Art Journal with the Moon: Themes and Prompts for June 2-8, 2025

In this post, I share a summary of the moon for the week of June 2-8, 2025 as it moves through the zodiac and interacts with the planets. I also talk about working with the magic of Venus in Taurus to reclaim your worthiness.

Working with Venus in Taurus in Your Art Journal

This week, the moon is growing in light and power as we move toward the full moon in Sagittarius, and I want to talk about a really meaningful energy that’s building alongside it. Venus is moving into the sign of Taurus this week, and for those of us who have struggled with low self-worth or who are learning how to receive more in life and business, this feels like a moment to really pay attention to.

Venus in Taurus is a sweet, strong, deeply grounded energy. She’s at home here because this is one of the signs she rules, so she’s steady, confident, and sure of her value. She doesn’t need to chase, prove, or perform. She just knows: I am worthy of beauty, of love, of rest, of support, of ease. She teaches us how to embody worthiness not as something we have to earn, but as something we simply are. She teaches through the senses, through the body, through the quiet knowing that says, “I matter. I belong. I don’t have to do more to deserve what’s good.”

In Taurus, Venus is deeply embodied. She expresses herself through the five senses. This is Venus as fertile earth, soft skin, music that moves the body, food that nourishes deeply, touch that heals. She’s the friend who takes you to your favorite pond to sit with you in the sun and makes you your favorite food (thank you Jessica). Venus in Taurus is grounded, steady, slow, and real. She teaches us that pleasure is sacred. That receiving is an act of alignment. That value isn’t something you prove, it’s something you live into.

Taurus finds harmony through rootedness and through simplicity, stillness, rhythm, and stability. Taurus is a fixed earth sign: it builds. It doesn’t chase. It cultivates. It knows that beauty grows when it is tended to.

Venus In Your Business

For entrepreneurs, Venus in Taurus offers deep medicine. She says:

You don’t need to hustle to be valuable.
You don’t need to prove your worth by pushing harder or giving more.
You get to root into your own value and allow the right people, opportunities, and resources to come to you.

She teaches:

Build slowly and sustainably. Create a business you can actually live inside of. Let it feel like a sanctuary.

Let your offerings be beautiful, nourishing, and embodied. People are drawn to resonance. To the feeling your work evokes.

Trust in cycles and seasons. You don’t have to be blooming all the time. Value accumulates over time.

Make room for rest and pleasure. Your nervous system needs that. Pleasure is a business tool for sensitive people because it helps to ground and regulate you.

Price your work in alignment with what is sustainable not just what is “fair.” Venus in Taurus wants you to earn in a way that makes you feel cared for and celebrated.

I think if Venus in Taurus were an entrepreneur, her business would be nurturing, simple, and soulful. It would be built for the long haul, not the quick win. She wouldn’t be chasing clients or trying to be everywhere. She’d know the right people will find her when she’s grounded in who she is and how she loves to serve.

Venus as a business might look like…

• A beautiful, earthy studio with plants, soft textures, warm lighting, and the smell of flowers, herbs or beeswax in the air

• Offerings that invite the body and spirit to reconnect like hands-on healing, flower rituals, ancestral art-making, or movement

• Art that reflects the seasons, the elements, or the divine in everyday things

• A slow-paced business that honors rest and creative rhythm maybe even aligned with the moon or the Wheel of the Year

• Income that feels steady and sustainable, rather than spiky or dramatic

• Pricing that reflects not just skill or time but the energy, care, and presence she brings

• Communication that’s gentle and poetic, grounded in beauty and ease rather than urgency or pressure

• Boundaries that protect her peace, because she knows over-giving leads to burnout and resentment

• A commitment to showing up consistently and building trust over time because she’s not in a rush; she’s cultivating something lasting

Venus and Worthiness

Venus in Taurus says, you don’t have to chase. You can attract. And what’s meant for you will come, especially when you know you’re worthy of receiving it.

