The reasons why are because:

1. I don’t want to give the technocrats that much power. 
2. 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.
3. 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.

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.

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 Website
• Follow Melissa on Social Media

Topics We Explore

• Grief as retrieval: collecting the parts of ourselves scattered in the underworld
• The daffodil bulb teaching: why some things require deep darkness to grow
• The intelligence of hands and what fabrics can teach us about loss
• Why grief work makes us honest—and why avoiding it makes us a liability
• Ritual, creativity, and what gets recalibrated at the level of soul
• The symbiosis between personal grief and collective healing
• Getting free: what happens when the roots go deep enough

About 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.

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

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.

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 etymology of mythopoetic entrepreneurship and what it actually means to create new myths
• Soul fragmentation: how most people are living and creating from this place
• The flower metaphor: why mythopoetic entrepreneurs are like meadow flowers with deep, dense root systems and beautifully articulated blooms
• Reparenting and inner development: picking up where we fragmented as children and in prior lives and reweaving our internal myths
• The underworld journey: how we transcend obstacles not by problem-solving but by going deeper into soul, psyche, and nervous system
• What makes this different from traditional entrepreneurship: it's not about racing to build unicorn companies or extracting cash—it's about soul-level expression through that soul-level expression we bring new ideas and solutions that are in harmony with the Earth.

We discuss the adjacent questions that mythopoetic entrepreneurs are navigating: What is soul calling? How do you know if you're operating from soul versus ego? Is it possible to have a healthy ego construct? How do we pay our bills while staying in alignment with soul?

And we explore what this path requires: becoming familiar with the wilderness of entrepreneurship and leadership, doing our healing work in the underworld, and learning to create businesses that are rooted in the animate, living body of the Earth.

If you've ever felt that your work is about something bigger than just making money—if you sense you're here to write new stories and call new realities into being—this episode is for you.

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 you relate to the work of building your business in digital spaces.

About the Soft, Earthen Futures Podcast

Soft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.

Links Mentioned:

• The Missing Piece Workshop, Watch the Replay
• The Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11

This episode is about acknowledging a hard truth: opting out isn't really an option anymore

But 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.

About the Soft, Earthen Futures Podcast

Soft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.

Links Mentioned:

• The Missing Piece Workshop, Free on 10/30
• The Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11

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 if you're exhausted from pouring your heart into the algorithm only to receive crumbs in return—this episode is for you.

About the Soft, Earthen Futures Podcast

Soft Earthen Futures is a living prayer—a design philosophy that we can gather around. This podcast explores practical ways of world building, astrology for the visionary process, and the kind of moss-ridden, soul-led, embodied practices to nurture shared futures.

Links Mentioned:

• The Missing Piece Workshop, Free on 10/30
• The Worldbuilding School, begins on 11/11
• Clarify Your Energy Meditation

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 collective consciousness and the earth's desire for herself.

I walk you through the Journey of Sacred Self-Initiation, a framework rooted in the four directions that helps you integrate:

• Imagination – Your visionary capacity to see what's possible
• Intuition – Your inner knowing beyond logical explanation
• Instinct – Your embodied, somatic wisdom that keeps you alive
• Intention – Your clarity and commitment to what you're building

When you learn to work with all four elements instead of getting stuck in one mode, you stop oscillating between extremes. You build a business that has structure and spirit, strategy and soul.

This is the maturation process every visionary entrepreneur needs—and it's what we practice together inside Worldbuilding School.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Visionary Archetypes: visionaryarchetypes.com
• Worldbuilding School enrollment (starts November 11th)
• Early bird discount: $100 off when you enroll by October 26th

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:

• Clarifying the medicine you bring and the transformation you offer
• Designing a business model that actually supports your life
• Creating a relational environment where people want to inhabit
• Building something that can hold your vision for years, not just launch cycles

This is the third episode in an impromptu mini-series on quiet quitting Instagram, exploring what it takes to phase out of platform dependence without your business falling apart. Daje shares practical wisdom on praxis over information, long-term vision over viral moments, and building foundations your future self will thank you for.

