Art Journal with the Moon: Themes and Prompts for June 23-29, 2025

In this post, I share a summary of the moon for the week of June 23-29, 2025 as it moves through the zodiac and interacts with the planets and I show you how to work with its energy in your art journal to grow yourself or your business. I also talk about working with the magic of the Cancer new moon in your art journal.

If you are a highly sensitive entrepreneur and you want a magical place to start journaling with the moon every day to grow yourself and your business, don’t forget to subscribe to The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars

Working with the Magic of the Cancer New Moon in Your Art Journal

Welcome to the New Moon in Cancer.

In this post, I start by sharing what I wrote about the new moon in The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars so if you’re subscribed to that, you’ll find everything you need to work with the new moon there including the creative warm up exercises, the step by step art ritual instructions and the cut and paste magic pages. But if you want a little more information to help you attune to this new moon, scroll down further where I talk about water magic and reminders to rest.

Getting a Feel for the Energy of This New Moon

The moon is most at home in this zodiac sign so there’s something extra comforting and nourishing about the new moon in Cancer. In this month’s issue of The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars, for the entire month of June we’re focused on shining your light in the world and growing your business by increasing your visibility so, for that reason, I created pages to work with the New Moon in Cancer to do the deeper emotional work of tending to the parts of you that resist sharing your wild fabulous self with the world. I also want us to tend to those parts of you who shy away from being seen and celebrated for what you create or offer in your business.

Whether or not you subscribe to the guidebook, let’s step gently towards being a little bolder, shall we?

If you already art journal with the moon alongside me, you know I tend to focus on emotional healing AND practicing magic. This is because I believe emotional healing is one of the most important steps in practicing magic. Magic requires alignment. Having all parts of you aligned with your spirit helps you to express your magic in this world but alignment is not always easy to achieve. This is especially true when you have a history of childhood trauma or emotional neglect. You’re going to have a lot of inner parts that don’t feel safe enough to do what your spirit came here to do.

Let me share an example. Let’s take this monthly guide I created for you.

I’ve learned that when I create guidebooks and worksheets that help you practice magic or do deep emotional healing, my spirit feels most alive. There’s something about putting my art, my intuition, and my understanding of the unseen world onto paper that makes me feel like I’m doing exactly what I’m meant to do.

That’s why I started creating The Creative Witch’s Guide to Growing Your Magical Business with the Moon and Stars. But the deeper truth is, this guidebook isn’t just about helping you grow your business. It’s also about helping me move through something I’ve struggled with for years: the fear of fully sharing my truest, deepest creative work with the world.

For six years, I’ve been working on and off on a book called Oriana’s Moonside Companion. It’s a book that wants to exist. My spirit wants to create and sell it. But for reasons I don’t fully understand yet, my younger childhood parts are terrified of finishing and sharing it. Even after years of inner work, magic, and subconscious healing, something in me still holds back.

One day, during a conversation with my guardian angel, Cassandra, I realized the next step wasn’t to force my way through the resistance, but to find a softer, kinder way forward.

That’s when the idea for a smaller, monthly guide came to me. This guide is something my inner parts don’t have as much resistance with. I don’t understand why. They just don’t. Working on this guide every month allows me to keep moving toward Oriana’s Moonside Companion without overwhelming my younger parts.

This monthly guidebook which is filled with my drawings, magical insights, and astrological business wisdom, allows me to practice being visible, working through the emotions and resistance that arise, and tending to my younger parts with love and patience.

To me, that’s what healing looks like. It’s not about forcing yourself past your trauma. It’s not about demanding that your scared inner parts suddenly be brave. It’s about finding creative solutions that allow them to go at their own pace. It’s about listening to them, honoring their fears, and offering them the kind of love and patience you would give to someone you love who has been hurt before. This is what it means to have a wise, inner parent or an aspect of yourself that is constant, reliable, and ever-patient, willing to stay with you until you feel safe.

And that is exactly what the new moon in Cancer helps you tap into. It’s the archetype of the inner nurturer who holds you through your fears instead of pushing you past them.

