julia bray

hot take 🔥 wanna move your energy with me during this potent astrology? IRL Portland workshop at @thisiswoowoo on Saturday April 18 from 3-5 pm! $40. 🔥🫀🔥 online mini version of the workshop Sunday April 19 3-4 pm PST. $11-25 sliding scale. Dm me for link! ❤️🔥❤️🔥 phew.

** UPDATE: class will be April 12- June 7 with a skipped class on May 17!*** Hi Portland baby ballerinas!! 🩰🪽🩰 I’m so excited to be bringing my ballet classes to the city of roses this spring starting with an 8 week cohort April 12-May 31 🌹!! I started ballet around the age of 2-3 and never stopped twirling! By the time I was 12 I was spending 6-7 days in a dance studio training to become a professional. I’ve used my ballet technique throughout my career as a performing artist: whether in an off broadway musical or teaching little ballerinas in Tribeca (I created a curriculum and lead a ballet program for 5 years)—Miss Julia loves to dance! 💕🪽🩰 I have 15+ years experience working with children in the arts teaching theater, dance & acting. My ballet classes for kiddos are facilitated through creative play & song, utilizing the ritual of repetition that ballet does so well! Designed for all genders, ages 18 months-4 years old, I cater to wee one’s sense of awe, wonder & joy with fun props, games & movement. My classes build balance, coordination, confidence & a strong mind body connection in young bodies. Sunday Mornings April 12-May 31 @ Reveal Studios in SE Portland ✨18-24 months: bb & me!! 9:45-10:15 am Sunday this class is designed for the littles to familiarize themselves with ballet movement in a safe & fun environment full of song & connection! caregivers are required to dance with their ballerinas 🫀 ✨10:15-11:00 am:: 2-3 year olds!! this class brings more autonomy and more dance moves, focusing on creative play & song. Caregivers are invited to dance with or watch their ballerinas. ✨11:00-11:45 am:: 3-4 year olds!! this class introduces more technique & longer dance combinations emphasizing creative storytelling with the body, continuing with fun songs & props! this class is a drop off your ballerina experience. Tuition is $200 for the 8 week session. Class size is limited and we are have only two spots left in our 3-4 class! To secure your spot please DM or email [email protected] and put down a $50 deposit. 💗 can’t wait to dance with your kiddos!! xoxo miss julia

this Pisces mercury retrograde has been confusing & foggy but at the same time outrageously clear. I am typically a person who overdoes it with divination, especially with big decisions. I’ve really worked on it, and my guidance is often strict with me (repeating the same card three times when I ask the same question etc etc) but that doesn’t mean I always listen. this year when 2026 dawned I asked the iching about living into the best//most aligned chi//energy pattern. it said, with no changing lines: FOLLOW THE DIVINATION PRECISELY. so often I get guidance and I toss it out for my own. For my comfort, for my own obsessions, for my own fixations, for my own analysis, for my own addictions to certain feeling states, certainty as I know it. Earlier in Pisces season I did divination over a certain tense situation & it told me exactly what to do. I felt the familiar relief & clarity in the AHA, and then after a few days went to throw coins again. I couldn’t find them. They had disappeared, truly, out of thin air. FOLLOW THE DIVINATION. then, during Mercury rx in Pisces, I traveled internationally, alone with a toddler to follow the gut path that had been laid out for me. i managed to leave my computer, iPad, and all of my tarot & oracle cards at my sisters. big feelings came up upon my return home and instead of turning to my cards or coins to give me an answer, clarity, or guidance i had to FEEL my FEELINGS first. then i had to listen to and validate myself. then i had to meditate. then I had to listen to my guides and trust my visions. this is all to say that this is what spiritual discipline looks like for me this month. oh, and making food & eating it regularly. what about you???

and on that note, as I’m thinking about the cancer full moon, it is not just trine the north node in Pisces but inevitably in conversation with the south node in Virgo. we’ve been traversing this nodal axis for a while now, inviting our tight grip on shadow Virgo tendencies to loosen—the illusion of perfection, criticism as a currency for change, thinking our way through every detail without a moment made for the feeling. I always say shadow Virgo is like giving yourself a bad haircut: you just keep cutting to get it right and it ends up looking fuuuucked because you are so sure the next chop is gonna be the one. Pisces north node says: don’t let the next chop be the one. let THIS ONE be the one. (We’re not promised tomorrow, we’ll take you messy and as you are, you don’t need to change to be loved etc etc all we have is now blah blah yes Pisces yes) we talk about care, we are not talking about fixing. can you care for yourself without the compulsive need to fix yourself? Pisces is like …who…is the you….that needs fixing????

