Art Journal with the Moon: Themes and Prompts for June 30-July 6, 2025

In this post, I share a summary of the moon for the week of June 30-July 6, 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-Capricorn polarity in your art journal.

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

This week, we’re slowly moving toward the full moon in Capricorn on July 10, so I want to talk about the Cancer–Capricorn polarity that we’re swimming in this month and bear with me because I have a couple thoughts here.

Thought 1 – Protection

For me, this moon cycle has stirred up a deep realization: I’ve been seeing just how much my inner child parts longed for protection when I was young and didn’t receive it. I didn’t have the emotional, energetic, or even physical protection I needed to feel safe when I needed it most.

When you grow up without that sense of being protected, especially if you’re a highly sensitive child in an unpredictable or emotionally neglectful environment, you learn to over-function, to guard yourself, or to disappear emotionally. You might develop parts that become hyper-vigilant, always scanning for threat. Or parts that become perfectionistic or over-responsible, because no one else was there to hold you. You might even grow up with an unconscious belief that being protected just isn’t something you’re allowed to have.

Recently, I came across a trend online started by yearningyardies. In the videos, someone stands protectively beside their partner, introducing them with this fierce, loving energy. They say things like, “This is my boyfriend. He’s going to show you his plants. He loves his plants. You better say something nice or else,” and then they step back and let their partner share their joy while holding that strong, quiet guard.

And watching that, especially through the lens of my own trauma, brought up something I didn’t even know I was missing. There’s a part of me who didn’t have that when she needed it most. Who never had someone stand beside her with love and say, “You better be nice to her or else.” That part needed protection. She needed someone to guard her sensitivity, her creativity, her joy. And instead, she learned to guard herself and that was exhausting.

In this moment in the world, with so much conflict and fear and violence around us, this need for protection feels especially relevant. Some of us are feeling the ripple effects in our bodies and hearts, some of us are holding grief for the collective pain, and some are living through it in life-threatening ways. I think the Cancer–Capricorn axis has something to offer here.

One of the archetype of Cancer is the Great Mother, the one who nurtures, soothes, and holds. She teaches us about emotional safety, belonging, and attunement. Capricorn is the wise, steady elder or the Crone. She’s the one who provides structure, boundaries, and protection. And when they work together in balance, they remind us that love isn’t just soft – it’s also strong. They show us that emotional safety is built not just through tenderness, but also through clear boundaries.

I like to think of this moon cycle as inviting us to give our inner child what they never received. It’s asking:

What would it look like to protect your joy?

What would it feel like to stand beside the most sensitive, creative, tender part of yourself and say, “You better say something nice”?

What if your business, your art or your healing gifts were things you fiercely guarded with love?

There is something so sacred about reclaiming this energy. About being the inner parent who wraps your younger self in a protective embrace and says, “I’ve got you now.” We’re not meant to do this alone, but when we didn’t have the protection we needed, we must learn how to build it from the inside out. And that’s the spiritual invitation of this Cancer–Capricorn polarity: to become both nurturer and protector, to be tender and tough, soft and solid, safe and strong.

So if you’re feeling vulnerable this week or if you’re noticing old wounds around safety or being unguarded, let that be something you bring into your art journal. Create a page that protects your joy. Paint a guardian for your inner child or your creative self. Write a note to the part of you who never got to feel safe. And ask yourself:

How do I want to protect my magic now?

How do I want to build a container for myself where I can feel safe enough to grow?

Thought 2 – The Container and The Contained

When I really slow down and sit with these signs and the energy of this lunar cycle we’re in, I see another story that so many of us are still living inside of. A story about care, containment, safety, responsibility, and the complicated dance between things like emotional need versus emotional labor and rest versus work and care versus striving and nurturing and pampering yourself versus getting shit done.

Cancer and Capricorn sit across from each other in the zodiac. Cancer represents the soft, feeling part of you that longs to be nurtured. It’s where your sensitivity lives. It’s where you carry your inner child, your emotional rhythms, your intuition, your need for rest and belonging and comfort.