Links Mentioned:

• Join us in the Worldbuilding School here. We begin on 11/11.
• Free Workshop on 10/31, The Missing Piece

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 committed. But because they tried to leave without building the infrastructure first.

Today, we're talking about how to solve the real problem with going offline so you can actually live out that quiet quitting philosophy without tanking your business.

Links Mentioned:

• The Visionary Archetypes Quiz: Find out what season of vision you're in.
• The Worldbuilding School: Now Open for Enrollment
• The Missing Piece: A Free 2-Hour Done-With-You Training for Quiet-Quitting Insta

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 completely abandoning them overnight. You show up, but you stop giving more energy than required. Quiet Quitting is not disappearing entirely (which could genuinely hurt your business). Instead, it's about a philosophical shift in how you approach marketing.

You stop:

• Hoping to go viral
• Scrolling endlessly to study what others are doing
• Following every "expert" who promises the secret formula
• Pouring your heart and soul into every post
• Trying to game the algorithm

You start:

• Focusing radically on your mission
• Speaking directly to the people you're meant to serve
• Building a world for your ideal clients, not for the masses
• Decentering yourself and making your audience the hero of their own story
• Reclaiming your energy

Join us for the Missing Piece free 2-hour, done-with-you workshop on quiet-quitting social media while building an online business.

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 asks you to look around at what is changing, what is dying, what is composting back into the earth and to trust that this dying is not failure. It is a reconfiguration of the soul.

• The Worldbuilding School

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 rising in our bodies. We can feel both the excitement and the embarassment. We can feel our pulse quicken. We can feel our radical aliveness coming online in ways that edge the space between what is comfortable and what is absolutely not.

Read the rest here.

In 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 explore how the Second House reveals what we believe we’re allowed to have—money, love, belonging, safety—and how these beliefs are often coded into our nervous systems through family templates, ancestral experiences, and cultural myths.

In this episode, I walk you through the astrological progression from the 12th to the 1st to the 2nd House, illuminating how the invisible becomes form and why working with the subconscious is central to true transformation.

Free Workshop: The Second House

Just a few spots left in Weavers, I, we begin May 4th.

Learn more about the Futurewriting Collective.

Apply to join us in the Vision Society.

Melanie Reinhart, On Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus

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 Centaurs and how they have more to offer us than their “Wounds”. The astrological Centaurs are powerful, intricate Weavers and if we’re looking closely enough at their myths, they call us to become Weavers, too.

* Read the original essay, Manifestation is the People’s Magic.

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 are entering an era where force and intellect are no longer the primary architects of the future. The heart and soul and capacity to attune the subtle realities are now the most essential capabilities for those of us who wish to create, build, nurture life / business / vision and organization in harmony with the Earth’s wisdom and intelligence.

The Earth already holds the seeds of the future and the new templates that help us calibrate to what’s possible beyond our imagining.Our work is to listen, to sense, and to call forward what is ready to emerge. But this requires willingness and trust—trust in ourselves and our bodies, trust in the subtle, and trust in the subtle ways of knowing that move us beyond stuckness and into what’s truly available for us.

Inside of Weavers I, we equip you with the skill to manifest new personal realities from the integrated body-soul codex.

You will learn the basics of reality mechanics (through an eco-somatic lens) to support yourself to thrive in your human experience through the waves of change that are happening on Earth.

Inside of this Immersion, you will focus on manifesting trackable, tangible change in one of the following areas:

* 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 in your self-leadership and financial resources. Expand your capacity to both receive and hold more wealth / revenue.

* Expand your Relational Capacity — Deepen your capacity to attract truly respectful, reciprocal, whole, and fulfilling relationships and emotional connections.

