that you’ve buried in your subconscious. We use that moon phase energy to work with the MAP Method to clear a belief or memory that has been holding you back.

The moon is in the sign of Libra today. Libra energy is sociable, soft, beautiful and artistic. It likes to keep things balanced and looks for equality in relationships. We use that energy to magnetize that kind, friendly, sociable, compassionate and harmonious energy.

The moon is void of course from the late afternoon to the late evening in the mountain time zone. I think of this time as though the moon is just hanging around alone and in the in-between space – no longer where it was but not yet where it will be. The moon likes reflecting energy down to us but when it’s void of course there’s nothing substantial for it to reflect so its reflecting that emptiness back to us.

When the moon is void of course it is a good time to rest and relax and look inward. It is a good time to connect with your subconscious mind and your intuition so we work with that energy to surrender to the Divine a troubling situation you are currently dealing with.

The moon moves into the sign of Scorpio today. We use that deep and emotionally healing energy to tend to wrap your young and weak parts in safety and invite them to feel seen, heard and supported so they can allow the main personality to move in the direction your spirit wants to go.

The moon is in a tense relationship with Pluto today. In this energy, challenging emotions can surface and affect how you speak or act. It can stir up difficult issues to process or unresolved issues that still need to be tended to. We work with the MAP Method to address any exiled parts within your psyche that may get triggered by this energy today.

The other energy we tend to is the energy of Mars being in a tense relationship with Neptune. Mars and Neptune can support you to connect to your intuition or receive divine guidance so it would be a good day to do some light divination. We use this energy to drop in your body so we tend to whatever challenging energy you may find yourself dealing with today.

The sun is in a happy relationship with Jupiter. The sun likes to help you shine your light and take positive action to move you forward and Jupiter likes to bring positivity, optimism and expansion into your life. It’s a good day to feel confident and believe in yourself and your abilities and to believe in possibilities.

Mercury is in an intense relationship with Venus today. Together they are bringing gentleness, affection, warmth and intimacy to your communication and relationships. We work with the MAP Method to magnify this open-hearted, romantic, loving, compassionate, kind, sweet and connection building energy.

Tuesday

The moon is in a tense relationship with Saturn today.

Saturn is associated with the earth element and it wants to bring responsibility, seriousness, deep thought, reflection, wisdom, strategy, maturity, structure, sensibility, frugality, discipline, routine and actions that inspire order in your life.

In this tense kind of relationship with the moon, the area of your life where Saturn and the moon are in can evoke within you uncomfortable feelings around these topics.

Where do you need to mature more fully?

Where in your life would structure, routine or discipline benefit you?

In your art journal, create a page that represents a routine or structure you’d like to improve or implement in your life.

If you have joined the Moon Mapping Year and receive the MAP Your Mornings podcast, on Tuesday the moon is in the balsamic phase. The balsamic phase is a great time to move inward and address inner parts that you’ve buried in your subconscious. We use that moon phase energy to work with the MAP Method to clear a belief or memory that has been holding you back.

The moon is in the sign of Scorpio today. We use that deep and emotionally healing energy to tend to wrap your young and weak parts in safety and invite them to feel seen, heard and supported so they can allow the main personality to move in the direction your spirit wants to go.

The moon is in a tense relationship with Saturn today. In this tense kind of relationship with the moon, the area of your life where Saturn and the moon are in can evoke within you uncomfortable feelings around the topics of routine, discipline and structure. We use this energy to reflect on where in your life more structure, routine or discipline would benefit you.

The other energy we tend to is the energy of the sun moving into the sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius energy likes to help you vision a future worth moving towards. It’s expansive, limitless energy that wants to help you see the possibilities in your life. It’s a good time to dream, imagine and visualize your wildest dreams. We work with the MAP Method to magnetize this expansive, limitless, soulful, meaningful, future-oriented, wild, optimistic, carefree, and dream-loving energy.

Wednesday

Today we honor the new moon in Sagittarius.

Sagittarius is a fire sign. It is expressive and positive and humorous, optimistic, adventurous, experimental, adaptive, passionate and fun but it can be focused on too many things.

Sagittarius energy likes to help us grow and enjoy ourselves through experiencing all life has to offer. It focuses on personal growth, freedom, expansion, lived experience, learning through trying and doing and embodiment. It’s a curious energy that asks questions and looks for answers.

It is also especially helpful at supporting us in believing in possibilities and taping into our wild and wonderful dreams. That’s how we’re going to use this new moon in Sagittarius energy today.

To personalize this new moon, let’s get specific and see the area of YOUR life this new moon energy is focused on. Once you know the area of life the Sagittarius new moon is in, you can consider how bringing balance to that area of your life with help you reach your goals.

