Soft, Earthen Futures

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?Turns out, rent is still due at the end of a world. And so are payments for our Student loan debt. Turns out that taxes still have to be paid to the United States Government even though we all know that the taxes we pay are funding enslavement and genocide.How do we reconfigure? What is the prayer? Who do we need to become to move through these experiences together without losing our humanity and soul? How do we keep moving, creating and building in the face of so much culture change, moral expense, and death?I don’t have the answer to these questions.I think that these are inquiries that we need to turn to ceremony for. We need spaces of shared prayer and listening and quiet. We need ashrams, covens, dojos, zendos, sanctuaries and caves to hold these questions together and pray.I don’t believe that the answer will come as one large prophetic vision from one person.I believe it will come through fragments of dreamtime, shards of many people listening and receiving insight and vision from the belly of the Earth. It will come from spending time as individuals together, remembering who we are. It will come as a million different conversations that move through us as a multi-faceted dream of the Earth.Links Mentioned:The Visionary Archetypes Quiz3-Hour Live Workshop :: Worldbuilding with the Visionary ArchetypesSubstack Post: Visionary Archetypes for WorldbuildingThe Visionary Archetypes are for you if…Your notes app is filled to the brim with ideas and half-baked plans but you’re not entirely sure where to begin or which ideas are viable yet.You've been pushing hard to build but the data (revenue / margins / exhaustion) is showing you that it's time for a much different approach and you’re not totally sure what steps to take next.You’re overwhelmed by the potential of what you’re building but you’re feeling some trepidation on taking the necessary steps to make things sustainable. You’re feeling afraid of change and of inviting new teammates in.You’re ready to serve, lead, and share your ideas to a wider audience, but you feel you lack the structure, discipline and systems to sustain the work.You know you need to support, but you’re afraid to ask for help.You feel tacky trying to build a business and share your offerings in a world on 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 bigger than our capacity to understand it.I don’t want to spend my mythmaking, oracular energy, discernment, and creative power imagining a future where humanity is launched into a zombie apocalypse, ivy growing out of glass towers, while Pedro Pascal runs around the streets of Apocalyptic Boston, claiming his redemption arc as a Father.I’m not saying that these stories aren’t waiting for us somewhere on the horizon. They are just not the kinds of stories I want to vote for with my imagination.

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 eclipses can be quite mild, while others can be acute with their teachings.Most of us have been taught to engage with eclipses as big, dramatic, solitary moments on the calendar that we brace for, survive, and then move on from quickly. And this framing robs us of the threshold medicine that is available during these seasons.

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.

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 them home to reify our own wholeness.Melissa shares her philosophy of tending to grief through creative practice, from the improvisational quilting work of Grief Threads to the somatic, embodied approach she brings to all her facilitation. We discuss the underworld not as a place of peril but as fertile ground where parts of us have been steeping, learning, gathering intelligence we can't access through conscious striving.This conversation is for anyone who has avoided their grief work, who has wondered why we can't just skip to the good part, or who senses that creativity and loss are more intimately connected than our culture acknowledges.Connect with MelissaVisit Melissa's WebsiteFollow Melissa on Social MediaTopics We ExploreGrief as retrieval: collecting the parts of ourselves scattered in the underworldThe daffodil bulb teaching: why some things require deep darkness to growThe intelligence of hands and what fabrics can teach us about lossWhy grief work makes us honest—and why avoiding it makes us a liabilityRitual, creativity, and what gets recalibrated at the level of soulThe symbiosis between personal grief and collective healingGetting free: what happens when the roots go deep enoughAbout This PodcastSoft, Earthen Futures is a podcast about imagining and crafting a more whole world. We explore 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. This show is for wild-hearted creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. Hosted by Daje Aloh.