I have a lot to learn from Venus in Taurus. My business could use a lot more of her magic sprinkled in.

Venus in Taurus is worthiness. It’s the beautiful, loving Queen energy that doesn’t feel apologetic for her radiance or abundance and who knows how to enjoy her life and share it with the people she cares about.

But I know that for many of us, and especially those of us who grew up without emotional attunement or care, this kind of worthiness doesn’t come easily. If you were emotionally neglected, dismissed, or made to feel like your feelings or needs were a burden or just didn’t ever have anyone inquire about your feelings or needs, you may have internalized the belief that love, care, or even basic safety had to be earned. That who you are isn’t enough unless you’re giving, fixing, helping, or hiding your real self to make others more comfortable.

That belief runs deep. It can live in the nervous system, the body, the subconscious. And it can shape how you feel about your dreams, how you care for your needs, and how much you allow yourself to receive not just in love or friendship, but in your business too.

The Moon and Venus This Week

This week, the moon forms an opposition to Venus just as Venus is settling into Taurus. It’s like the moon is shining a light on this part of us, amplifying it, making sure we don’t miss the message. The moon, growing in energy, is reflecting:

Can you feel this?

Can you look at how you treat yourself?

Can you see where you’re still questioning your value or holding back because you think you’re not ready or not enough yet?

And as we move toward the full moon in Sagittarius, which is a moon that’s all about dreaming big, reaching beyond what you thought was possible, and saying yes to something more, this Venus placement is asking:

Do you believe you’re worthy of the thing you’re dreaming of?

Do you believe you’re worthy of growing into the version of yourself who has that?

If we imagine Venus here as a divine, loving presence (and I like to) it feels like she’s gently placing her hand on your heart and saying, Sweetheart, you don’t have to wait until you’re better, more healed, more productive, or more successful to feel worthy of being supported, loved, or seen. You were always worthy. I want you to remember that now.

And for those of us building businesses and especially businesses that come from the heart, that are rooted in service or creativity or healing, worthiness plays such a big role in our ability to receive. If you don’t feel worthy of being seen, you’ll hide. If you don’t feel worthy of charging for your work, you’ll underprice yourself. If you don’t feel worthy of success, you’ll sabotage the moments when it starts to arrive.

And I know it can be frustrating because feelings of worthiness are often formed long before we ever had words. They live in the body, in the nervous system, in the energy of how we were held (or not held), responded to (or ignored), and mirrored (or left invisible). Worthiness, to me, feels interwoven with such young parts. These beliefs were never just “thoughts.” They were learned through the felt experience of being alive in relationship, especially in the earliest days, weeks, and months of your life.

Even before you had language or memory, your body was learning.

It was learning:

• Is it safe to cry?
• When I express a need, does someone come?
• When I reach out, is someone there?
• Do I feel warm, held, and attuned to or do I feel alone, abandoned, uncomfortable, or too much?

A baby can’t reason their way through unmet needs. They feel their way through. So when a baby cries and no one comes or comes with frustration or flatness or emotional absence, the body learns: Maybe my needs aren’t important. Or worse, Maybe I am not important.

And it doesn’t take abuse or cruelty for idea of self to take root. Sometimes it’s subtle. Maybe your caregiver was depressed. Maybe they were overwhelmed or emotionally shut down. Maybe they didn’t know how to attune to you, to see you because no one ever attuned to them.  And so slowly, quietly, your nervous system shaped itself around those absences. You learned how to survive without consistent warmth. You learned how to quiet your needs to stay safe. You learned to look outside yourself for cues about who you’re allowed to be.

That’s where the deep, persistent feeling of “not enough” can come from. Not from who you are but from who wasn’t able to meet you in your wholeness and from who wasn’t able to see you when you really needed to be seen. I feel that ache so deep sometimes – the ache that longed for someone to really see me when I was a child and what I was going through and how I was feeling and what I was needing. Have you ever felt that longing? For the people around you to actually see you?