Inside of Weavers I, You Receive…

* A Sealed, Held, and Intimate Container

* 3 x 90 min Group Calls Per Month

* Opportunities to Reflect and Integrate Together

* Resources + Tools for Supporting Your Process

Our Schedule

Orientation will be held on May 4th at 10:00 a.m. PST. All other calls will be held every first, second, and third Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. PST from May to July, 2025.

* May Dates :: 5/4, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20

* June Dates :: 6/3, 6/10, 6/17

* July Dates :: 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

We begin on May 4th.

Save $900 on enrollment by registering this week at our Weavers Beta price point. Beta pricing expires on April 5th.

Join us here.

What People are Saying about Weavers

“During our time together, I had some really interesting insights on the Futurewriting process. I started playing with the idea of what it would be like if I decided that I already have my desire, coming from a place of wholeness, rather than feeling like I need it to complete me.

I’m a huge reader of Neville Goddard and other teachers from the New Thought Movement, and I’ve never thought about it this way before—thinking from a space of wholeness rather than from the future self perspective.

Now, I understand I can think from the present moment, as if I’m already whole. And if I don’t know what that feels like, I can just imagine it, decide from there, and create the bridges.” — Jean B.

“I didn’t have the initiations before to prepare my nervous system and internal systems to hold the kind of work I want to step into. And it’s not just about the depth of the work—it’s also about the systems, the people on my team, and everything else that goes into running a business. I didn’t fully grasp how much I needed to be able to hold until now.

Over the last eight weeks, I’ve experienced deep grief and allowed myself to be with what is while continuing to show up. That alone has been transformative—this shifting of timelines and showing myself what I am truly capable of. I’m no longer crumbling or blocking the world out. I’ve had moments of being deep in it, but I also recorded a podcast, showed up for this space, and taught in an online container, as well as in my friends' online community.

When I sat with this, I realized I’m already stepping into the timeline I was calling in just two months ago. I’m doing it by continuing to show up, allowing myself to expand, and seeing it as layers peeling away—each layer revealing more capacity for growth. It’s been beautiful to witness myself in this process.”

— Briana A.

“The reason I came here was to generate more revenue in my business, but my real struggle has been putting myself out there. I wanted to feel more confident, more magnetic. What has been holding me back is my fear of being disliked, criticized, or just being seen in general.

What I also want to mention is that I ended up focusing a lot on my relationships as well. There's also a fear of being judged for the decisions I feel I need to make.

Now, I feel like I'm in a space of really owning what I want, even if what I have is already good.

I’m learning to do this without thinking that I’m being “too much”—because I’ve internalized this message that I want too much, or that I have high expectations.”

— Brooke C.

I showed up to this space wanting to open up to more love in my life and reconnect with my essence. It’s incredible to realize that when I can love myself through all of my phases, even in the hardest places, everything shifts.

This container has allowed me to drop back into my body, listen deeply, and ask the Earth for help. I’ve asked these incredible forces around us to guide me back to myself and show me what I haven’t been seeing. The changes I’ve experienced in the last two months are remarkable... it makes me wonder what I was missing before I became deliberately tuned in!

— Echo

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.

* 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 in creation and how the laws of regeneration teach us to craft vision in ways that are in harmony with the deeper rhythms of life.

* How to move beyond force and control and step into vision as a co-creative, embodied practice of living from the level of your Soul.

Links Mentioned:

* The Futurewriting Collective Membership

* The Vision Society — Enrollment Closes on April 1

* Free Workshop — Channeling with the Earth

Join Me for a Free Workshop

This Friday, March 7th, I’ll be diving deeper into this in my free workshop on Channeling with the Earth.

This two-hour workshop is for reclaiming our ways of knowing, sensing, and scrying new futures—not as hobbies, not as something to keep in the shadows, but as a primary source of creation, leadership, and discernment.