Cancer energy is deeply emotional, protective, and nurturing. It asks you to slow down and listen to what your heart and body need. It reminds you that healing isn’t linear, and growth doesn’t always come from action. Sometimes, it comes from holding space for yourself in the tenderest of ways. Under this new moon, I invite you to ask yourself:

Where do I need to take care of myself more gently?

What parts of me need more safety, comfort, and reassurance before they can step forward?

What would change if I stopped trying to force myself to be ready and instead trusted that my pace is exactly right?

The new moon in Cancer is a portal into deeper self-trust. It reminds you that the most powerful magic doesn’t come from pushing through. It comes from tending to yourself with the same care and devotion that you would offer a beloved child. And when you do, something magical happens. Your younger parts start to relax. The fear starts to soften. And slowly, in their own time, the parts of you that have been hiding begin to feel safe enough to emerge and shine.

In The Creative Witch’s Monthly Guide to Growing Your Business with the Moon and Stars, I created a collection of pages to guide you through all of this so on the new moon or as close to it as you can. If you subscribe to the guidebook, go through those pages and let your inner parts show you what you need most right now in order to feel safe to share your art, your offerings and your healing gifts with the people who are meant to receive it. 

Water Magic with the New Moon

This new moon in Cancer is drenched in water energy. The sun, the moon, and Mercury are all in the sign of Cancer and at the time of the new moon, the moon is also sitting right next to Jupiter, who’s just moved into Cancer too. That’s a lot of water.

And when the moon and stars are this watery, we’re not necessarily meant to think things through or make sense of everything in a linear, logical way. We’re being asked to feel instead. To sense. To listen. To tune in to the quieter, deeper parts of ourselves.

Water energy brings us into the mysteries. It doesn’t shout with clarity the way the sun sometimes does. It whispers and swirls and flows. This isn’t a time to push forward with a rigid plan or strong agenda. This new moon is about pausing, softening, and asking your body and your heart what’s ready to begin.

What’s quietly stirring beneath the surface, asking for your attention?

What new beginning is rising, not from your mind, but from your nervous system…from your emotional body…from the rhythm of the natural world inside and around you?

This is a reset and new beginning kind of moon, yes, but it’s not the kind of reset where you map out all your goals and power through your to-do list. It’s a new beginning that asks you to be with yourself. To be in your body. To move more slowly and feel your way into what’s next.

As my astrology teacher Kelly Surtees reminds us, it’s a good time to ask yourself:

What do I feel pulled toward right now?

What do I feel a sense of repulsion or resistance around?

And most importantly, do I have the inner resources, the safety, and the support to honor what I want to release and what I want to move towards?

This new moon offers a powerful moment to return to your own rhythm. Not society’s pace, not your trauma’s urgency, not your inner critic’s high expectations but your own true rhythm.

And you can work with this water magic intentionally too in your art journal by choosing art supplies that center around water. This is not the time to push paint around with intensity. It’s a time to let the water move you and your paint. Let the water in your art take the lead.

Think of ways to allow water to create the art.

Using watercolors in your art journal under this moon is more than just a choice of medium. It’s a magical act of tuning into the watery world of feelings, intuition, and emotional memory. When you use a lot of water, letting the pigment pool and spread and blend into itself, you’re practicing surrender. You’re letting go of control. You’re saying: Show me what wants to emerge.

And often, what appears on the page mirrors the soft currents swirling inside of you. If you look and listen, you’ll hear and see the longings, the griefs, the quiet hopes, the ancestral dreams whispering through. The paper absorbs what you can’t always say out loud, and the water helps it all move.

You can simply dip your brush into your water jar, choose colors that feel emotionally resonant (even if you don’t know why), and let them drip and swirl. You can let the water carry your feelings, without needing to name them. Let the paint puddle and dry in uneven edges. Let it blur and bleed. This is how water speaks.

