Art Journal with the Moon: Themes and Prompts for January 13-19, 2025

In this post, I share a summary of the moon for the week of January 13-19, 2025 as it moves through the zodiac and interacts with the planets. I also share how to work with the full moon in Cancer in your art journal to attract soul family in your work.

The Moon This Week

On Monday, we greet the full moon in Cancer. In this post, I share the steps for a moon ritual you can perform in your art journal during the Full Moon in Cancer (or the week following it) to attract soul family in your work. It’s a deeply meaningful practice for exploring who you’re here to connect with and how you can create a business that feels like home for you and the people you’re meant to serve.

Last week, I went into more detail about this particular Full Moon in Cancer. If you missed it, I shared the energy and themes of this full moon and some important things to consider as you work with it. I also offered guidance on using this full moon in your art journal for deep emotional healing, practicing cord-cutting magic, and, for my fellow highly sensitive entrepreneurs, nurturing your audience in ways that align with your energy and spirit. You can read about it here.

Finding Soul Family in Your Work with the Full Moon in Cancer

Who is Your Spirit Here to Serve and How Can You Nurture and Support Them?

The Full Moon in Cancer arrives on Monday but its energy will linger through Friday and even beyond, all the way until the New Moon. This gives us a spacious window to work with its themes and weave its magic into our lives and businesses. If you’re a highly sensitive entrepreneur like me, this is a beautiful time to explore who your work is meant to reach and how you can nurture and hold space for your audience in ways that feel aligned with your heart.

Let’s explore how working with this Full Moon can help you connect to the people you serve and create the soul family vibes you want in your business. I’ll also suggest a page you can create in your art journal to explore the audience you’re here to serve. 

If you’re not an entrepreneur, you can still work with this moon ritual in your art journal! Simply shift your focus to reflect on the kind of soul family you want to attract into your life. Use the art journal page and the prompts I’ll share to envision the relationships that make you feel supported, seen, and loved.

The Idea of Soul Family in Your Business

Before we get started, let’s talk a bit about the idea of soul family in your business, which I see as the people your spirit feels naturally drawn to serve in your work. These are the people who resonate with your values, your energy, and the work you’re here to do. They see you. They support you. They love your offerings and they appreciate how you show up in your own unique way.

When you think about your audience in this spiritual way, it becomes less about marketing and more about creating meaningful connections with the people who truly feel like your people.

Exploring your ideal audience through the lens of soul family in your art journal can help you better understand who you’re here to serve and how you can show up for them in the most nurturing, authentic, and impactful way. It encourages you to reflect on what your audience might need from you—not just practically but emotionally and spiritually—and to align your offerings and messaging with those needs. When you feel connected to your audience in this way, you’re more likely to show up for them wholeheartedly, and they’re more likely to feel seen, supported, and understood by you.

If you’re like me, this approach can feel softer, gentler, less scary and more inviting. Thinking about your audience as soul family taps into your natural desire for deep, emotionally meaningful, and soulful connections. Focusing solely on the idea of an “ideal audience” feels too analytical or detached. Soul family, on the other hand, speaks to the heart of who I am and what I’m here to do—it reminds me that my work isn’t just transactional, it’s a deeper connection that is mutually beneficial.

I have a lot of younger inner parts that love this way of thinking because my history of trauma and emotional neglect caused me to fear people. I had social anxiety for many years. I was shy, reserved, protective, and withdrawn—even if I didn’t appear that way to the outside world. Inside, I was a mess when I had to socialize or put myself out there.

Thinking about my ideal audience still scares these inner parts of me, but thinking about soul family calms and soothes me and feels purposeful. My heart expands. I drop my guards. I feel open and willing to invite and draw people in because I know what soul family means to me. It means good, kind, patient, compassionate people. My body and soul don’t resonate with sharp, cold, mean, or impatient energy. I think there are people out there whose spirits are meant to work with others like that, but mine is not. I need softness and gentleness.

The idea of attracting soul family in my work makes me feel safe because anyone who is soul family would naturally know this about me on some level—even if they aren’t fully conscious of it. Soul family feels like a mutual understanding, a resonance that doesn’t need to be explained. It’s a connection where I can be myself, without fear of being misunderstood or rejected. It feels safe, supportive, and aligned, and it’s what allows me to show up in my business in a way that feels good to me.