Because worthiness is so deeply rooted in the past, feeling worthy feels hard to change. It’s not just a belief. It’s something your nervous system learned before you could even think. It’s something your body has been practicing for decades. That’s why you can know you’re worthy, and but struggle to feel like you. That’s why even after years, these old stories can still echo in the background.

A Little Encouragement

If a part of you feels discouraged by this, here’s what I want to say: you are changing the pattern. Every time you notice that voice of unworthiness and choose to respond differently, even if just for a moment, you’re teaching yourself that you matter. Every time you tend to your body, or pause to breathe before reacting, or make art from a place of presence, you’re taking care of yourself in ways you weren’t taken care of in the past. Every time you use the MAP Method or do whatever healing practices you do to lovingly clear something old, you’re making space for something new.

And maybe it’s true, you didn’t have what you needed back then. You didn’t get the attunement, the holding, the mirroring your sensitive system was craving. But you are giving it to yourself now. You are showing up. You are loving the parts that weren’t met in the way they needed to be met back then. You are offering presence to the places that need it most now. You’re attuning to your inner world. You’re teaching yourself that you matter and you are worthy of love and care.

That’s not nothing. That’s everything.

And the younger parts inside you, they’re always watching. They’re learning what safety feels like. What kindness feels like. What being worthy feels like. One moment at a time.

One journal page with the moon at a time.

This Venus-in-Taurus moment and the way the moon is amplifying it this week is a beautiful time to notice where those old patterns are still playing out in your business and gently shift them. She’s not asking you to hustle your way into confidence. She’s asking you to feel your way into remembering who you are. To practice letting yourself receive. To believe, just for a moment, that it’s safe to be supported. That your work is valuable. That you don’t have to be perfect or finished or endlessly fixing yourself to allow more beauty and ease into your business.

So this week, let yourself slow down enough to really feel this. Let the moon show you where you’re still questioning your worth, and let Venus show you something kinder and more true. You are already enough. Your dreams are valid. And you are allowed to receive the good things that are meant for you and your business.

Do You Want To Dive Deeper Into This With Me?

If Venus in Taurus is speaking to something in you or if you’re craving a slower, steadier, more embodied way to grow your business, one that honors your nervous system and helps you build from a deep sense of self-worth and alignment, then I’d love to invite you to join me in my small group program, A Call to Grow.

It’s an intimate space for just 4 to 6 highly sensitive entrepreneurs where we walk together through the inner work of growing your business. We gently clear subconscious blocks, align with your natural rhythm, and build something beautiful and sustainable.

It’s where we make sure your growth feels good in your body, not just on paper. If you’re feeling called to grow in a way that’s rooted, magical, and truly supportive and if you want to find YOUR path to success and not get lost on someone else’s, I’d love to have you with us.

We begin Tuesday, June 24th right before the beautiful new moon in Cancer. I can’t wait to see you there.

Learn More 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 HEAR these updates instead of just reading them, you can subscribe to my podcast GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE MOON AND YOUR ART JOURNAL here (or search for it on your favorite podcast app).

If you want to watch my 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 weekly reminders delivered to 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 first quarter moon in Virgo on Monday.

This feels more like a quiet, steady, earthy kind of energy that doesn’t call for drama or big declarations, but instead invites you to slow down, check in with yourself, and tend to the details of your life with care and devotion.

Virgo moons are about refinement, discernment, and healing through structure. And with this one not having any relationships with other planets today, there’s something simple, almost stripped back about the energy. It’s just you and the moon. You and the work. You and whatever you’re growing.

First quarter moons represent turning points. They bring tension but not always in a harsh or overwhelming way. The tension can be in a gentle, nudging way that says, “Okay, you’ve set your intentions now what needs to happen to bring them to life?”

The seed was planted at the new moon. Now we meet the first challenges or considerations that help us begin shaping that vision into something real. In Virgo, this means the focus is on the process. The small steps. The edits. The systems. The healing routines. The everyday rituals. The peering inward and evaluating what stays and what goes.

