Soft, Earthen Futures

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.

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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