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One year ago I started writing daily horoscopes on my facebook page with the goal of building new skills as a professional astrologer. Each morning for the past year I’ve woken up, sat down with my cup of tea, and spent between 60 to 90 minutes researching the planetary movements of the day and then writing something for all my clients, friends and colleagues.
My horoscopes are sometimes short, sometimes long, and sometimes really long (like article or essay length). Sometimes they are educational, sometimes they are predictive or divinatory, and sometimes they tap into the most pressing current events as they relate to the planetary weather. I grew up the son of a preacher, so my posts also have an undeniably Sagittarian and somewhat evangelical side. I present the thoughts and ideas that I’m most passionate about in the same style I saw my dad preach from the pulpit as a kid. It’s part of who I am, but I also try to stay away from religious or overly literalizing ideas, and in fact I devote a large portion of my writings to poking holes in the overly inflated belief balloons of new age dogma (very Gemini!).
As I’m gearing up for a second year of writing my horoscopes my audience has grown far bigger than I ever dreamed it might. Between my daily postings on RealitySandwich and my friends list on Facebook maxing out, my daily horoscopes (best estimate) reach over 10,000 people per day (and steadily climbing). This is exciting because I feel that my best years of learning and writing are ahead of me, and I’m eager to keep giving my best to the people who find my work interesting!
At the same time, my client schedule has become very demanding, and the need to maximize my earnings has created an undeniable conflict for the time it takes writing my horoscopes every morning. In thinking of ways to address this I decided that the best option would be to do a fundraiser and ask for contributions from the people who read my horoscopes every day. This way I can try to earn what I feel is a fair wage for writing these every morning, but I can also make sure that they remain free and accessible for everyone. For people who donate $25, they will receive my horoscopes to their inbox every day after they are written. They will always remain free on my facebook page and through my blog on RealitySandwich, but by contributing you’ll also have the perk of getting them to your email as soon as they’re finished!
My goal is to write 300+ MORE horoscopes in the next year, and to earn $25 per day for the 60-90 minutes that I spend writing and researching every morning. That’s a total of $7500 for the year ( though we’ve set our campaign goal at $5,000 since Kickstarter does all or nothing crowd funding!). A portion of which will go toward hiring a technical assistant to encapsulate my horoscopes every day into an email that will go out to those people who have subscribed to receive my daily horoscopes in their inbox (rather than having to read them on Facebook or RealitySandwich). Another portion will go toward taking an advanced apprenticeship this spring, which I believe will also deepen my practice and improve my horoscopes even more!
If you’ve benefited from my horoscopes and if you’d like to keep receiving them and ensuring that they remain alive and well into the future, free for everyone, then please consider contributing to my kickstarter!
Blessings,
Adam Elenbaas
www.nightlightastrology.com