If you’re a highly sensitive entrepreneur or someone building a creative or healing business while still carrying the echoes of emotional neglect, trauma, or burnout, this moon may stir up some tender places. Virgo energy can sometimes activate the inner perfectionist, that part of you that wants everything to be just right before you move forward. It can bring up self-doubt or a critical voice that says, “Am I doing this well enough? Am I ready? Am I even cut out for this?” If that comes up, I want you to remember: Virgo is not about being perfect. It’s about tending. It’s about showing up with care. It’s about loving yourself enough to stay with the process.

This is a beautiful moon for returning to the rituals, structures, or systems that help you feel supported especially in your business. Maybe that’s creating a checklist, cleaning your workspace, or mapping out a gentle content schedule that actually works with your energy. Maybe it’s journaling about what parts of your business feel heavy or chaotic and asking: How could I bring more clarity or ease to this?

In your art journal today, consider drawing a soft, strong container like a bowl, a basket or a box and inside it, name or symbolize the habits, routines, inner dialogue or supports that are helping you hold the vision you’re growing. Around the outside, you might draw or write the worries or distractions that are pulling you away from yourself. Let your page be a space where you bring order to the chaos and not in a rigid way, but in a loving way. Let it reflect your commitment to yourself. Let it be a quiet act of devotion to the life and business you’re building.

The first quarter moon in Virgo wants you to remember that growth doesn’t always come from big leaps. Sometimes it comes from the tiny, thoughtful, sacred steps you take to care for what you’re growing in your every day life. It comes from cleaning out the clutter internally or externally. It comes from choosing clarity over confusion. And it comes from giving yourself structure, not as a form of control, but as a form of care.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents a container that holds the habits, every day routines, inner dialogue and supports that are helping your dreams come true.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, we’re still working with the first quarter moon in Virgo, but today the moon is in a tense relationship with Mercury in Gemini.

This feels important because Mercury rules both Virgo and Gemini, so this square isn’t between strangers. It’s more like a disagreement between two parts of the same family. Two parts of your own mind. And if you’re a sensitive entrepreneur or creative person who often feels torn between logic and intuition, structure and flow, precision and inspiration, this might stir something in you.

In ancient astrology, a square is a relationship of tension or friction. It’s not necessarily bad, but it is uncomfortable. It’s a moment when two signs want different things, and you feel that tension inside. Virgo wants clarity, order, discernment. It wants to make sense of things and clean up the mess. It wants to refine, fix, and heal. Gemini, on the other hand, is more curious, open, and fast-moving. It wants to learn, share, explore, and keep moving. It’s a gatherer of information, not a sorter. So today’s tension might feel like an internal conflict:

Do I go deeper into one thing or do I follow the spark into something new?

Do I organize all my thoughts or do I stay in brainstorm mode?

In ancient astrology, both Gemini and Virgo are ruled by Mercury, but they express that Mercury energy very differently. That shared rulership creates some common ground. Both signs are thinkers, communicators, and processors of information but the way they do that clashes.

• Gemini is an air sign — light, flexible, curious, scattered at times, playful, and social. It wants freedom, variety, and the joy of ideas. It’s about collecting bits of data and moving on to the next spark of inspiration. It often doesn’t want to commit or decide too soon. It just wants to explore.

• Virgo is an earth sign — grounded, detail-oriented, perfectionistic, responsible, and discerning. It wants order, precision, and usefulness. It’s about analyzing, refining, and fixing. It doesn’t want scattered energy. It wants things to make sense and be correct.

So even though they both think a lot and love to process information, their goals are different. Gemini wants to connect, learn, and experience for the sake of it. Virgo wants to improve, serve, and perfect things for a reason. Gemini says, “Let’s try everything!” and Virgo says, “But which thing is right?”

