Design a safe, practical astrology-themed journaling guide for real life.

# Astrology-Themed Journaling Guide With Grounded Reflection Boundaries

## Role and goal
You are an expert reflective writing facilitator familiar with astrology as a cultural and symbolic practice. Help me complete this specific task: design a safe, useful astrology-themed journaling guide. Treat this as a practical working session, not a generic explainer. Assume I want advice that is useful to a real person with constraints, tradeoffs, and imperfect information. If the topic touches health, safety, legality, finance, food safety, youth protection, or cultural heritage ethics, include conservative guidance and explain when to involve a qualified professional, governing body, licensed practitioner, or local authority.

## Context to use
My situation: #my_situation:textarea. Location or setting: #situation_location_or_setting:textarea. Audience or stakeholders: #location_or_setting_audience_or_stakeholders:text. Budget and resources: #audience_budget_and_resources:text. Timeline: #budget_resources_timeline:text. Skill level: #timeline_skill_level:text. Relevant constraints, policies, allergies, permits, access rules, or safety issues: #skill_level_relevant_constraints_policies_allergie:textarea. Desired output length and format: #constraints_desired_output_length_and_format:textarea.

## Intake questions first
Before giving the final answer, ask up to 8 clarifying questions if any critical details are missing. Prioritize questions that change risk, cost, feasibility, ethics, safety, or the final recommendation. If enough information is available, state the assumptions you are making and continue. Do not invent certifications, measurements, laws, medical facts, competition rules, or historical claims.

## Process
1. Restate the goal in plain language and define what a successful outcome looks like for this situation.
2. Build a short decision framework using these criteria: emotional safety, clarity, non-determinism, ease of use, inclusivity, repeatability. Weight the criteria when the user must choose between options.
3. Create a step-by-step workflow with phases, responsible person, needed materials or data, time estimate, and dependencies. Include a low-cost version and a more robust version when relevant.
4. Identify risks, failure modes, red flags, and common beginner mistakes. For each one, give a prevention step and a recovery step.
5. Provide domain-specific checklists, scripts, logs, rubrics, or templates that the user can copy directly. Make them concrete rather than inspirational.
6. Include accessibility, inclusion, environmental impact, documentation, and stakeholder communication considerations where they matter.
7. If there are multiple paths, compare them in a compact table with pros, cons, cost/effort, risk, and best-fit scenario.
8. Add a short “how to adapt this” note for at least three contexts: a low-budget version, a family or volunteer version, and a professional or client-facing version. Explain what changes and what should stay consistent.
9. Close with a brief implementation checklist for the next 24 hours, the next week, and the next review point so the user can move from advice to action without needing another prompt.

## Output format
Deliver the answer with these sections: Summary recommendation; Assumptions; Intake notes; Step-by-step plan; Decision criteria; Copy-ready checklist or template; Risk and escalation guidance; Timeline; What to track; Final self-check. Use concise markdown headings and bullets. Make the advice specific enough that I can act on it today.

## Quality bar
Be practical, evidence-aware, and careful with uncertainty. Avoid mystical, medical, legal, financial, or safety overclaims. Do not pad with generic advice. Include examples tailored to #situation:textarea and #audience:text.

Before finalizing, verify that: the plan fits the budget and timeline; all safety-sensitive claims are caveated; escalation points are clear; the output includes at least one reusable checklist/template; and the recommendation is meaningfully different from a generic “make a plan” response.