new class (and feelings) incoming ✨
Hi friends,
The self-paced version of Astrology for Writers: How to Make Your Writing Work for You drops this Sunday, October 24th! CAN YOU BELIEVE. (I can’t.)
So, here’s what you’re supposed to do in sales emails. You’re supposed to talk about what a class is going to do for the students. You’re supposed to talk about all the ways the course is gonna change your life and shit.
But here’s the thing: teaching this class this year has changed mine.
And I’d like to tell you a little bit about it, because fuck sales emails.
This course was a natural outgrowth of this almost 3-year-old newsletter (!!), the weird brainchild of my writer-astrologer heart-mind — the one that is perpetually worried about not being taken seriously by Serious Lit People because of my investment in spirituality. Inspiration for this course came at a time when I was in the process of quitting my full-time job as Director of Content for the CHANI app with the intention of focusing on writing my memoir.
It came before there was a vaccine, when we all had Zoom fatigue and I didn’t think anyone was going to want to spend even more time sitting at their desk on a Sunday afternoon talking about how their writing block and writing doubts and general issues with their writing career could all actually connect to their birth chart and the inherent gifts therein.
I’ve now taught this course live three times — once as a 4-week class, and twice as an 8-week. Each time has been full of joy and wonder and discovery and the best conversations with students that I’ve had in my entire teaching career, and I include the years in my graduate program in that.
This class both reawakened and fulfilled a part of me that I had once assumed was dead — the part of me that loves teaching, the part of me that assumed that walking away from a PhD and an academic career meant giving up a classroom forever.
To everyone who has taken the class with me live, on Zoom, as I developed the material, found my teacher footing again, and helped me think through these concepts: thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for one of the best professional years of my life.
The thing is, word gets out about these things! (I grew up in tiny, tiny rural Midwest towns; I should have realized that this would happen.) Folks wanted to take the class who worked on weekends. Who were without childcare, because of the pandemic we are in. Who live in non-US time zones that made attending a live class impossible. Who couldn’t afford the significantly higher cost of a live course.
By the time I was teaching the third live class within 9 months of launching it, the solution was pretty obvious: this class needed to live more affordably on video, where it could be downloaded by anyone at any time.
That’s what I’ve spent the last few months developing for you.
For those of you who’ve pre-ordered: thank you so much for your early support. I hope you like it. The class in its entirety will be arriving in your inbox this Sunday (!!).
You will each be receiving —
25+ videos, varying in length from 5 - 30+ minutes, covering your Sun, Moon, Rising/Ascendant, chart ruler, Mercury, 2nd house & its ruler, 3rd house & its planetary ruler, and 10th house & its planetary ruler, as well as astrological foundations such as the elements and modalities and example charts of famous writers like Toni Morrison
7 workbooks
A total of more than 7 hours of recorded material
— that bring you from the foundations of your birth chart all the way through to your sense of purpose, your emotional life, and the specifics of things like how you make money, your preferred writing routine, and what you want to be known for.
If you pre-order before 11:59pm Eastern on Saturday, October 23rd, you’ll also get a bonus module all about your natal Venus and how art and aesthetics work in your chart.
I’m so excited to share this next stage of the journey with you all.
Some kind things that course alumni and clients have said:
“Jeanna is knowledgeable, insightful, and organized in the ways of all the best Capricorns. Working with her has been a great gift in my long history of working with astrologers; she is brilliant, and conveys her wisdom well.” — Esmé Weijun Wang, author of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS & THE BORDER OF PARADISE
“Her teachings helped me gain a more nuanced understanding of my chart, highlighting the impulses, tensions, and tendencies I experience in my writing life. Her perspective on astrology feels inclusive and thoughtful — I heartily recommend this course to anyone who wants to understand their relationship to writing against an astrological landscape.”— April Waters, writer
“Jeanna is exactly what you want in an astrologer for (gasp, sorry) writers. I felt seen, pwned, inspired, challenged, mildly insulted, and she is already in my book acknowledgements. I love her.” — Nicole Cliffe, writer & co-founder of The Toast
“Jeanna's interpretation of my chart as it relates to my writing practice & process gave me the permission I deeply needed to engage with my creativity in a way that genuinely makes sense for me and my brain. Rather than continue to shame-spiral about how my process differs from others', I now understand how to structure my time in truly inspirational & productive ways. With Jeanna's guidance, I've come to recognize that many of my natural proclivities are actually excellent assists, and not the hindrances I previously thought them to be. I'm so grateful for how Jeanna weaves her immense astrological knowledge with her experienced writerly know-how!” — Diana Rose Harper, astrologer
“Jeanna has an innate understanding of what it takes to be a creative professional because she is one herself; she speaks so kindly about how astrology intersects with not just art, but artistic process.” — A.E. Osworth, author of WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT
“Jeanna is my most trusted astrologer. In a sometimes crowded space, her insights always stand out from the crowd. She has an incredibly deep knowledge of her field, and — a natural teacher — she manages to break down the information in a relatable and practical way.” — Kyley Caldwell, akashic records healer & business coach
P.S. This price tag has an expiration date — it’s going to go up after Samhain/Halloween! <3