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Soft, Earthen FuturesNew Moon Eclipse in AquariusThe 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, soli...
2026-02-1721 minSoft, Earthen FuturesBecoming a Dream of the EarthOn 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.
2026-02-1411 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesGrief as a Doorway with Melissa WordIn 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, embo...
2026-01-051h 01Soft, Earthen FuturesThe Creative Rites of WinterWinter 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 wh...
2025-12-2933 minSoft, Earthen FuturesThe Creative Process as InitiationOn 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....
2025-11-2143 minSoft, Earthen FuturesNew Moon in Scorpio, Gate 14This 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 y...
2025-11-1926 minSoft, Earthen FuturesWhat 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'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...
2025-11-1721 min
Nine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death workBeyond Social Media: Sustainable Ways to Share Your Death Work and Healing Arts in 2026In this episode, Narinder invites death workers, healers, and soul-led practitioners into an honest conversation about getting their work out into the world beyond the grind of social media. Narinder reflects on the early “soul era” of death work online, when community and education were central, and contrasts it with today’s fast-paced, algorithm-driven “crazy bazaar.” (Daje Aloh's phrasing) Listeners will learn how to shift from algorithm-dependence to an ecosystem approach, using newsletters, blogs, podcasts, local workshops, and real-world creative offerings to grow their work with sustainability and intimacy. Narinder shares why repurposing your conte...
2025-11-1350 minSoft, Earthen FuturesFull Moon in Taurus, Gate 2Join 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...
2025-11-0329 minSoft, Earthen FuturesThe Ecology of Your Online PresenceWhat 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 yo...
2025-10-3128 min
WE ARE NOT BROKEN w/ Dr. Christie WyldeEp24: Understanding limitations & setting healthy boundariesSummaryIn this conversation, Christie Wylde emphasizes the importance of recognizing limitations in relationships-to self, to work, to partners, friends and family. She discusses how ignoring these limitations can lead to irreparable damage, but how discernment can lead to healthy boundary-setting. And it's within those healthy boundaries that we find we are able to create the lives we want.Explore the Wylde Path: https://christiewylde.myflodesk.com/sign-upLearn more about Daje Aloh: https://www.thestorydoula.co/Enjoying what...
2025-10-2929 minSoft, Earthen FuturesRewriting Your Digital PhilosophyWe'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...
2025-10-2928 minSoft, Earthen FuturesWhen Instagram is a Crazed BazaarIn 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...
2025-10-2829 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Be Strategic without Losing Your SoulThere'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 coll...
2025-10-2432 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Quiet-Quit Social Media, pt 3: The Six Phases of WorldbuildingIn 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:Cl...
2025-10-2349 minSoft, Earthen FuturesNew Moon in Libra, Gate 50Join 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...
2025-10-2156 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Quiet-Quit Social Media, pt. 2: Building Traffic, Leads, and Customers Off of InstagramIn 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 comm...
2025-10-1939 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Quiet-Quit Social MediaJoin 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 co...
2025-10-1629 minSoft, Earthen FuturesThe 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 to preserve the facade that everything is working perfectly.Autumn is the season of descent. She is the season of severance.She...
2025-10-1357 minSoft, Earthen FuturesMarketing Medicine for Mercury in Scorpio: Clarifying Your Direction and Speaking to the Elephant in the RoomIn this episode of our Marketing Medicine series, we dive deep into Mercury's extended journey through Scorpio from October through December 2024—a profound underworld transit that includes a retrograde cycle bringing us back for deeper excavation of truth.Mercury in Scorpio isn't just about communication challenges or technical difficulties. When Mercury becomes the psychopomp, guiding us into the depths of Pluto's underworld realm, we're confronted with raw, unvarnished truth about how we're really showing up in our work and businesses.This transit asks the uncomfortable questions: Is what you're doing really what you want to be...
2025-10-0825 minSoft, Earthen FuturesFull Moon in Aries, Gate 21This 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...
2025-10-061h 11Soft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 12: Creating New Realities TogetherIf 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.
2025-09-2605 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 11: The Inner Gardening ProcessIf 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.
2025-09-2503 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 10: Radical Self-OwnershipIf 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.
2025-09-2413 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality Pt. 9: Honoring Your Materiality and Human NeedsIf 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.
