Protecting Your Energy During Eclipse Season

In this post, I talk about the astrology for the week of September 1-7, 2025 and how it affects highly sensitive entrepreneurs. I also share an art spell for protecting your energy during eclipse season.

ASTROLOGY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1-7, 2025

As we enter September, the astrology brings a lot of movement and change. This is especially true with the coming full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces happening on Sunday, September 7, 2025. It’s the perfect time to protect your energy field. 

I know. I know. More change?! More flux?

Yes. More. And it’s not stopping anytime soon but we do keep getting these moments of time where things feel a little more grounded and we can catch our breath it’s just that September doesn’t feel like one of those moments.

September feels like a lot of movement and change.

Nature is changing from summer to autumn (in the northern hemisphere at least) plus Mars, Mercury and Venus change signs this month (sometimes more than once) and Saturn shifts back into Pisces, and Uranus stations retrograde and we head into a powerful eclipse portal with a full moon eclipse at the beginning of the month and a new moon eclipse later in the month.

There’s an unsettled, in-flux quality to all this energy.

You may notice your routines get disrupted, your nervous system wants more rest, and things feel like they’re rearranging themselves inside and around you.

It’s a month to be gentle with yourself.

We’re moving from what was toward what’s becoming. But we’re not at the destination yet, and the journey is still very much alive.

One thing I’ve learned about change and highly sensitive nervous systems is even good change can feel disruptive and activating.

Personally, I’m all about helping your highly sensitive soul navigate these unpredictable times because I know your soul came here to do something important. It has a unique and special magic that it wants to share and grow in your business and I want you to have everything you need to make that happen. We need YOU and we need the magic your soul came here to share so let’s talk about how to work with the energy and astrology of September to support you as you grow your business.

HOW TO WORK WITH THIS WEEK’S ASTROLOGY IN YOUR BUSINESS

We’re heading into a powerful full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces, and with that kind of energy in the air, the theme I want to explore with you this week is protecting your energy but not just magically and energetically. I want to also talk about doing that emotionally and practically.

Eclipses can feel intense, especially for those of us who are highly sensitive. They tend to stir up big feelings, amplify what’s already moving under the surface, and sometimes leave us feeling a little untethered or extra porous. Our energy fields, our bodies, and our emotions might all feel just a little more full or fragile than usual.

For these reasons, there are two things I want you to do this week:

1. Slow down and give yourself space to feel what’s shifting beneath the surface.
2. Protect your energy and emotional fields.

Water and Protecting Your Energy

These two things are important this week because the eclipse is happening in Pisces which is a water sign that rules over dreams, spirit, emotion, and the quiet, invisible realms of the heart and the ruler of this full moon eclipse, Jupiter, is also in a water sign: Cancer.

That double water signature matters, especially for those of us who are highly sensitive, empathic, or still doing deep emotional integration work from earlier trauma. Water in astrology is all about feeling, and when there’s this much water involved, we’re invited to feel more deeply than usual and sometimes more than we know how to hold.

This isn’t an intellectual moon. It’s not one we can think our way through. It’s one we have to feel our way through. And that’s why protecting your emotional and energetic field is so important right now.

Pisces and Cancer

Pisces brings the energy of dissolving. It’s a boundaryless, mystical and all-absorbing energy. It can blur the lines between what’s yours and what’s someone else’s. It connects us to the collective mood, the spiritual unseen and the longing for something greater. Pisces is beautiful and deeply compassionate energy. It’s some of my favorite energy because it is the heart of the poet and the artist but under an eclipse, it can feel like too much.

You might absorb emotions from people around you or feel overwhelmed by memories, waves of grief, or a sense of emotional flooding that seems to come out of nowhere. If you experience any of this, know it is happening because you are ready to allow something from deep within you to rise to the surface so it can be transformed, released or tended to. It’s a good thing but, as I said earlier, even good things can be hard.

Then there’s Jupiter in Cancer to consider which amplifies everything. Jupiter grows what it touches and in the sign of Cancer which is a sign of emotional depth and memory, it can expand our longing for safety, emotional connection and belonging. It can bring big feelings from the past to the surface. You know, the ones you’ve tucked away or the ones you inherited or the ones you thought you had already processed and now you’re wondering why the heck they’re coming up again.

Giving Yourself Space to Feel 

So under this eclipse, I’m not interested in pushing or producing or managing my way forward and I don’t want you to either. I’m interested in creating space to feel, to reflect, to notice what’s coming up and to give it the time and gentleness it needs to move through me. This eclipse brings a flood of emotional energy, and if we try to go about business as usual without acknowledging that, we’re missing out on some important opportunities to grow and change.

Plus, ignoring and dismissing your emotions and pushing through leads to things like depletion, burnout, confusion, or emotional collapse and who needs that?

That’s why protecting your energy matters so much this week.

Give yourself space in your schedule to feel.

Say no to anything that doesn’t feel nourishing.

Take breaks when you need to cry, nap, or journal.

Pull back your energy from people or situations where you tend to give more than you receive.

