the annual gift guide featuring YOUR books and creations!

We are all horribly over-indexed on gift guides. I don’t think you particularly care about what kind of notebooks I like.

But I do think you might be interested in knowing what other astrologically-curious writers might have been up to this year. And so I asked the paid subscribers who participate in this newsletter’s Discord community to share what they’ve been working on.

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note that all descriptions were written by the author/maker!

For the astromagically or devotionally inclined, a perfect addition to any Jupiter altar or planetary art collection, Idola Stellarum is offering limited edition letterpress prints of the Orphic Hymn to Jupiter, printed in-house during Jupiter’s degree of exaltation (that’s a once-in-twelve-years moment!).

Also available in their shop are talismanic prints, pendants, and rings for many of the planetary and stellar spheres.

Beginners might check out my own new introductory course, So You Want to Learn Astrology!

Intermediate students who are ready to deep dive will enjoy The IC: An Astrology of Coming Home by Pallas K. Augustine. Recently featured on The Astrology Podcast, The IC is now available in both print and ebook editions, exclusively through Idola Stellarum’s shop.

Supported by sixteen astrological client case stories and Pallas’ years of research and writing on astrology, ecology, grief, magic, disability, queerness, settler colonialism, psychology, and literary theory, The IC offers a contemporary perspective on an ancient place.

My wife Meg Jones Wall of 3am.tarot published their second book this year, Tarot Spreads: How to Read Them, Create Them, and Revise Them.

In Tarot Spreads, Meg breaks down the basics of spreads, helps you understand how to use them, and also provides practice exercises, simple activities, sample readings, and over 200 brand new tarot spreads, all designed to help you use spreads (and create your own) with confidence.

In Tarot in Other Words, 10 incredible queer essayists helping you find your way through the tarot and through the depths and beauty of your own queerness. Featuring Meg Jones Wall, , , Maria Minnis, Cassandra Snow, and more. Edited & Curated by Cassandra Snow.

The Rebis is a beautiful print-only publication exploring tarot through original art, essays, fiction, and poetry. Rooted in anticapitalist principles of art-making in times of crisis, The Rebis redistributes all profits to social justice organizations focused on reparations & reproductive justice. Many friends of the Astrology for Writers community appear in these pages, including Meg Jones Wall, , , , Aliya Bree Hall, and more!

The two issues currently available in print, The Devil + The Star, make a powerful pairing, and when you purchase both, you’ll receive $10 off your order.

Longtime reader Whitney sells hats for soup people! Makes a great stocking stuffer or gift. Buy ‘em here.

Longtime reader “crafts joy through fiber” — check out her crochet patterns, workbooks, bags, and printed clothes on demand! She also has a crochet starter guide of ad-free videos that’s super generous.

Bestselling author ’s next contemporary romance Love Me Like a Rock Song arrives on shelves in 2026: “Delilah is a lyricist looking for a muse. Emmett is a golem ready to be unmade. From the bestselling author of Rules for Ghosting comes a soul-stirring, romantic novel about a jilted singer-songwriter, her unexpected hitchhiker, and the road trip of a lifetime.” Pre-order to support!

And for books you can buy as gifts this very moment…

Do you want books about making the world better together? Perhaps set in the magical community of Britain between the 1850s and the 1940s? Celia Lake has a number of new titles out this year. If you like a sapphic romance, (one of the women is bi), check out Claiming the Tower set in 1854, when two women (armed with drinking chocolate) think the world could be run a whole lot better and start doing something about it.

Or perhaps you’re looking for an escape with a snarky Fae heroine and adorable kitten who’s more than he seems? Check out Cecilia Dominic’s The Shadow Project, book one of the Fae Files, a complete six-book urban fantasy series with slow-burn romance.

Exiled Fae princess Reine wants nothing more than to escape the chaos of the Earth realm and return to Faerie—preferably without having to dodge bureaucratic nonsense.

Perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, and Deborah Harkness, The Shadow Project delivers fast-paced urban fantasy full of wit, wonder, and weaponized sarcasm.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug my own memoir, Heretic, now available in paperback. Of my book, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus said, “Bless this brave, thoughtful, funny, aggravating, nearly triggering book. It made me wish I still believed in the God I knew in my youth so that I could pick a fight with Him.” Which, honestly, yes.