Art Journal with the Moon: Themes and Prompts for April 14-20, 2025

In this post, I share a summary of the moon for the week of April 14-20, 2025 as it moves through the zodiac and interacts with the planets. I also talk about working with Taurus energy to help you feel safe receiving more good things in your life (and business).

Softening to Receive

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted us to work with the lunar energy this week. I knew I wanted to focus on the sun moving into Taurus because during Taurus season, the moon is always reflecting back to us that earthy Taurus light.

Taurus season, to me, is a time to come home to your body, your worth, and the slower, quieter rhythm your soul craves. It’s not flashy or loud energy. It’s grounded, steady, and deeply rooted in the physical world. It’s the spiritual practice that says divinity starts here with your hands in the dirt.

It invites you to look at your life and ask: Where can I soften enough to receive?

This is the season of earth magic, of tending to your dreams like a garden, of remembering that slow and sacred is still powerful. 

Personally, with all the air energy in my chart, I feel so nourished and grounded and supported when the sun or moon are in earth signs so Taurus season is one of my favorite seasons.

Taurus is ruled by Venus, so this energy is also about beauty, pleasure, and value. It’s not just about what you value, but how much you value yourself. And if you’re anything like me, someone who’s highly sensitive with a history of trauma and emotional neglect, this can bring up a lot. Because we’re not just talking about feeling worthy on the surface, we’re talking about allowing yourself to receive, to create in your own timing, and to trust that what you bring into the world has deep, meaningful value.

This season asks you to root into your body and say yes to what nourishes you. It’s the perfect time to look at your business and your creative work and ask:

Am I honoring my worth?

Am I allowing myself to receive as much as I pour into my work?

Am I building something that actually supports the life I want to live?

Taurus season reminds you that you don’t have to hustle to be valuable. You don’t have to do more to be enough. You are enough. Right now. As you are. This is a season to slow down, plant your seeds with intention, and trust that with time, care, and love, they will grow.

Reclaiming Your Worth

I want to share how I plan to work with this energy in my art journal this week and hopefully it will inspire you to consider how you want to work with it as well.

I recently launched “The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars”. If you’ve followed me for a while, you know this is a step towards a bigger dream I have to launch “Oriana’s Moonside Companion” one day but that bigger project has to wait because my inner parts have far too much resistance to move forward with it right now. Instead, they need me to start here with The Creative Witch’s Guide.

The more I work on The Creative Witch’s Guide, the more my inner parts surface. Many of these parts are ancestral. There are a lot more than that but today I want to talk about the ancestral parts. These are parts (or memories) that are connected to me from my grandmother on my father’s side. I’m realizing that what I’m creating is not just a guidebook. It’s not just art. It’s not even just a business. It’s a sacred act of reclamation.

I’m doing something my grandmother couldn’t do and maybe couldn’t even let herself imagine. I’m doing something her mother and all the mothers before her couldn’t give themselves permission to do because the world around them didn’t allow their dreams to be an option. I’m not just earning money through my art, I’m restoring a broken thread in my lineage.

I’m becoming the Taurus Queen my ancestral line never had.

I want to take a moment now to talk about how I see The Taurus Queen.

For those who don’t identify with the term “queen,” you can explore this as your inner sovereign, or sacred self-leader or the part of you who makes decisions from knowing, who honors their values, who doesn’t rush, and who listens deeply to your body, spirit, and your needs.

Personally, the word Queen helps me connect with the idea that I am worthy of more than I’m used to receiving but the Taurus Queen does this in a particularly earthy way.  

To me, the archetype of The Taurus Queen is the part of you that remembers what it feels like to be valued, even if your lived experience tried to teach you otherwise. She holds the knowing that worth is not something you earn, it’s something you embody. And for those of us who grew up under the weight of trauma, poverty, emotional neglect, or a long lineage of women whose dreams had no space to bloom, this is the hardest magic of all: to believe that we are worthy of rest, beauty, softness, and compensation for our creative gifts.

The Taurus Queen is Venus in her most grounded, earth-honoring form. She plants. She creates. She receives. And she does so not because she has something to prove, but because the act of creation is sacred. When you draw, write, garden, sing, or build something beautiful with your hands or your words, you are restoring a holy rhythm that capitalism and patriarchy have tried to steal.

You are not just making art, you are remembering what it means to be a human being in harmony with the Earth, with your own soul, and with your ancestors.

