I Talk to Planets
I Talk to Planets is your gateway to Planet Channeling—a journaling and visualization technique that turns your astrology chart into a personal hotline to the cosmos. Author and astrologer Claire Gallagher brings this intuitive art to life with tips and practices that make cosmic conversation feel easy, vibrant, and wildly useful for everyday life.
I Talk to Planets
Your Astrological Brand Identity with Miranda Braithwaite
Do you have a brand that doesn’t really feel like you? I’d be willing to bet that astrology is the missing piece. Today we’re chatting all about how your astrology chart informs your perfect-fit brand identity with my business bestie, Miranda Braithwaite.
Miranda Braithwaite is the creative director behind Moonstone, a brand and web design studio helping female founders grow their businesses with clarity, confidence, and style. Through her signature Moonstone Method, Miranda and her team blend astrology and strategy to craft holistic brand identities that feel like home and call in your dream clients.
Miranda’s website: https://moonstonecreative.co/
Follow Miranda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonstonecreative.co/
- 00:00 Intro & our favorite Planet Channeling beverages
- 04:03 Why astrology articulates your brand better than anything else
- 08:39 How Miranda started combining astrology & design
- 11:50 The astrology placements that impact the visual aspect of your brand
- 16:46 The astrology placements that impact the strategic aspect of your brand
- 20:11 Mercury and brand voice
- 24:20 Common design mistakes entrepreneurs make
- 30:19 Which planet to channel about design decisions
- 34:44 How Miranda’s used Planet Channeling in her business
- 37:19 The Midheaven as your brand’s special sauce
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Claire: Hey, astro lover. Welcome back to I Talk to Planets. This is Claire Gallagher, your host, and I am thrilled about another guest episode we have on the podcast this week. Today we're going to be talking to one of my best friends, honestly, in the universe. Her name is Miranda Braithwaite. And you know Miranda, you just don't know that you know Miranda, if you've been around my work for a while, you may remember a little something.
Gosh, when was it? 2017, 18. Um, a little something called Moon Pages. That was a project that Miranda and I did together. Miranda did the design, I did the writing. It was a match made in heaven. And although we aren't talking about moon pages today, and that's a project that will probably never materialize again.
May it rest in peace. We are talking about the intersection of astrology and design, specifically astrology and branding, and I think you're going to absolutely geek out over Miranda's work. Miranda Braithwaite is the creative director behind Moonstone, a brand and web design studio helping female founders grow their businesses with clarity, confidence, and style.
Through her signature Moonstone method, Miranda and her team blend astrology and strategy to craft holistic brand identities that feel like home and call in your dream clients. That sounds like a dream to me. So I hope you enjoy this episode. It's going to be fantastic. You're gonna be so inspired and I'll talk to you after.
Hi Miranda. Welcome to I Talk to Planets.
Miranda: Hi Claire. Thanks for having me. I feel like it's a long time coming.
Claire: It is a long time coming. I am so very excited to talk with you today, all about astrology and design, our two favorite things put together. Um, so I'm just giddy about this. Thank you for saying yes, and something I love to start with, with everyone.
You know, because I have so many guests on the show is. Is, what is your favorite planet? Channeling beverage and notebook, because that's very important.
Miranda: Yeah. Um, well, beverages, it depends on the time of day. If it's morning coffee, if it's afternoon coffee. Anytime before 2:00 PM it's coffee. Um, and if it is evening, which honestly usually it is, when I am running like the cla method of planet channeling, it's nothing because I can't drink water or anything too late at night.
So. We're just drying out. Yeah.
Claire: Yeah. That's where we are in life. Yeah. Got it.
Miranda: Yeah. Um, notebooks, I go through way too many notebooks in a year to get really fancy ones, so it is whatever's on sale. A dollarama. I
Claire: love that. I love that. We're two peas in a pod. There
Miranda: on sale is like, obviously that's not relevant in a dollarama, but I do have stipulations.
It has to be spiral bound. And it has to be kind of big because I have huge handwriting
Claire: Really?
Miranda: So I like space. Yeah.
Claire: Are you a lefty?
Miranda: No.
Claire: You are not. Okay. I am.
Miranda: Are you?
