Astrology as Inner Territory Language Writing Prompts
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We're writing together! This is a call to everyone within Wild Soul, not just the ones who call themselves writers. Tapping into the Soul of Poetry is only one way we carry our Inner Territory work out into the world around us. So, even if it's just for 5 minutes a day, I invite you to sit down and write as a ritual, as an evolving mapline, as a way deeper into the churning, alive, dark, cosmic sacral sea of your own soul.
Here's what you need to know:
1. All first drafts are shit. They’re supposed to be. The shit is fertilizer, and we are looking to create something that is ALIVE and dirt-soaked and ancestral and brimming with possibilities. We are not interested in sanitized writing.
2. Early editing is weed killer to the most medicinal of our words. If we edit too soon, we’ll choke the life out of the most potent of our soul’s growth. So we’re going to do our best not to edit as we write. There’s always time and space to come back and edit later.
3. You can’t mess this up. You don’t even have to ever let anyone else read it. But there is no right or wrong. There is no good or bad. And, if you want to share your pieces inside the Signal chat or on your socials/Substack, I would love to celebrate every single word you've drawn from that ancient ancestral well. But what you do with it is entirely yours.
4.We are writing from the Astrology as Inner Territory Language class with Rae Monterra. If you haven’t caught up on that class yet, we highly recommend it. It will change the way you look at astrology and at your many parts of Self. These prompts will make a lot more sense if you’ve learned how to read your natal chart from Rae!
The Map
When you look at your natal chart as a map instead of a verdict, what changes in your body?
Rae taught us to hold our placements differently, to not forge them into rigid absolutes or as an inflexible destiny, but instead to experience them as an inner mapline. When you sit back and look at your entire chart through that lens, what changes? What happens in your body? Where does it happen? How do you begin to start looking at yourself - the entire complex soul system that is you - differently?
Where We Are Most Alive
Which part of the wheel feels most alive for you right now: the houses as rooms of life, the planets as inner parts, or the signs as the way a part expresses?
In what ways are you beginning to feel the greening force spreading through your inner terrritory, through your relationship with Self? Where does it feel most accesible to rethink astrology as an intimate language between you and the larger whole? Whether the houses, the planets, or the signs, write into that specific piece of your own inner map.
Begin to Rewrite Every Placement
Choose one placement in your chart. What sentence can you make from it? My ___(planet)___ part ___(planet verb)___ in a ___(sign)___ way, especially in the ___(house number)___ house area of ___(house meaning)___.
Now write it again, but in your own language. As a statement, a poem, a paragraph - whatever calls to you.
Translations
When you translate that sentence into plain human language, what does it help you understand about your actual life?
Take what you wrote in your own language and carry it further. What does it say about you? About your long story (a phrase coined by Perdita Finn)? What does it change about the way you’ve been telling or interpreting your life?
The Universe Speaks Back
What question does this placement want to ask you?
Taking everything you’ve done so far, allow the planet, the sign, the house to speak back. What are they asking? Allow them to speak as a part of Self would - with curiosity, dignity, collaboration, and a deep intent to love and help you.
