How to Use Vision Boards, Writing & Image-Making to Shape What’s Next
This post was inspired by the dreamy, Neptunian energy of Pisces season and the transition of Neptune into Aries.
Pisces is ruled by Neptune, the planet of dreams, intuition, and the unseen realms. Neptune reminds us that imagination isn’t just daydreaming. It’s the birthplace of reality.
It reminded me that we are the creators of our lives and our dreams and visions are constantly guiding us.
Before anything takes form in the physical world, it begins as an image, a feeling, or a quiet knowing, and certain moments like the beginning of a new astrological year, a new moon, or any kind of transition invite us to tune into that more intentionally.
Everything begins as a vision first.
So I wanted to share a few simple ways you can work with your imagination and begin shaping what you’re calling into your life, not just during Pisces season but anytime you find yourself at the beginning of something new.
As you read along, I invite you to consider:
If nothing was holding me back… what would I create next?
Three ways to work with this dreamy window
Before jumping into any visioning practice, it can be helpful to slow down and quiet the mind first.
Neptune and Pisces speak through subtle channels like intuition, imagination, and feeling. But those signals are easy to miss when the mind is busy trying to solve everything.
The mind likes certainty, while intuition tends to arrive in images, feelings, and quiet knowing. When we create a little space and slow down, those signals become much easier to hear.
As the mind settles, inner wisdom has a way of rising naturally.
This is why practices like meditation, journaling, or even the simple act of gathering images for a vision board can be so powerful. They gently move us out of analysis and into a more intuitive state where new possibilities can surface.
The Pisces New Moon invites us to dream a little bigger than we normally allow ourselves to. To imagine beyond what currently feels realistic. Sometimes the mind immediately says “that’s impossible.”
But often that’s simply the edge of what we’ve allowed ourselves to believe is possible.
Creating a vision board or writing your dreams down can help bypass that inner gatekeeper and reconnect you with what your heart and intuition already know.
Below are three simple ways you can explore your visions whenever you find yourself at the beginning of something new:
Create a Vision Board
Dream Writing
Practice Image-Making
1. Create a Vision Board
Entrepreneurs, athletes, and creatives often use visualization to clarify their goals and stay aligned with their intentions. A vision board is simply a collection of images, words, and symbols that represent what you want to experience in your life. Think of it less as a strict goal-setting exercise and more like creating a visual language for your future.
Step 1: Clarify your focus
Choose a theme for your board. It could represent the next year, or a specific area of life such as:
Home
Career or creative projects
Relationships
Travel or lifestyle
Personal growth
Step 2: Gather images intuitively
Set a timer for about an hour and collect images that resonate with you.
You can do this digitally (Pinterest or Canva works great) or physically with magazines, photos, or sketches.
Don’t overthink it. Let your intuition lead. Often patterns and themes begin to emerge naturally.
Step 3: Add words or quotes
Supplement images with words, phrases, or colors that capture the feeling of the life you’re calling in. A vision board is less about specific outcomes and more about the energy you want to live inside of.
Step 4: Place it somewhere visible
Print it out, take a photo of it, and put your board somewhere you’ll see it often. Let it gently remind you of what matters to you.
Step 5: Spend a few minutes with it
Every so often, pause and imagine yourself already living inside this vision. Visualization is powerful because your nervous system begins to recognize it as possible.
2. Dream Writing
If collage isn’t your thing, writing can be just as powerful.
Set a timer for 10–15 minutes and allow yourself to write freely about the life you’re calling in. Don’t edit yourself and don’t worry about whether it feels realistic. The goal isn’t to plan the future. It’s simply to let your imagination speak.
You might explore prompts like:
What visions are trying to come through for me right now? What might my imagination be trying to show me?
How would I love my life to look a month from now? Six months from now? A year from now? At some point in my life?
Write a description of the person you are becoming.
For example, for me: Lately I’ve had strong visions around creating a series of online courses and one day having gorgeous land where we can host our own workshops and retreats. I’m planning to make two separate vision boards for these this week and maybe do a little writing afterward as well. Sometimes these visions arrive long before we understand how they will unfold.
Let yourself dream and write without censorship.
Often the most interesting insights appear once the logical mind relaxes and the deeper imagination begins to take the lead.
3. Practice Image-Making
There’s another practice I love that comes from a book called You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor.
You can listen to the audiobook for free on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufHIk5W_JBo&list=PLVuv8qtX5I89QNpuK5xI2tFaK2I0Pa43z
And specifically Chapter 3, “The Image Maker,” here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFdOTeTHH_k&list=PLVuv8qtX5I89QNpuK5xI2tFaK2I0Pa43z&index=3
In Chapter 3, the author describes human beings as “image makers.”
Before anything exists in the physical world, it first appears as an image in someone’s mind.
Someone imagined the first chair before building it.
Someone imagined flying before airplanes existed.
Every invention, home, business, and work of art began as a mental picture.
As Napoleon Hill famously said: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Imagination has always been the first step of creation. In that sense, we’re all mental architects of our lives.
This practice is simple:
Take a few quiet moments and form a clear picture in your mind of something you’d love to experience or create.
See it. Feel it. Imagine yourself already living inside it.
You can practice this:
in the quiet moments right after waking up
during meditation or after drinking your morning cacao
while journaling
before going to sleep
or anytime your mind is calm and receptive
One idea from the book that I love is:
writing a short description of your vision on a small card and reading it throughout the day.
You might begin with something like: “I now see myself…”
The goal isn’t to force anything into existence, but simply to keep your mind oriented toward the life you’re creating, rather than the problems you’re trying to escape.
As the author puts it:
“Keep your mind on a higher image rather than a lower concern.”
Everything we create begins as an image first.
Sometimes the future reaches us first through imagination. (Neptune)
A small example from my life
Over the years I’ve created many vision boards, though it's honestly been a while.
What’s always amazed me is how often they show me pieces of the future before I fully understand them. Sometimes the images represent things I consciously wanted. But other times they point to something that only makes sense later.
Years ago, I made a board about my ideal home environment. At the time, it felt more like a dream than a plan. See it here:
Made in November 2020
But over the years I’ve noticed pieces of that vision slowly appearing in my life. Some showed up in multiple temporary homes I lived in after I moved out of Brooklyn, significant friends’ homes, and continuously taking shape in my current home here in Catskill.
Just in November last year a friend donated to me a whole bunch of their furniture and it was all right out of my vision board, rugs and all.
Looking back at those boards now, it almost feels like they were little glimpses of what was waiting ahead.
That’s part of the magic of working with imagination.
Often we can sense where life wants to take us long before we understand how we’ll get there.
My 2023 Vision Board
Your Invitation: If you feel the call, carve out a little time to dream.
This is step #1. Otherwise, trust me… it won’t happen.
Make it an Artist Date with your future.
Start with 1 hour to pull images. Maybe give yourself 2 hours.
You don’t have to figure everything out. Sometimes the most powerful step is simply allowing yourself to imagine something new.
If you do one of these practices, I’d love to hear what emerges for you.
What are you dreaming about for this next chapter?