Claire: Yeah. I was hoping you were in that club with me, but that's okay. No, we forgive. I love that. Okay, so we're. Right. We're on the same track with the, the cheap notebooks for planet channeling.
I love that. Mm-hmm. And we're on the same track with the coffee, like, because it's the best. You're
Miranda: back.
Claire: We're back baby. We're back.
Miranda: We could have a whole separate podcast chat just about the coffee journey,
Claire: just about that journey. Yes. But we will refrain.
Miranda: Stay
Claire: on topic. Yeah, we're gonna stay on topic as best we can, which is gonna be hard, but I wanna know.
Well, I know, but I want our listeners to know why we should care about astrology when it comes to brand and design, because it's not something you hear about a lot, and you're kind of on the cutting edge of this. So I would love your inside scoop. On why it matters.
Miranda: So branding is. My job as a brand designer is to get to know you and your business inside out so that I can create something that really reflects the experience of what it's like to work with you and capture that value and translate it visually in a way that it's going to.
Attract your ideal client. I work mostly with, I work solely with women who are the face of their brands. Whether the business is their name or something else. They are the face of it.
Claire: Okay.
Miranda: Um, so their personality is a huge part of the brand. They don't want to attract people who aren't gonna jive with their personality, who aren't gonna get their method.
So it's all about creating that alignment. And to do that, I really need to understand who you are and to deliver something that's gonna light you up and make you feel seen and excited and confident going out there and sharing your brand. Because like this is your main marketing tool, like this is where everything is gonna stem from.
So you have to love it and to tap into what's gonna make you love it and strategically connect with all of your goals. I have just found astrology to be such a valuable tool because. As humans, we are not the greatest at explaining what makes us special, what makes us unique, like it's just so in us that it can be really hard to articulate that.
And the branding process usually involves some kind of intake questionnaire or survey or interview where we ask a whole bunch of questions about you and your business. Lots of fun questions in lots of different ways, and I do this too to kind of pull that information out of you and get to know you better.
Um. But it's, it's really only based on what you can consciously explain. Mm-hmm. And as designers, we kind of like read between the lines and we'll talk to your customers and we'll research your competition and all of that. But when I started using astrology as a tool to get to know my clients on a different level, the results of my work just skyrocketed.
Like, people were so happy with the results. They were so excited to know that their brand. Had that extra level of meaning.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: And depth to it. Mm-hmm. And so it's not only really a fun way to approach branding, it has really helped me connect with my clients on a different level and help them feel more connected to their brand.
Claire: There's so much about that that I absolutely adore. And one of the things that you said that really struck me was like. When you do a branding questionnaire, it's really like only the things you can consciously explain, but when you're using the astrology chart, you get to tap into parts of the business owner that maybe they don't even see, but they resonate with on a really deep level.
So when they see the brand, it's like they recognize themselves in the brand, even if they couldn't explain it to you with words. I think that's extremely powerful.
Miranda: It is. Yeah. You said that brilliantly. It is like that aha moment of like, oh, that's, that's what I couldn't articulate. I get that a lot with people, like they really have a hard time articulating.
What's, what's working, what's not working and why, and visuals are so emotive like it, it is hard to explain art and explain creative choices and why they make us feel the way they do. So it's just this sort of like. Whole other language that we can speak to each other.
Claire: Yeah. And it, I am, I know from firsthand experience it adds so much depth and dimension to the work that you do.
Um, I can't imagine you doing it any other way at this point. And so I would love to go back in time and hear a little bit about how this happened. Like what's the origin story? Why did you start doing this in the first place?
Miranda: So I started small. Um, the reason, so I've, I've always been fascinated by astrology since I was a little kid.
Mm-hmm. Really thought it was cool that I was a Pisces Sun, and what does that mean? What does that say about me? Always loved personality type tools to help us get to know ourselves and other people. Better. And that to me, what astrology really is for. That's what I love it for. Um, so I was always fascinated and drawn to it and.
Probably around like 2016, I was in my early thirties and having one of those like, is this it? What am I doing with my life? Kind of spirals about my career, about my relationship, about like a lot of things that were going on in my life and astrology started. I don't know how it just like got kicked up a huge notch in my life.