This square creates a friction between freedom and responsibility, between playful ideas and practical application. It can stir up the following inner conflicts:

• Feeling pulled between wanting to go with the flow and needing to stick to a plan.

• Feeling called to follow your curiosity but afraid of making the wrong choice.

• Wanting to say yes to something new but being slowed down by the voice that says, “Wait. Is this efficient, organized, and helpful enough?”

• The inner Gemini says: “Let’s just start and figure it out as we go.”
  The inner Virgo says: “But we haven’t proofread, sorted, and triple-checked the logistics.”

This pretty much explains my mom and me. I see our relationship reflected here.

You might notice yourself getting caught in mental loops in this kind of moon energy. Overthinking. Trying to make something perfect before it’s ready. Questioning your choices. Feeling scattered or restless, but also overly critical of yourself. These are all very Virgo/Gemini kinds of struggles. And for those of us who are healing from childhood trauma or emotional neglect, this kind of tension can poke at old wounds around “getting it right” or “being good enough” before we allow ourselves to move forward.

But here’s how I want you to think about it: this tension can also be productive. This tension isn’t there to punish you. It’s there to help you clarify. To help you bring all those ideas into something that’s actually useful. To help you get the brilliance in your mind out into the world but with enough care and structure that it holds together.

In your art journal today, I invite you to draw two shapes or two characters, one representing the Virgo moon (maybe a basket, a healer, a pair of hands) and one representing Mercury in Gemini (maybe a butterfly, a spark, or a busy set of wings). Let them both speak. Write down or draw what each one wants.

What is the Virgo part of you trying to protect or perfect?

What is the Gemini part of you excited to learn or share?

Can you imagine them not in conflict, but in conversation?

Virgo wants you to grow with care. Gemini wants you to stay curious and connected. You don’t have to choose one over the other. But you do get to choose how to respond to the tension so whether you shut down or soften, whether you criticize yourself or become curious.

In your business, this lunar energy might be asking:

Where am I holding myself back because I’m afraid of not getting it right?

Where am I avoiding clarity because I’m afraid of what I’ll have to commit to? These questions might feel tender but they’re also invitations. Invitations to slow down and listen. To gently sort the pieces you’ve been gathering. To take one small step from insight toward action.

You don’t have to rush. And you don’t have to get it perfect. But you do deserve to feel clear, grounded, and supported in the work you’re bringing into the world. Let today’s art journal practice be a space where those pieces start to come together not through pressure, but through presence.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents your playful energy helping your inner perfectionist take action before getting it all right.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, the moon is still in its first quarter phase, which means it’s halfway between the new moon and the full moon.

This is usually a time in the lunar cycle that asks us to make a decision or take a step forward. It brings momentum. But today, that momentum is happening under the sign of Libra, and Libra doesn’t rush. Libra wants to weigh all the sides, make things feel fair and harmonious, and create beauty and connection. It’s a moon that cares deeply about relationships and not just the ones we have with others, but the one we have with ourselves too.

What makes today’s moon especially interesting is that it’s forming oppositions with Saturn and Neptune, who are both newly in the sign of Aries. Aries is bold, direct, instinctual. It’s about starting something fresh. And Saturn and Neptune moving into Aries is a really big shift and it kind of sets a new tone for the next few years. But it’s just beginning, and that beginning is being lit up by today’s Libra moon. So if you’re feeling emotional today, or pulled in two different directions, or like something about your inner world is being stirred, it makes sense.

In ancient astrology, an opposition creates tension, but also insight. It’s like standing across from someone and trying to understand their perspective without losing your own. And it’s like being in a relationship with someone who is coming from a totally opposite perspective from you. Libra is the energy of we whereas Aries is the energy of me. Libra is compromise and Aries is setting boundaries to keep what is sacred to the Self safe. So the Libra moon, with its longing for harmony and connection, is standing across from Saturn, the wise teacher who brings limits, responsibility, and structure, and Neptune, the dreamer who dissolves boundaries and connects us with the divine.