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 prepares us to contribute to our communities. We'll unpack why winter requires both yin and yang—the deep stillness and the practical actions that keep our waters warm—and why so many of us feel like we're doing this season "wrong" when we're actually navigating its inherent complexity.Drawing from the School of Lost Borders, depth psychology, and the wisdom of Capricorn season, this episode offers a more grounded, embodied approach to winter that honors both its mysteries and its material demands. If you're ready to stop collapsing into performative rest and start building the containers that allow your soul's medicine to rise, this one's for you.Links Mentioned:Join us for Weavers, I -- we begin on January 6th

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 of creative entrepreneurship through the lens of soul initiation—those transformative passages where we descend into the underworld of our psyche to retrieve the medicine that wants to come through us.We examine the stages of initiation—from the inciting incident that separates us from what's known, through the wilderness of the threshold where old identities dissolve, to the ascension and integration where we learn to actually wield our medicine with humility and skill. This episode is a call to resist the temptation of spiritual mimicry and instead earn the right to share your medicine with radical clarity and confidence through the genuine descent and return the soul requires.Links Mentioned: The Worldbuilding School: Save $500 when you register by December 7th.

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, more acceptable? This episode explores Gate 14—the gate of bounteousness and competence—and the shadow of compromise that keeps us enslaved to systems, narratives, and callings that aren't actually ours.If you've been chasing what feels like a calling only to realize it was a distraction, this New Moon is calling you back to your soul's true path.

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're talking about people who are creating not just businesses, but new cultural stories and codes that we live by—and doing so from deep connection with soul.In this episode, we explore:The etymology of mythopoetic entrepreneurship and what it actually means to create new mythsSoul fragmentation: how most people are living and creating from this placeThe flower metaphor: why mythopoetic entrepreneurs are like meadow flowers with deep, dense root systems and beautifully articulated bloomsReparenting and inner development: picking up where we fragmented as children and in prior lives and reweaving our internal mythsThe underworld journey: how we transcend obstacles not by problem-solving but by going deeper into soul, psyche, and nervous systemWhat makes this different from traditional entrepreneurship: it's not about racing to build unicorn companies or extracting cash—it's about soul-level expression through that soul-level expression we bring new ideas and solutions that are in harmony with the Earth.We discuss the adjacent questions that mythopoetic entrepreneurs are navigating: What is soul calling? How do you know if you're operating from soul versus ego? Is it possible to have a healthy ego construct? How do we pay our bills while staying in alignment with soul?And we explore what this path requires: becoming familiar with the wilderness of entrepreneurship and leadership, doing our healing work in the underworld, and learning to create businesses that are rooted in the animate, living body of the Earth.If you've ever felt that your work is about something bigger than just making money—if you sense you're here to write new stories and call new realities into being—this episode is for you.

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 chooses and incubates new life. This moon asks: What vision are you being called to become pregnant with? What are you ready to release to make space for something new?With harmonious aspects to both the South Node in Virgo and North Node in Pisces, this lunar moment supports leveraging what you've learned about wholeness and self-prioritization while honoring your inner knowing about what is next. Learn how to work with this erotic, grounding energy to bring your visions into cellular reality through conscious co-creation with the divine.About the Soft, Earthen Futures PodcastSoft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.

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—playing a unique role that only you can play?This shift from managing to tending, from broadcasting to cultivating, changes everything about how you show up online and how you relate to the work of building your business in digital spaces.About the Soft, Earthen Futures PodcastSoft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.Links Mentioned:The Missing Piece Workshop, Watch the ReplayThe Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11

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 mean we're powerless. Instead of being reactive or trying to pump the brakes, we can rewrite our digital philosophy—claim our agency, build with intentionality, and become world builders rather than content creators hoping for algorithm scraps.About the Soft, Earthen Futures PodcastSoft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.Links Mentioned:The Missing Piece Workshop, Free on 10/30The Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11

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 visibility" at all.If you've been feeling hives on your body the moment you open Instagram, if you've been told you just need to do more somatic work to expand your visibility capacity, or if you're exhausted from pouring your heart into the algorithm only to receive crumbs in return—this episode is for you.About the Soft, Earthen Futures PodcastSoft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.Links Mentioned:The Missing Piece Workshop, Free on 10/30The Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11Clarify Your Energy Meditation