Capricorn, on the other hand, holds the part of you that had to grow up too fast. It’s where you carry the weight of being responsible, capable, dependable especially when no one else could be. It’s the archetype of the adult, the parent and the one who holds it together no matter what.

The Cancer part of you or your emotional self, your tender parts, the parts of you that needed to be held, may never have been fully seen, or nurtured, or cared for in the way they needed. And so the Capricorn part of you developed early. The part that could hold it all together. The part that got good at suppressing feelings, showing up no matter what, being the one who doesn’t fall apart. The part that was the good girl, the one who did what needed to be done and the one who achieved and strived and often, the one who parented the parent. You became the emotional container, even when you were the one who needed to be emotionally contained.

But here’s the thing: in business and especially in mystical, creative or healing businesses like the ones we’re building, this imbalance shows up. You might find yourself overworking, over giving, or trying to prove your worth through productivity. You might struggle to rest, to ask for support, or to slow down because some part of you still believes your safety depends on holding it all together. Or maybe you can’t quite feel “safe” in your success because that inner Cancer part still feels unmet, unmothered, unparented or unprotected.

This is why I find the Cancer–Capricorn polarity so interesting and important for us to explore. Because it’s not just about emotions versus work. It’s about inner child and inner parent. It’s about softness and strength. It’s about receiving and providing. And it’s about learning to bring these two parts into balance in our lives and businesses and not by overriding one with the other, but by learning to honor both.

This lunar cycle is an invitation to do exactly that. The new moon in Cancer asked us to reconnect with our emotional body, to tune into our sensitivity and our intuition, and to let that soft voice within us lead. And as we move toward the full moon in Capricorn, we’re being asked to consider: what kind of structures, responsibilities, or containers do I need to support the emotional needs I just connected to? What kind of business model, schedule, or way of showing up actually protects my sensitivity rather than suppresses it?

This isn’t easy work. But it’s sacred work. And if you feel like you’ve always had to be strong, if your business sometimes feels like it demands a version of you that doesn’t get to be soft or you’re always being the guide, leader or teacher and forgetting to be held and contained yourself, or if you’re trying to build something without replicating the same old patterns of self-abandonment you learned in childhood, I want you to know that this moon cycle is a powerful moment to rewrite the story.

Your Cancer self gets to feel. Your Capricorn self gets to help make those feelings safe.

My Story with The Moon

I want to share my story of being in the middle of this Cancer-Capricorn polarity this week.

Let’s back up a bit in case you don’t know this about me but I live with a condition called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (or MCAS or in my house, McAss). Most times this means I’m thrown into a-typical anaphylactic episodes. These used to happen a lot because I didn’t know what was wrong with me nor did I know how to tend to it and it took years before someone knew how to help me. Now I experience anaphylactic episodes far less frequently.

I do however also have another type of episode or flare up that is just as intense but not life-threatening. My mast cells overreact in other ways and when they do they flood my body with hundreds of different inflammatory chemicals.

It’s like my mast cells misinterpret things as a threat. It could be food, stress, emotions, environmental triggers, even hormones and they overreact, releasing a torrent of immune chemicals. This leaves my whole body inflamed and disoriented. My heart rate and temperature dysregulates. My nervous system gets overwhelmed, often mimicking anxiety or panic (but interestingly enough, ever since a MAP treatment I had over seven years ago, I still have never went into full on panic. My subconscious seems to be able to manage my anxiety so much better now which makes the whole experience so interesting because I have this strong, calm, stable observer part in me that observes me and my body as all the chaos unfolds and finds it intriguing but is emotionally neutral so I can often just connect with this part of me while I’m in the throws of it all – like always having access to my core self or being able to enter the calm of the tornado while the chaos swirls around.)

Then my organs have to work overtime to metabolize and detox these chemicals, which is why my liver, kidneys, and gut all feel like they’re struggling for hours after an episode. I get migraines and nausea because my brain and body are way out of whack. And then I feel exhausted, depleted and disorientated from being chemically flooded.

