Soft, Earthen Futures

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 Overall
  • Theme 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?

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