To figure out what area of your life the Sagittarius new moon wants you to focus on, you simply need to know your rising sign. If you don’t know your rising sign (it’s different than your sun or moon sign), then you can read more about it here and you can calculate what it is here.

If your rising sign is Aries, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your faith, spiritual practices, travel or future success. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you want to make during the new moon in order to follow your most meaningful and soulful dreams around your spirituality or travel or your goals for the future.

If your rising sign is in the sign of Taurus, then the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG in the area of death, taxes, your psyche or any debt you have accumulated. What dreams do you have that will help you clear any energetic, emotional or physical debt you may be carrying (your own or your ancestors’)? What BIG dreams can you imagine for your emotional or mental well-being? What bright new dreams can you imagine around these topics? Write your new moon intention below.

For Gemini people like me, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your close, intimate relationships or partnerships. Think about your marriage or partnership or best friend and consider what the most meaningful and soulful dreams you can imagine for the closest relationships in your life.

If your rising sign is in the sign of Cancer, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your routines, work, pets or wellness. If you were living your dream life, what would these areas of your life look and feel like? Consider what intentions you can make during this new moon in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dreams for these areas of your life.

For Leo people, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your children, hobbies, pleasure or your creativity. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you want to make during the new moon in order to welcome your wildest and most meaningful dreams to your parenting life, a creative hobby that’s dear to your heart or those activities in your life that bring you joy.

For Virgo people, the new moon is inviting you to tap into your wild imagination and visualize your biggest and brightest dreams when it comes to your parents, your ancestors, your childhood or your home and living situation. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you can make during this new moon in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dreams for these areas of your life.

If your rising sign is in the sign of Libra, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to learning, communication, your siblings, the goddess or earth-based rituals. Which one of these topics feels most important for you to focus on during this new moon? Choose one of them and consider what intentions you want to make in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dream for that area of your life.

For Scorpio people, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to money, assets, income and your livelihood. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you want to make during the new moon in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dreams for your finances, possessions or livelihood.

For Sagittarius people, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your identity, body, appearance or your spirit. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you want to make during the new moon in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dreams for your health, personal expression, identity or your relationship with your body.

If your rising sign is in the sign of Capricorn, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your subconscious mind and those things you hide from others and most importantly those things you hide from yourself. During this new moon set intentions around the kind of shadow work or brain rewiring you’d like to do and the biggest and brightest results you’d like to experience from that deep inner work.

For Aquarius people, the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to friendships, community and your hopes and wishes. Think about these areas of your life and consider what intentions you want to make during the new moon in order to welcome your biggest and brightest dreams for your friendships, community or your hopes and wishes.

Finally, for Pisces people, the new moon the new moon is inviting you to dream BIG when it comes to your career, reputation or ideas of success. During this new moon, visualize your biggest and brightest dreams for your career, the kind of success you want to achieve or the kind of reputation you want to build.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image representing your BIG wild dream.

Thursday

The moon is in an intense relationship with Venus today. I call it intense because astrologically speaking they are close together and this amplifies and intensifies the energy the moon is reflecting down to us from this relationship with Venus.

Venus wants to bring fertility and growth. Venus loves the idea of reigning more beauty, grace, softness, love, friendship, harmony, passion, sensuality, intimacy and happiness into your life and relationships. The energy of Venus also brings playfulness, pleasure and joy. 

The moon is intensifying all this goodness so it’s a great day to focus on love, affection and pleasure. Venus wants us to see what its like to thrive not just survive. It’s a lot of good feeling energy to soak in so try mindfully anchoring it into your body and spread it throughout your entire day.

In your art journal, create an image that celebrates the beauty in your life. 

If you have joined the Moon Mapping Year and receive the MAP Your Mornings podcast, on Thursday morning, the moon is in its darkest phase. The new moon is a perfect time to stretch your imagination so you can better conceptualize what’s possible in your life. We use this energy to magnetize your new moon intentions.

The moon is in the sign of Sagittarius today. Sagittarius energy is passionate, fun, curious and wants to helps us experience all life has to offer. We use that energy to consider how the day ahead could go better than expected then magnetize that positive, humorous, optimistic, curious, adventurous and expansive energy.

The moon is in a relationship with Mars where its like they’re coming from opposite sides which can feel polarizing. It brings energy that is confrontational and intense which produces discomfort and sometimes even blocks and barriers. We use the MAP Method to address this energy before you face your day.

The moon is in an intense relationship with Venus today. The moon is intensifying all this goodness so it’s a great day to focus on love, affection and pleasure. Venus wants us to see what its like to thrive not just survive. It’s a lot of good feeling energy to soak in so we use the MAP Method to magnetize all that goodness and anchor it into your body and spread it throughout your entire day.