And if you want to go even deeper, you can try watercolor scrying. This is a beautiful, intuitive practice that works a lot like traditional scrying in mirrors or bowls of water, but instead you use watercolor. To do this, wet your paper first. Then, drop in pigments and move the paper around. Tilt it. Watch what shapes appear. Don’t try to make anything. Just observe. Let the colors run and dry. Then come back and look again.

What symbols, images, or feelings rise to the surface?

What does the water and paint want you to know?

This is a way to receive guidance, messages, or insight from the realm of Spirit especially under a moon that is so attuned to your inner world like this one is.

If you want to work deeper with the emotional realm of water magic, I have a course where we practice intuitive, emotional, and magical art journaling with the new moon in Cancer. It’s called Art Journal with the New Moon in Cancer to Heal Your Broken Heart with Great Mother, and in it, we work with the new moon, water magic and the healing presence of the Divine Mother to explore your emotional world and bring softness to the parts of your heart that have carried pain for too long. If you want to feel held, tended to, and spiritually reconnected under this moon, I would love to have you join me there. You can click here to learn more.

A Reminder to Schedule Rest

As my astrology teacher gently reminded me, I want to take this last moment to remind you as well: under this new moon in Cancer to schedule rest. I know that might sound like a strange thing to do when we’re talking about setting intentions or starting fresh, but that’s exactly why it’s so important. If something new is beginning, if new energy is coming in, we need to make sure we’re rested enough to receive it. We need space, real space in our body and in our life, to greet what’s coming with presence.

Nature doesn’t bloom all year. The moon doesn’t shine at full strength every night. There are dark moon phases. There are winter months. There are fallow fields. Your business needs that too. You need that too. You can’t always be in go-mode. You’re not meant to go, go, go without rest. And if you’ve forgotten to plan for quiet times or to build pauses into your year, this is your gentle nudge to change that now.

So let’s think about this practically for a minute.

When are your business’s rest periods?

Do you already have any planned? Could you?

Look ahead and ask yourself:

• When am I most likely to feel tired or emotionally worn out?
• What months or seasons tend to be more demanding in my life or in my business?
• After a launch or a big creative cycle, how long do I need to come back to myself?

Start building around those answers.

Then ask:

• Where do I want to place my “rest” throughout the year?
• Can I take a full week off every quarter? Or a long weekend every month?
• Can I block off certain days as sacred no-call, no-content, no-output days?
• Can I plan an entire fallow month like winter, where I still show up gently but I don’t try to push or produce anything new?

Once you’ve answered those questions, create some rules or guidelines that help you protect that rest time. For example:

• I don’t launch in December.
• I always block off a week after a big offering goes live.
• I take the first three days of each month to check in and dream slowly.

And most importantly: honor your rhythms. Notice your body. Watch the moon. You’re not a machine. You are a creative, sensitive, cyclical being.

Let this new moon in Cancer be your invitation to honor that. Rest is not something you earn after you’ve done enough. It’s something you need in order to show up for all the beautiful things you’re called to do. So schedule it now. Give yourself the gift of tending to your own rhythm with love.

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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 moon being void of course on Monday.

In fact, the moon is void of course all day and what’s wild is, it stays that way all through Tuesday too. That’s two full days of lunar stillness, which is rare. I’ve been tracking the moon and art journaling with it for five years, and I hardly ever see the moon being void for this long. And what’s even more interesting is when it’s happening. The moon just finished making some really powerful connections with Saturn and Neptune in Aries, Pluto in Aquarius, and Mars in Virgo then it goes completely still. It’s like it activated something really big and then paused. Suspended between Gemini and Cancer. Between air and water. Between ideas and emotions. Between the head and the heart.

When the moon is void of course, it means she’s either either in between signs or not speaking to any of the other planets or both. She’s in a kind of dark silence. It’s not a good time to start something brand new or take decisive action but it is a powerful time to rest, reflect, and integrate. And after the kind of activating work she just did while she was touching into those big planetary relationships and stirring things up for us in our lives and our inner worlds, it feels meaningful that we’re now given a pause. It’s like a moment to let everything settle so the insights can land and the changes inside of us can integrate.