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 the concept of mythopoetic entrepreneurship—the practice of consciously writing a soul-level story through your work. Your business isn't just an offering; it's an expression of the prayers you've caught from the collective consciousness and the earth's desire for herself.I walk you through the Journey of Sacred Self-Initiation, a framework rooted in the four directions that helps you integrate:Imagination – Your visionary capacity to see what's possibleIntuition – Your inner knowing beyond logical explanationInstinct – Your embodied, somatic wisdom that keeps you aliveIntention – Your clarity and commitment to what you're buildingWhen you learn to work with all four elements instead of getting stuck in one mode, you stop oscillating between extremes. You build a business that has structure and spirit, strategy and soul.This is the maturation process every visionary entrepreneur needs—and it's what we practice together inside Worldbuilding School.Mentioned in this episode:Visionary Archetypes: visionaryarchetypes.comWorldbuilding School enrollment (starts November 11th)Early bird discount: $100 off when you enroll by October 26th

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 your transformational offering in a way that honors your medicine, serves your community, and creates sustainable momentum that doesn't depend on constant visibility.Learn why world building is the essential infrastructure for:Clarifying the medicine you bring and the transformation you offerDesigning a business model that actually supports your lifeCreating a relational environment where people want to inhabitBuilding something that can hold your vision for years, not just launch cyclesThis is the third episode in an impromptu mini-series on quiet quitting Instagram, exploring what it takes to phase out of platform dependence without your business falling apart. Daje shares practical wisdom on praxis over information, long-term vision over viral moments, and building foundations your future self will thank you for.Links Mentioned:Join us in the Worldbuilding School here. We begin on 11/11.Free Workshop on 10/31, The Missing Piece

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 explore the Gate of Values in human design (also called "the cauldron" in the I Ching) and discuss how this new moon invites us to discern what is truly ours—our desires, values, and futures—from what belongs to others. The conversation weaves together themes of nourishment, sacred responsibility, instinct versus intuition, and the art of disconnecting to reconnect more authentically.Timestamps00:00 - Introduction and New Moon overview04:48 - Check-in: Transitioning from Libra to Scorpio season08:42 - Gate 50 breakdown: Human Design, I Ching, and Gene Keys[Various] - Deep dive into the Channel of Preservation50:45 - Third line energy and making/breaking bonds53:57 - The practice of reconnection after individuation55:21 - Etheric text message technique55:47 - Closing thoughts and how to connect

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 see happen over and over again → entrepreneurs get inspired by these ideas, they decide to pull back from Instagram, and then... it crashes and burns. Not because the philosophy was wrong. Not because they weren't committed. But because they tried to leave without building the infrastructure first.Today, we're talking about how to solve the real problem with going offline so you can actually live out that quiet quitting philosophy without tanking your business.Links Mentioned:The Visionary Archetypes Quiz: Find out what season of vision you're in.The Worldbuilding School: Now Open for EnrollmentThe Missing Piece: A Free 2-Hour Done-With-You Training for Quiet-Quitting Insta

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 different path: quiet-quitting social media.What Does It Mean to Quiet Quit Social Media?Borrowed from Gen Z workplace, quiet quitting social media means doing the bare minimum on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn without completely abandoning them overnight. You show up, but you stop giving more energy than required. Quiet Quitting is not disappearing entirely (which could genuinely hurt your business). Instead, it's about a philosophical shift in how you approach marketing.You stop:Hoping to go viralScrolling endlessly to study what others are doingFollowing every "expert" who promises the secret formulaPouring your heart and soul into every postTrying to game the algorithmYou start:Focusing radically on your missionSpeaking directly to the people you're meant to serveBuilding a world for your ideal clients, not for the massesDecentering yourself and making your audience the hero of their own storyReclaiming your energyJoin us for the Missing Piece free 2-hour, done-with-you workshop on quiet-quitting social media while building an online business.

