Episode 176

176: Designing for Gemini Season: Lightness, Curiosity & Connection in Your Space

Published on: 20th May, 2025

🌬️ Designing for Gemini Season: Lightness, Curiosity &

Connection in Your Space

Welcome back to the Holistic Interior Design Podcast! I’m Rachel Lorraine Crawford, your host and designer. In this episode, we’re tuning into the vibrant, airy, and curious energy of Gemini season—a time of mental stimulation, adaptability, and deep connection through communication.

We often feel the urge to shift our spaces without quite knowing why—and Gemini season gives us a beautiful reason. With the Sun moving into this mutable air sign, we’re invited to embrace design that’s light, playful, and dynamic—just like Gemini energy itself.

In this episode, I guide you through:

  • How Gemini season energetically impacts your space and mindset
  • The core traits of Gemini and how they translate into interior design
  • Practical tips to bring airiness, movement, and mental clarity into your home or hospitality setting
  • Ideas for incorporating sound, scent, texture, and tech to support Gemini’s playful and communicative spirit
  • What kinds of communal spaces, materials, and experiences reflect Gemini’s dual and curious nature

You’ll leave with:

  • Ideas for creating conversation zones, flexible layouts, and multi-use spaces
  • Ways to refresh your space with unexpected colors, mirrored surfaces, and natural textures
  • Suggestions for Gemini-inspired rituals, like sound clearing or creating curiosity corners
  • Examples of Gemini-aligned commercial spaces

Whether you're a Gemini sun, moon, rising—or just want to ride this energetic wave—you’ll find ideas to uplift your home, creative practice, or hospitality space.

I'd love to hear how you're tapping into Gemini energy this season!

Leave me a voice message with your thoughts or questions via our Ask a Designer Hotline at speakpipe.com/hid — we may feature your message on an upcoming episode!

Remember: Gemini reminds us that design doesn’t have to be fixed—it can be playful, evolving, and responsive. So try something new, explore a fresh idea, or simply open your windows and let the breeze shift the energy. You’ve got the support of the cosmos behind you.

Until next time, stay curious and stay connected. ✨

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About the Podcast

Holistic Interior Design Podcast
The people, spaces, and rituals shaping intentional design
Welcome to Holistic Interior Design, a podcast exploring the people, spaces, materials, and rituals shaping the future of intentional design.

Hosted by interior designer and creative director Rachel Crawford of Tiger Veil, this show goes beyond aesthetics to examine how thoughtful spaces influence emotion, connection, hospitality, wellbeing, and experience.

Through conversations with artists, makers, hoteliers, founders, and creative visionaries, alongside behind the scenes studio stories, design audits, seasonal rituals, and weekly reflections, Rachel shares a holistic perspective on designing spaces that feel as meaningful as they are beautiful.

From boutique hotels and restaurants to homes, wellness spaces, and immersive brand experiences, Holistic Interior Design is for creatives, founder operators, and anyone drawn to spaces with depth, story, and intention.

Topics include:
• hospitality + boutique hotel design
• sensory experience + guest psychology
• artists, makers, and material discoveries
• rituals for the home and workplace
• Feng Shui + energetic alignment
• wellness and intentional living
• storytelling through interiors
• founder journeys + creative process
• behind the scenes of a design studio
• emerging brands shaping the future of design

The best spaces don’t just look good.
They change how people feel.
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Rachel Crawford

Rachel is a Mystic, Reiki Master, Tarot Reader, Feng Shui Practitioner, Energy Healer, and Holistic Interior Designer, whose intimate connection to her intuition and ancestral roots enabled her to rise above a challenging childhood and blossom into the powerful and impassioned healer she is today.

Committed to empowering others by teaching modalities that support connection to intuition, Rachel hosts workshops and retreats focused on the ancient practices of Feng Shui, Tarot, crystals, herbs and oils, ritual and ceremony, astrology and metaphysics — in addition to live and virtual new moon and full moon circles.

Rachel also lends her harmonious and balancing acumen to the creation of energetically aligned spaces through Holistic Interior Design. Since earning her Associates Degree and Certificate in Interior Design 2005, she has created and collaborated on a multitude of award-winning residential and commercial spaces, including Realm of the 52 Remedies (with Onairos Design), all while becoming certified in Classical Flying Stars Feng Shui through the International School of Feng Shui (2015), studying the practices of Land Healing, Ritual, and Ceremony under Amanda Sophia & Alex Stark in Ireland, and with "House Whisperer," Christian Kyriacou.
Rachel's work has been featured in several exhibitions, including KAABOO, a music, comedy, culinary and art festival held in Del Mar, CA, where as part of an experiential art installation by Carly Ealey and Madeleine Tonzi, she created a crystal grid below the piece, clearing the participating auras before entering the installation. Her designs have been published in San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Modern Luxury Magazine, San Diego Magazine, Exquisite Weddings, Style & Decor and Serendipity Magazine.

You may also connect with Rachel on a regular basis through Patreon, where she is is creating Mystical Rituals and Sacred Spaces, providing Tarot Readings, and nurturing spiritual connections.

Her Interior Design Projects can be found here Tigerveil.com