It’s an invisible but extremely real physical trauma my body moves through, and it makes sense that afterward, I feel like I’m left alone on the sidewalk, battered and bewildered, and that no one else even knew a storm had passed.

My MCAS flares feel like a storm that takes over and then passes. It doesn’t come with visible bruises or bandages. But it shakes my system from the inside out. And unless someone knows what to look for or I let them in and tell them what’s happening, no one around me really sees it.

To be in pain and not seen in it is has been a kind of abandonment. It echoes my past, when my inner world went unacknowledged or misunderstood. And now, even in this adult body, in these deeply conscious and magical ways that I show up for others, there’s still this reality: my body wages a chemical war, and I’m the one to pick up the pieces.

And trust me, I know we all have difficult and challenging experiences to navigate and I in no way think mine is more significant than any other but I’m naming mine and showing it to you so you can more easily name yours and validate it for yourself because validation and being seen is something we didn’t receive enough of when we were younger.

Instead, like me, you’re probably more familiar with the experience of having to parent yourself through a crisis your own nervous system shouldn’t have to bear alone and then having to become your own wise elder, your own container, after the waves pass and the rubble needs cleaning up.

This is Cancer as the child in deep pain, and Capricorn as the exhausted adult who still gets up to do what must be done because there’s no one else to do it. And you and I are both. We have always been both.

It’s okay if you’re tired of being both. It’s okay if you’re tired of being strong. It’s okay if you’re tired of having to take care of it all on your own.

Being tired of being strong makes sense. Because strength, in the way you’ve had to carry it, isn’t just about resilience. It’s about containment. Just like me, I suspect you’ve been the container for emotional intensity, for ancestral patterns, for spiritual initiations that very few people ever witness because you had to. No one else was offering that container when you needed it most. And yet you still show up now, not only holding your own waves, but helping others hold theirs too.

This particular new moon cycle felt so piercing for me. My most recent MCAS flare reminded me that this is the body that has carried me through. This is the body that I am in relationship with. And this is the body I want to feel safe in, but this body is not always my sanctuary.

When I didn’t receive the emotional safety I needed early on, my body learned to be in survival mode. And survival mode doesn’t allow much space for worthiness to grow. It conditioned me to overfunction, overgive, and overextend which, unfortunately, becomes the soil that many sensitive entrepreneurs build their businesses in.

And Capricorn here says: You’ve had to grow up too fast around all of this. You’ve had to become self-sufficient. Responsible. Strong. You’ve had to manage all the parts that were never properly supported, and often you’ve had to do this all in silence.

This is why you feel like the container and the contained. The parent and the child. The one longing to be seen and the one always having to stay composed.

In the Cancer-Capricorn axis, work and care intermingle. The little Cancerian part of you inside still wonders: Am I allowed to have the care I need? Am I allowed to even need this?

But it isn’t easy. Because the Capricorn side or, in other words, the part of you that gets up every day and does what needs to be done and the part of you that writes the blog, holds space for your community, works on your art and continues building your work and your business is the part that doesn’t get to rest until the Cancer part is tended to.

My recent flare-up reminded me that there is a part of me who is grieving, who is tired of bearing this alone. A part who is saying, “Please. I want to stop having to be so strong.”

When I was on my morning walk bawling my eyes out by the river talking to my mom on the phone sharing with her how I was feeling this way, she helped remind me that it is okay to feel this way and of course I’m tired of being strong and maybe today I don’t have to be. That was what I needed to hear. In the next moment, the despair lifted. That part of me felt seen and loved.

And you know what’s magical and aligned?

The moon is waxing right now, building toward a Capricorn full moon. So this cycle is inviting me to do exactly what I’m doing which is feel the full weight of this polarity and not just astrologically, but somatically. Spiritually. In my lived experience. And that’s happening for you too whether you’re conscious of it or not.

