Orion Wells — Poet & Stargazer

Orion Wells is a poet, stargazer, and the most lyrical voice on the MPA team. He is the author of Letters to the Cosmos, a collection of prose poems written as correspondence with the night sky, and he brings that same intimate, image-driven approach to every piece he writes for the site. Where other contributors explain, Orion evokes. Where they analyze, he illuminates.

Specializations

Orion’s writing for MPA focuses on two domains:

• Dream symbolism and interpretation — exploring the imagery that surfaces in dreams, with attention to emotional tone, recurring motifs, and the personal mythology that each dreamer builds over a lifetime of sleeping and waking
• Horoscope writing — daily, weekly, and seasonal horoscopes that treat the genre as something more than fortune-cookie predictions, grounding each forecast in actual planetary movement while maintaining the emotional resonance that brings readers back

Background

Orion grew up in the rural Pacific Northwest, in a house without cable television and with a clear view of the Milky Way. He started writing poetry at twelve, studying star charts at fifteen, and has never been able to fully separate the two pursuits. He studied literature and philosophy at Reed College, where he wrote a thesis on the astronomical imagery in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.

He has published poetry in several literary journals and spent two years teaching creative writing workshops that used astrological archetypes as writing prompts — an approach that proved surprisingly effective at helping students access emotional material they had been avoiding. He came to astrology through mythology, to mythology through poetry, and to poetry through the simple experience of lying in a field at night and feeling the sky press down like a question he could almost understand.

Approach

Orion writes for the reader who comes to astrology or dream interpretation not for answers but for the particular comfort of feeling seen by something larger than themselves. His prose is rhythmic and image-driven, built around metaphors that earn their place by revealing something the reader sensed but could not name. He does not simplify and he does not rush. He trusts that the reader came here because they wanted depth, and he delivers it with the patience of someone who has spent decades watching the sky and is no longer in a hurry.