A beginners guide to stargazing in the creative cosmos
What if your creative idea - that flicker of a thought, the repetitive whisper - already has its own knowing?
What you seek is seeking you.- RUMI
When I first began writing poetry, my process was mostly linear. A line would come to me, then came the wrangling - trying to shape it, force it, and make it fit some pre-imagined form.
Often it ended in frustration and feelings of ‘not good enough’, and work that lacked soul.
Over time, I began to trust that what arrived was not just an idea, but the beginning of a relationship with something alive, not yet visible, but full of its own intelligence.
The more I leaned into that belief, the more joyful and satisfying my creative practice became.
I ended up writing a whole collection of poetry with the other-than-human world.
Our creative ideas already exist in some unseen realm and long to be known and co-created with us.
This might sound woo woo to many of you. Hear me out.
All it takes is a night under a dark sky to remind you that you’re part of something immense and unknowable. When you witness the vastness of the night sky, you feel your smallness and your belonging.
Creative projects are celestial in nature too.
They begin as flickers - glimmers of light on your inner horizon.
They shift form, orbit, and shine depending on where and when you meet them.
They have gravity and frequency - a pull that’s uniquely theirs.
They can’t be forced into form too soon.
Some elements appear only briefly - like a comet or a dream.
Their map can only be drawn by you.
Your creative project already knows what it wants to become. What if you softened your gaze and slowed down enough to listen?
I’ve reimagined my creative practice as a celestial journey and I’m sharing it in the hope that it helps folks explore the creative cosmos and find their own dark sky, wherever they are.
Meeting and Mapping Your Creative Project is a gentle, celestial journey into a kind of listening that allows the mystery. An invitation into co-creation with what already lives in the unseen sky of your imagination and the creative cosmos.
Through visualisations, presencing practices and reflective writing exercises, it’s an invitation to:
✨Meet your project as a living presence - not a product, but a relationship to tend.
✨Sense its unique energetic blueprint - its pulse, gravity, and design.
✨Learn to chart its constellation - the symbolic landscape that only you can see.
✨Listen for its voice through feeling, dream, image, breath, and intuition.
✨Create in collaboration, not in control - with reverence, reciprocity, and sovereignty.
✨Clear space from cultural noise and light pollution so you can see clearly again.
✨Practice devotion to the pace of presence - slowing down enough to let your project speak.
Your project or poem or piece of music is already forming, like a constellation. You don’t have to name it too soon or force clarity.
In a world full of noise, urgency, and need to know right away, sometimes it’s hard to see what’s truly there. To create from presence, not pressure.
Like stargazing, all we need to do to begin is soften our gaze, let our eyes adjust to the darkness and then the stars slowly reveal themselves.
You can read more about the course HERE.
I’d love to know about your creative practice. Does it feel celestial in nature too?
With love, Amanda
I love this so much, Amanda! With my oracle decks, I felt like they existed somewhere already and that my job was to listen and translate how to bring them into form here. I’m going to try your course for something new I’ve been wanting to explore.
So beautiful! Thank you Amanda. ✨