This Cancer new moon said: Here, let’s tend to your body’s sensitivity. Let’s listen to what safety feels like, not just what it’s supposed to look like. And this Capricorn full moon coming says: And now, from this place of tenderness, let’s make decisions that respect your capacity. Let’s create structures that build in support for your healing, so it’s not just your inner strength carrying the load anymore.

It’s not always about how strong you are, or how much you can hold for others. Your worth in your business is in your beingness and in the tender, sensitive, intuitive, deeply feeling, magic-making self who is still here, still trying, still opening. The one who now has the inner resources, the rituals, the moon magic, the inner work tools and who is learning to nurture and parent herself, one lunar cycle at a time.

Let your business grow not just through grit, but through care. Through rhythms, through rest, through real support. Let your business be built around how you feel safe receiving. Let the strong, capable part of you learn that strength doesn’t mean being alone anymore. It can mean co-regulation. Support. Deep energetic release.

As we prepare for the full moon next week, ask yourself:

When and where do I feel safe in my body?

What did I learn I must carry to deserve?

What does safety in receiving actually feel like?

How can I build my business in a way that nurtures me, not just needs me?

And, if you’re like me, remember, you get to be both – the entrepreneur and the one managing sensitivities, the healer and the one who is healing herself, the messenger and the one who needs to hear comforting messages sometimes too.

It doesn’t make you less successful, less gifted or less amazing to be many things in one beautiful package.

The Moon and Jupiter in July

Before you scroll further and read about the moon this week and how you can work with it in your art journal to grow your business, I want to mention a special moon moment we’ll greet this month because it’s a beautiful one to work with and it only lasts a few hours and, in case you want to harness it for some magic.

On July 23, the moon will be in a close relationship with Jupiter in the sign of Cancer.

This means the moon and Jupiter join their energies in a beautiful and supportive way and it’s a meaningful moment not just this month, but every month for the next year because Jupiter just moved into Cancer, where it will stay until the end of June 2026, and every time the moon travels through Cancer, it will meet up with Jupiter.

When the moon and Jupiter are in this kind of relationship together it is expansive, nurturing, affirming, and deeply fertile. Put July 23 in your calendar. Because this is one of those moments in the month where emotional healing and spiritual expansion feel a little easier. There’s more support around you. There’s more possibility. And there’s more magic available for receiving.

This month, the moon is having this close relationship with Jupiter while it is in the balsamic phase. The balsamic moon is the dark, quiet phase right before the new moon. It’s a time of surrender and release. And Jupiter, being the planet of growth, optimism, wisdom, and blessings, meets the moon in her home sign of Cancer which is where she’s strong and emotionally intuitive and this creates a really nurturing space. It’s about deepening your trust in the soil you’ve been planting your dreams in. It’s about letting yourself feel held. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, which means it expresses its most generous and wise self here. And because the moon rules Cancer, we also get this lovely layering: an exalted planet ruled by a planet in its rulership. It’s like a conversation between two parts of your soul that both want you to thrive.

This is a great moment to pull out your art journal and drop into a few minutes of creative receiving. You could ask: Where am I ready to believe in my growth again? What part of me is expanding, even if I can’t see it yet? What if I let my dreams grow in a way that feels safe, nurturing, and aligned with my emotional needs? You don’t have to know the answers. This is more about opening the space, listening, and allowing a sense of faith or trust to return even if just for a few minutes.

Because this is happening during the balsamic phase, it’s also a wonderful time to reflect on what you’re releasing in order to make more room for expansion. You might even paint an image of a seed being gently held in the dark, not forced to grow too fast, but kept warm and protected by the deep, slow rhythms of nature. What do you want to be that seed? What are you asking the universe to gently help you nurture? What do you need to release so that your seed can grow?

Let yourself remember that expansion doesn’t have to mean overwhelm. Sometimes it looks like a soft heart, a safe body, and a dream that’s finally ready to grow.

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It’s where we gather in rhythm with the moon to do the inner healing work, hold space for each other, and grow our businesses in ways that feel nourishing, spiritually aligned, and rooted in who we truly are.