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 to preserve the facade that everything is working perfectly.Autumn is the season of descent. She is the season of severance.She asks you to look around at what is changing, what is dying, what is composting back into the earth and to trust that this dying is not failure. It is a reconfiguration of the soul.The Worldbuilding School

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 explore:How Gate 21 shows up for entrepreneurs, visionaries, and anyone trying to control every detail of their work and lifeThe difference between ease and easy—and why people pleasing is just another form of controlSarah's personal story of surrendering the need to "have her own business" and how that opened doors to effortless, aligned workHow this eclipse season has been surgery, and this moon is inviting us to shake off what surfacedThe practice of de-manifestation and working with the waning moon cycleWhy releasing control doesn't mean abandoning your authority—it means accessing the finesse and precision of the hunterThis conversation weaves together human design, astrology, Daoist wisdom, and embodied practice to help you navigate this lunar portal with clarity and sovereignty.Mentioned in this episode:The Worldbuilding School (now open for enrollment)The Lunar Rites practiceEclipse Season ReflectionsConnect with us:www.storywork.studio | @storywork.studioDaje Aloh [www.thestorydoula.co / @thestorydoula]Sarah Belpedio: [www.sarahbelpedio.com / @sarah.belpedio]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Weavers, Pt. I. We'd love to have your presence in our group.

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 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.

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 time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.

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 real time. You’ll have guidance, community, and rituals to anchor these shifts into your everyday life. Learn more and step inside here.

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 with spiritual law as a vessel for creative energy. Think less “childlike wishing,” more “radical authorship.”Over 12 short episodes, you’ll learn how to:Give yourself permission to want what you want.Declare and inhabit a new future state.Align your personality with your soul’s blueprint.Work with self-concept, assumption, and forgiveness to reshape relationships.Calibrate your nervous system to hold more money, recognition, and material upgrades.Practice inner gardening: uprooting old myths and living into a new story.If you’re ready to stop manifesting like a 2-year-old and start building a life that matches your soul, this series is for you.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.

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 mythology, and working with spiritual law as a vessel for creative energy. Think less “childlike wishing,” more “radical self-authorship.”Over 12 short episodes, you’ll learn how to:Give yourself permission to want what you want.Declare and inhabit a new future state.Align your self-concept with your soul’s blueprint.Work with self-concept, assumption, and forgiveness to reshape relationships.Calibrate your nervous system to hold more money, recognition, and material upgrades.Practice inner gardening: uprooting old myths and living into a new story.If you’re ready to stop manifesting like a 2-year-old and start building a life that matches your soul, this series is for you.✨ If this work speaks to you, come join us inside Weavers, Pt. I. 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.

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 answers. But what if doubt is actually medicine? What if our obsession with knowing is keeping us from truth itself?This eclipse is actively obscuring what we think we can see clearly, creating fog around our certainty, spiritual concepts, and future plans. And that's exactly what's supposed to happen. Sometimes our knowing needs to be deconstructed so we can find our way back to source—what Clarissa Pinkola Estés calls "the río abajo río," the river beneath the river.We'll explore how relationship serves as the mirror showing us what we don't know about ourselves and others, why this eclipse is asking us to evolve our understanding of love, intimacy, boundaries, and connection, and how to work with doubt as a pathway to deeper truth rather than paralysis.If you're deconstructing your relationship with spirituality, social media, politics, or community—if you're feeling the "spiritual ick"—this episode is for you. You're not falling apart; you're waking up.Resources Mentioned:Weavers, IThe Worldbuilding SchoolChapter 10 of Women Who Run with Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola EstesTheory of Everything by Ken Wilbur

