Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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For the past ten years, I have created an average of 300+ daily horoscopes and astrology videos per year, fundraising for the last 40 days of the year in order to support my work. And each year, all of you, my wonderful community of subscribers, have stepped up to help me support the creation of my content in the year ahead.
This year, I am attempting to break last year’s record of 1,776 backers, and I have also set a base goal of raising $200,000 to support my work and my staff in 2024.
The proceeds from this work help me to support my family, while also hiring a team of dedicated workers who help me to produce and manage the free content that I create each day, as well as the programs and classes that I teach year-round.
The financial support you give me also allows me to offer need-based tuition options and many full scholarships to students who otherwise could not afford astrological training. In fact, around 60% of our students, dating back to 2010 have been on some form of tuition assistance or scholarship to our programs. This is made possible because of my annual Kickstarter and my community of subscribers who support my work and support our programs.
We literally cannot do this work without everyone pitching in each year, and so I can’t say thank you enough for your help!
So, why read, watch, or listen to my daily horoscopes?
Because for thousands of years, spiritual seekers from all around the planet have turned to the stars in an effort to understand the fluctuations and changes in human experience. Because astrology not only helps us to understand the daily, karmic weather, but it also helps us to see the fingerprints of divinity in the midst of our everyday lives, from the smallest and most insignificant events to the most profound and pivotal changes we might experience. Astrology, when paired with the cultivation of our inner lives, helps us to grow wiser and kinder, more patient, discerning, and understanding of ourselves and others. And for this reason, I believe my horoscopes are unique and valuable for those who listen.
My mission, and my daily prayer, is that the content I create might help people to feel even a little bit more at home in this amazing cosmos. The content I create each day is always aimed at providing people with humor, wisdom, joy, and spiritual depth. I combine simple story-telling with rich astrological insights to help people understand the nature of the day-to-day planetary aspects. I also make sure to share all of your amazing stories in my “grabbed” episodes along the way!
Finally, my goal is to provide people with spiritual content as an alternative to the never-ending drama of the news cycles, the constant algorithm advertisements, or whatever else may be subtly draining us rather than filling us up each day.
On this note, each of my daily blogs comes straight from the inspired space of my daily spiritual practices. So, when you watch my content each day, you can know that I am doing the following:
- Exercising and sitting for silent prayer each day
- Living a healthy lifestyle, I am conscientious about diet, sleep, and exercise, and I believe this plays a big role in the quality of the content I create
- Studying sacred texts, along with the history of astrology
- Spending time in prayer and meditation on my topic of the day, and asking for guidance before I create my content
- Creating an outline for my talk
- Thoughtfully considering and responding to literally thousands of comments and emails throughout the year that I receive from my audience
This entire process usually takes me 3-4 hours per day, and I do it year-round (mostly with a smile on my face!).
I do this work because this isn’t just my job, it is my spiritual practice, and I do not believe that spiritual growth comes without consistency, and devotion, over a long period of time.
I do this work because I want my viewers to trust that I am trying my best to provide content with spiritual integrity.
Whatever your own beliefs and practices might be, I can promise you that if you support my work, I will continue to keep up these daily practices and I will continue to be a trusted and friendly source of astrological insight and story-telling in 2024. I will continue to share this heavenly wisdom from my heart, as a servant, so that others may find some glimmers of the same, hope, faith, and goodness that I have been lucky enough to find in my own relationship with astrology.
Thank you so much for your support!
2024 goals:
* This year our number one goal is to continue to work toward the establishment of a donation-based reading service offered by my alumni for people who otherwise could not afford to get a reading. This is a goal we are carrying over from last year because it has turned out to be a very big project, and one that realistically will not be finished until sometime in 2024.
* Continue to hire regular help for the production of my content on social media
* Continue to hire a personal assistant
* Continue to support a growing staff of helpers that ease the burden of content creation each day
* Continue to make all of our 2024 speaker series programs free to the public while paying our speakers well above the industry standard for an online lecture
* Continue to host free community herbal medicine events, and continue to give free herbal medicine to community members
* Support the update of my filming technology and website so that I can continue to improve the quality of my content
* Support the continued development of our Planets and Plants content (Astrology & Herbalism)
* Continue pursuing my own private astrology studies
* Continue to support our need-based scholarships
As of December 13th, this project has raised $98,000 of their $200,000 goal. This project has 19 days left to raise the $200,000 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $25, you will get one digital calendar. For a pledge of $50, you will get one video lecture. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightlightastrology/nightlight-daily-horoscopes-2024?
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