2025-09-2309 min2025-09-2216 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 7: Calibrating to Specific Amounts of MoneyIf 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.
2025-09-2209 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 6: The Metaphysics of ForgivenessIf 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.
2025-09-2112 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 5: Creating Fields of ResonanceIf 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.
2025-09-2010 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 4: Manifesting People and the Law of AssumptionHere’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.
2025-09-1916 minSoft, Earthen FuturesMarketing Medicine for Mercury in Libra: Communicating with Discernment, Clarity, and GraceIn this episode of our Marketing Medicine series, we explore Mercury in Libra and how this Venus-ruled energy transforms the way we communicate our values and create space for authentic expression. Libra isn't just about balance—it's about justice, fairness, and honoring the multiplicity of perspectives while staying true to your own vision.When Mercury moves through Libra, we're invited to examine how we show up in our marketing and communication. Are we falling into patterns of over-justification, people-pleasing, or over-caretaking of people's feelings? Are we diluting our message to avoid any possibility of conflict or discomfort?...
2025-09-1817 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 3: The Power of Your Self-ConceptYour 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 ri...
2025-09-1815 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 2: Choosing Your Desired StateFantasy 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.
2025-09-1712 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 1: Giving Yourself PermissionEvery 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.
2025-09-1615 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow to Shift Reality, Pt. 0: How to Stop Manifesting like a 2-Year-OldManifestation 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.A...
2025-09-1514 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHow 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 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...
2025-09-1534 minSoft, Earthen FuturesMarketing Medicine for Mercury in Virgo: Social Media Burnout + Reconfiguring Digital RealityIn this episode, we dive deep into Mercury in Virgo and what it means for how we show up in our marketing and digital communication. As Mercury shifts into Virgo, we're invited to reconsider everything about how we communicate our work.Host Daje Aloh gets vulnerable about her own social media burnout and the exhaustion of feeling like she's "walking into a really crazed marketplace where everyone is yelling and throwing things at you." She shares her journey of questioning whether staying on Instagram is actually serving her business or her soul, and how Mercury in Virgo...
2025-09-0827 minSoft, Earthen FuturesFull Moon in Pisces Eclipse, Gate 63In 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 th...
2025-09-0424 minNine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death workSoul Momentum & Punk-Ass Delight: A conversation with Dajé AlohIn this episode of the Nine Keys podcast, Narinder sits down with creator and visionary Dajé Aloh to crack open what it means for the soul to have its own momentum when it’s rooted in the radical aliveness of Earth herself. We start with a passage Dajé wrote about soil, pollinators, and the magnetics of life-force, then tumble into conversation about the power of delight as resistance.This is a conversation about listening to what your soul wants, not as some fluffy affirmation, but as straight-up punk rebellion in a culture that thri...
2025-08-291h 17Soft, Earthen FuturesBusiness Astrology 101: Your Blueprint for Conscious EntrepreneurshipWhat 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...
2025-08-2725 minSoft, Earthen FuturesLove Notes for Your Vision, Virgo EditionIn this episode, we step into Virgo Season: a time often mistaken for perfectionism and productivity, but at its core, about integrity, rhythm, and alignment. With eclipses and the South Node activating Virgo, we’re being asked to release old habits of nitpicking, over-managing, and organizing ourselves around other people’s standards.I share how Virgo Season invites us to keep creating even when things feel messy or unfinished, to honor grief as part of our creative intelligence, and to build systems that actually support us in a world that is unraveling. We’ll explore what it means...
2025-08-2720 minSoft, Earthen FuturesA Guide for Eclipse Season + New Moon in Virgo, Gate 59Eclipse 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 a...
2025-08-2355 minSoft, Earthen FuturesWhy Astrology Only Resonates Some of the TimeWhy 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 an...
2025-08-1915 minSoft, Earthen FuturesFull Moon in Aquarius, Gate 13In 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 lu...
2025-08-0815 minNine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death workUncapping the Well of Your Gifts: the rise in working in divine feminine flowBeneath the asphalt, the springs of life are flowing. Her waters press against the gates we’ve been told to guard, our gifts, our art, our soul’s work.In this episode, a sermon by the spring water, Narinder rides the first wave of a great soul shift, where the pendulum between masculine and feminine swings wildly enough to break its hinge. She speaks of the feminine rising and the Great Mother’s spiral ways of work. Where 'new world' building is bubbling up through our uncapped souls.Along the way, she lifts up the...