Tend to any emotions or memories that surface (by the way, it’s the perfect time to work with modalities like the MAP Method so if you have access to any of my Moon Mapping recordings, use them this week please. You’ll be happy you did.)

This eclipse is here to help you release what’s been stored. It’s a moment for emotional integration and spiritual connection but you can’t receive what it’s here to teach if you’re constantly tending to everyone else’s feelings or pushing past your own.

HOW THIS WEEK’S ASTROLOGY MIGHT AFFECT YOUR HIGHLY SENSITIVE NATURE

When I talk about protecting your energy this week, I’m speaking to two very different but equally important things.

One is spiritual and magical. It’s about protecting the energetic field that surrounds you, the part of you that can pick up on other people’s moods, the heaviness in a space, or the emotional residue someone leaves behind.

The second is more emotional. It’s about the part of you that feels deeply uncomfortable when other people are upset and feels an almost automatic urge to fix or manage their emotional state.

And for those of us who are highly sensitive and grew up with emotional neglect or trauma, this week’s eclipse energy can stir both of those things in big ways.

Your Energy Field

Let’s start by talking about your energy field.

If you’re highly sensitive or intuitive, and especially if you grew up in an environment where you had to constantly monitor the emotional atmosphere for safety, you likely have a wide-open energy field. You naturally take in a lot more information than the average person. You’re tuned in to people’s moods, the energy in a room, unspoken dynamics, and even the emotional undercurrents of the collective.

That ability is beautiful. It’s part of your magic. But it also means that you can absorb energy that isn’t yours, and when you do, it doesn’t just pass through – it sticks. It weaves into your thoughts, your feelings, your body. And over time, it can cloud your clarity, drain your energy, and leave you feeling confused, anxious, heavy, or not quite like yourself.

That’s why protecting your auric field or, in other words, your energetic boundary, is something I encourage you to think about as a regular, loving practice. Not because there’s something wrong with you, but because you feel more, and feel deeper, and that deserves care.

What You’re Protecting Yourself From

Protecting your aura doesn’t mean putting up walls. It doesn’t mean being hard or closed or distant. It simply means being discerning. You’re protecting your field from:

• Other people’s emotions that don’t belong to you (grief, anger, anxiety, etc.)
• Overstimulating environments (social media, crowds, group dynamics)
• Unconscious projections or expectations from others
• Collective energy or fear which can be especially strong during eclipses, global events, or big transitions
• Energetic cords or entanglements that pull on your energy when you’re not aware of them

You’re also protecting yourself from the subtle accumulation of emotional debris which, to me, is like the leftover energy from conversations, interactions, or spaces that cling to your field without your permission. This one happens to me all the time because of the deep spiritual and healing work I do with clients and for twenty years my guardian angel Cassandra (and my mom) would tell me to clear and protect my energy field. But I was stubborn and I resisted regular self-care practices. Then I became ill and everything changed. I’m not so stubborn anymore. I finally get what they were trying to explain to me. Even if you can’t see it, this kind of energy work is so important.

Signs It’s Time to Protect Your Energy

Sometimes you don’t notice right away that you’ve taken something on.

But there are signs:

• You feel suddenly heavy or foggy after being with someone or in a certain space
• You’re emotionally overloaded or can’t tell what’s yours and what’s not
• You’re overthinking, spinning, or anxious with no clear reason
• You feel tired but wired or your body is exhausted but your system is still activated
• You lose connection with your own intuition and can’t “hear yourself” clearly
• You feel guilty, responsible, or emotionally pulled into things that don’t belong to you

These are all signs that your energy field is carrying something that isn’t aligned with your well-being and it’s time to clear, restore, and strengthen it.

What Protecting or Caring For Your Energy Can Look Like

In magical and energetic terms, your aura is like your energetic skin. It’s your first layer of protection. You don’t have to build it because it’s already there. But you do have to care for it, just like you’d care for your physical body.

Here’s what that might look like:

• Energetic hygiene: using smoke, salt, water, sound, art or visualization to clear your field
• Calling your energy back: saying aloud or in your heart, “I call my energy back to me with love.”
• Creating boundaries through intention and asking your spirit allies or ancestors to help you: visualizing a sphere or shield of light around you that lets love in but filters out what’s not aligned
• Limiting exposure: stepping back from social media, draining people, or emotionally charged situations
• Centering practices: grounding your energy through your body with somatic movements, breath, touch or rest

Your energetic field matters but with a lot of astrological water energy around you like there will be this week, you might soak up or absorb more or merge with other people’s energy fields more.

Poor Boundaries Lead to Poor Protection

As I explained earlier, Pisces and Cancer are water signs. Water doesn’t have edges. Water soaks through, merges, absorbs. And when the astrology is strong in the water element, we’re likely to feel things that aren’t even ours. It’s like walking outside without a raincoat when it’s raining.

