A Roundup of 2024 Astrological Forecasts
Insights on the wild election year to come
I have been taking care of some tedious end-of-year tasks lately. Fortunately, there are plenty of astrology forecasts for 2024 that I have had playing in the background on YouTube. Highlights are as follows.
Sandy Rueve and Susan Gidel
This forecast is about two hours long. It spends the first hour on the whole year of 2024 and the second hour diving deeper into January. Sandy and Susan, both based in the Chicago area, bring a positive attitude to the task. Sandy runs jewelry company Intention Beads, and Susan is a financial astrologer. In this forecast, Susan especially has a lot of good information about the primary and convention dates leading up to the 2024 election.
The Astrology Podcast
Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock tackle 2024 in their usual long-form style — this video runs just over four hours! Highlights include Austin’s comments around 3:08 on the conjunction between Mars, Uranus, and Algol on July 15. A similar configuration was apparently present for a very violent event during World War II. In the previous link, Susan Gidel talks more about the Mars-Uranus conjunction in relation to the Republican National Convention scheduled to begin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15.
Around 3:32, Chris and Austin note that the Mars retrograde in Leo and Cancer beginning in December 2024 covers similar ground as the Mars retrogrades in late 2007-early 2008 and late 2009-early 2010.
Kathy Rose and Pam Gregory
Kathy’s comments (around 18 minutes in, and elsewhere) about perhaps needing to rein in our sensitivity during the final moments of Neptune in Pisces remind me of comments I’ve made about literary cancel culture, which are cataloged here: https://astrologybooks.substack.com/t/cancel-culture
Sara Wiseman
This forecast is based on channeling rather than astrology, but she makes some really interesting comments about Ozempic around 7:52 of this video. Other parts of the forecast are available at this link: https://www.sarawiseman.com/divinestrology/divinestrology-annual-forecast-part-two
News and opportunities
I finally got a notification today that Amazon had shipped the author copies of Impossible Dreams I ordered back on December 7. I am supposed to receive them by January 6. Amazon lets authors who use Kindle Direct Publishing order copies of their own books at print cost (only what it costs to print the book, without author royalties or Amazon’s cut), but these orders are not prioritized for normal Amazon processing and shipping speed. If anyone is Googling “how long does it take to get amazon author copies” — it takes a while!
One of my recent tasks was organizing my cryptocurrency income in CoinTracker. I was super into crypto during 2020 and 2021 and then lost interest when the market was depressed in 2022 and 2023. The astrological charts of many cryptocurrencies emphasize the Leo/Virgo and Aquarius/Pisces cusps, which were affected by Saturn moving through late Aquarius and early Pisces during 2022 and 2023. Now that Saturn has moved further into Pisces, crypto might get interesting again. CoinTracker is very helpful for generating documentation of your cryptocurrency transactions for tax purposes. If you’d like to try it, my referral code is here: https://www.cointracker.io/i/rV2mm7c06pQp
Marble.cards, which allows you to make crypto trading cards based on URLs from select domain names, now includes substack.com. I don’t think the Substack Marble cards will ever be as sensational as the vice.com Marble cards, but I went ahead and claimed my Substack Marble card: https://marble.cards/card/284463
I’m still hoping to hire a freelance graphic designer for the new edition of Booby Prize: An Astrological Novel as well as subsequent essay anthologies. I need someone who can make astrological charts that look good in both print and digital formats at 300 dpi. I also want assistance with book covers. Please email my new business address if you are interested: astrologybooks@proton.me