In your art journal today, treat this as sacred in-between time. This is not a day for pushing. It’s a day for listening. It’s a day to ask yourself: What did the moon stir up in me over the past few days? What wants to shift now that the dust has settled? You could create a spread that feels like a soft landing or a visual journal page that simply holds space for what’s rising in you. Maybe use light colors, watery shapes, or gentle lines. Maybe make a collage that reflects where you’re coming from and where you sense you’re headed, even if it’s still unclear.

This long void moon is reminding us that growth doesn’t always happen in the action. Sometimes, it happens in the stillness. Sometimes, the most powerful thing we can do for our business or our creative work is not to plan or push, but to be with ourselves and to process, to feel, to reconnect with our own rhythm. So let Monday be a soft day. Let it be a day where you don’t force anything. Let your art journal hold the in-between space. Let your nervous system recalibrate. Let it be a day of reflection and integration. This is part of the magic, too.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents where you sense you’re headed next.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, the moon is still void of course for most of the day. It doesn’t move into the sign of Cancer until around 10 PM mountain time.

That means we’re still in that suspended, quiet space we were in on Monday. On top of that, the moon is in its balsamic phase, which is the very end of the lunar cycle. It is the dark, final moments before the new moon begins. It’s not a time for pushing or doing or launching. It’s a time for letting go, resting, and listening really deeply.

This particular void moon feels especially powerful because tomorrow we welcome the new moon in Cancer. Cancer is a zodiac sign that speaks to our emotions, our intuition, and our inner safety. So today, we’re sitting in that threshold space, right between what’s ending and what’s about to begin. It’s like the hush before a new chapter starts.

In your art journal today, I invite you to acknowledge what you’re releasing. Maybe you want to draw a doorway or a night sky or an image that represents your old stories, your past fears, or the versions of yourself that no longer feel true. Ask yourself: What am I ready to let go of in my business? What beliefs, patterns, or pressures am I done carrying? 

Because we’re also preparing for a new moon in Cancer, you might also want to work with the idea of inner home.

When I say “inner home,” I mean the emotional and energetic space inside you where you feel safe, rooted, and like your full self is welcome. It’s the part of you that remembers who you are without the noise of comparison or pressure. It’s the feeling of exhaling after holding your breath too long. And when you’re growing a business, especially as a highly sensitive or intuitive person, that sense of inner home becomes so important. Without it, you might find yourself building something that feels disconnected from your truth, trying to perform or push in ways that exhaust you.

So during this void moon in the balsamic phase, right before the new moon in Cancer, it’s a powerful time to reflect on what safety in your business really looks like and not the kind of safety that avoids all risks, but the kind that helps your nervous system stay regulated as you take steps forward.

Ask yourself:

What parts of my business feel like home to me?

Where do I feel most safe to be myself?

What drains me or makes me feel exposed, judged, or small?

What rhythms help me feel grounded and nurtured in my work?

Who or what do I need to feel emotionally supported as I grow?

As you visually explore what home means to you, you might draw or collage a sanctuary space whether it is real or imagined. You might fill the page with words or symbols that feel comforting or protective. You could paint a soft nest, a shell, a circle, or a cozy room. Let the imagery come from your body’s longing for rest and reassurance.

This kind of journaling isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about tuning in to your inner world and allowing your business to grow from that space where you feel safe, seen, and softly held. Because the truth is, your work can only stretch as far as your roots go deep. And the Cancer new moon invites you to tend those roots. Build your dreams from a place that feels like home inside yourself. Let that be your foundation. Let that be where your magic grows from.

What does safety look like in your business?

What emotional support do you need to grow?

What would it feel like to build your work from a place of deep inner belonging?

You don’t need to have answers. Just show up. Let the quiet of the day hold you. Let your art journal be a resting place for everything you’re releasing. Let your nervous system soften. Let the dark moon do her quiet work. This is where the seeds of new magic are planted, in the dark, in the quiet, in the sacred pause before the light returns.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that celebrates where or to whom you belong.

