Soft, Earthen Futures
Soft, Earthen Futures is a podcast about imagining and crafting a more whole world. It explores what it means to stand at the threshold between what has been and what is trying to emerge, tending to that in-between space, listening for what the earth is dreaming through us, and giving those visions form. The show is for wild-hearted creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. It is hosted by founder, story doula, and eco-somatic depth guide, Daje Aloh.
Episodes
Visionary Archetypes for Worldbuilding
If you are someone who feels “called” to build a vision in the Western World and you know that that calling is coming from somewhere deep inside yourself, you are also asking big questions about what it looks like to survive doing it. How do you earn enough to stay afloat as the economy shifts and tightens around us? How do you build sustainably when the ground beneath us is shifting?Turn
Worldbuilding in a Dumpster Fire
I know that the world is burning, but personally, I’m not someone who has ever been able to surrender myself to any particular end-of-the-world-mythology.The reasons why are because:I don’t want to give the technocrats that much power. I believe that the world is always ending and beginning again. And perhaps we find ourselves in the midst of a greater cosmic order that is older and bigge
New Moon Eclipse in Aquarius
The Cup of the Water Bearer is Spilling OverI believe eclipses aren’t isolated events that happen to us in one moment.Rather, they’re energetic, ouroboric fields containing a theatre of archetypal forces that reveal our hidden material and shadow. They offer us swells of data meant to reveal truth. Eclipses are neither good nor bad. They are inflection points of sensation and data. Some e
Becoming a Dream of the Earth
On healing our relationship with fantasy and the imaginal realm. This episode is a spiritual and philosophical meditation on the interconnection between human consciousness and the Earth's dreaming, with a focus on imagination, desire, and our capacity to become conduits for the Earth's creative vision for herself.
Grief as a Doorway with Melissa Word
In this episode, I sit down with artist and death midwife Melissa Word to explore grief as a doorway into the vast field of creative, visionary, and even erotic information that lives at the core of the psyche. We talk about what it means to retrieve these scattered parts of ourselves—the aspects of self that have been lost across timelines, memories, events, and family systems—and bring
The Creative Rites of Winter
Winter is a complex season that calls us into something far deeper than simple rest—it invites us to cultivate our mythopoetic identity, the soul-level essence of who we are here to be.In this episode, we explore Winter through the lens of the four directions and how this season asks us to tend our inner fires, build psychological containment, and step into a quiet kind of leadership that
The Creative Process as Initiation
On Monday we discussed Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship and how the mythopoetic entrepreneur is here to engage their visionary process at the level of the soul. Practically speaking though, what does this look like? How does one begin the process of pulling up the stories that want to be born through you and bringing them into form in a soul-alive way?In this episode, we explore the journey o
New Moon in Scorpio, Gate 14
This New Moon in Scorpio is a portal of reclamation. With Mercury retrograde, Lilith retrograde, and powerful trine support from Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Ceres, this lunation asks the most uncomfortable question: What are you compromising on?Where have you been going on side quests instead of following your soul's path? What vision is on your heart that you keep making smaller, safer
What is Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship?
What does it mean to build a business from the level of the soul? In this episode, we break down the term "mythopoetic entrepreneurship", exploring what it means to “embark” upon creating new stories, new myths, and new constructs on Earth.Mythopoesis comes from two Greek words: mythos (story) and poiesis (creation of something new). When we bring these together with entrepreneurship, we'
Full Moon in Taurus, Gate 2
Join Daje Aloh for a solo episode exploring the Full Moon in Taurus happening November 5th in Human Design Gate 2, the Gate of Receptivity. After an intense eclipse season and challenging transits, this moon offers a warm reprieve, inviting us to slow down and receive through the body.Gate 2, emerging from the G Center, embodies the pure yin principle and the structural foundation that ch
The Ecology of Your Online Presence
What if your online presence isn't a brand to be managed, but an ecosystem to be tended?In this episode, we explore a radically different way of thinking about your work online. Instead of treating your business as a personal brand that needs to be optimized, controlled, and broadcast to the masses, what if you understood yourself as a node within a living, breathing digital ecosystem—pla
Rewriting Your Digital Philosophy