If you’re also highly sensitive and have a history of trauma or emotional neglect, you might find that thinking about soul family in your business brings you a similar sense of calm and clarity. For many of us, the idea of an ideal audience can feel cold or transactional, but the concept of soul family taps into something deeper and more nurturing. It invites you to imagine building connections with people who naturally respect your sensitivity and appreciate the unique light you bring to your work.

Your soul family will see and value you for who you are.

They’ll be drawn to your gentleness, your compassion, and the depth you offer.  They’ll resonate with the unique light you bring to your work, the way you care deeply, and the gifts you offer from your heart. You won’t need to perform or pretend to be someone you’re not because your soul family will naturally be drawn to the real you.

Think about that for a moment – attracting people in your business (or in your life) who are naturally drawn to the real you. How soothing and comforting does that feel? What an amazing idea – being fully and completely yourself in your business and allowing that to naturally attract your soul family.

Soul family in your work are the people who make you feel like what you do truly matters—not just because it helps them, but because they genuinely see and value the way you show up in the world.

When you’re not attracting people who resonate with who you really are, it can create a deep sense of disharmony. You might find yourself bending or contorting to meet the expectations of clients or customers who don’t feel aligned with your values. It can feel draining and unfulfilling, like you’re constantly giving but not receiving the kind of connection or appreciation that fuels your spirit. Over time, this misalignment can seep into your confidence and make you question your own worth or whether your business is on the right path.

When this happens, it doesn’t just impact your business—it impacts you. It can lead to burnout, frustration, and even resentment toward the work you once felt passionate about. You might find yourself procrastinating, overthinking, or struggling to stay motivated because the energy exchange with the people you’re attracting doesn’t feel right. And if you’re a highly sensitive entrepreneur, this disharmony can be even harder to ignore because you feel it so deeply in your body, heart, and soul.

But when you focus on connecting with your soul family, everything shifts. Instead of chasing or trying to mold yourself to fit someone else’s needs, you start to attract people who feel naturally aligned with your energy and your vision. These are the clients and collaborators who bring out the best in you, who inspire you to keep growing, and who remind you why you started your business in the first place.

Working with your soul family feels nourishing, uplifting, and expansive—it’s the kind of connection that makes your business feel like an extension of who you truly are.

So, as you work with this full moon in Cancer, take time to reflect on who your soul family is. Think about the people who light you up, who you feel excited to serve, and who naturally value the way you work, who you are and how you show up in the world – mistakes, weaknesses and all.

Building a business around those connections isn’t just about success—it’s about creating harmony within yourself and your work so you can show up in a way that is gentler on your nervous system and your body because your soul family will see and value you for who you are.

That said, this perspective might not feel right for everyone. If the idea of soul family feels too abstract or doesn’t resonate with your approach to business, that’s okay! But I encourage you to try it out for this full moon art ritual anyway. You’re allowed to play and try things on for a bit, aren’t you? You might find that thinking of your audience in this way brings more depth, clarity, and joy to your work. You don’t have to stick with it forever, but thinking of your business and the people you serve in this way during the full moon might even help you attract the kind of people who make your work feel more fulfilling and aligned with who you truly are.

Ultimately, the goal is to connect with your audience in a way that feels authentic to you. Whether you think of them as your soul family or simply as the people you’re here to help, the connection you build with them will become one of the most rewarding aspects of your business.

What Your Birth Chart Can Teach You About Soul Family in Your Business

Lately, I’m enjoying looking at birth charts to learn more about who the soul family of your business might be. It’s such a beautiful way to understand the deeper connections you’re here to create through your work. While I’m still a student completing my astrology training, I’ve already found that the seventh house, the tenth house, and the house your MC (Midheaven) is in can offer incredible insight into who your spirit is here to serve, the struggles they face, and how you can nurture and support them.

When I did this with my own chart, I gained so much clarity about the people I’m naturally drawn to support in my work.