I think I honestly took a workshop with you
Claire: really.
Miranda: Some kind of course, like I think I just started researching more. Yeah. Astrology, tarot, all of these other things. I started being like, why have I like kind of lost touch with this? And maybe this will help me find answers. Basically just started building a spiritual practice.
Claire: Mm-hmm
Miranda: And it helped me so much tap back into who I wanted to be and who I wanted to work with, and who I really was inside, and how to feel confident. Realigning with her. So it helped me and I thought, why not use this to help other people? So I started small in my business and we would just like offer astrology readings as part of the intake process.
Um, but at that time I wasn't really designing the brand, using the astrology as a huge inspiration. It was more like. The astrology will help you with your business ownership side of things. And we would use it to, um, to cast like Electional charts for launch dates,
Claire: which is
Miranda: great. And people loved that.
Yeah, people loved that. Yeah, it was super fun. Um, but then over time over, this is like. Five years ago or something. And over the last five years I've started to just integrate it more and more and more into the design process. And as you know, I've been for the last while building this framework where it's like, it's the process.
Mm-hmm. Um, you know, I have like over 10 years of experience designing brands. The strategic, traditional way. And so now I've been melding those two things together to build a framework that's my own. Um, yeah. And it's just like, yeah, going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole and it's going so well.
Claire: I would love, if you don't mind to dive into the framework a little bit because I'm sure.
Those who are listening or watching are just like, oh my God. I need to know. I need to know. So when it comes to a personal brand, I'm assuming you are using the natal chart for that as opposed to a business chart for a personal brand. Is that right?
Miranda: That's how I do it. Yeah. Perfect. But I do think it's like.
Totally valid to use the businesses chart, especially if there's multiple founders, if you're in a partnership. Okay. But yeah, my clients tend to be solo. Like they're, they're the, the brand, so we use their natal chart.
Claire: Okay, perfect. And so what, I mean, you don't have to give it all away, but what does, um, like what parts of the chart do you think are the most visually represented, um, when you use your method?
Like what parts of the chart do you look at first?
Miranda: Yeah. So, um, I love to look at the rising sign for visual inspiration and the chart ruler, the sign that the chart ruler lives in, in the chart.
Claire: Nice.
Miranda: So those two together. And so they kind of. They get melded in a way. So you will never just have a brand that's all about one sign.
It's going to take flavor or spice as they kind of usually say to like put together the whole recipe.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: Um, and the balance of where that lands, it has a lot to do with where you're at in your business, what your business model is, what your offers are, who your customer is, um, that will inspire the balance.
And then the other parts of your chart that I look like, look at like your sun sign, your moon sign, your midheaven. Um, sometimes just by talking to someone and getting to know them, you can tell that those. Parts of the chart are really strong and need to also be kind of integrated into the design. So I have this framework of places that I look and then it's just like, I guess more of an intuitive process of like getting to know them and feeling out their business and really understanding what their goals are to find the right balance of how we put that together.
So it's, it's still quite strategic and like that whole background I have in. Traditional brand strategy and design is very much integrated with it. Yeah. So it's just like bringing these tools together. But yeah, to answer your question for visuals, I would say the rising, the rising sign is the place to start because that's like sort of what you, what you are perceived as, how people perceive you and, and generally in my experience, how we kind of identify the most ourselves.
Claire: Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that. Um, especially like if you're thinking about your brand as like, hello, my name is Claire and meeting someone for the first time, um, I come across as Sagittarius. That's how it works. And you come across as Libra that. How it works. And so it makes perfect sense to me at least, that you would lean on that zodiac sign for a lot of visual inspiration.
But I think it's really cool and um, really like spot on from a technical standpoint that you also look. To the chart ruler and the sign that it's in, because that's really gonna change. Like how a SAG Rising is gonna present, or how one Libra rising will present differently from another Libra rising. So I think that's fascinating.
Miranda: Mm-hmm. And like if we didn't do that and we didn't take into account what your business was looking to do and who you like to serve. Like every Libra brand might start to look the same, you know? Right. And I never wanna design the same brand twice. So there's so much nuance involved. And that's where I would say like the, the professional design experience really comes in is like, what are the different ways we can express this energy visually?