On the one hand, Neptune in Aries is stirring up bold new visions. A deep longing to live our purpose. A desire to be seen and known as our magical, intuitive, inspired selves. But it’s hazy. It’s not clear yet. You might sense something big and meaningful is forming, but you can’t quite see it. On the other hand, Saturn in Aries is laying down the rules. Asking,

“How will you make your dreams real?”

“What will you commit to?”

“Are you strong enough to begin again?”

And all of this is being felt in the body through the Libra moon, which just wants things to feel balanced and peaceful but might be noticing that something feels off. That it’s hard to move forward when you’re not clear. That you’re being asked to choose yourself, to show up and take action in ways that stretch you.

This moon invites you to pause and ask:

Where am I trying to hold onto a relationship or pattern that keeps me from stepping into something new?

In your art journal, I invite you to draw a bridge as a symbol of connection between two different energies. On one side, let the Libra moon speak: What does the part of you that longs for beauty, grace, and connection want you to know? What is it afraid of losing if you honor your needs and wants as you grow your business? On the other side, let Neptune and Saturn speak: What dreams are beginning to call you? What are your dreams asking you to build or believe in, even if you can’t fully see it yet?

It’s a good day to work with contrasts on your page today so playing with colors that contrast or playing with soft images and images that feel like structure, or mixing dreaminess and imagination with discipline and commitment. What does it feel like to hold all these contrasts in your business? What does it mean to move forward and to take responsibility, to act in alignment but do it with gentleness and care?

Maybe you’re ready for something bigger in your life or your business but you still feel unsure or overwhelmed. Maybe you’ve had a vision but aren’t sure how to begin. This energy says: You don’t have to have it all figured out. But you do have to be in relationship with your vision. You do have to start the conversation.

So start it today with your journal, with yourself and with Spirit. 

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage a bridge that connects your dreams from your business or your life and the responsibilities or commitments that dream is asking you to make.

Thursday

On Thursday, the moon is still in its first quarter phase and in the sign of Libra and interestingly, it isn’t making any major relationships to other planets again today, which means it’s offering us a kind of pure Libra moment. It’s like we get to sit with Libra energy, uninterrupted. And because the moon reflects our inner world, this is a beautiful time to reflect on how Libra themes are living in you right now especially Venus themes like balance, beauty, fairness, connection, and peace.

Libra is ruled by Venus, and today, Venus herself is changing signs. She’s leaving Aries and stepping into Taurus, the other sign she rules. And this shift is softening things. Venus in Aries was a little more bold, impulsive, or fiery in her love and values, like a spark that wants to ignite but Venus in Taurus is a completely different expression of love and beauty. It’s Earthy. Embodied. Receptive. Slow. It says: Let me show you what I value by how I care for it. Let me bring love into form. She knows what she’s worth, and she moves in ways that honor that.

So the moon in Libra is reflecting pure Venusian longing which is the part of you that wants harmony, beauty, and right relationship. And Venus moving into Taurus is whispering: Yes, you deserve that. But let’s build it slowly. Let’s plant it in soil that will hold it. Let’s ground it in the body, not just the mind.

As a sensitive entrepreneur with a deep inner world and especially if you’re healing from trauma or emotional neglect, this is really important. Because your nervous system might crave peace and balance, but not always know how to hold it. You might long for beautiful connections, fair exchanges, and soul-aligned business relationships, but still find yourself stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, over-giving, or not feeling safe to receive.

This moon is asking you to gently explore those places. In your art journal, consider creating an image or page that represents balance. Not forced balance but something that feels real and true to you. Maybe it’s a pair of hands giving and receiving. Maybe it’s a tree rooted in the ground but reaching up to the sky. Maybe it’s a scale, with values or priorities on each side.

Ask yourself: Where in my life or business do I feel off-balance right now?

What would bring more peace or fairness into the way I relate to others or to myself?

