Soft, Earthen Futures

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Soft, 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 founder, story doula, and eco-somatic depth guide, Daje Aloh.

  1. 15 APR

    Visionary Archetypes for Worldbuilding

    If you are someone who feels “called” to build a vision in the Western World and you know that that calling is coming from somewhere deep inside yourself, you are also asking big questions about what it looks like to survive doing it. How do you earn enough to stay afloat as the economy shifts and tightens around us? How do you build sustainably when the ground beneath us is shifting? 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.

    28 min

  2. 12 MAR

    Worldbuilding in a Dumpster Fire

    I know that the world is burning, but personally, I’m not someone who has ever been able to surrender myself to any particular end-of-the-world-mythology. The reasons why are because: I don’t want to give the technocrats that much power. I believe that the world is always ending and beginning again. And perhaps we find ourselves in the midst of a greater cosmic order that is older and 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.

    15 min

  3. 17 FEB

    New Moon Eclipse in Aquarius

    The Cup of the Water Bearer is Spilling OverI believe eclipses aren’t isolated events that happen to us in one moment. Rather, they’re energetic, ouroboric fields containing a theatre of archetypal forces that reveal our hidden material and shadow. They offer us swells of data meant to reveal truth. Eclipses are neither good nor bad. They are inflection points of sensation and data. Some 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.

    22 min

  4. 14 FEB

    Becoming a Dream of the Earth

    On healing our relationship with fantasy and the imaginal realm. This episode is a spiritual and philosophical meditation on the interconnection between human consciousness and the Earth's dreaming, with a focus on imagination, desire, and our capacity to become conduits for the Earth's creative vision for herself.

    12 min
  5. Grief as a Doorway with Melissa Word

    5 JAN

    Grief as a Doorway with Melissa Word

    In this episode, I sit down with artist and death midwife Melissa Word to explore grief as a doorway into the vast field of creative, visionary, and even erotic information that lives at the core of the psyche. We talk about what it means to retrieve these scattered parts of ourselves—the aspects of self that have been lost across timelines, memories, events, and family systems—and bring 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 Melissa Visit Melissa's WebsiteFollow Melissa on Social Media Topics We Explore Grief 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 Podcast Soft, 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.

    1hr 2min

  6. 29/12/2025

    The Creative Rites of Winter

    Winter is a complex season that calls us into something far deeper than simple rest—it invites us to cultivate our mythopoetic identity, the soul-level essence of who we are here to be. In this episode, we explore Winter through the lens of the four directions and how this season asks us to tend our inner fires, build psychological containment, and step into a quiet kind of leadership that 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

    34 min

  7. 21/11/2025

    The Creative Process as Initiation

    On Monday we discussed Mythopoetic Entrepreneurship and how the mythopoetic entrepreneur is here to engage their visionary process at the level of the soul. Practically speaking though, what does this look like? How does one begin the process of pulling up the stories that want to be born through you and bringing them into form in a soul-alive way? In this episode, we explore the journey 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.

    44 min

  8. 19/11/2025

    New Moon in Scorpio, Gate 14

    This New Moon in Scorpio is a portal of reclamation. With Mercury retrograde, Lilith retrograde, and powerful trine support from Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Ceres, this lunation asks the most uncomfortable question: What are you compromising on? Where have you been going on side quests instead of following your soul's path? What vision is on your heart that you keep making smaller, safer, 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.

    26 min
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Soft, 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 founder, story doula, and eco-somatic depth guide, Daje Aloh.

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  • Creator
    Storywork Studio
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    58
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Storywork Studio LLC
  • Show Website
    Soft, Earthen Futures

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