Um, and where can we pull in? From other parts of the chart, like if you have a stellium, I can't ignore that, even if it's not in a sign that's like. Technically in the framework, you know?
Claire: Yeah, absolutely. So it's a, it's a system, but it's still very much personalized to the client, it sounds like. Yeah.
'cause no two charts are the same. They're so unique. Um, how about like. I know there's so much more to branding than just what you see on the surface. Um, what about the more strategic pieces of the brand or, um, the things that you work on as a designer that maybe people don't really think of as branding?
Are there parts of the chart that you look at for those, maybe less visual but more strategic places?
Miranda: Yeah. Um, so for me it's the moon sign that tells us a lot about how you might wanna set things up behind the scenes.
Claire: Cool.
Miranda: Um, a lot of my, one of like the things that lights me up the most about branding is thinking about like your funnel, your sales.
And you know, branding's such a vague, broad term, right? There's so much involved. But one of the biggest things that we talk about in branding is who is your target audience? And you know, we want to make sure that whatever we create is going to capture their attention and call them in.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: And I think the moon sign has so much to say about.
Who you wanna work with because it also has so much to say about what you need to feel safe and secure and supported inside your business. So for example, if you're a person who needs to. Doesn't like long term containers, for example. Like if you want to get people in and out of your process, quick results, like maybe an Aries moon.
Claire: Yeah.
Miranda: Um, you are probably not gonna wanna attract somebody who needs a six month handholding relationship of high touch one-on-one support, so we can dig into some real nuance of who your ideal customer is by looking at your moon sign that goes beyond. What do they do for a living? What gender are they?
Where do they like to shop? Like that's all stuff we look at too. But those like basic demographics, we can go more into the psychographics and like the type of offer that will make you excited. I've been saying lately like your ideal client is the client who respects and values your needs based on your moon side.
Claire: That's, uh, like a mic drop moment because I typically, like in business Astro, we think about the seventh house. But the way you're describing this really sells me on the idea of the moon is describing also the ideal person who will respect you in the work that you do, and having more of those people will make you feel fulfilled and happy and safe in your business.
All those things that the moon. Needs to feel nurtured and, and even so that, um, that's eye-opening for me. That's a really unique spin, but I think it's, sounds pretty solid and awesome.
Miranda: Oh wow. That's like high praise coming from you.
Claire: I'll have to think on that for myself. You know, as an Aquarius Moon individual.
Um. How that lands for me. So that's homework for me to think about. Um, but that's really a neat spin. Um, is there anything else strategic? Like what about, um, like we hear things, we hear this word messaging all the time, or voice all the time. Are there parts of the chart that you look to for that?
Miranda: Yeah, so for brand voice, I feel like mercury is the most obvious choice.
Um, and this really clicked into place for me when I started looking at my own chart in this way, um, because, you know. You can have a really like, nurturing offer or a very spiritual offer. Mm-hmm. But that doesn't mean you need to talk about it very softly or, um, you know, I'm the word floating escaping me.
Yeah. Like, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like poetically. Um. And if you try to do that, because that's how you've seen other people talk about spiritual offers, you are not going to feel very authentic and you're gonna come across as being inauthentic and creating content is gonna be a struggle.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: So, um, you know, for example, my Mercury's in Aries, so I have a pretty emotionally, kind of like artsy offer.
But I like to be as specific and to the point and direct about it as possible. Like I like very clear, like don't give me jargon.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: Make the sentences as short as you can, like just spit it out kind of thing.
Claire: Mm-hmm.
Miranda: Mm-hmm. Um, and so I feel like when you understand your Mercury sign, it kind of gives you permission to just like.
Write the way you speak and let your brand message really reflect how you would just like talk to somebody in person. And I think that's a huge mistake that people make is they, they try to like sound too academic or too polished when it's like, we just want you
Claire: to
Miranda: be you.
Claire: Like a big insecurity that I have, I'm just gonna out myself right now, is that I.
Uh, um, I am not long-winded. Like I don't talk a lot and I don't just go on and on. I can't just go on and on and on about any topic or any astrology part of the chart. You know, that's just not how I roll. I'm very like succinct and efficient and, um, I also have my mercury in a fire sign, which can be really like expressive, but it's typically like.