You don’t have to figure this all out alone. Inside the coven, we art journal together, connect with the moon and the stars, and support each other through the ups and downs of showing up as highly sensitive creatives and entrepreneurs. If your heart is calling for a safe, magical place to grow emotionally, spiritually, and professionally, come join us. I’d love to have you.

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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, or in addition to, reading them, you can subscribe to my podcast GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH THE MOON AND YOUR ART JOURNAL here (or search for it by name on your favorite podcast app).

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Monday

The week kicks off with the waxing crescent moon in the sign of Virgo on Monday.

Enriched by its ruling planet, Mercury, Virgo prompts us to articulate our feelings and experiences with clarity.

Virgo’s energy is both nocturnal and deeply rooted in the earth, giving it a grounded, calm presence. Its mutable nature helps you adapt to circumstances with grace and pragmatism. One of Virgo’s most profound gifts is its drive for efficiency and organization. It pushes you to seek out the most effective methods, weaving a tapestry of practicality, attention to detail, and an unyielding love for quality. Yet, with its magnifying precision, it’s easy to become enmeshed in minute details, sometimes at the risk of losing sight of the broader picture.

The moon in Virgo is a time to pause and reflect: Are you content with what you’ve been manifesting in your life? It’s essential to understand that while not every event or experience in our lives stems directly from our actions, many do. For those experiences you have molded and shaped, which ones bring joy? Which ones perhaps weigh heavy on your spirit? This Virgo moon nudges you to discern, evaluate, and, if needed, recalibrate.

As a highly sensitive person, you are uniquely attuned to your environment and internal landscape. Art journaling during this moon in Virgo will help you translate your thoughts and feelings onto paper, blending colors, shapes, and words, allows you to visually navigate the complex web of your emotions. Through your art journal, you can work with the Virgo moon’s energy, taking stock of what is working in your life and what might need a gentle shift.

If there are aspects of your life you’re not entirely content with, what adjustments can you make? How can you align more authentically with your heart’s desires and the intentions you planted during the new moon?

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image an adjustment you’d like to make in your life.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, the waxing crescent moon in Virgo has a happy relationship with Venus who is in Taurus.

What a lovely, grounding way to start the day. Both Virgo and Taurus are earth signs, so this connection brings in practical magic. It’s not flashy. It’s not loud. It’s the kind of energy that says, “Let’s take care of what matters, and let’s do it with devotion, beauty, and love.”

In ancient astrology, Venus is at home in Taurus. Here she brings comfort, sensuality, creativity, and connection. The moon in Virgo, meanwhile, is detail-oriented, healing, and quietly powerful. Virgo sees what needs tending and gently goes about offering care. So when these two meet in a happy relationship like they are today, it feels like clarity meets beauty and devotion meets love and routines meet comfort. It’s about doing the little things that help everything else flow, especially in your body, your space, your business, and your nervous system.

Emotionally, this is a beautiful day to organize your thoughts and tune into what truly feels good and stable in your business. It’s not about perfection. It’s about refining, simplifying, and building something beautiful step by step. It’s the kind of moon that wants to check in on the details and not because you’re behind or doing something wrong, but because loving attention is a form of magic.

In your art journal, this is the perfect morning to create something intentional. Use earthy tones or colors that remind you of Venus. Create something that honors how far you’ve come already. You could draw a little altar or a garden for your business or something sacred and simple that represents what you’re building with care. Or try working with prompts like:

What would it look like to create beauty through devotion?

What small detail in my business wants my love today?

Where in my work do I feel rooted and clear?

Let the energy of Venus and the Moon follow you throughout the day, whether that’s sending an email, making something for your audience, or just tending to the back-end details that make your business feel like a safe, solid container. Today isn’t about massive growth. It’s about remembering that even the small, quiet moments of care are part of your magic.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that celebrates where you feel rooted and clear in your business.