We're standing at an incredible threshold as a species. The astrological landscape—Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius—is telling the story of massive technological transformation. Whether we're ready or not, AI, digital infrastructure, and rapid technological change are here.This episode is about acknowledging a hard truth: opting out isn't really an option anymoreBut that doesn't mea
When Instagram is a Crazed Bazaar
In this episode, host Daje Aloh pulls back the curtain on what's really happening between creative entrepreneurs and Instagram. This isn't about making you feel bad for using social media. It's about having an honest conversation about how the platform has changed, how it affects our nervous systems, and why your resistance to showing up online might not be about your "capacity for visibi
How to Be Strategic without Losing Your Soul
There's a fear that lives in the bones of wild-hearted entrepreneurs: If I get too strategic, I'll lose the magic. So many of us swing between extremes—spending months in pure intuition waiting for clients to materialize, then overcorrecting into hustle mode only to feel hollow and disconnected. But what if you didn't have to choose between strategy and soul?In this episode, I introduce t
How to Quiet-Quit Social Media, pt 3: The Six Phases of Worldbuilding
In this episode of the Soft Earth and Futures podcast, host Daje introduces the six phases of world building—a foundational framework for creative entrepreneurs ready to build their businesses beyond Instagram's algorithm.If you're tired of spinning your wheels on social media tactics that drain your soul, this episode offers a different path. Daje breaks down how to structure and grow yo
New Moon in Libra, Gate 50
Join hosts Daje James and Sarah Belpedio for a deep exploration of the New Moon in Libra at Gate 50, which happened on Tuesday, October 21st at 5:24 AM Pacific Standard Time. This powerful lunar event marks the threshold crossing from Libra season into Scorpio season, inviting us to recalibrate our values and navigate the space between individuation and reconnection.In this episode, we ex
How to Quiet-Quit Social Media, pt. 2: Building Traffic, Leads, and Customers Off of Instagram
In Part One of this impromptu series, we explored the why behind quiet quitting Instagram—the philosophical shift from hoping to stay relevant through the feed to deeply serving your community. We talked about shifting from broadcasting your story to building meta-worlds (more on this soon). We talked about honoring your ecological niche instead of chasing vanity metrics.But here's what I
How to Quiet-Quit Social Media
Join us for the Missing Piece free 2-hour, done-with-you workshop on quiet-quitting social media while building an online business.If you're an entrepreneur who's exhausted from chasing viral trends, optimizing every post, and pouring your heart into content that disappears into the void—you are not alone. There's a growing movement of service-based business owners who are choosing a diff
The Creative Rites of Autumn (+ a new podcast name change!)
Welcome to the Soft Earthen Futures podcast, previously called the Inner Circle Podcast. New era, new podcast name.About the Episode:So many creatives and entrepreneurs treat Autumn like extended Summer. A time to launch, to scale, to keep the momentum going. But Autumn is not here to help you maintain your pace. She's not asking you to stay consistent, to keep all the plates spinning, or
Full Moon in Aries, Gate 21
This Full Moon in Aries, Gate 21 asks: where are you gripping for control when what you really need is to step into your authority?In this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Belpedio—Storywork Studio team member and my new co-host for the Lunar Rites series—for a deep dive into Gate 21, the gate of control, and what it means to release our grip on outcomes while staying grounded in our power.We
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 12: Creating New Realities Together
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 11: The Inner Gardening Process
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 10: Radical Self-Ownership
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality Pt. 9: Honoring Your Materiality and Human Needs
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 8: Shifting Money Stories in the Body
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 7: Calibrating to Specific Amounts of Money
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 6: The Metaphysics of Forgiveness
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 5: Creating Fields of Resonance
If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 4: Manifesting People and the Law of Assumption
Here’s the truth: people respond to the story your body is already broadcasting. If your self-concept says “I’m not worthy of love,” you’ll unconsciously emanate that belief and attract experiences that confirm it. When you shift your self-concept — at the level of your nervous system, not just your thoughts — you emanate something different. And others respond.Go deeper with us in Weaver
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 3: The Power of Your Self-Concept
Your personality is how you express yourself. Your self-concept is the story you hold about who you are. In this episode, we explore how self-concept is fluid, changeable, and directly responsible for how reality organizes around you. Learn why shifting your self-concept is the most powerful way to shift your relationships, opportunities, and the frequency you broadcast into the world.If