You’ll Walk Away With:

🌀 A Clearer Sense of What’s Calling You ForwardYou already feel the shift. This workshop will help you clarify what’s emerging for you—whether in your creative work, leadership, relationships, or personal path.

🌀 A Practice for Deep ListeningAttunement isn’t passive—it’s a skill. You’ll learn how to listen beyond logic, beyond noise, and into the subtle signals that reveal what is needed now.

🌀 Trust in Your Own KnowingYou don’t have to second-guess what you sense. This workshop will help you reclaim confidence in your intuition, your instincts, and your ability to move in alignment with what is real (even when it’s unseen).

🌀 A Way of Creating That Doesn’t Require ForceWhether you’re building something or simply navigating life, you’ll leave with a new way of moving—one that is rooted in flow, reciprocity, and the intelligence of the Earth’s field rather than push, mind, and struggle.

🌀 A Connection to Others Who Are ListeningYou’re not the only one feeling this. You’ll step into a space with others who are also tuning in, sensing, and shaping what’s next.

🌀 A Bridge into Ongoing Depth WorkThis is more than a one-time experience. Channeling the Earth is an entry point into a larger practice—one that can continue inside of one of our offerings if you choose to step further into this work.

"To all ancient peoples, the Earth was alive, a great animal inhabited by a life-spirit, or "soul-substance". All phenomena were manifestations of this divine force, and afterdeath all forms returned to this source before passing into another animate existence. The Earth Spirit was the "central transformer" of all life-energies into the multiplicity of life-forms, all protoplasmically connect with each other as in the same body, the same imagination."Earth Spirit, Serpent Spiral, and Blind SpringsThe Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor

* 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 and soul alignment.

* The art of “Portal Crafting” as a practice of alchemizing pain into possibility.

Links

* Join us this month for Portal Crafting inside of the Futurewriting Collective. From now until February 19, receive 50% off of your annual membership.

* 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 Subconscious

* 03:52 The Importance of Deep Roots

* 07:00 Embracing Underworld Initiations

* 08:03 Practical Examples and Deep Work

* 10:44 The Gifts of the Underworld

* 13:09 The Cthonic Necessity

* 24:47 Receiving Internal Sight

* 27:51 Honoring Your Soul's Essence through Vision Development

Links + Resources

* “Personal Growth Won’t Save Us” with Stephen Jenkinson

* Die Wise: A Manifesto of Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

The honest Creative Process always, always leads us into the underworld — not as punishment or evidence of some kind of internal instability, but because it is underneath the “World” as we know it that culture begins. Our “World” is the product of what was once inseminated in the deep, dark black of imaginal. Someone imagined from the thick of the Underworld the futures that we are currently living. This place underneath the “World”, is where our known examples of the manifested imagination begins.

[Like seeds in the warm wet soil. Always, like seeds in the soil.]

When we avoid the Underworld parts of the Creative Process, we create hydroponic visionary realities that are robust with green, chloryphyllic ideas and utopias, but they are often not strong enough, nor tested enough, to withstand nature’s storms and the many seasons of vision, creative process, and life.

“We are a growth addicted, limit defying culture. And we are trying to live a hydroponic spirituality — a spirituality that has no earth.” Stephen Jenkinson

This Underworld reality is not necessarily a place of wrath, forgottenness, and rage as Abramhamic religions have taught us, but a place where darkness, fire, water, fungi, and bacterial cultures thrive and bring texture, flavor, spice, and depth to our conscious experiences of the Upper World, our physical domain.

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The Underworld is what holds our imaginal cells, our stories, our procreative energies, our context, our myths. When we learn how to engage the Underworld, we receive our vision like a fresh first bleed of maturation or like a first wet dream. It’s in the Underworld that our internal eyes open and we learn how to see in the dark. The Underworld is where Vision is born. It is where our vision comes to life. And when vision comes to life, our drive and imaginal responsibility also comes online.