Here’s what I learned:

My spirit is here to serve people who don’t just want to grow a business—they want to grow themselves. They’re deeply introspective and see their business as a reflection of their soul’s purpose. They’re empaths and creatives, sensitive and intuitive people who connect deeply with others but often struggle with self-doubt, overwhelm, and burnout.

The people I serve are dreamers with depth. They have a vision for their business that feels expansive and meaningful, but they’re searching for clarity and support to turn their dreams into something practical and tangible. Many are on their own healing journey or work in healing or creative professions, and they’re ready to break free of patterns that keep them small or stuck.

With Sagittarius ruling my seventh house, I resonate with people who are explorers at heart—seekers of knowledge, truth, and wisdom in their work and their lives. They’re optimistic and have a natural desire to expand and grow, and they’re inspired by the way I integrate spirituality and creativity with practical success.

My MC in Aquarius in the ninth house highlights how I’m here to support visionaries, seekers and outsiders. These are people who don’t fit into traditional molds—they’re rebels at heart, independent thinkers who want to build businesses and lives that feel true to them, even if that means going against what everyone else is doing or going against what they were taught. They’re spiritually open, and willing to explore big ideas.

At the same time, my chart shows the struggles these individuals might face—overthinking, overwhelm, fear of visibility, and emotional wounds around belonging. They often feel like outsiders or like people who big passions and dreams who can’t always find the grounding they need to translate their ideas into action.

This understanding helps me connect with my audience in a deeper way. 

Thinking about your audience as your soul family isn’t just about attracting the right clients—it’s about honoring the unique gifts and challenges they bring and finding ways to meet them where they are. I’d love to help you explore this in your own chart and discover who you’re here to serve and how you can support them in a way that feels deeply aligned with your spirit.

If this resonates…

If all of this resonates with you and you suspect you might be part of my business’ soul family and you’re focused on growing and expanding your business in 2025 , I’d love to invite you to consider joining me for my new six-month group program, A Call to Grow. This program is for highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are ready to grow and expand their businesses, but who also know that growth starts with you—your healing, your self-awareness, and your willingness to show up in the world as your true self. This isn’t just about strategies or checklists; it’s about nurturing the deeper, soulful work that allows your business to grow and expand in a natural way.

If you’re seriously considering joining A Call to Grow, I invite you to book a free discovery session with me here. During our call, we can explore whether this program is the right fit for you and your business. I’ll also take a look at your birth chart and share my initial thoughts on how the astrology of 2025 might influence you and your business. It’s a beautiful way to gain clarity on your next steps and understand where the energies of 2025 align with your goals.

For now, though, I’m so excited to guide you through an art ritual to help you connect with the Full Moon in Cancer. Through this creative ritual, you’ll work in your art journal to explore who you’re here to serve, how you can nurture and support them, and what it feels like to create a soul family vibe in your work or life.

Weave A Web of Connection in Your Art Journal

Find a quiet space and gather your art supplies. Open your art journal to a blank page and take a moment to ground yourself. If you want to follow more specific steps for enjoying a moon ritual in your art journal, read this post first.

When you’re ready, close your eyes and imagine yourself as a spider in the stars, weaving a shimmering web of connection across the sky. With each strand of the web, you’re calling in the people who feel like soul family in your work—those who will see, value, and appreciate you for who you truly are.

Draw the Web

Begin by drawing a web across your page. Use whatever colors and shapes feel right to you. This web represents the connections you’re weaving in your business. Think of it as a visual map of the relationships, energy, and qualities you’re calling in.

Add the Stars

Place stars at different points on your web. Let each star represent a quality or characteristic of the kind of person you define as soul family in your work. Take your time with this step, and let your intuition guide you as you name each star.

Reflect on Soul Family

For each star, write or draw around it to explore the qualities of your soul family. Here are some questions to guide you:

• What kind of person are they?
• What energy do they bring into your life or business?
• How do they make you feel when you’re with them?
• How do they respond when you make a mistake?
• What values do they share with you?
• How do they support you, not just as a professional, but as a human being?
• How do they help you feel safe, seen, and understood?
• How do they feel about paying you for your work?
• How do they speak of you and your business to the people they know?