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 violence, and how business astrology offers a revolutionary alternative.You'll discover why your business has its own soul and astrological DNA, how to work with your unique creative operating system instead of against it, and why understanding your individual blueprint is the key to building sustainable success without burning out.This isn't just another business strategy—it's a call to remember that there are as many right ways to succeed as there are people walking this earth.What You'll Learn:Why "proven" business formulas often fail (and leave you feeling broken)The unconscious violence of forcing everyone into the same success templateHow your natal chart reveals your authentic path to prosperityWhat business astrology is and why it's essential for conscious entrepreneursThe difference between replication and education in the business worldWhy your business deserves its own astrological readingHow to stop trying to be like everyone else and start being more like yourselfLinks Mentioned:Book a Business Astrology Reading

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 transparency requires.In this episode, we explore the subtle body dynamics of intimacy—how we cord through the sacral, confuse fusion with connection, and perform goodness instead of embodying truth. We’ll look at the shadows of enmeshment, the pull of wanting to be seen as “doing good,” and the deeper medicine of being transparent and sovereign in relationship.For visionaries, this portal brings an especially sharp mirror: Are you shaping your vision around what the collective wants to hear, or are you rooted in your own truth? The work here is learning to hold your ground, sing your note, and trust that harmony comes from difference, not sameness.By the time we reach the Aries Full Moon and Libra New Moon, the invitation is clear: real intimacy means knowing where you end and another begins. It means choosing connection without abandoning yourself.Themes for Eclipse Season OverallTheme of the portal: Healing enmeshment, practicing transparency, and stepping into sovereign intimacy.For sensitive beings: Get clear on what’s yours vs. what you’re absorbing from others.For visionaries: Notice where you’re performing “goodness” instead of being honest. True impact comes from authenticity.The medicine of friction: Conflict isn’t failure; it’s how two sovereign people learn to stay connected without losing themselves.The core practice: Discernment. Intimacy without fusion. Transparency without performance. Boundaries that make space for real connection.Key questions:Where have you been hiding or performing connection?What ancestral fears about intimacy are you carrying?What would intimacy look like if you weren’t trying to earn it?How do your values shift when you stop carrying what doesn’t belong to you?

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 awareness to bring your outer expression into deeper alignment with your soul blueprint. This conversation moves beyond generic horoscopes and into practical insight for anyone wanting to work with astrology as a tool for integration and self-alignment.Business Astrology Readings -- Open Until September 10th

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, revolutionary act, one that reshapes our leadership, our relational integrity, and our capacity to participate in collective transformation.We also share a powerful set of reflection prompts to help you work with this lunation—questions that bring you face-to-face with the truths you may be avoiding, the perspectives you’ve resisted, and the inherited patterns ready to be released. This episode is both a lunar guide and a practice in radical receptivity, calling us to soften the rigidity in our bodies, open to complexity, and create space for new relational and cultural possibilities to take root.Join us as we explore how the Full Moon in Aquarius, Gate 13 can help us listen beyond our comfort zone, hold nuance in a polarized world, and align ourselves with the great turning of our time.Resources & Links:Join the Global Industry Shutdown & Prayer for Palestine (Aug 8) → click hereLearn more about Storywork Studio and the Institute of Visionary Praxis → click hereSubscribe to the Inner Circle Podcast for more lunar rites, astrology, and creative vision praxis

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 the deeper archetypes that shape how we relate to change.We explore the historical echoes of this transit—how every past cycle of Uranus in Gemini has aligned with major wars and revolutions in U.S. history—and why this moment is not about fear, but about pattern recognition. This episode traces how Uranus in Gemini reshapes communication, decentralizes authority, and challenges each of us to evolve our mental frameworks and leadership models.This episode is a call to reimagine what intelligence actually is. We unpack the rise of embodied intelligence, polymorphic thought, and nonverbal knowing, offering a vision for how to navigate this transit not just intellectually, but somatically and soulfully as well.What We Explore in This Episode:What Uranus in Gemini signifies and how it acts as a collective disruptorHistorical timelines and how previous transits have shaped national and global upheavalHow this transit uniquely affects rising signs—especially Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer risingsThe distinction between earned influence and performative viralityHow to shift from extractive intellect toward relational, body-based wisdomPractices for staying rooted and clear through a long cycle of uncertainty and reinventionKey Takeaways:Every archetype is being reshaped: this moment requires personal integrationCommunication is evolving into a multidimensional field; we must listen with more than our earsWe are being asked to stop performing knowledge and begin embodying wisdomListen If You’re:A creator, guide, or visionary leader navigating rapid changeRethinking your message, your methods, or your role as a communicatorFeeling the psychic weight of the times and wanting astrological clarityReady to move from information overload to internal alignmentCurious about how Uranus in Gemini will impact your personal growth, your work, and your ecosystem