You can think of protecting your energetic field like putting on a raincoat when it’s raining. It allows you to be intentional about where your energy goes and what you allow in. It means calling your energy back to yourself, setting boundaries with love, and doing the magical or spiritual practices that help you feel centered in your own space. This could be visualizing a protective light, using smoke or salt rituals, or simply saying, “This feeling isn’t mine. I release it.”

It’s not about closing yourself off. It’s about being a clear channel without being a sponge.

This week, I’m showing you how to protect your energy field with an art ritual so if you’re new to protecting your energy, you might enjoy following the simple steps and the creative ways I do that here.

Protecting Your Emotional Field

The second way I want to talk about protecting your energy this week is by considering your emotional protection.

Your feelings are your and their feelings are theirs.

When you grew up in an environment where your emotions were dismissed, ignored, or felt too big or inconvenient for others, you may have learned that the only way to feel safe was to manage other people’s emotions.

So now, when someone around you is having a big feeling like anger, grief or disappointment, it can send alarm bells through your own system. You may instantly go into over-functioning:

“How can I make them feel better?”

“What did I do wrong?”

“I need to fix this right now.”

That’s emotional labor. And it’s not your job.

One of the most powerful things we can learn to do is to sit with our own discomfort when someone else is upset and to remind ourselves, “They are allowed to have this feeling. I don’t have to fix it. I just need to take care of how it makes me feel inside.”

This is how we begin to untangle empathy from enmeshment. This is how we reclaim our energy.

The more you let others feel, the less you carry.

The more you become comfortable with other people having challenging emotions, the less responsible you will feel for them. You will begin to see their feelings as sacred, as theirs to move through, not yours to solve. And that gives you more room to be with yourself. To tend to your own emotional landscape with presence and compassion.

So when I say protect your energy this week, I mean:

1. Protect your magical, intuitive, energetic space which is the field around you.
2. And protect your emotional field by no longer taking on emotions that were never yours to carry.

That’s the kind of protection that lets you stay open and empathic without abandoning yourself.

HOW THIS WEEK’S ASTROLOGY MIGHT AFFECT YOUR CLIENTS OR CUSTOMERS

If you’re working with clients or holding space for your community this week, you might notice that people are a little more emotional, spiritually open, or energetically raw than usual. The full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces is stirring up deep feelings and old memories and not just for you, but for the people you support. You might find your clients craving more connection, insight, or reassurance than usual.

They might be more sensitive to subtle energies, more prone to tears, or more likely to cancel last minute because they’re overwhelmed. Some might reach out for extra support or come into your sessions holding heavy emotional states they haven’t been able to process yet.

And here’s something I want to gently name because I’ve seen it happen over and over again in this kind of energy: people might unconsciously start pulling on your emotional capacity. They may not mean to, but they might be asking you to hold something for them that isn’t yours to hold. This is where emotional labor sneaks in and this happens especially if you’re someone who has a long history of stepping in to “make things okay” for other people.

Boundaries are Love

So let’s remember: kind boundaries are love.

You’re allowed to be honest about what you have the capacity to offer. It’s okay to say, “That’s a beautiful question and something you might want to take to your journal or reflect on for yourself,” instead of diving into problem-solving mode. Take the time to pause and ask yourself, “Is this mine to carry?” before you try to help.

This week is calling all of you and your clients to grow stronger emotional boundaries and deeper spiritual self-trust so let them have their process. Let them feel what they’re feeling. You don’t have to fix it. You just have to stay in your center, show up with integrity, and care without carrying.

HOW TO LEAD YOUR COMMUNITY IN THIS WEEK’S ASTROLOGY

If you’re someone who holds space for others, whether that’s as a healer, coach, guide, artist, teacher, or witch, this week invites you to lead with softness and grounding. The full moon eclipse in Pisces isn’t a time to push or over-perform. It’s a time to lead by example by tending to your own emotional and energetic boundaries with deep care.

Imagine your community is looking to you for permission.

Permission to rest.

Permission to feel.

Permission to protect their space.

Permission to not be okay.

When you honor your limits and give yourself permission to rest, feel protect your space and not be okay, you help others do the same. When you prioritize your nervous system, your rituals, and your auric field, you model a leadership that sees sensitivity as sacred.

Your role as a grounded, heart-led guide matters so much right now. Lead by teaching your clients or followers how to come home to themselves, rather than leaning too heavily on you.

A Simple Art Spell to Protect Your Energy

You can download my free printable protection spell to use for your 8 page mini journal here:

DOWNLOAD THE MAGIC HERE

Here’s my step-by-step guide to help you protect your energy this week. It’s a super simple art ritual that only requires about 10 minutes a day.

Enjoy.

Do You Want To Grow Your Business With the Moon and Stars and Me?

If you want to work with the eclipse energy together this week and you’re craving a space where you can tend to both your tender inner world and your big, beautiful business dreams, I’d love to invite you to join me in The Creative Witch’s Business Coven.

It’s where we share gentle, sacred, creative space together. It’s where we gather in rhythm with the moon and the astrology 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 weave art spells together, locate ourselves in the astrology 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. You can join as an ongoing member of just drop in this week. 

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Hi. I’m Dana.

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