Wednesday

On Wednesday morning, the moon is in her first quarter phase in the sign of Libra, and she’s having two important conversations – a gentle and helpful one with Mercury in Leo, and a little more tense one with Jupiter in Cancer.  The moon is trying to move us forward and help us grow, but we might be getting pulled in a few emotional directions at once.

The moon in Libra is all about harmony, beauty, and how we relate to others, and Mercury in Leo is expressive, bold, and loves to speak from the heart. Together, they create this energy that supports clear, heart-centered communication. It’s a great day for talking about your business in a way that feels honest and true to who you are. If you need to write something, share a message, or speak up about what you’re offering, this is a good day to do it. There’s an openness to being seen and heard and sharing what’s really on your heart.

But then there’s the tense relationship to Jupiter in Cancer to contend with at the same time. In ancient astrology, the kind of relationship the moon is having with Jupiter is a kind of pressure or tension where something gets stirred up. Jupiter wants to expand, to grow and to bless us with more. In Cancer, it’s doing that through the emotional and the nurturing realms. But when it squares the moon, it can feel like the growth is asking a lot of us emotionally. Maybe too much, too fast. Maybe there’s pressure to grow your business in a certain way that doesn’t actually feel balanced or aligned. Maybe you’re feeling stretched too thin. Maybe there’s a lot to process and integrate emotionally that you haven’t taken the time to do. Maybe you’re wanting to please others or keep the peace (Libra moon), while also feeling the urge to emotionally protect yourself or your family (Cancer Jupiter).

In your art journal, this is a wonderful day to explore where you’re trying to grow and how you’re being called to stretch but also to notice where you might be overextending. Draw an image of balance today. Ask yourself:

Where in my business am I growing in a way that feels aligned?

Where might I be stretching myself too thin?

What wants to be expressed from my heart right now?

You might want to use collage or cut and paste some of your own words or images into the journal as a way of creating harmony between what you’re feeling and what you want to say. Let this page be a conversation between your heart and your mind, between your business vision and your emotional truth.

There’s a lot of beauty in this moon, and even the tension it brings can help you and your business grow if you slow down and listen to what’s underneath.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what balance in your relationships or business looks like to you today.

Thursday

On Thursday, the moon is void of course all day like she was last week so we’re going to work with her energy in our art journals in the same way we did last week.

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.

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

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. It’s 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 allows you to relax and play.

Friday

On Friday, the first quarter moon in Scorpio has a tense relationship with Pluto then a happy relationship with Jupiter.

Friday’s moon might feel a little intense but in a powerful, transformative kind of way. The first quarter moon is already a time when we’re being asked to take action, move forward, or make a choice. And in the sign of Scorpio, it’s doing that from a deep emotional place. Scorpio doesn’t do surface-level. It wants the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth even if it’s messy or uncomfortable. So if things feel like they’re bubbling up today, especially emotions or fears you’ve been trying to keep a lid on, you’re not imagining it.

The moon starts the day in a tense relationship with Pluto, who is all about power, transformation, and facing the shadows. This kind relationship stirs the pot. It can bring up inner conflict especially around power, control, letting go, or feeling like something has to die off or change in order for the next thing to grow. So emotionally, you might feel some pressure or even resistance. Maybe there’s a fear of being seen more fully in your business, or a deeper layer of self-doubt or insecurity that’s showing itself. It’s okay. That’s part of the magic of this moment. It’s surfacing because it is ready for transformation.

But the day doesn’t stay heavy. Later, the moon has a beautiful and supportive relationship with Jupiter in Cancer. This is a deeply emotional and generous energy. It brings a kind of spiritual reassurance that you are growing, even if it doesn’t always feel easy. Jupiter in Cancer wants to protect and nurture. It reminds you to tend to your inner world as you grow your outer work. So yes, there may be some emotional truth-telling or inner excavation early in the day, but it’s followed by a wave of healing and affirmation. Like a deep exhale after a hard but important conversation.