Wednesday

On Wednesday, we greet the new moon in Cancer. I share more about that above so you can scroll back up if you want more details about working with this new moon in your art journal.

Cancer is the moon’s favorite sign. The moon feels most comfortable here and most safe so this new moon holds a kind of deep emotional resonance that can be incredibly healing, especially for those of us who are highly sensitive and trying to grow something meaningful in the world. It’s not a push-forward moon. It’s a hold-yourself-gently moon. And as we enter this dark, fertile lunar moment, we’re asked to listen to what our inner world needs most before we begin again.

In your art journal, that might mean creating a page that doesn’t strive for beauty or meaning but instead offers comfort, slowness, and space. You’re not trying to figure things out. You’re simply offering yourself a safe place to be.

This particular new moon is soaked in water magic. The sun, the moon, and Mercury are all in Cancer and so is Jupiter now too, amplifying everything this watery moon touches. That means the energy isn’t mental, it’s emotional. It doesn’t want clarity or certainty, it wants truth and tenderness. You’re being invited to feel your way through. You’re being asked to listen to your body, your dreams, your longings. In your art journal, you might dip into watercolor paints and let the water lead you. Let your colors run and pool and swirl. Don’t try to control them. Let them move like emotions move…slowly, mysteriously, sometimes all at once. That’s part of the magic. It’s not about painting something “pretty.” It’s about letting the water speak.

This is also a moon for tending to your inner safety, especially the kind of safety that makes it possible to share your magic, your voice, and your offerings with the world. For many of us, especially those with histories of emotional neglect or trauma, being seen can feel unsafe. Even when your soul is ready to be visible, younger parts of you may still be afraid. That’s why I encourage you to art journal with the moon to help those tender parts feel held and protected while you slowly expand into the version of yourself your spirit is asking you to become. You can work with this new moon by art journaling with the intention to meet your fears with softness. Paint your fears a home. Draw a nest around them. Let your scared parts know you’re not forcing them, you’re staying with them.

Cancer is ruled by the archetype of the Mother but not just the mother who births children. The Mother as protector, as nurturer, as emotional guide. This is the inner parent who knows how to create sanctuary inside yourself. It’s the energy that whispers, “You’re allowed to go slow. You’re allowed to rest. You’re allowed to need time.”

One way to bring this into your art journal is to paint or collage a symbol of that inner parent or the part of you that can hold your scared, overwhelmed, or tired parts with unwavering patience and love. Maybe it’s a figure, maybe it’s a tree, a moon, a shell. Let your journal become a sacred container where the inner mother can speak, soothe, and offer care.

And speaking of care, this new moon also asks us to plan for rest. That might sound counterintuitive when you’re thinking about new beginnings or setting intentions, but this is the kind of new beginning that starts by making space. If you want something new to grow, you need somewhere soft and spacious for it to land. So take this time to look ahead in your business and your life and ask yourself:

When do I tend to feel most depleted?

When do I need to step back and fill up again?

Where in my year can I build in moments of quiet, pauses after launches, weekends with no calls, or full seasons of slower living?

Your art journal can help you vision this. You can create a calendar spread or simply devote a page to mapping out your rest rhythms and color them in, bless them, protect them like a spell.

Finally, under this new moon, remember that magic doesn’t always come from doing. It often begins with being. Let your art journal become a practice in listening. Let it show you what’s stirring inside, even if it doesn’t yet have words. Trust that your feelings, your body, and your intuition are the guides this moon wants you to follow.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage the seed of intention you want to plant during this nurturing new moon.

Thursday

On Thursday, the moon in Cancer is forming a happy relationship with Venus in Taurus and I want to take a moment to soak that in with you because this is one of those quietly beautiful alignments that doesn’t scream for attention but offers such sweet, steady support when we choose to notice it.

The kind of relationship (sextile) the moon and Taurus are having on Thursday is considered a friendly connection between two planets. It’s a little like two neighbors who don’t live in the same house but totally get each other and love to collaborate and connect. It’s cooperative and encouraging and it opens the door for goodness to flow, especially when we’re willing to take small, meaningful actions. So today, this harmonious relationship between the moon and Venus opens a door. And it’s up to us to walk through it.

