Q: How will the soul listen to its inner needs? Cultivate self-intimacy, contentment, the poetry of life?

 

Letting your inner alien land on earth. Set foot here safe in knowing he is among friends.

To be in the world completely but completely not of the world. As a no-bullshit doing in the everyday. 

Enjoying the sweet and innocent truth that in honestly nurturing one, yourself, another, you are nurturing the whole of Indra´s net. 

Be a passerby+Smile encouragingly at yourself as your neighbour. 
-Gospel of Thomas, etc.

Meditation practice like zazen,sitting down, staying put, following the breath eyes half closed. Enjoy the cool, paradoxical experience of inner detachment actually fostering closer contact with the world/yourself.

Beautifully said.

Flying one´s freak flag/one´s Joe Blow one. Quietly letting yourself be freed from giving much of a toss about what people say.

Feeding on and passing on yummy freaky far-out ideas through alternative creative media. Mainlining cosmic electric chi in stable surroundings.

Allow yourself to pass further back in memory than the ancient cataclysmic traumatic events (collective/individual).
Even to a prime thought/logos of the beginning, and end - which are now .

Yes to all. Though the last line is a bit far out there for me. I think the essence of what you are pointing to is being able to reconnect with physical embodiment, whereas Venus Aquarius 2nd might be dissociative due to trauma linked with physical survival/ personal safety. Please read Marija's post and my replies if you'd like to see a more full reflection on this. 

From what you shared, you have a essential grasp of this archetype.