This is, just give it to me straight, you know?
Miranda: Yeah. I said
Claire: what I
Miranda: need to say.
Claire: Yeah. I said what I needed to say and um, in astrology at least, there's a lot of poetry and a lot of like being able to describe the symbolism for many minutes and I'm just like, yeah, no, I can't do that. Sorry. I
Miranda: really
Claire: love
Miranda: the, I think that's one of the reasons freedom.
That's why I resonate with your work so much. I think because it is like clear.
Claire: Well, thank you and I agree like the same with your work and even I can feel that Aries Mercury come through even in the way you write your newsletters, like there's so much value in what you're writing, but it's very short.
They're never like novels. They're very clean, very clear, very, um, digestible, but you still get a lot out of it. And so for any of you out there that are worried, you're, you don't have enough to say or as, not like as much as someone else like us Fire, mercury. We appreciate that about you.
Miranda: Yeah, look at your mercury sign.
And less is generally more, I think when it comes to marketing copy. We are so inundated with content and so if you can get your point across more quickly, no matter where Mercury in your chart, like we all really value that like
Claire: we do,
Miranda: we, we value that. So don't be afraid to be short.
Claire: Yeah. Speaking of, uh, things that we might need to tweak and do a little better, I have a harder question for you, and that is,
what do you think? Everybody, flip your hair, take a sip, get ready. Um, what do you think are some of the bigger mistakes that. We entrepreneurs who are not designers make when we're DIYing our design. I know you could probably write a book on this one, but I'd love to hear what comes to mind first.
Miranda: Um, I could write a manifesto on like the technical things.
Sure. As you know, I knew this question was coming and I overthought it to death. Um, there are so many technical things that you study as a designer, so I just wanna say that first of all, like I think that because of. Of tools like Canva, like it is great that design is accessible to people who are starting businesses and just need to start.
Yeah. Um, but the tool does not make the expert or the pro, the camera does not make the photographer, so I cannot sit here and nit. That like DIY business owners, DIYing, their own creative are like not using typography or white space in the way that I would as a trained designer.
Claire: Sure.
Miranda: So there's tons of that and just know, I just think that's important to know, like there's a lot that goes into creating a layout that is going to communicate your message effectively.
That said, I, I totally understand why people just need to get started and a lot of people just like playing around with design and they don't have time or funds to hire a designer, and that's fine. So my answer to this question is twofold. The biggest mistakes I see are DIYing for too long. Hmm. So I think once you can afford to delegate design, you should, because especially if it's not your sweet spot or your area of genius, um, take that time back in your business and focus on your offers in your clients in the bigger picture.
Like give that to a pro and focus on moving the needle in other ways. When you can and not different for everybody. The second thing I think is just like consistency. So what is the word is consistency. Um, it's really just like so much more simple than we make it. Use the same font for your headlines every single time.
Claire: Okay.
Miranda: Use the same spacing. Use the same background colors. Pick one or two background colors and always use them. Use the same color for your buttons every time. I think that we tend to get a little bored of our own design, and if something doesn't land on social media, we jump to like, oh, it must be the design.
I need to fix the design.
Claire: Right?
Miranda: No. Becoming recognizable is so important and try switching up the messaging. Maybe the messaging is more likely why the design didn't land. That's not to say design doesn't play a part in it. It plays a huge part in it. But being consistent is going to go a long way towards people being able to recognize when they're scrolling through and we're getting inundated with all that stuff.
Like, oh, that's Claire. I know I like Claire. I want to see what Claire has to say. And if you're changing your fonts and your colors every other day. I'm not gonna know it's you. I'm not gonna stop. Right. 'cause we just are moving so quickly.
Claire: Right.
Miranda: So I would say being very, very consistent and if you're bored of your fonts and your colors and all of that.
That's partially a good thing 'cause it means you're being consistent and it could just mean that your brand is lacking a little bit of substance. And that's where working with a designer can really help because we can create things like custom patterns and icons and textures and photo treatments so that you can have more variety within your consistency and build out.