Both the moon and Venus are in their own signs right now. The moon is in Cancer, the sign it rules so it’s emotionally strong, wise, nurturing, and deeply attuned to our inner world. Venus is in Taurus, the sign she rules so she’s grounded, sensual, creative, and connected to beauty, pleasure, and worth. When they come together like this, it’s like being held by the most loving version of the feminine: the one who sees your feelings, honors your softness, and reminds you that you’re allowed to want a life and a business that feel beautiful and emotionally safe.

This is a gorgeous morning to art journal with the intention of receiving. Think about receiving beauty, receiving emotional nourishment, receiving the truth that what you create matters and is worthy of care. You could paint an image that represents emotional security in your business. Or you could ask yourself:

Where am I ready to feel more at home in my work?

Try leaning into Taurus’s love of earthiness. Add flowers, natural colors, soft lines. Play too with Cancer’s watery energy. Add gentle curves, moon shapes, or watery inks that flow.

Let today’s page be a spell of self-worth. Let it hold the belief that your gifts are valuable and you’re allowed to build a business that feels good to your nervous system. You don’t have to prove or push. You get to create from a place of grounded beauty and emotional truth. That’s the energy Venus and the moon are handing us this morning. And the more we let ourselves receive it genuinely, tenderly, the more it can shape the way we grow ourselves as our businesses grow alongside us.

So ask yourself as you sit down to create:

What kind of business would I build if I truly believed my feelings, needs, and comfort mattered?

What would I offer if I trusted the value of my magic?

Let your art journal show you. Let this sweet, steady moon-Venus sextile draw it down onto the page.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that plays with the flowery, earthy vibe of Venus in Taurus and the watery, emotional vibe of the moon in Cancer.

Friday

On Friday, the moon moves into Leo, and right away it lights up some really interesting relationships with other planets. First, it cozies up to Mercury, which means your thoughts and your feelings might start speaking to each other more clearly. Then it forms a happy relationship with Saturn and Neptune in Aries, which brings a kind of magical structure to the day which is a little like dreaming with your feet on the ground. But at the same time, the moon also opposes Pluto in Aquarius, and that can stir up some deeper, more intense emotional layers, especially around visibility, leadership, or your relationship with being seen and using your voice.

Leo is such a warm, expressive energy. It wants you to shine, to take up space, to be proud of who you are and what you’re creating. But the opposition with Pluto reminds us that it’s not always easy to step forward and be seen, especially if there are old fears or power dynamics that still live in our nervous system. You might feel a push-pull today: part of you wanting to express yourself more boldly in your work, and another part that’s afraid of what might happen if you do.

This is where the relationship with Saturn and Neptune is really helpful. Saturn in Aries helps you hold your courage and take small, meaningful steps forward even when it feels tender. And Neptune adds softness and vision, so you’re not forcing yourself. Instead, you’re letting your spirit lead, trusting that your dreams are valid and supported.

So in your art journal today, I invite you to explore the idea of safe visibility.

What would it look like to let your light shine without abandoning the parts of you that still feel scared or unsure?

You might draw a sun or a flame or a version of yourself that feels bold and bright. Then ask:

What kind of container do I need to feel safe enough to shine like this?

Collage or paint what that container looks like. Maybe it’s boundaries. Maybe it’s community. Maybe it’s trust in your own timing.

You can also use this Leo moon to write a love letter to your business and to the creative part of you that wants to express and offer something meaningful to the world. And if resistance shows up, that’s okay. Let it come onto the page too. Use colors or images that express the fear of being seen, and let them live right alongside the images of confidence. That’s what emotional integration looks like. That’s what real magic is made of.

This moon is drawing down the courage to show up with heart, the wisdom to do it your way, and the vision to lead your work from the inside out. Let your art journal be a space where all those parts – the bold, scared, wise, tender parts – can come together and begin to trust each other. 