Reclaiming My Taurus Queen

When I said yes to creating The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars, I didn’t just start a project. I opened a door. I called in every woman behind me who didn’t have that door available to her. My grandmother, the teacher who wanted to teach and the writer who never got to write. She was the eldest daughter whose mother passed so she had to become a mother to her siblings only to later birth and raise thirteen of her own children. This woman whose spirit may have wanted something different but who had no space, time, or support to bring her creative dreams into the light.

I didn’t realize this would happen when I started working on this guidebook but I’m realizing I’m honoring the art that my grandmother and the mothers before her could not make. And hopefully by doing so, I’m saying: This ends with me.

Rooted creation is the heart of the Taurus Queen. She builds a life that supports her dreams. She gives her body rest, her art time, and her soul permission. She does not rush. She does not hustle. She grows a business the way she would grow a garden. And when she earns money from that garden, it is not greed, it is grace. It is the Earth saying: Yes, I will support you. 

I am the dream my grandmother never got to speak aloud. I pray my business becomes the altar where her silenced story finally finds voice.

But believing I am worthy is hard. Plus, I have trouble receiving as much from my business as I give.

And I know this struggle with worthiness is rooted in my ancestral past and especially in the stories of the women in my family.

My grandmother, the woman whose hands were always moving because she was busy cooking, cleaning, planting, nursing babies and rarely moving a pen across a page just for her. Not because she didn’t want to, but because life didn’t give her permission. The world she lived in never told her rest was sacred. Never told her softness was powerful. Never told her that pleasure and beauty were worth pursuing, let alone worth being paid for.

Instead, she lived in a world where a woman’s worth came from sacrifice and service. From how much she gave, how much she could carry, how invisible she could become as she took care of everyone else. There was no time to dream. There was no room to bloom. And when you don’t feel worthy of rest or beauty, it’s almost impossible to believe that your art, your voice, or your presence deserves to be supported, let alone paid for.

Those are the memories I carry in my blood and bones. And I suspect that’s why working on The Creative Witch’s Guide is so tender for me.

I didn’t just inherit my grandmother’s love of words and teaching. I inherited the conditions that silenced them. And now, as a highly sensitive entrepreneur, I’m trying to grow something beautiful and meaningful in soil that hasn’t always known how to nourish a dream like mine.

That’s why believing I’m worthy of compensation for my creative or intuitive gifts feels like a stretch because it is. It’s not just a mindset shift. It’s spellwork. It’s what happens when you start to compost the stories of worthlessness, of invisibility, of survival-only living. It’s what happens when you say, “My softness is not a weakness. My creativity is not a luxury. My business is an altar. And I get to thrive here.”

I think my grandmother has been so present with me when I’m writing or working on my books because I’m completing something she never got to finish.

I’m not just living my dream. I carry hers as well. Not the dream of the farm she lived on and the thirteen children she raised and the hard, full days but the quiet, tender dreams that she held somewhere deep in her soul. The dreams of teaching and creating.

And maybe she didn’t get to live her creative dreams then. But now, through me, she gets to be a part of it. It’s not the same thing, of course, but it’s something.

Maybe now that I’m choosing to live by a different rhythm and say yes to magic and art and my body’s pace, maybe she can soften too.

All I know is I’ve been able to feel her love for me in ways I couldn’t when she was alive.

And what a holy act that is. That I can now let her love me. That I am now able to receive it.

And maybe receiving is the most radical act I could do for both of us. It’s rewriting centuries of sacrifice. It’s choosing to be loved not just by my ancestors, but by myself. It’s saying, My softness belongs here. My work is sacred. My body is wise. And I don’t have to do it all alone.

Taurus Magic

I think maybe that’s Taurus magic.

It’s not fast or flashy. It’s the steady drumbeat of permission. Of presence. Of love that endures and says, You don’t have to prove anything. You are already enough.

So when you sit with your art journal this week, imagine what it would be like for the women in your ancestral line to watch you receive and to witness your softness.

As you write and draw, consider the lives they may have longed for, the dreams they wanted that you are now living.

Are you breaking chains of oppression that have lasted generations?

Are you daring to dream more for yourself?

This week, as the Sun moves into Taurus, you are being called to slow down, root in, and receive. The earth doesn’t rush the tulip. It doesn’t ask the tree to hurry up and bloom. It supports the beauty in becoming. Taurus teaches us to create sustainably, sensually, slowly. To build something that honors the body, the land, the lineage we come from.

In your art journal, speak to that part of yourself that doubts your worth. The one who’s afraid to charge what your art or your work is truly worth. The one who still thinks they have to prove they’re good enough before they’re allowed to receive. Talk to that part of you. Let that part of you speak.