This is because passage through the Underworld is an initiatory experience. It is a sign of maturation when we can make it through to the other side of “death”, the liminal, the most bottom part of the Underworld experience, and be granted our internal eyes, our most inward gaze through which we learn to really see and feel the relevancy of the immaterial reality. This passage is the cthonic necessity that adds flavor, texture, rootedness, presence, and depth to the creative and / or entrepreneurial experience.

And if you want the kind of presencing, reach, magnetism, and / or deep inner prayer life that no one will see, passage through the underworld is a necessity. Touching, feeling, and experiencing your darkness and your wilder parts is part of the maturation of your channel, your voice, and your vision.

The Underworld is where Vision is born, it is where vision comes to life. And when vision is born, so too is born our creative responsibility.

Vision is born from the cthonic necessity.

My Qi Gong teacher describes the cthonic necessity as the thick, unhurried, unambitious energy of Yin. It is the deepest death. It is the soul descent. It is the nothingness, the unformed, the uncarved block. It is where our energy is thick, unlabeled, and unnameable. And it is through dwelling with the cthonic necessity that we are granted passage into true, soul-level vision.

This means that your true soul’s Vision comes from walking through the dirth and the deaths of the Underworld. Your highest soul’s calling comes from going to the deep, dark, unnameable black of yourself and being willing to not know anything beyond what you feel.

It comes from walking through the dark. It comes from saying hello to your inner wilderness, the thick, alive, darkness of the spirit. It comes from seeing and experiencing yourself without the contours of light. It comes from contending with your loud, anxious, restless human thoughts. It comes from feeling the vibrancy of silence. The wisdom of the Void.

Vision comes when you’ve met your unknowing, your grief, your shadow, your abandoned parts with gentle, loving curiosity and kindness.

Vision is born from the cthonic necessity of descending to the soul-level parts of your humanity. Vision is a neutral occurrence. It is just what happens when we are moving through and learning from the dark.

If you want to access a vision that does not compromise your soul’s essence, that has the potential to pierce through the noise and touch someone else’s soul or make impact in even the most subtle of ways, you have go through with the cthonic necessity of deep world travel. You have to allow yourself to commune with your shadow and to touch your subconscious, your void places, your dark.

You have to learn who you are when stripped of convenient, protective personality constructs, ego stories, and clever shapeshifting identities. You have to locate your backbone when the world and all the structures you thought were home and safety have been stripped away. You have to learn how to get still enough to listen, quiet enough to hear your own soul whisper your own soul’s true name. You have to get low enough to feel, see, smell, hear, touch your body and the true, burning coals of fire living beneath your skin.

Vision comes when we have learned how to listen, how to witness, how to see in the dark.

This season, inside of the Vision Society, we’re exploring the topic of Vision and the Underworld.

The Vision Society – A Sacred Space for Spirit-Led Entrepreneurs Who Are Scaling to Six Figures and Beyond

The Vision Society is a business development incubator for soul-driven women and queer+ entrepreneurs who believe their work is more than just a product or a service—it’s a vehicle for pleasure, oracular stewardship and transformation, and a living prayer for our shared futures.

If you’ve ever fel...

Links + Resources

* Recommended Reading: Descent and Rising: Women’s Stories and the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth by Carly Mountain (social media / website)

* Reading to Go Even Deeper: The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature by Steven Foster and Meredith Little

* Go even deeper: Servants of the Sacred Dream: Rebirthing the Deep Feminine: Psycho-spiritual Crisis and Healing by Linda Hartley

* The waitlist for the Vision Society is now open. Join the waitlist here to receive 20% off when registration officially opens. (click here to join the waitlist).

* The Futurewriting Collective membership is now open. Join now to lock instant forever-access to both the membership *and* our foundational course. (click here to learn more).

Go deeper with us inside of the Futurewriting Collective–a mystery school for grounded, conscious reality creation.

Use the code “WritingFutures” to receive 20% off until Wednesday, December 4th.