Then, let Venus in Taurus guide the next part of your page. Where do you need more softness? More embodiment? More pleasure or groundedness in your work? What are you worth and are your actions, systems, or offerings reflecting that? Sometimes, that means raising your prices. Sometimes, it means giving yourself more rest. Sometimes, it’s as simple (and hard) as letting yourself believe you deserve goodness simply because you exist.

This energy is quiet but powerful. It’s about aligning your inner and outer worlds so that how you work and how you live feel like a loving expression of your deepest values. In your business, this might mean committing to more beauty, slowness, or ease. It might mean redefining what success looks like not just numbers or outcomes, but how resourced and supported you feel.

Let this moon be a mirror. Let it show you the places where your soul is longing for more harmony because the more aligned and resourced you feel, the more you’ll grow gently, sustainably, and in a way that truly reflects your worth.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents comfort to you.

Friday

On Friday, the moon is in its waxing gibbous phase, the part of the lunar cycle where energy is building. This is the moment just before the full moon, when things are swelling, stirring, getting ready to bloom. And this moon is moving through Scorpio, one of the most emotionally intense and transformative signs. Scorpio doesn’t do surface-level. It dives deep. It wants truth, soul, and emotional honesty. It asks: What’s underneath this? What’s been hidden? What needs to be brought into the light so it can be healed or released?

But this Scorpio moon is also opposing Venus in Taurus, and that creates a kind of emotional tension. Opposition is like a face-to-face moment with two signs looking directly at each other from across the sky, trying to find common ground. Venus in Taurus is soft, steady, sensual. She wants to enjoy life, rest in her body, find safety in simplicity and beauty. But the moon in Scorpio? She’s not here for rest or simplicity. She wants depth, intensity, transformation.

So on this day, you might feel pulled between those two energies – between your need to feel safe and grounded (Venus in Taurus) and your urge to face hard truths or sit with uncomfortable emotions (Moon in Scorpio). Maybe there’s a part of you that longs for stability in your business, to feel more rooted and secure. But another part of you knows there are still old wounds, fears, or unconscious patterns running the show, things that keep you from fully receiving, or fully showing up, or letting yourself be seen and supported.

In your art journal, this is a powerful moment to explore that tension. Maybe you want to draw or collage two sides of yourself. Notice the one that wants peace, calm, and security, and the one that is holding fear, grief, or deeper truths that still need witnessing. You could ask: What is trying to surface right now? What old story, emotion, or fear is rising in me as I grow? And what does the grounded, loving part of me and my inner Venus want me to know about what I truly deserve?

This is also a chance to reflect on how you relate to receiving and resourcing in your business.

Are you trying to build a life of beauty, peace, and abundance but holding pain or fear that says you’re not allowed to have that? Are you trying to expand your business but still carrying old emotional weight that makes visibility or success feel unsafe?

This is the kind of moon that brings those inner contradictions into the light not to shame you, but to help you heal them.

Let the moon in Scorpio help you touch the deeper emotional layers with compassion. Let Venus in Taurus remind you that you are worthy of beauty, pleasure, safety, and support. Let the tension be a teacher. This is the kind of inner work that grows businesses in ways no strategy ever could because it grows you.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents the side of yourself that wants peace and calm and the side of yourself that has deeper emotions that need to be witnessed and held.

Saturday

On Saturday, the moon is still in its waxing gibbous phase which means it is building, stretching, growing toward fullness and it’s still in the sign of Scorpio, which means we’re not done swimming in deep emotional waters just yet.

But today, the moon is forming a tense relationship with Pluto, the planet of transformation, death and rebirth, power, and the underworld. This kind of energy can feel intense especially for those of us who are already emotionally and energetically sensitive. In ancient astrology, a square is a moment of friction. It brings pressure and challenge, but it also brings the potential for growth and evolution if we’re willing to meet the tension with presence and care.