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 2: Choosing Your Desired State
Fantasy won’t move you forward. Choice will. Learn how to declare your future with clarity and precision so your nervous system begins to orient toward a new reality instead of looping old patterns.✨ If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in real t
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 1: Giving Yourself Permission
Every shift begins with permission. In this episode, we uncover why your desires are not random but the soul’s compass, and how giving yourself permission to want what you want opens the door to new futures.If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers. It’s where we practice reality-shifting together — not just talking about self-concept and spiritual law, but embodying them in
How to Shift Reality, Pt. 0: How to Stop Manifesting like a 2-Year-Old
Manifestation isn’t about begging the universe for candy. In this prep episode, we explore sober, radical self-responsibility and why your subconscious mythology — the body’s internal rules about what’s possible — shapes your entire reality.How to Shift Reality (Like a Grown Up) is a 12-day podcast series about rewiring your self-concept, updating your subconscious mythology, and working
How to Shift Reality (for grown ups)
Most of what we’re told about manifestation sounds like magical thinking — wish lists, vision boards, good vibes only. But reality doesn’t shift because you beg the universe. It shifts when you take sober responsibility for the stories your body believes are true.How to Shift Reality (Like a Grown Up) is a 12-day podcast series about rewiring your self-concept, updating your subconscious
Full Moon in Pisces Eclipse, Gate 63
In this episode, we dive deep into the upcoming Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces, occurring in Gate 63—the Gate of Doubt. But this isn't about doubt as we typically understand it. This gate is calling into question everything we think we know and inviting us to break into new awareness and consciousness.In our culture, we worship clarity and certainty. We rush to fix doubt, get coaching, find
Business Astrology 101: Your Blueprint for Conscious Entrepreneurship
What if the reason you're struggling to build your business isn't because you're doing something wrong, but because you're trying to do someone else's thing?In this episode, we dive deep into what I call the crisis of personal mythology—how our culture's obsession with homogenization is literally making us sick. We explore why one-size-fits-all business strategies are a form of spiritual
A Guide for Eclipse Season + New Moon in Virgo, Gate 59
Eclipse season is upon us and this podcast is an audio guide for working with it effectively. Across the Virgo New Moon, Pisces Lunar Eclipse, Virgo Solar Eclipse, Aries Full Moon, and the closing Libra New Moon, the themes are clear: intimacy, doubt, fear, and friction. This cycle asks us to heal codependency, name where we’ve been dishonest with ourselves, and learn what true transparen
Why Astrology Only Resonates Some of the Time
Why does astrology feel spot-on some days and distant the next? In this episode, Why Astrology Only Resonates Some of the Time, we explore the three levels that astrology speaks through: your soul nature, your conditioning, and your personality expression. You’ll learn why certain placements in your chart feel like a homecoming while others feel harder to integrate, and how to use this aw
Full Moon in Aquarius, Gate 13
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we explore the August 9, 2025 Full Moon in Aquarius, illuminating Gate 13—the Gate of the Listener in Human Design. Together, we unpack how this archetype invites us to bear witness, honor the stories entrusted to us, and release the narratives that no longer serve our lives, relationships, or visions. We look at how listening becomes an active
Uranus in Gemini, Pt. II :: Transit Notes and Horoscopes
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we break open the long arc of Uranus in Gemini—an eight-year transit (2025–2033) that signals deep disruption in how we think, speak, connect, and lead. Uranus, the planetary force of upheaval and innovation, enters the mutable air sign of Gemini to catalyze a cultural and personal revolution: in language, identity, systems of knowledge, and th
Love Notes for Your Vision, Leo Edition
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we explore the archetype of Leo and what it teaches us about creative expression, pleasure, and leadership rooted in authenticity. Leo season invites us to remember that our brilliance isn’t something to shrink or tone down—it’s something to be shared. As visionaries, artists, and changemakers navigating a complex world, it’s easy to question w
Neptune / Saturn Conjunction :: Timeline Work, Multiplicity, and the Power of Choice
In this episode, we explore astrology as a guide for visionary decision-making, focusing on the current Neptune–Saturn conjunction and its invitation into decision-making and energetic maturity. This is a deep dive into the paradox of multiplicity and direction—how to move even when clarity is murky, how to lead a life of many callings, and how astrology supports this nonlinear unfolding.