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents the kind of container you need to feel safe enough to shine your light in the world.

Saturday

On Saturday, the moon is in the sign of Leo, and it’s having a bit of a tense moment with Venus in Taurus. These two signs are both fixed, which means they’re strong-willed in their own way, but they’re coming from very different places. Leo moon wants to shine. It wants to express, perform, create, and be seen. It’s fiery and bold and craves recognition. Venus in Taurus, on the other hand, is slow, steady, and grounded. She values comfort, beauty, and security. She’s not in a rush. She wants things to feel good, safe, and stable.

So when these two square off, you might feel a bit of friction between wanting to go big and wanting to stay grounded. One part of you might be ready to post that brave idea or launch something new with flair, while another part is saying, “Let’s not shake things up too much. Let’s enjoy what’s working and not take any risks.” It’s the tension between bold action and cozy stability, between roaring into the spotlight and curling up in your creative cocoon.

This is actually a really good opportunity to check in with how you’re balancing courage and comfort in your business. In your art journal today, you could create a page that explores both energies. Maybe draw or paint something that feels bright, bold, and expressive to represent Leo. Let that part of you speak.

What are you proud of?

What part of your work is ready to be seen?

Then, create another section of the page to honor the part of you that’s like Venus in Taurus which is slow, deliberate and sensuous.

What makes you feel grounded?

What helps you feel safe enough to create and share?

You might even explore where these two parts agree because they both care deeply about what’s meaningful and beautiful. Leo wants to share something authentic from the heart, and Venus in Taurus wants to create something that lasts and feels truly valuable. In your journal, you could try to find the overlap. Maybe use textures, nature-inspired imagery, or gold and earth tones to show how grounded beauty and expressive fire can work together.

This moon is helping you remember that it’s possible to build a business that’s both bold and sustainable, expressive and well-rooted. You don’t have to rush to be seen, and you don’t have to hide your fire to feel safe. You get to honor both. And your art journal can be the space where those seemingly opposite needs begin to dance together.

In your art journal, create a page representing what going big but staying grounded at the same time means to you.

Sunday

On Sunday, the moon is in the sign of Leo and it’s having a really lovely relationship with Jupiter in Cancer. The planets are supporting each other and the energy between them is flowing easily but you still have to choose to work with it. It’s like a gentle invitation from the universe, not a push.

Leo and Cancer may seem very different, but together like this, they create a sweet and encouraging combination. Leo wants you to shine and to express yourself boldly, creatively, and from the heart. Cancer wants to nourish you and to help you feel safe, loved, and emotionally supported. And Jupiter, being the planet of growth and abundance, is here amplifying the goodness, especially in emotional and creative areas of life.

So emotionally, this moon is offering you a moment to connect deeply with what makes you feel seen and loved at the same time. It’s asking:

What kind of emotional support do you need to really show up in your business?

What kind of safety or encouragement helps you take risks and be more visible?

Practically, this is a good day to do something generous or something that feels aligned with your heart but also nourishes your people. Maybe it’s sharing a story on social media that comes from your lived experience. Maybe it’s writing a kind email to someone who inspires you. Maybe it’s offering your audience something thoughtful, not because it’s “strategic,” but because it feels good and true.

In your art journal, let this be a day where you celebrate your creative self while also honoring the care you need to keep showing up. Paint or draw something that feels radiant or something that represents your inner light, your voice, your creative joy. Then, around it, add symbols or words that feel like comfort, like home, like inner support. Let yourself create an image of what it looks like to be both bold and cared for.

You could even journal around these prompts:

What does my heart most want to share today?

What kind of emotional support helps me be brave in my business? 

Where have I already grown, and how can I celebrate that growth today?

This moon is drawing down a kind of joy that isn’t loud or showy, it’s heart-deep. It’s the joy of being true to yourself in ways that feel safe, loving, and supported. Let your art journal hold that energy. Let it remind you that you don’t have to choose between being seen and being safe. You can have both, and the moon and Jupiter are here cheering you on.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what your heart most wants to share this lunar cycle.

with love,