Ask that part of you:

• Where did you learn you weren’t allowed to rest?
• Who told you softness wasn’t strong?
• What beauty do you long to bring into the world and what makes you hesitate?
• How much goodness are you open to receiving in your business?

Then draw your worth like it’s a living thing. A flower, a mountain, a crown. Draw yourself like the Empresses are drawn in a deck of tarot cards. Let yourself see your worth. Hold it. Bless it.

And if it feels right, dedicate this week’s art journal practice to the women before you who couldn’t and to the woman you are becoming now because you can.

You are living the dream that once had no name. And maybe this is how we can help change the world. By claiming rest and learning to receive.

Let Your Inner Queen Guide Your Business

If you want to work with this energy to grow your business, I want to introduce you to something I’ve poured my heart into.

The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars

It’s a hand-illustrated workbook that helps you grow your business with magic. It’s gentle, creative, and deeply supportive. It’s a little like a monthly ritual in print.

It’s soft. It’s beautiful. It’s structured in a gentle, step-by-step way so you don’t have to think too hard or figure everything out alone. You just turn the page and follow along.

Each month, this guide gives you a daily place to check in and not just with your business, but with yourself. You slow down. You take a breath. You notice how you’re really feeling, what you actually have the capacity for, and what your business is asking for next.

You let the moon and the stars help you find your rhythm. You remember that you’re allowed to grow slowly, intuitively, in partnership with nature and your own energy. You make space for what matters most. You cast spells. And over time, something shifts and it shifts not because you pushed harder or hustled more, but because you started working with your energy instead of against it.

There’s something really sacred about that.

After getting sick more than a decade ago, I had to completely change the way I lived and worked. I couldn’t keep up with the pace of the world around me anymore. I didn’t have the same physical or emotional capacity and I still don’t. But I knew even though my capacity changed, I still needed to make a living from my intuitive and creative gifts. Plus, my soul still had so much it felt called to do.

So I started building a business that worked with my body, my sensitivity, my truth. I leaned into rhythm, ritual, and spiritual support. I let the moon, the sun, and my inner knowing show me the way. I remembered I’m a witch and casting spells is part of my business strategy. And that’s what this guidebook captures.

This isn’t just a planner. It’s more than a productivity tool. It’s a reflection of a way of being in business that’s rooted in trust, magic, and self-compassion.

I spend time planning, considering, and creating each page carefully so that you don’t have to worry about what to do or when to do it. All you have to do is open the guide, follow along, and let it support you. It’s structured but gentle. Thoughtful but not overwhelming. It walks you gently through the month with intention, helping you stay connected to your deeper purpose and your sacred path.

I hand-illustrated it because I wanted it to feel beautiful. I wanted it to feel like a little altar you can hold in your hands. I want it to remind you that your business can be a spell, a prayer, a creative act of devotion. A reflection of your soul.

If you’re longing for a way to grow your business that honors your sensitivity… that makes space for your body, your emotions, your spiritual path… that gives you support without pressure… I made this for you.

And I would be so honored for you to check it out and see if you feel drawn to it too (excuse the pun). 

Check it out Here

The Moon This Week

Now let’s look at a more detailed summary of the moon’s energy this week, giving you an overview of what to expect as the moon moves through different signs and phases. If you want to watch my videos and reels where I talk about how to work with the moon in your art journal every day and share with you the journal pages I create in my own art journal, be sure to follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or TikTok. You can also sign up here, to get reminders in your inbox of the moon’s energy for the upcoming week and how you can work with it in your art journal to practice folk magic, do your deep inner work or, if you’re a highly sensitive entrepreneur like me, grow and expand your business. 

Monday

The week kicks off with the moon being in the sign of Scorpio Monday. 

When the moon is in the sign of Scorpio, it brings a deep, intense energy. The moon represents your emotions, instincts, and the subconscious, while Scorpio is known for its depth, intensity, and focus on transformation. This combination invites deep emotional insights and powerful spiritual transformations.

On a day when the moon is in Scorpio, the energy it reflects down to us is one of deep introspection and emotional intensity. It’s a time when feelings we usually keep hidden might surface, giving us the chance to confront and understand them better. This can be a period of significant emotional healing, as Scorpio’s influence encourages us to look beneath the surface and explore the depths of our inner selves. Spiritually, this energy can lead to transformative growth, pushing you to let go of old patterns or beliefs that no longer serve you and embrace rebirth and renewal.

During this time, you might feel more sensitive, intuitive, and connected to the unseen realms of your psyche. It’s an excellent opportunity for any work that involves diving deep into your emotions, such as therapy, meditation, or reflective journaling like we do when we art journal with the moon.