More of like, um, a, a cohesive experience mm-hmm. Rather than like you're posting the same template over and over and over again.
Claire: Yeah. Yeah. Those are great tips.
Miranda: Is that
Claire: an okay
Miranda: answer?
Claire: Yeah. Great. I mean, I really resonate with both of them. Um, first, like, design takes forever for me. It's not my zone of genius.
And as soon as I can outsource it. I outsource it, um, and I can spend my time writing or doing readings or something else because gosh, good lord, it took me forever to design a real cover and it wasn't even good. You know what I mean? So it's just,
Miranda: I'm sure it was beautiful. It
Claire: was, you have a
Miranda: eye,
Claire: it was fine.
I used my brand colors and. Um, I use the same fonts and I contin I will continue to use those fonts because I heard your message. Consistency is the key. But yeah, it's so hard to be recognizable, um, in this day and age, and that really sells me on consistency. You're talking to someone with Uranus on the ascendant who gets bored really easily, so it's always a good reminder.
Um, okay, so. We all love planet channeling here, and I'm sure people are like itching to start tweaking their design right now. I love how we can use planet channeling to make all kinds of decisions in our business, and that extends into design, I would imagine. Um, of course, hire a designer. And, and talk to your friendly planets about design.
Who do you think? Like if we're picking a planet to talk to you about our brand, is there a planet that comes to mind or do you think it would be different for everybody?
Miranda: That's a tough question. It might be different for everybody.
Claire: Yeah.
Miranda: Um, but I would look to your chart ruler.
Claire: Solid.
Miranda: So the planet that rules your rising sign.
Because from a design point of view, the rising sign is where I would start.
Claire: Yeah.
Miranda: Um, but like you could probably also look to the planet that rules the 10th house.
Claire: Ooh.
Miranda: A career. Um, and Venus is always lovely. Um,
Claire: yeah.
Miranda: But I can see certain situations where Venus would not be the strong, like it could depend on your, I think you could do this in like, like what kind of business do you have?
Like if you have a fitness business, you're a coach and you're all about like movement, maybe Mars,
Claire: right?
Miranda: So it could depend on your industry and. It could just depend on like what specific question you're asking. So
Claire: yeah,
Miranda: I think we should just like play around with that and
Claire: yeah,
Miranda: and see, like I would, I would assume that if it's not the right planet for your question, you're just not gonna get very satisfying answers and then you could move on.
Claire: Yeah,
Miranda: for the next one, but I'm curious to flip that question back on you. What would you do?
Claire: What do I do? Because sometimes I need, all the time, I need design help. I agree with the chart. Ruler. I would start there and then. I like your answer about Venus, but it depends on your industry. However, Venus is also my Midheaven ruler, so mm-hmm.
I think for me personally, asking Venus would make sense, and so I'd probably sit both of them down and have a conversation with both of them. Um, but I think for the, the listeners, I think starting with the chart ruler. Makes a ton of sense or, and or if you have planets in the first house that really steer the car of your life, they could be really interesting to talk to as well.
'cause they're definitely gonna affect how you come across as an individual and therefore your brand as well, I would assume so. Everybody's play with that's.
Miranda: Play with that. Report back.
Claire: Report back. Let us know. Let us know. And speaking of, it's funny
Miranda: though.
Claire: Go ahead.
Miranda: Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to like jump off your point about the Midheaven ruler.
Yeah. Because one of the most powerful planet channeling experiences I had was asking Venus and my Midheaven ruler to have a conversation
Claire: and
Miranda: I took your tip. Which everybody listening, if you haven't done this, do this. Ask them to talk to each other while you go to sleep and then in the morning journal on it.
And I feel like that was so transformative. I love that exercise. I think you took us through that in another podcast episode. Um, but yeah, the midheaven ruling planet and Venus together.
Claire: Yes.
Miranda: That's like a powerhouse combo.
Claire: Yeah, that's an amazing combination. Um, yeah. I love making the planets work for me while I'm asleep.
That's the
Miranda: best, the best
Claire: tip ever. That's the best. I'm so glad you did that. And, um, that leads me into the last thing I wanna talk about with you is like, have you used planet channeling in your business? And, um, if so, like how have you done it?