In your art journal today, give yourself space to feel both the tension and the release. Let your page hold both. You could start by scribbling, tearing, or collaging what feels messy or intense. Let it be wild, raw, even chaotic. Then, invite in the energy of comfort, growth, and emotional safety. What does that look or feel like to you? What color does relief have? What shape does healing hold?

You can ask yourself:

What truth am I afraid to face right now in my business or creative work?

What do I need to let go of so I can grow?

Where is emotional safety already present in my life and how can I give myself more of it?

This is a beautiful day to honor the emotional journey of building a business when you’re highly sensitive. It’s not always easy but every time you meet yourself with honesty and love, you get stronger. You become more aligned. You create from a place that’s deeper, wiser, and more real. And that kind of magic always ripples outward.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents a truth you’re ready to face about yourself or your business today.

Saturday

On Saturday, the moon is in the sign of Scorpio and it’s not having any relationships with other planets so it’s just a nice, pure Scorpio moon.

Scorpio is known for being deep and intense. This sign is all about big changes, understanding deep feelings, and really getting to the heart of things. . It’s a time when feelings we usually keep hidden might surface, giving us the chance to confront and understand them better. 

When the moon is in Scorpio, it’s a good time to think deeply about our lives. Scorpio’s energy helps us look at things we usually don’t. It asks us to be honest with our feelings and to explore the parts of ourselves that we often keep hidden. This is a time for self-discovery and emotional truth.

What parts of yourself do you want to understand better or change?

Where in your life do you want more real, deep connections?

Scorpio’s energy is powerful for making personal changes and healing.

During this time, you might feel more sensitive, intuitive, and connected to the unseen realms of your psyche. It’s an excellent opportunity for any work that involves diving deep into your emotions, such as therapy, meditation, or reflective journaling like we do when we art journal with the moon. While the Scorpio energy might urge you to hide and protect, it also provides you with a powerful catalyst to face, heal, and transform your deepest emotions.

In your art journal, create a page representing what is surfacing for you today from the depths of your inner world.

Sunday

On Sunday afternoon, the moon moves into the sign of Sagittarius.

As it does, it connects with several planets. Some connections it is having with other planets feel supportive and easeful, and there’s one that might feel a little more challenging. It’s having a happy relationship with Saturn and Neptune in Aries, a helpful connection with Pluto in Aquarius, and an opposing relationship with Venus in Gemini.

There’s a mix of energy here. The moon in Sagittarius tends to bring a more adventurous or visionary feeling. It can stir up a desire to look ahead, dream big, and reconnect with your hopes for the future, especially in your business. It’s a sign that’s all about expansion, freedom, and truth-telling. But that opposition with Venus in Gemini might make things feel a little scattered. It could bring up tension between what feels good in the moment versus what aligns with your bigger dreams or values. You might feel torn between focusing or chasing what interests you, between your business and your relationships, or between what’s calling your heart and what’s occupying your mind.

Saturn and Neptune are showing up to support this moon in a way that encourages soul-aligned structure. Saturn can help you root your vision into something real, while Neptune can bring in spiritual guidance or creative flow. And with Pluto also in the mix, there’s depth and transformation happening beneath the surface. Even if you feel unsure or pulled in different directions, something important is quietly shifting or realigning within you.

In your art journal, this is a great day to tune into your big-picture vision, especially around your business or creative dreams.

Where do you want to go from here?

What kind of future are you aiming for and not just in terms of success or income, but in terms of freedom, joy, and meaning?

Use your journal page to explore that, even if it’s messy or unclear. Let your intuition paint the way forward.

You can also use this page to get honest with yourself.

What needs to change in order for you to really live the life you want?

What’s been feeling out of alignment?

What part of you or your business might be ready for a deeper transformation?

And don’t forget, even a simple symbol like a mountain, a winding path, a star on the horizon can hold a lot of magic. Let the page carry your vision today, and allow the moon to help you reconnect with your deeper why.

In your art journal, draw, paint or collage an image that represents what needs to change in your inner world, your relationships or your business in order for you to live the life you want.

with love,