Connect Your Web to Your Birth Chart

If you have your birth chart, reflect on what it reveals about the people your spirit is here to serve. What does your seventh house, tenth house, or MC say about your soul family in your work? Is there another area of your chart that reveals more information about your soul family to you? Add any insights or words that come to mind as you connect the wisdom of the moon and stars to your art.

Contemplate the Connection

Step back and look at your web. Reflect on the interconnected lines and the stars shining across the page. These are the people you’re calling in through your work—the ones who resonate with your energy and who will value your gifts. Ask yourself:

• How do you attract these people by being your authentic self?
• What is one thing you can do in your business to make space for these connections?
• How do you take care of them once they’re in your world?

Close with Gratitude

Take a moment to express gratitude for the soul family you’re calling into your work. Thank the moon, your spirit, or whatever resonates with you for the opportunity to serve and connect with these people.

This ritual is a beautiful way to explore who you’re here to help and how you can create a business that feels like home—not just for you, but for the people you’re meant to serve. Whether you’re focusing on your business or your personal life, may this web of connection guide you to the relationships that nourish and inspire you.

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, 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 full moon in Cancer on Monday which is good energy to do your deep emotional healing work, practice cord cutting magic (find instructions for that here) or for my fellow highly sensitive entrepreneurs, to attract soul family to your work as I describe above or to nurture your audience as I described here last week.

In your art journal, choose which moon ritual appeals to you most, then work with the full moon in Cancer to do your deep emotional healing work, practice some cord cutting magic or grow your business.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, the Leo moon is in a happy relationship with the planet Jupiter.

Jupiter wants to bring harmony, well-being, kindness, justice, abundance, growth, expansion, good luck and balance to your life. The moon is supporting Jupiter’s desire to do this in your life today.

The moon is the queen of the night. She wants to illuminate the darkness, bring about change, be a mirror to reflect us back to ourselves and awaken our receptive and intuitive powers. She represents your body and emotions and reminds you that life is an ever-changing cycle of birth, death, decay and rebirth. She wants to bring kindness, nurturing, novelty and adaptability.

Together, the moon and Jupiter are shining more peace into our lives today. They’re helping us feel open-hearted and generous. They’re supporting us in focusing on what connects us to each other and what brings us together. It’s energy that helps us feel calm and safe and willing to see and receive the goodness other people want to share with us. It’s energy that reminds us what’s good in our life.

One of the best ways to work with this energy is to drop into your heart and choose something in your life to feel grateful for.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage something in your life you feel grateful for.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the moon in Leo is having a tense relationship with the planet Uranus.

Uranus is a planet that can bring unexpected changes or shocks into your life and these changes usually inspire you to awaken or grow emotionally and spiritually but not always in a gentle way. Sometimes these changes are welcome and wanted and sometimes you don’t want them or welcome them whole-heartedly. It’s great energy for surprises, innovation, experiments and creative genius. It wants to overturn things in your life that have lost their usefulness -even if you’re not entirely ready for that change.

The tension between the moon and Uranus might have you feeling constricted by responsibility. Because the moon rules the realm of emotions, you might feel annoyed by the expectations other people place on you or the expectations you think other people are placing on you or even the expectations you place on yourself. The benefit of this, of course, is that you end up wanting to break free from the expectations that are not aligned with your highest self so shake it all off my friend. I support you following the beat of your own heart instead of living in the land of shoulds and should nots.

Bring to mind an expectation you or someone else is placing on you.

Do you actually want to meet this expectation or is it time to let it go?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents an expectation you no longer align with and are ready to release.

Thursday

With the moon now in the sign of Virgo, Thursday offers an opportunity offer yourself compassion.

Virgo supports you in being efficient and organized. It wants to help you find the most effective way of doing things. It brings practicality, attention to detail, a love of quality and precision but it can also cause you to get lost in the details or be self-critical.

The Virgo moon is a perfect opportunity to let go of these tendencies towards harsh self-judgment and the unrealistic pursuit of perfection.

During a Virgo moon, the dance between Virgo’s detail-focused energy and it’s polar opposite sign of Pisces’ which carries an expansive, forgiving nature makes it a good time to recognize where you’ve been too hard on yourself, to release the grip of perfectionism, and to instead surrender your efforts towards growth, healing and self-improvement to the care of a higher power. You are part of a larger, interconnected whole, and your healing is supported by forces greater than yourself that love and care for you.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents a self-critical thought you are ready to release or surrender.