2025-08-0640 minSoft, Earthen FuturesUranus in Gemini, Pt. II :: Transit Notes and HoroscopesIn 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. his...
2025-07-2848 minSoft, Earthen FuturesLove Notes for Your Vision, Leo EditionIn 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...
2025-07-2616 minSoft, Earthen FuturesNeptune / Saturn Conjunction :: Timeline Work, Multiplicity, and the Power of ChoiceIn 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...
2025-07-2327 minSoft, Earthen FuturesReimagining Leadership and Influence with the New Moon in Leo in Gate 31In 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...
2025-07-2327 minSoft, Earthen FuturesAstrology for the Visionary ProcessAstrology 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 inn...
2025-07-2239 minSoft, Earthen FuturesUranus Series, Pt. I :: Understanding the Archetype of UranusUnderstanding 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...
2025-07-0722 minSoft, Earthen FuturesThe 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, 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 ri...
2025-06-2825 minNine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death workDeath Work, Real Wages: Building Abundance Outside of InstitutionsIn this episode of Nine Keys, recorded under the potent full moon in Scorpio with the Sun in grounded Taurus, Narinder gets bold, grounded, and beautifully honest. She runs the numbers, yes, real numbers, on what a sustainable, abundant living wage can look like for death workers outside of institutions, outside of burnout, and outside of the myth that sacred work must mean self-sacrifice.This is a taboo-tearing conversation about money, labor, and power in death work. Narinder makes space for the truth: that witches, healers, artists, and death doulas can, and must, build...
2025-05-1235 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesYou can choose.Choosing gives you your power back. This power of choice and waking up in our own dream is exactly what I guide you through in Weavers through integrative ecosomatics and subconscious re-patterning to anchor this process in the body.Weavers is for you if you want to…* Increase in Confidence and Magnetism — Amplify your natural capacity to attract opportunities, people, and abundance to your field.* Increase Your Income or Revenue — Unlock substantial growth and financial resources. Expand your capacity to both receive and hold more wealth.* Expand your Relational Capaci...
2025-04-2317 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesThe 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 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 exp...
2025-04-2220 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesThe 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 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 pu...
2025-04-1835 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesWeaver, not Wounded: A Chiron ProcessThe 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...
2025-04-1748 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesThe heat is an invitation.I was good for so long.Polite. Appropriate. Manageable.’Good’ didn’t keep me safe.It kept me quiet.It made me agreeableto my own erasure.I think some of us have tounlearn ‘goodness’.Because ‘goodness’, for us,was never about integrity.It was about disappearing.— Yrsa Daley WardThe heat is an invitation.Not from me, but from your own soul and power asking you to expand into who you really are.Inside of Weavers, we work with this together and this season’s cohort is already filling with both passionate and pow...
2025-04-0522 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesManifestation is the people's magic.* 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
2025-04-0328 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesWeaving 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 embodied way of creating reality: a way that attunes, invokes, sings, poets, and listens for what wants to be created on the Earth.We...
2025-03-3112 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesThe Creative Rites of SpringSo 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, not the outcome. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyworkstudio.subs...
2025-03-2519 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesChanneling the Spirit of the EarthInside 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 manifestation practice and how we've been conditioned to approach creation from a place of extraction rather than true relationship with the Earth soul and reciprocity.* Why grief, descent, and cycles matter...
2025-03-0628 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesThe Shattering is a PortalInside 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’s true nature.* The alchemy of transformation: turning soul-shattering moments into portals for new futures.* How clinging to old stories blocks the path to deeper truth...
2025-02-1115 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesWhat 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 and why they matter* The four seasons of vision* Detailed exploration of each archetype's gifts* How to identify and work with your current season* Free Visionary Ar...
2025-01-2613 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesVision and the UnderworldInside 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 Vibrational Creativity and the Need for Underworld Travel* 01:26 Exploring the Underworld as a Creative Entrepreneur* 01:57 Vision Society: A Business Incubator* 02:21 The Role of the Subc...
2024-12-1428 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesChanneling Your MedicineChanneling 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 profound opportunities to "Express the Bloom," maturing the medicinal power of your unique essence. Yet, accessing and expressing your medicine demands a willingness to journey into the void, to confront the subconscious, and to receive the vision, lens, and si...