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 whether our joy and self-expression are still relevant or responsible. But Leo reminds us that joy is generative. Beauty is strategic. Pleasure is a legitimate measure of success.We talk about the creative sovereignty that Leo season activates—how to lead from your essence instead of performance, how to reclaim aesthetics as part of your value system, and how to stop dulling your light just to make others comfortable. We also explore the myth of the perfect strategy and why authentic resonance is the real momentum builder. If you’ve been holding back, playing small, or over-editing your presence, this episode is your invitation back into center stage on your terms.What We Explore in This Episode:Why Leo season is a key moment to reconnect with authenticity, especially in times of global unrestThe myth that seeking beauty or impact makes you superficial, and how Leo reframes thatWhy pleasure and joy are essential indicators of alignment for visionary workHow to build resonance through authenticity, not performanceThe difference between strategy-as-performance vs. strategy-as-devotionWhy there’s no one formula for success—and how to trust your unique rhythm

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.Through a lens that blends developmental psychology, personal mythology, and soul-level vocation, we unpack what it means to choose a path without collapsing other possibilities. If you’ve ever wrestled with being multi-passionate or feared “getting it wrong” in your creative or spiritual work, this episode is your reminder that choosing a direction is how momentum begins.Key themes in this episode:How the Neptune-Saturn conjunction teaches timeline navigationWhy your dharma might include multiple roles, callings, or craftsHow astrology helps move energy through decision—not certaintyChoice as an energetic catalyst for manifestationWhat it means to mature your will through subtle planetary transitsThis episode is especially for creative entrepreneurs, visionaries, and mystics who want to move with purpose even inside the unknown. (00:00) - Embracing Multi-Passionate Paths Through Astrology and Personal Dharma (04:30) - The Cosmic Dance of Neptune and Saturn in Aries (06:05) - Choosing Direction Amidst Saturn and Neptune's Metaphysical Lessons (09:12) - The Power of Subconscious Stories in Shaping Life Choices (14:36) - Neptune and Aries: Dreaming Bigger and Asserting Choices (15:23) - Embracing Paradox and Conscious Choices in Spiritual Growth (20:21) - Balancing Logic and Intuition with Saturn and Neptune Conjunct (23:22) - Navigating Uncertainty and Choice During Saturn Neptune Conjunction

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 slow, relational work of becoming trustworthy.This episode offers a deeper look at how lunar cycles—especially the New and Full Moons—act as threshold rituals for visionaries. Through these cyclical rites, we’re invited to listen more closely to what’s no longer true, release it with care, and attune to what wants to emerge through us with greater clarity. Leadership is reframed not as a position, but as a presence that builds trust through congruence and consistency.Links Mentions:The Worldbuilding School, begins 8/5Weavers, I, join the waitlist here.Free Library + Audio Archives :: Archetypes, Soul Work, and DepthTopics Covered:What Human Design Gate 31 teaches us about leadership and timingWhy influence must be earned through consistent, trustful presence—not claimedHow lunar rites offer a regenerative rhythm for creative and visionary practiceWhy virality doesn’t equal credibility, and what truly cultivates influenceHow to align your leadership with authenticity, timing, and collective invitationWhat the Pluto opposition reveals about power dynamics in modern leadershipHow to ritualize the New and Full Moon phases for soulful recalibration (02:18) - Exploring Lunar Cycles Through Astrology and Human Design (03:54) - Harnessing Lunar Cycles for Personal Growth and Transformation (08:40) - Exploring Human Design and New Moon Energies in Leo (10:37) - Leadership Requires Earned Trust and Humility Over Time (13:48) - The Invitation to Influence in the Digital Age (15:04) - Trust and Leadership Must Be Earned, Not Assumed (19:03) - Authentic Leadership Through Humility and Genuine Curiosity (21:11) - Embracing Authentic Leadership During a Transformative Lunar Transit (00:00) - Chapter 9