nourishment is a spiritual gift that keeps on giving and giving. The care you received from those who loved you lives on in your chi & in your body & in the systems you build to now care for yourself and others. burning out is not an option for our earth, nor is it an option for your body. take care of yourself & each other 🌕🤍🌕

thank goddess I have a sister, thank god she’s my literal best friend!!!!!!! happy birthday to you Eleanor @hot_cool_yours_eleanor , a comedic muse, a rock, the kindest & most loving human, my favorite weirdo, a creative force, a hot and cool person who I always look to for fashion advice (and anything else relevant in the world), the best auntie, the most loyal and generous and caring sister I could ask for. I love you so much!!!!! you deserve the world. 🐰🫶🌈 ps I love seeing how gay I’ve always been by looking at these photos, that first outfit? Queer icon!!! Pps I had to mute the choreographed Christmas number to not get copyright flagged but for all those who care to indulge its “Santa’s coming to town” by Justin Bieber 🫶 Ppps it appears I did not succeed in muting Justin :(

to honor Venus ruled libra season, some Venus content for you. If you’ve ever wanted to known what my Venus in Pisces (dreamy, longing, wishing,merging, spilling over, mythical, infinite compassionate chaos) in the 8th house (intensity, raw, private, exposed, pain, control, surrender, power) looks like, here she is: dreamy and troubled, the last unicorn standing on the edge of a cliff, mysterious and beautiful, screaming. it’s so lovely and gratifying to aesthetically explore your planetary placements. there are so many ways to do it. One prompt I love for Venus is to think of a fairytale or movie character that you most admired & loved as a child, and draw it back to your sign. mine was Cinderella! it’s extremely Piscean to have your bff’s be field mice & birds, to be constantly dreaming up a better life that’s just out of reach, to long and long and hope and wish your way out of an abusive situation, to cry to a fairy, to have a magical gown made of auric dust, to be a grand illusion that a prince falls confusingly into, to have to face reality when the bell tolls, and then to have a delusional happy ending. other prompts could include: what song would your Venus be? what style of visual art? what taste? What meal? what climate? what texture or fabric? what sound in nature? what style of dance? what poem? what writer? what actor? what gift would they give at a birthday party? 🌙☁️🫶

happy full moon in Capricorn. Tonight I’m thinking about discipline. I grew up a ballerina, so discipline was my middle name. i used to play a “game” where I’d use a deck of cards to workout as a 9 year old. If I pulled a 10 of spades, I’d do 10 pushups. 7 of clubs? Battements & relevés. etc. I did this for one main reason: I wanted to be so technically proficient that I could actually feel free in my movement. so highly trained, that I could actually release into the presence of impulse that is dance. it is similar to why I train as an actor: the satisfaction of knowing my lines & motivation inside and out so that once I’m on stage I can simply listen and respond and play . to this day the repetition & ritual of the structure of a ballet class (barre, center adagio, petit allegro, grande allegro) is profoundly satisfying. It builds on itself, just like Capricorn. it is through the simplicity of returning to steps over and over and over and over again that allows the ballerina to come alive & actually breathe life into the movement. it is such an incredibly precise art form, so Saturnian (the planet that rules Capricorn). this full moon I am wishing you a relationship to discipline that is filled to the brim with love & devotion. to love something does not mean you always WANT to show up, perform, practice, or follow through. It means you do so, within your capacity, as an act of devotion to your own freedom & expression. we can work with Saturn, the planet of discipline, as we embark on our daily rituals. you can invoke him as an ally, you can pray to him, you can create an altar, you can request his help and loving accountability. you can build a relationship to practice that is free from punishment, and full of kindness. I wish this for you. what are you practicing lately? what has discipline given you?