To align with this energy and support your emotional healing and spiritual growth, consider asking yourself the following questions:

What emotions or memories have I been avoiding, and why?

In what areas of my life am I seeking deeper truth and transformation?

How can I release what no longer serves me to make space for new growth?

What parts of my shadow self need acknowledgment and understanding?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents making room for something better to grow.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, the moon is in the sign of Scorpio for most of the day but it moves into the sign of Sagittarius later in the evening in the mountain time zone. Plus it’s having a happy relationship with a lot of other planets.

The moon is in a happy relationship with Neptune in early Aries, and also playing nice with Saturn, Mercury, and Venus who are all gathered close together in the late degrees of Pisces. This part of the sky has been lit up for weeks now, and to me, it feels sacred. Like Spirit is offering us a quiet but powerful blessing, urging us forward, helping us leave behind something old and painful, and step into a gentler, more aligned chapter. The moon is reflecting all that energy down to us today.

It’s a good day for inner clarity, for feeling emotionally supported, and for sensing that maybe, just maybe, we’re not doing this all alone.

This part of the zodiac, the last degrees of Pisces and the first degrees of Aries, is like standing in a doorway between worlds. Pisces helps us let go. Aries helps us begin again. And when the moon connects with planets in this space, it softens the process of ending and energizes the act of beginning.

There’s magic here. There’s vision. There’s emotional maturity and spiritual guidance. The moon is also having a happy relationship to the planet Mars in Cancer, which adds the strength and gentle determination to act from a place of care. This is care for yourself, your body, your dreams, your needs and care and protection for the people you love.

If you’ve been waiting for a signal that it’s time to move forward with something new, or let go of something that no longer fits who you are becoming, once again, this moon might offer that quiet nudge you’ve been needing. If you’re working in your art journal today, let this be a day where you gently name what you’re stepping away from and tenderly name what you’re moving toward. 

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what you’re stepping away from and what you’re moving towards.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the moon is in the sign of Sagittarius.

Sagittarius is ruled by the planet Jupiter so it’s carrying a little of that planet’s good energy as well.

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.

Let’s use this Sagittarius energy to think about the possibilities of today.

If today could go better than you expected, what would that look and feel like?

When you go to sleep tonight, what will you celebrate and be grateful for?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents your day going better than you imagined it could.

Thursday

On Thursday, the disseminating moon is in the sign of Sagittarius. 

The disseminating moon phase, occurring just after the full moon, is a good time for reflection, gratitude, and sharing. The moon is slowly diminishing in light which symbolizes a time of release and sharing of the insights and revelations you received during the full moon. It’s a time when the energy shifts from receiving to giving, emphasizing the importance of gratitude, giving back, and offering thanks to your spiritual allies, deities, or the elements of nature that have supported you through the lunar cycle.

Emotionally, the disseminating moon invites you to feel and express gratitude for the growth, challenges, and transformations you’ve experienced. It’s a period for recognizing the blessings and lessons each lunar cycle brings into your life and acknowledging the role of the unseen forces that guide and support you.

Spiritually, this phase encourages you to give back as an act of gratitude. By offering thanks to your spirit allies, deities, or the elements in nature that have supported you, you acknowledge their support and guidance. These offerings can be symbolic gestures, such as leaving a small gift in nature, lighting a candle, dedicating an art ritual or meditation in their honor, or simply expressing your heartfelt thanks through prayer or intention in your art journal. The act of giving back in gratitude strengthens your spiritual connection and creates a reciprocal flow of energy.

By focusing on gratitude and giving offerings of thanks, you not only honor the support you’ve received but also contribute to the cycle of giving and receiving that sustains life. It’s a time to share the wisdom and insights you’ve gained and to prepare yourself for the next phase of your spiritual journey with a heart full of gratitude.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents an offering you commit to make to nature, your spirit allies or ancestors before the next new moon.

Friday

On Friday, the disseminating moon moves into the sign of Capricorn.

The moon moves into the sign of Capricorn today.

If you’re feeling a tug towards introspection and setting boundaries, it’s likely the influence of the moon as it moves through the grounded sign of Capricorn. Picture the moon draped in a wise, ancient cloak, urging you to understand and respect your limitations.