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 the ego’s drive to shape reality. When we slow down in the evening, we’re moving with the Moon; an archetype of change, intuition, and the pull toward inner life.Even the structures we resist or participate in—Capitalism, hustle culture, our longing for something slower and more whole—can be traced through planetary cycles. Astrology is not a parlor trick or personality quiz. It’s a living language for understanding the forces we’re already in conversation with. Most of us just have never been taught how to listen.In this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast by Storywork Studio, Daje Aloh offers synthesis of Astrology not as  a personality typing system or pop-culture mysticism, but as a living system for visionary development. You’ll hear how astrology maps the internal ecosystem of the psyche, working like a subtle weather system that speaks to our growth edges, our thresholds, and our capacity to align with larger patterns of becoming. Daje reframes astrology as a tool for developmental psychology and creative orientation.In this episode, we exploreHow astrology offers a language for the inner alchemy of soul evolutionWhy archetypes help us locate maturity, potential, and personal mythWhat it means to root entrepreneurship in ancestral intelligence and ecological rhythmHow success changes shape when you work in rhythm with the planetsThe role of astrological wisdom in crafting new economies, stories, and futuresThis episode is an invitation to return to astrology as a sacred mirror for how we move through time, change, and creative emergence. 

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 through its mythological roots as the primordial Sky God with a corrupted heart. Daje discusses how Uranus's chaotic energy invites us to revolt and shape change, emphasizing that we are the true revolutionaries, not Uranus. The episode also highlights the interplay between Uranus and Saturn, urging listeners to harness the chaos for meaningful transformation and liberation.01:11 Introduction to Uranus in Astrology02:00 Mythological Background of Uranus03:33 Uranus and Saturn: The Power Dynamics06:37 Uranus in Modern Astrology11:31 Uranus Transits and Personal Growth20:03 Visionaries and Uranian Medicine

“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, friendship, material possessions, our ego, et cetera.“Am I doing this right?” is a Summer question. A South question. Because in this question, we can feel the heat rising in our bodies. We can feel both the excitement and the embarassment. We can feel our pulse quicken. We can feel our radical aliveness coming online in ways that edge the space between what is comfortable and what is absolutely not.Read the rest here.

“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 this episode of the Inner Circle Podcast you are invited into a deeper exploration of the Second House in astrology as a lens for understanding manifestation, value, and the subconscious.We explore how the Second House reveals what we believe we’re allowed to have—money, love, belonging, safety—and how these beliefs are often coded into our nervous systems through family templates, ancestral experiences, and cultural myths.In this episode, I walk you through the astrological progression from the 12th to the 1st to the 2nd House, illuminating how the invisible becomes form and why working with the subconscious is central to true transformation.Free Workshop: The Second HouseJust a few spots left in Weavers, I, we begin May 4th.Learn more about the Futurewriting Collective.Apply to join us in the Vision Society. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyworkstudio.substack.com

"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 region [the Kuiper Belt] contains what is trying to die and what is trying to be reborn."Melanie Reinhart, On Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyworkstudio.substack.com

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 felt compelled to share my findings with you as well.In this newsletter and podcast episode, I am starting a mini-series deep diving into the Creative Rites of the Centaurs and how they have more to offer us than their “Wounds”. The astrological Centaurs are powerful, intricate Weavers and if we’re looking closely enough at their myths, they call us to become Weavers, too. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyworkstudio.substack.com

* Learn more about Weavers, Level I here.* Read the original essay, Manifestation is the People’s Magic. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyworkstudio.substack.com