Reimagining Leadership and Influence with the New Moon in Leo in Gate 31
In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast, we explore the Leo New Moon as a gateway for reimagining influence, leadership, and the energetic currency of trust. Rooted in Human Design Gate 31—the Gate of Influence—this lunation teaches us that real leadership is not self-appointed. It must be recognized, invited, and trusted over time. We move beyond performance and virality into the slo
Astrology for the Visionary Process
Astrology is one of the most underestimated tools for building vision, a business, or a creative project. Why? Because whether we’re conscious of it or not, we’re always working with astrology.It is an ancient mythic language that is woven into our relationship with time, technology, and the seasons. When we rise early to work, we’re moving with the Sun; an archetype of will, clarity, and
Uranus Series, Pt. I :: Understanding the Archetype of Uranus
Understanding the Archetype of Uranus: The Myth, the Astrology, and the Collective Experience of Revolutionary DisruptionIn this episode of The Inner Circle Podcast by Storywork Studio: An Institute of Visionary Praxis, host Daje Aloh delves into the mythological and astrological significance of Uranus. Often romanticized as a sacred disruptor and liberatory force, Uranus is explored thro
The Creative Rites of Summer
“Am I doing this right?” is the number one question I’ve heard over the years in my Vision Midwifery work. It’s a question I often ask myself sometimes, when I feel the fear of rejection blooming in my chest.This question is often a signal that some part of what we’re doing, creating, destroying, cultivating, building, and unbuilding carries risk. We risk losing something—belonging, trust
The Second House and the Subconscious
“Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world. The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true.” — Neville Goddard, Feeling is the SecretIn th
The Creative Rites of Chiron
"A Centauric process will engage both our creativity and also shed light on our pain, confusion, and inner poisons. Some of which will be personal, and to do with our own life and feelings, and some of which will be larger than our own life, possibly to do with ancestors or the collective. Centauric consciousness may be what helps us discern these boundaries and act accordingly…Their regi
Weaver, not Wounded: A Chiron Process
The astrological centaurs have been speaking up quite a bit lately — Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus in particular.They have been loud and disruptive, as centaurs can be, and asking me to look a little deeper. So, I’ve been following this thread and weaving with them, and breathing their stories into living consciousness. I’ve been feeling surprised and ignited by all they have to say and have
Manifestation is the people's magic.
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Weaving New Personal Realities
* Find the Channeling the Earth replay here.* Learn more about Weavers, I here.This time we’re experiencing on Earth right now is deeply alchemical. We have never known the mystery the way we know it right now.The era of creating from the spirit of solutionism, domination, and apartheid is coming to an end. What emerges in its place is the revival of a more spiralic, more ancient, more em
The Creative Rites of Spring
So many creatives and entrepreneurs are looking for certainty, fool proof strategies, and the perfect solution to their problems, but the truth is that certainty and “fool proof” is not what Spring is here to offer.Spring thresholds challenge us to break our rules and bring our bellies to the Earth. They challenge us to warm our bodies in the sunlight and to get inspired by the process, n
Channeling the Spirit of the Earth
Inside This Episode, We Explore* Exploring what it means to channel the Earth, going beyond the spiritual hacks and surface-level practices, into deep relationship and dialogue.* How the Earth speaks through sensation, rhythm, and desire and why attunement invites us into a romance with the spirit of the Earth and not just intellectual understanding.* The spirit of extraction in modern ma
The Shattering is a Portal
Inside of this Episode, we’ll Explore* The impact of moving through shattering experiences without frameworks, context, or support.* How cultural crises mirror the unraveling we feel internally—and how to make sense of both.* The myth that grief, breakdowns, and crises are signs of personal failure, and how to reframe these experiences.* Why ego deaths are necessary steps toward your soul
What is Your Visionary Archetype?
Inside of this episode:Discover the Four Visionary Archetypes: The Dreamer, The Risk-Taker, The Magician, and The Weaver. Learn how these archetypes can help you navigate the creative process with greater clarity, direction, and purpose.Perfect for conscious creators, spirit-led entrepreneurs, and visionaries ready to bring their dreams into form.We’ll explore:* What archetypes really are
Vision and the Underworld
Inside of the Episode:* Vision and the Underworld: A Necessary Passage for Creative Entrepreneurs* What happens when we avoid Underworld realities and initiations.* An invitation into the Yin, the “Cthonic Necessity”, the Unknown and Unlanguaged* Receiving Soul-Level Vision and Internal Sight* Vision and the Underworld: Our Winter theme inside of the Vision Society.Timestamps:* 00:00 High
Channeling Your Medicine
Channeling your medicine requires a process of initiation—a spiralic journey through time and ouroboric consciousness that unearths the latent magic and potency within you. This psychospiritual descent into body and soul invites you to explore the depths of the subconscious, the inner garden from which the fruit of your life will blossom and bloom. Initiations and their thresholds are pro
Holding Complexity, The Winter Arc, and Breaking into Integral Consciousness
Join Storywork Studio Team, Daje Aloh and Amickoleh Imani as they explore navigating complex emotional landscapes, the aftermath of political events, and the power of humor in challenging times. They discuss navigating breakthroughs during the famed "Winter Arc," embracing creativity in peak Yin Season, and breaking free from outdated narratives with integral theory.
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