Miranda: Yes, I have, um, this is a newer concept to me because you just sort of introduced it to me recently.
Um, so I've just been dabbling, but I, I have not planet channeled anything to do with design because that's just like,
Claire: you've got that in the bag
Miranda: on a cellular level, it's in me. Um, but it did help me shape my framework. And make decisions about how I wanted to set that up. Um, and it also gave me some pretty powerful answers about some, it helps me remove blocks.
So whenever I am doing any kind of journaling and planet channeling included, I'm usually trying to figure out how to remove a block or how to simplify something that I've over complicated for myself, because that's my mo. Um, and. I've had amazing results. So just like every other aspect of astrology, it's just, it's a really nice way to like crack open some part of you that you've built some kind of wall or shell around.
Mm-hmm. And get to the, like, heart of the story of like, why, why is this? Belief, why am I holding onto this? Can I let this go? Can I look at this differently?
Claire: Yeah.
Miranda: I feel like coming at it from, so it's like the least specific example I could give you. That's great. But yes, I have, you gave me, I have used it.
Claire: You told me that it helped shame your shape, your framework, which is. Really amazing because your framework is really amazing and that's how I like to use it too. I love to planet channel, like when I'm designing a service or designing an offer and I ask certain planets to help me like name it or break it up into sections, like you can get really technical with planet channeling and ask it to do all kinds of things.
So I love that it helped you shape your framework and solidify that. So Miranda. Is there anything else you need to tell us about astrology and design that I have forgotten to ask? Because there's so much we could say, but otherwise I've loved talking with you.
Miranda: I mean, you asked such good questions.
Claire: Well, let us know where we can hire you and where we can follow you.
Miranda: I will say one thing. Okay. Let's talk about one more thing. I'm ready. Um, so. One of the things that. We really want to do in branding is set you apart from other people in your industry. And so I think that the midheaven is something that people are talking about a little bit more now, but it's not the most popular place to look like.
Everybody talks about your rising sign. Everybody talks about your moon sign, but your Midheaven sign is a really powerful place that you can go to for advice about. Particularly marketing because this sign is all about how you're perceived by the public and how you show up in your career. And, um, so I I say it's like your professional aura.
So if you're struggling to figure out what makes me unique, because I think that's one of the toughest questions that anybody can answer about themselves. Hmm. Um, I would look at your mid heaven qualities and know that some of those qualities might be things that you feel, either you take them for granted, um, or you might've even been.
Like scolded for in the past or like critiqued for and buried and been maybe slightly ashamed of. But those things are your superpowers in branding. 'cause we really want to amplify the stuff that makes you weird, that makes you unique, that makes you memorable. And in my experience, the mid heaven answers a lot of that.
So I love looking there for that kind of, kind of, um, tidbits of information.
Claire: That's awesome. And if your midheaven feels foreign to you, like raise your hand because it feels foreign to me. Like I have a Libra Midheaven and I just don't see it. And so maybe that's something. Uh, everybody else sees except for me.
And so I really love what you are saying about it might have been something that I was shamed for or I was told not, not to present. Um, that, uh, deserves some planet channeling there, some digging into it. But yeah, I totally agree that. Midheaven is like that special sauce that you bring to whatever it is that you do.
Um, and I love that you bring it into design. That's super amazing. So, Miranda, let us know where you live on the internet.
Miranda: So my website is moonstone creative.co and I'm on instagram@moonstonecreative.co. Um, yeah, that's where you can find me. Yeah.
Claire: Yep. Everyone go follow Miranda. She posts the most beautiful things and, and they're always so helpful too.
Um, even if you can't do design right now, like you'll get so many tips and so much inspiration. So make sure you give her a follow. Miranda, thank you so much for chatting with me today. I love you. You're the best. I love it. I appreciate you. Yeah, it was so much fun. We did it. Bye, everybody.
Miranda: Bye.
Claire: All right, Astra lover.
Thank you so much for listening. I hope you really devoured that episode. There were so many good nuggets in there. If you want to learn more about Miranda, you can visit her on the socials@moonstonecreative.co or online@moonstonecreative.co. I'll talk to you next week.