Pluto stirs up what we try to hide. It brings unconscious material to the surface. It exposes our fears around power, control, loss, and vulnerability. And when the moon in Scorpio, which is already a deeply emotional and private placement, gets activated by Pluto, things can feel especially raw. You might find yourself feeling more sensitive today. Emotions you thought you had “dealt with” might suddenly rise up again. Or you might feel unsettled, like there’s a storm brewing inside and you can’t quite name why. That’s Pluto energy because it is subtle but intense, like something in the depths of your emotional world is shifting, shedding, or being unearthed.

For those of us who carry histories of trauma or emotional neglect, this can be the kind of day where old survival strategies rise up so maybe you feel the need to control something tightly, or you want to retreat and hide, or your nervous system feels on edge without a clear reason why. This is where your art journal can be a sanctuary. Today’s a day for deep shadow work. Not in a heavy or forceful way, but in a compassionate, curious, softly brave way. You might ask: Where am I trying to hold it all together right now? Where am I afraid to let go? What would it mean to release control and trust the unfolding?

You can work visually with these theme by collaging images of transformation, death and rebirth or composting. Use color and symbol to express feelings that are hard to put into words. 

In terms of growing your business, Pluto energy asks you to look at what power means to you.

Are there places in your work where you give your power away?

Where do you dim yourself down or silence your truth to feel safe?

Are there old fears that success will cost you something? Are you afraid success will cost you your time, your freedom, your health, your authenticity?

These are deep, important questions, and the moon squaring Pluto is an invitation to explore them.

And if you’re feeling emotionally tender, that’s okay. That’s not a sign you’re doing anything wrong. It’s a sign that your inner world is stretching to make room for a truer version of you. You don’t have to rush the process. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just let this moon phase be a moment of listening and the kind of deep, honest listening that hears what your soul is ready to release and what it’s ready to reclaim. 

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what power means to you.

Sunday

On Sunday, the moon is still waxing and growing in light and energy as we move closer to the full moon. It’s in Scorpio, a sign that invites us to feel things deeply, to go inward, and to be honest with ourselves about what we’re holding beneath the surface. Scorpio moons are never surface-level moons. They pull us into the undercurrents of our emotional lives, asking us to look at what we usually avoid. But today, that tender emotional depth is meeting tension with Mars, and Mars is currently in a happy relationship with Chiron, the wounded healer. So there’s a lot happening under the surface both emotionally, energetically, even physically and it might stir something in you that feels both activating and healing at the same time.

Mars, in ancient astrology, represents action, movement, drive, and anger. Mars pushes us to do things, to act, to assert ourselves. But when Mars is in a tense relationship with the moon, especially a moon in Scorpio, it can create inner friction. You might feel emotionally charged today. You might feel irritated, agitated, or like something is building inside of you and you don’t quite know how to release it. 

The happy relationship Mars is having with Chiron brings the possibility of healing through movement. It’s like your inner warrior (Mars) is reaching out to the part of you that’s been wounded (Chiron) and saying, “I see you. Let’s find a better way forward.” So even though something might be stirred emotionally like maybe frustration, maybe fear, or maybe grief, there’s also space for healing. There’s an opening here.

In your art journal, this is a beautiful moment to explore the energy of inner conflict and reconciliation. You might ask: Where am I pushing too hard right now? Where is my anger trying to protect a wound? What part of me is trying to get my attention through frustration, tension, or irritation?

You might want to try drawing or painting the feeling of friction. Give it form. What colors does this tension want? What shapes? Then invite healing in. Invite movement. Invite compassion. 

From a business perspective, this can be a powerful day to consider your relationship with action.

Are you operating from pressure, urgency, or fear of falling behind?

Or are you responding to your business from the place where you trust your path and believe in yourself?

Mars can be helpful because it gives you the courage to make bold moves and advocate for yourself but only when it’s not coming from a place of reactivity or internalized pressure. Today asks: What does brave, healing action look like for you right now?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what brave, healing action looks like for you right now.

with love,