By Deborah Carter Mastelotto 

Every year I try to compile a list of helpful books for each astrological sign. 2024 heralds the end of a major cycle and the beginning of a new one. Let go of those things you’ve worked hard on but still can’t make fit comfortably in your life.

Be brave and leap into the beginning of your new cycle. Next year will wobble a bit and make you doubt your new direction, but have faith—by 2025 your new direction will be firmly planted on solid ground.

Expect to welcome the new energy 2024 brings, especially during the first half of the year.

You feel a strong need to establish yourself, build something solid, and unapologetically embrace comfort and security.

You attract the most good fortune by being steady, charitable, and generous. Pursue your goals in a leisurely fashion, watch your profits and possessions slowly accumulate.

Just guard against too self-focused and stubborn. By the end of 2014 those attitudes get thrown into the trash along with the last gasp of the old cycle.

Learn to think of your talents and hobbies as a ‘Business of One’ but, to make remote work satisfying and productive, even you need a strategy. That’s why the book ‘Remote, Inc: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You are’ by Alexandra Samuel and Robert C. Posen can be the book you need this year. It gives you the strategies and tools to help tap into the unique advantages of working from home.

This is your year to be social (whether you want to or not) because the more you socialize, especially with groups and organizations, the more successful you can be. To help you do this painlessly, first read Karen Wickre’s ‘Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections’ . Let Wickre guide you in your new quest to make genuine profitable connections that last.

Life in 2024 doesn’t have to be as complicated as it has been in 2023, but your key to success could be as simple as a shift in your perspective, in the way you see yourself. Could it really be this easy? Let Vaughn Carter help adjust your inner vision, with his book ‘Help Me, I’m Stuck: Six Proven Methods to Shift Your Mindset From Self-Sabotage to Self-Improvement’. Make it your goal in 2024 to becoming more productive by getting out of your own way.

Friendships can be comforting, but also at times frustrating and messy, which you hate. This is your year to sort out your acquaintances and make your friendships and connections more deeply meaningful as a grown up. The bookI ‘You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult’ by Lane Moore is your book for 2024. It may seem redundant to focus on something you already do well, but open your mind and allow this book to be your personal guide. It can help you heal from past friendship difficulties, improving your current friendships, and finally having the quality friendships you know you deserve.

This is not going to be the year for going it alone. In 2024 your career success depends on sharing your vision and enlisting acolytes to follow it. Going solo won’t bring you as much joy (or profit), so you might need a little boost. Read Cameron Herold’s ‘Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool For Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future’. This book can be a holistic road map to help get your teammates passionate about your big picture, and the one you want to share to make your dream a reality.

Whether you’re on a self-imposed budget or ready to indulge in a little bit of luxury, this year is going to be fun and full of travel, especially if you’re part of a couple. For some great motivation get the book ‘The Couple’s Guide to World Travel’ by Rich and Elizabeth Kerian. See how to easily plan extended travel experiences together to take advantages of the years great energies. Don’t have a partner? Then this might just be the year for travel to change that for you.

It’s the year (and about time) for you to explore the idea of creating a simple framework for passive income, and the kind of uncomplicated, stable, and non-stressful financial situation you have only dreamed of. You might even expect a windfall or inheritance in 2024, so how to manage it? Read the book ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Big: Money Management for a Meaningful Life’ by Michael Lynch. Upgrade your financial home base—It’s the time for it.

Fun is action some people seemingly can take practically anywhere, anytime, just usually not you. Research and science prove we all, even you, need fun and creativity for our physical and mental well-being. Yet sometimes you chase the fun from your daily life and then feel guilty for wanting it back. This needs to change in 2024. Mike Rucker’s book ‘The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life’ is your how-to manual for 2024. Take this ‘fun’ thing as a challenge, and conquer it, especially so if if you have a partner.

You Sagittarius folk need to feel like you have the freedom to move, especially in your work environment. The fact that you can now work anywhere is what’s so appealing about remote work—you can take it with you wherever you choose to be. The book ‘Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere‘ by Tsedal Neeleyis was (almost) written just for you this year.

2024 is your year to embrace social media as a legitimate enterprise. You will need to amp up your marketing skills and get creative. If this seems like a tall order and a bit frivolous, don’t worry. The stars (and some great books) are on your side and will help you master it, even more than you already have. Need a template? The book for you is ‘Followed: The Content Creator’s Guide to Being Seen, Facing Judgment, and Building an Authentic Personal Brand’ by Amanda Bucci. Read this book then jump right in.

Your surroundings have always been a reflection of your personal style, and no one really understands this completely. How your home is decorated and arranged can have an important impact on the quality of your life, so this is the year for you to read Anita Yokota’s book ‘Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm: An Interior Design Book’. Time to be aware of what you’ve been unconsciously doing all along.

A lot of of important things are happening, and will be happening because of you. This is the year, your year, to start writing these things down. You need to be aware that non- fiction has been outselling fiction 3 to 2, but this does not mean you need to stick strictly to actual facts—your life is much bigger than that. Read the Julia Cameron book ‘The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life’ will give your new writing a jump start. Be inspired to take it out of your head and onto the page. Metaphorically and/or practically.