wow. Being mommy. I’m my favorite version of an animal I’ve ever been. the biological imperative of consistent devotion to our children born from the matrix of our own body is so beautiful. it’s a superpower. I am stronger, gentler, wiser and humbler than any other version of myself. I have infinite care for this being who came from my body. And, I pray for it to extend to all humans, all children & all creatures who didn’t come from my flesh! may there to be no separation between my children and yours, or my body and yours. may the false borders we have carved into the earth dissolve outwardly and inwardly. may our hearts break open in Gaza, in Sudan, in Congo-in every corner of consciousness, may we feel our humanity. me too god damnit-what do I do in the face of this horror? my first words as a mother, to my baby were “I hear you”, as she cried. i hear you, mothers and children of the world. I hear and see your pain and triumph and agony and beauty.. I hear you and will spend my time on this planet listening & sharing. Sharing the energy, the time, the joy, and the CARE that I’ve received as a resource that I’ve been given. I’ve been thinking a lot about biological resources-we are given so much from our ancestors, and we do not all come in with the same qi or the same opportunities for organ function, vitality, and life. it’s just reality. so, with that being said, I truly hope I can take the blessings of a fruitful, relatively healthy body with strong energy and transform it daily into care for others; my baby, my friends, my community, and beyond. thank you to the mothers in all forms. to be mothered is to be sustained. to give sustenance to others is a cosmic miracle. Soy todas las mujeres que me cuidaron. I am all of the women who have taken care of me. As are you. so, have you mommy worshipped today??? why stop at today? Jai ma!!!! 🤲📿🤰🪷🌈🪽 photo by @jphansonphotography

I reached 11 years of sobriety from alcohol and was so busy parenting I forgot to celebrate! the thing I’ve learned the most out of these 11 years is that sobriety has little to do with the substance these days and everything to do with honesty. what is the extent at which I’m willing to be honest with myself & others? Which to me also translates as, how willing am I to feel the full breadth of my experience? with my little one I’ve been thinking a lot about feeling in fullness—about the way we as a society reward good babies for good behavior rather than honest behavior: raw anger or grief or wildness is deemed a handful and quickly behaviorally managed, shushed, fixed or squashed. to no one’s fault, I have a hard time with these three emotions myself. I have learned, particularly as a woman, it is preferable to be uncomfortable in my own experience and try to squash my own feelings down in order to prioritize others comfort and desires. you could also read that as my perception of safety lies in the ease of others emotional experience (ahem libra moon problems) when we are fundamentally unsafe to be honest with ourselves about what and how we are feeling, we aren’t able to directly and safely share it with others. which essentially makes us liars. real intimacy with myself and others requires what can feel like tremendous vulnerability & the willingness to no longer be ashamed of what is true within us. even if it disappoints others—especially if it disappoints others! I say all of this to say that substance use can be a really effective tool to help mask and protect you from uncomfortable feelings (and ultimately needs). but to quote our lordess Chappell, “you’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling”—as in, it’s impossible. here’s to practicing the cringiest feeling in the world: being honest when it’s not convenient for others 😭 💗🫶 there was a time where it would’ve taken 1,000 drinks for me to tell the truth, and now, just a couple of deep breaths will do. if you ever want to talk about choosing to change your relationship to alcohol, I’m here for you 🪽🍸🪽

you might have noticed that I didn’t do a Black Friday Astrology sale this year & that’s because…mommy got a new job!! ☁️ for the next 13 months I’ll be partnering with airbnb to curate extremely cool experiences in my hometown Portland, OR. I’ve always been a creator & producer & connector & community builder, so this job fits me like a glove. plus, I get to work from home next to my baby, and go out into the world with her to see you all & help you create the offerings your heart desires! pretty dreamy ☁️🙃☁️ here for all your ideas re:quintessential things ppl NEED to do while visiting Portland! iconic people who are passionate experts in their field they NEED to take tours with/classes with/meet with. inquire within if that’s you or you know someone!! re: astrology—I’ll be writing and sharing my thoughts casually on this platform (haven’t yet given into getting a Substack), and giving 3-4 readings per month at this time. my energy is pretty limited, so if you’re wanting a reading- book now! I may do a winter promo in a couple of days with a limited amount of gift certificates for sale so you can still give your holiday readings to loved ones at a lowered price ❄️ lmk if that’s something you would appreciate! Pictures by @beyond.the.black.window @jphansonphotography ☁️🙏🏻❄️

yeehaw 💗I’ve had the honor of giving two readings since giving birth and it feels so nice to continue being a portal in all the ways! my books are open for solo & couples readings this fall & winter. a nice disclaimer that if you book with me you might have the honor of being interrupted briefly for my baby to latch, or you might not! she’s lunar ruled so 🌛🤷‍♀️🌊 I will also be starting up mini recorded Astro readings at a sliding scale ($25-35) beginning at next week’s full moon in Aries. These are 10-20 minute personalized recordings giving you a run down of how that lunar cycle is affecting your chart that month. They go fast & I have limited capacity so if ya already know you want one, dm me! 💎🌊💎🌊💎 thanks for the continued support. sorry it’s a hell scape out there. do let me know how I can help. love from your witch mom 💗💗💗