2024-12-0130 min
Soft, Earthen FuturesMapping the Visionary Process through the SeasonsWe have made the creative process into a rootless whitepaper, a motherless child. We have made the creative process into a discursive scan for commas and form. We have forgotten the serpent’s wisdom, the ecstatic breath, and the spine’s electric currents. And it’s time to remember that the role of vision is not serve as an ego project or a standard of glass-ceilinged business, but, rather, a dowsing rod and a seer’s canvas for discerning what is needed in culture.In this episode of the Inner Circle podcast, host Daje Aloh delves into a core f...
2024-11-2159 minSoft, Earthen FuturesHolding Complexity, The Winter Arc, and Breaking into Integral ConsciousnessJoin 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.
2024-11-1647 min
The Living WorldRealizing PotentialRegenerative practice requires that we approach everything from a perspective of potential, rather than problem-solving. This subtle shift changes everything. This episode is an excerpt from a private podcast feed hosted exclusively within The Vision Society, a mastermind and incubation community for spirit-led founders building vision amidst global polycrisis. In this series, Ganga Devi and Dajé Aloh, aka The Story Doula are weaving their respective wisdom threads around the Seven Principles of Regeneration, originally articulated by Carol Sanford. They share insights on how to shift from problem-solving to potential-focused strategies in small and m...
2024-08-1641 min
The Living WorldMigration, Return, RegenerationThis episode explores the transformative power of leaving and returning home. Reflecting on recent travels to New Mexico, professional partnerships, challenges of motherhood, and the profound learning of regenerative culture, Ganga Devi delves into themes of migration, systemic change, and personal growth. Discover how life's redirections can lead to deeper self-connection and creative fulfillment. Featuring a reading of Mary Oliver's "Crossing the Swamp." Whether you're navigating new paths or seeking home, this episode offers wisdom and inspiration for the journey.Resources + References* Multidimensional Thriving: Seth Kaufman's Substack, specifically the article “From Shadow to Light”....
2024-07-1236 min
Moon to Moon119. The Creative Rites with Dajé Aloh of The Story DoulaIn this episode, I had the delicious honor to play with Dajé Aloh of The Story Doula. I am huge fan of Dajé's work. I asked Dajé to come and talk through her incredible Creative Rites Mandala for Mothering the Complexities of Change. We sync the zodiac onto her profound approach to storytelling that weaves the wheel of the year with the creative process. Enjoy! Daje Aloh is a writer, facilitator, and vision midwife / mentor for wild-hearted thresholdkeepers, seers, and creative entrepreneurs who are intent on shifting culture through their creations. Her offerings weave the...
2024-03-061h 24
The Edge PodcastEp 54: A New Chapter in the Coaching IndustryLet’s get real for a moment and speak to the elephant in the room.
The coaching industry has been a bit of a hot mess lately.
I know many want to dismiss the entire coaching industry…
It’s a cult! It’s a big ole’ MLM
And others are holding on to dear life to their old school sales & marketing tactics
What recession? ANYONE can manifest millions!
The truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle.
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2023-10-2820 min
Witch SweatThe Holy Fire of Other People’s Opinions : Getting Unpalatable WorkshopThis week Mel shares an excerpt from a recent mini-workshop on the cost of prioritizing likeability in the eyes of others. We unravel the tangled knots of codependency, living as if to placate others, and orienting to life as if you’re always on the edge of being in trouble or needing to explain yourself.
She shares a few somatic tools for loosening the grip of some of these learned habits and trauma responses, all in the name of getting more free and having more access to our DANG MAGIC.
Join the Getting Unp...
2023-09-1237 min
Magic of the Spheres PodcastStorytelling Magic with Daje AlohOn episode 227, a profound and far-ranging conversation with Daje Aloh about storytelling. We recorded this around her exact Saturn return at the start of Pisces, and through her embodiment this episode feels like a transmission on the transit, and what we could open to with Saturn in the imaginative and visionary sign of Pisces — where we dream from necessity, the hard work of dreaming, the way we can truly shape and structure our lives with dreams.We also discuss the Persephone myth and the narcissus flower, flower essences, belonging & self-belonging and much more.Da...
2023-03-251h 31