When you’re highly sensitive, you feel deeply which can make the world’s energies overwhelming at times. The Capricorn moon, with its nocturnal and receptive nature, offers a timely lesson: you have your limits and it’s essential to honor them.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn so today the moon is drawing down a little more of that planet’s wisdom on time, endings, and responsibility. Capricorn’s energy is a call to the practical, to the deliberate, and to the disciplined aspects of our lives. It reminds us to move forward in our lives with persistence but also with caution, ensuring that we aren’t overburdening our sensitive souls. This energy can feel restrictive, but it can also be wisely protective. By being emotionally reserved at times, Capricorn energy helps you learn how to shield and conserve your strength.

It’s a time to reflect on the power of knowing when to push forward and when to pause, of recognizing that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is to honor your limitations, even if it feels counterintuitive.

In the sanctuary of your art journal, create a two-sided page. On one side, illustrate or write about the limitations you often resist or feel frustrated by. On the opposing side, visualize or note down the gifts or freedoms that these very limitations offer you, be it more time for self-care, the ability to dive deep into passions, or simply the space to breathe.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents honoring your limitations.

Saturday

On Saturday, the disseminating moon is in the sign of Capricorn.

The disseminating moon in Capricorn holds a kind of wise, steady energy that can feel grounding if you let it but I want to talk about it from a slightly different angle than usual. For those of us who are highly sensitive and grew up in environments where we didn’t always feel emotionally safe or supported, Capricorn energy can sometimes bring up an old, internalized belief: I have to hold everything together. I have to be strong. I can’t let anyone see how much I’m carrying.

And during the disseminating phase of the moon, when the light is still visible but beginning to wane, we’re invited to reflect on what we’ve learned from the full moon and begin sharing or integrating it. This phase, paired with Capricorn’s responsible, mature energy, might stir up your inner “strong one” or, in other words, the part of you that feels like you always have to do the heavy lifting. I’m far too familiar with this part.

But what if the wisdom of this moon isn’t just about being strong? What if it’s about redefining strength altogether? What if real strength, in this season of your life, looks like letting go of emotional labor that was never yours to carry? What if it looks like giving yourself permission to be held for once?

Maybe Capricorn isn’t just the mountain climber, it’s the mountain itself. Solid. Rooted. Unmoving. So let yourself become that mountain today. Instead of pushing or striving, sit in your own quiet authority. Let your art journal hold the weight.

In your journal, draw a mountain or a stone structure, something solid and strong. Around it, write or draw the responsibilities you’ve carried that came from childhood conditioning or survival patterns. Then, soften it. Add something gentle to the page: mist, moonlight, wildflowers. Ask yourself:

What kind of strength am I ready to let go of?

What would it feel like to no longer have to be the one holding it all together?

Let the Capricorn moon show you a strength that makes space for softness. That’s the kind of authority you’re reclaiming now.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that blends something solid and strong with something gentle and soft.

Sunday

On Sunday, the moon moves into the sign of Aquarius but also has a bunch of relationships with other planets. It’s a very busy moon today.

It’s like the moon is weaving together a tapestry of insight, emotion, and possibility and drawing all of it down to you.

Throughout the day, it has happy, harmonious relationships with Neptune, Saturn, Mercury, and Venus, all clustered in that soft, spiritual space at the end of Pisces and the beginning of Aries. This part of the sky has been active for a while now, and it carries this almost otherworldly sense of healing, release, and surrender. It’s about trusting the bigger picture even when you don’t have all the answers yet.

There’s a deep sensitivity here, but also a call to step into something new. And as the moon also trines Uranus in Taurus and makes a conjunction with Pluto in Aquarius, you might feel a little electricity in the air and like something wants to change, shift, or evolve, and your soul knows it’s time.

But it’s not all soft and dreamy. There’s also an opposition to Mars in Cancer, which can stir up some tension, especially if there’s a part of you that still feels like you need to protect yourself or stay small to feel safe. That tension isn’t here to harm you; it’s here to show you where something still needs your love and attention before it can be released. This is a day to notice your energy and your emotions, to track what feels like it wants to shift, and to let the moon help you hold all the complexity with grace.

In your art journal, try creating a two-part spread. On one side, capture what you’re letting go of emotionally or energetically including old patterns, old protections, or ways of being that don’t feel like the future you’re stepping into.

On the other side, draw or collage a symbol of who you’re becoming and focus on something that feels a little futuristic, a little freer, a little more you. Use soft watercolor tones for the Pisces energy and sudden bright flashes of color to represent Uranus and Pluto. Let yourself hold the tenderness and the transformation at the same time. 

In your art journal, draw, on one page capture what you’re emotionally or energetically letting go with this waning moon. On another page, draw, paint or collage an image that represents who are you becoming.

with love,

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