Friday

On Friday, the moon is still in the sign of Virgo but it’s also now having a happy relationship with Mercury, its ruling planet. Virgo is a sign of organization, healing, and self-improvement, and with Mercury’s support, this moon helps you process your emotions with a clear and practical mindset.

Spiritually, it’s a time to sort through your inner world, separating what’s helpful, releasing what’s harmful and discerning between what feel nurturing from what feels chaotic or overwhelming. It’s a good day to reflect on your feelings and make sense of what you’re experiencing. This moon has a gentle, healing quality, encouraging you to approach yourself with care and compassion.

You can work with this moon in your art journal to do some deep emotional healing. Start by reflecting on an area of your life where you’re ready to bring more clarity or healing. Maybe it’s a situation that feels messy or emotions you’ve been struggling to understand. In your journal, create a page that represents the mess you’re dealing with or the emotions you’re struggling with. You might start by drawing or writing about the confusion or emotions you’re holding onto, using symbols, colors, or words that capture how it feels.

Next, use the energy of Mercury to bring order and understanding to what you’ve expressed. Add layers to your page—maybe symbols of clarity like lines, grids, charts, columns or pathways that show a sense of movement or organization. Let the process of creating this page help you organize your emotions and bring a sense of calm and focus to your inner world.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage a situation that feels messy or emotionally confusing as you allow your art help you organize your feelings and thoughts.

Saturday

On Saturday, the moon is in an opposing relationship with Neptune.

In this kind of relationship, it can feel like the moon and Neptune are 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.

Neptune is a planet of intuition, psychic abilities, imagination, spirituality and dreams but it can also represent our delusions or our desires to escape, including our desire to escape our uncomfortable feelings.

When Neptune is in opposition with the moon, it can cause us to feel confused about our emotions and intuition. Discerning what’s the truth and what’s a projection or a memory or a hurt part from the past causing an emotional trigger can be challenging. You might be feeling more sensitive than usual or taking things more personally than you might typically be prone to do. It’s also an energy where you might jump to conclusions or believe things that aren’t actually true and consequently feel hurt by something someone says or does when in reality, their words or actions aren’t exactly what you’re making them out to be. Your past pain could possibly be reliving an old story in your present day life making it confusing to see what is actually happening.

It’s a good day to remember that your conscious mind isn’t always able to notice when you’re operating from a wounded part. You might NOT be interpreting everything you experience today from your wisest most aligned self so have patience with yourself and with everyone you encounter today. Their wounded parts might be rising to the surface as well and in this moon energy they might be as clueless as you are to what’s happening and how they are being affected by their inner parts.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents a wounded inner child part you’d like to send some love and care to today.

Sunday

On Sunday, the Libra moon is having a happy relationship with the planet Jupiter which brings an energy of harmony, balance, and expansion. Libra is the sign of relationships, fairness, and beauty, while Jupiter adds a sense of generosity, optimism, and wisdom. Together, this moon creates a feeling of emotional ease and the desire to connect with others in meaningful, uplifting ways. Spiritually, this energy encourages you to explore where you can bring more balance into your life, especially in your relationships and emotional well-being. It’s a time to expand your sense of connection—with yourself, others, and the bigger picture—and to focus on creating harmony in your inner and outer worlds.

You can work with this moon in your art journal to practice folk magic centered on beauty and harmony in your relationships. Start by setting an intention for experiencing more beauty and harmony in a specific relationship of your life. In your art journal, create a page that represents this intention. Use symbols of harmony and expansion—like circles, the moon, flowers or plants—to reflect the energy of Libra and Jupiter.

As you create, think about what more beauty and harmony in this particular relationship will look and feel like.

What will change?

How will you be treated differently?

How will you treat them differently?

What dynamics between the two of you will need to change in order to make room for more beauty and harmony in your interactions with each other?

How will experiencing more beauty and harmony in this relationship change your life for the better?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents the beauty and harmony you intend to invite and create more of in a certain relationship in your life.

with love,

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