Soft, Earthen Futures

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 explore
  • How astrology offers a language for the inner alchemy of soul evolution
  • Why archetypes help us locate maturity, potential, and personal myth
  • What it means to root entrepreneurship in ancestral intelligence and ecological rhythm
  • How success changes shape when you work in rhythm with the planets
  • The role of astrological wisdom in crafting new economies, stories, and futures
This episode is an invitation to return to astrology as a sacred mirror for how we move through time, change, and creative emergence. 

Creators and Guests

Host
Daje Aloh
Founder of Storywork Studio
Host
Storywork Studio
An Institute of Visionary Praxis

What is Soft, Earthen Futures?

Formerly known as the Inner Circle Podcast, Soft, Earthen Futures is for creatives, visionaries, and worldbuilders who are imagining new possibilities on the Earth.

Hosted by Daje Aloh—writer, teacher, and story doula—this podcast explores what it means to stand at the threshold between what has been and what wants to emerge. It's about tending the in-between, listening to what the Earth is dreaming through us, and building those visions into form.

Soft Earthen Futures is a design philosophy that awakens life-affirming potential in us. It champions design process that is listening, intuitive, grounded in nature, and centered on the embodied human experience. Design that brings out the best of what humanity can become.

Through reflections, seasonal transmissions, and conversations with other visionaries, this podcast offers frameworks for regenerative entrepreneurship, soul-led creativity, and visionary practice.

Topics include:

How to Shift Reality and Futurewriting
Visionary Entrepreneurship and Worldbuilding
Astrology as Divination Practice and Developmental Process
Creative Process and Weavership
Seasonal Rhythms and Regenerative Time
The Creative Rites and Visionary Rites of Passage