The moon is in an intense relationship with Mercury today. In your relationship with others this can look like moody conversations, disagreements, not considering the other person’s perspective and being overly opinionated or focusing on where you disagree instead of finding common ground. Internally, this can look like tension between your thoughts and feelings. We ask your subconscious mind to locate and neutralize the memories, beliefs or emotions that have already been triggered by this energy and those that might potentially get triggered today by this energy.

The other energy we tend to is the energy of the sun being in the sign of Sagittarius today. Sagittarius energy likes to help you vision a future worth moving towards. It’s expansive, limitless energy that wants to help you see the possibilities in your life. It’s a good time to dream, imagine and visualize your wildest dreams. We work with the MAP Method to magnetize this expansive, limitless, soulful, meaningful, future-oriented, wild, optimistic, carefree, and dream-loving energy.

Mercury is in a happy relationship with Chiron today. In this happy relationship, Mercury and Chiron can help us find a healthy way to express and release pain we’ve buried for a long time. It can help us be open, transparent and vulnerable in our relationships which fosters that delicious emotional intimacy we all want in the end. This kind of intimacy makes us feel connected and heals our abandoned parts.  We use the MAP Method with this energy to tend to our abandonment wounds.

Friday

The moon moves into the sign of Capricorn today.

Capricorn energy is also pragmatic, deliberate, persistent, disciplined, and conservative. 

Think about your inner parts – whether they are parts that are younger or past life parts or ancestral parts and be curious for a moment. Which of your inner parts might be triggered by this disciplined, pragmatic and conservative energy.

Do you have inner parts that struggle with discipline? Do you have inner parts that were emotionally restrained when in truth they actually wanted to speak up and express themselves? Do you have parts that feel deflated when they have to be practical or pragmatic or were there people in your life who aren’t pragmatic enough and you have inner parts that didn’t feel safe or cared for in that energy?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents one of your inner parts that struggle with discipline.

If you have joined the Moon Mapping Year and receive the MAP Your Mornings podcast, on Friday morning, the moon is in its darkest phase. The new moon is a perfect time to stretch your imagination so you can better conceptualize what’s possible in your life. We use this energy to magnetize your new moon intentions.

The moon is in the sign of Sagittarius today. Sagittarius energy is passionate, fun, curious and wants to helps us experience all life has to offer. We use that energy to consider how the day ahead could go better than expected then magnetize that positive, humorous, optimistic, curious, adventurous and expansive energy.

The moon is void of course from the late afternoon to the late evening in the mountain time zone. I think of this time as though the moon is just hanging around alone and in the in-between space – no longer where it was but not yet where it will be. The moon likes reflecting energy down to us but when it’s void of course there’s nothing substantial for it to reflect so its reflecting that emptiness back to us.

When the moon is void of course it is a good time to rest and relax and look inward. It is a good time to connect with your subconscious mind and your intuition so we work with that energy to surrender to the Divine a troubling situation you are currently dealing with.

The moon is in the sign of Capricorn today. Capricorn energy helps us be pragmatic, persistent and disciplined. Capricorn energy likes to focus on practical and useful actions but it can be emotionally restrained or reserved. We use this energy to tend to your inner parts that struggle with self-discipline.

The moon is in a tense relationship with the planet Jupiter today. The tension created by the square between the moon and Jupiter can create inspiration, motivation and joy.  It’s good energy to be in to stretch yourself, take a risk or leap of faith, trust your intuition and push yourself forward in the direction you most want to go. We use the energy to any inner parts who are triggered by this intense energy.

The moon is in a tense relationship with Neptune today. In this tense relationship with the moon, Neptune can cause you to feel unsettled and uncertain. We use this energy to clear your energy field.

The other energy we tend to is the energy of Venus being in a happy relationship with Chiron today. This energy can support us in healing from past relationships that made us feel broken. It can also help open our hearts to love and friendship again after grief or loss. It’s an energy that reminds us that true intimacy requires vulnerability. We use this energy to tend to whatever young or fragile parts want to show themselves to you today.

Mercury is in a happy relationship with Chiron today. In this happy relationship, Mercury and Chiron can help us find a healthy way to express and release pain we’ve buried for a long time. It can help us be open, transparent and vulnerable in our relationships which fosters that delicious emotional intimacy we all want in the end. This kind of intimacy makes us feel connected and heals our abandoned parts.  We use the MAP Method with this energy to tend to our abandonment wounds.

Join Me

If you are ready to enhance your alignment with the moon and rewire your brain at the same time, check out the Moon Mapping Year. When you subscribe, you now receive the MAP Your Mornings private podcast as  a BONUS. MAP Your Mornings is where I align with the moon’s energy for the day and use the MAP Method to teach your subconscious mind how to rewire your brain. Every morning (Mon-Fri), we work with the MAP Method AND the emotional and spiritual themes the moon and the planets and stars are supporting us with to rewire your brain and help you manifest the changes you most want to see in your life.

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Dana da Ponte

 

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