I almost quit this course during week two

Week 2: Artist's Way — and then something shifted

Apr 23, 2026

I almost closed the book for good.

The whole week is about making space for your inner artist, protecting your time, examining what’s blocking you. And I kept reading thinking: I have all the space. I’ve been living in the space for years. I moved to a small island. I have nothing but space.

So what exactly was this course trying to tell me?

Then I landed in LA. And I understood.

my leo moon is begging for attention 🌝

Michelle, who is leading this Artist’s Way book club as a co-founder of Lora and their resident astrologer, pairs each week with an astrological sign and planet. Week Two is Leo and the Sun.

I have a Leo moon. It’s actually the one sign in my big three that for years I’d dismiss. Genuinely didn’t resonate with it.

Apologies to my moon for the neglect. Aren’t we glad we’re evolving?!

This week made something very clear: she is ready to be amplified and activated.

A Leo moon doesn’t want performance. It wants what the sun does naturally: to radiate fully, without apology, and be celebrated simply for the light it brings.

Sitting with the book club this week I realized something significant: I have spent the last couple of years creating almost entirely alone. Cooking alone. Writing alone. Adventuring alone. Painting alone. Dancing alone. Just me and my inner artist hanging out and playing every day while my partner is at work. Comfortable and happy, genuinely having the best time — but doing it quietly. Not hidden exactly. Just not actually visible or out in the world.

Something in me this week just went — ohhh. I see what’s happening here.

It is time to be visible. Time to go out into the world. Time to let the light actually land on someone.

the energy was already moving before I realized it

It is often said that when you commit to a container, before the real work even begins, the energy starts moving through you. It did and I had set myself up for this course without even knowing it.

A few weeks ago I felt a strong intuitive pull to return to LA. Three weeks, almost completely open schedule. I booked everything within 24 hours of the realization. All the logistics landed with ease.

I arrived in LA after a few sweet days in Newport Beach, where I grew up. A comfortable landing — sweet friends, family, familiar environment. The kind of visit that fills you up before something big.

And here I was. Back in LA.

LA was where so much ignited for me. My education, my career, my confidence, my sense of what was even possible. It’s loud and crowded and always happening. After eight formative years here, I traded it in for quiet island life — years of slowing down, reshaping, reflecting, getting very still and very honest with myself.

Now I’m back. Same city, genuinely different person.

It doesn’t feel like a homecoming. It feels like something is waiting to be activated. The possibilities feel open and endless — like a room where someone just flung all the windows open at once. Every day I feel excited to eventually return to Kauaʻi, and I also know without question that this is exactly where I’m supposed to be right now.

An activation is coming. I can feel it in my bones.

I came into Week Two thinking the medicine might be somewhere else. I’m leaving it understanding the medicine was never going to arrive the way I expected.

It never does ;)

The course isn’t inviting me to make more space or reconnect with my inner artist. It’s asking what I’m actually going to do now that I have the space and a deep relationship with her. And the answer that keeps surfacing — Leo moon and all — is: stop creating in secret.

Which feels equal parts exciting and terrifying and exactly right.

Where in your life are you creating in secret — and what would it look like to finally let it be seen?