2024 U.S. election
Forecast: October 2024
Forecast Trump 312, Harris 226: the exact final Electoral College result.
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Beyond Consensus:Prepare for Exponential Change
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The Greatest Risk May Be Assuming Next Year Will Look Like This Year.
Your investments, business, career, and long-term plans depend on expectations about what happens next.
But what happens when technology advances faster than expected, political priorities reverse, or institutions you rely on begin to lose their authority?
Join William Stickevers to learn how to question the assumptions behind your plans, recognize emerging risks and opportunities, and identify developments that warrant a change of course.
Drawing on astrological timing, historical cycles, technological developments, and scenario analysis, William will show how he assesses consequential change before its implications become widely understood.
When Change Accelerates, Familiar Expectations Can Become Liabilities.
You may recognize that the world is changing and still underestimate what that means for your own decisions.
- A technology you expect to mature over a decade advances much faster.
- An institution you consider dependable struggles to respond.
- A development dismissed as implausible becomes something you must account for.
The consequences reach beyond being wrong about the future. You can prepare too late, overlook an opportunity, or remain committed to a plan whose foundations have changed.
Exponential change makes this harder. Compounding advances can compress timelines, while energy, infrastructure, economics, regulation, and human resistance can delay their effects.
Preparing requires judgment about both: what is accelerating and what is holding it back.
What Are You Counting on Staying the Same Next Year?
Your profession. Your job. The medical care you rely on. The way you earn, save, and live.
Which parts of your daily life feel so familiar that you rarely question whether they could change?
At the precipice of exponential change, this webinar invites you to look at those expectations with fresh eyes—and consider where preparation today could give you more options tomorrow.
What You Will Learn
- Find the assumptions your plans depend on. Recognize where you are treating continuity, institutional stability, or gradual change as a guarantee.
- Understand where change can accelerate and where it can stall. Examine how compounding technological advances interact with physical limits, economic incentives, and human resistance.
- Connect astrological timing with present conditions. Assess recurring planetary themes alongside today’s technology, geopolitics, and markets, without assuming history must repeat in the same form.
- Evaluate a forecast that challenges consensus. Examine its reasoning, supporting evidence, and the conditions that would undermine it.
- Develop competing scenarios. Consider what would need to happen first, which developments deserve attention, and how strongly the evidence supports each possibility.
- Recognize when to revise your outlook. Distinguish evidence that strengthens a forecast from evidence that calls its premise or timing into question.
- Turn uncertainty into preparation. Establish monitoring priorities and identify circumstances that would warrant reconsidering your plans.
The Cycle Returns. The World Has Changed.
A Uranus cycle expressing itself through artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, digital markets, and instantaneous communication has possibilities unavailable to earlier generations.
Historical precedents matter. But expecting the same planetary patterns to reproduce the same events, at the same speed and scale, can leave astrologers vulnerable to the very assumptions they seek to challenge.
William will explore how to connect astrological timing with emerging evidence, accelerating capabilities, and the constraints that determine whether a potential development becomes reality.
Real-World Case Studies of Shifting Conditions
See how William connects emerging developments with the larger forces shaping them.
Through real-world case studies, he will examine where conventional expectations fall short—and what changing conditions can mean for the decisions ahead.
Know when to rethink your plans—and where to look for opportunity.
Black Swans: Warning Signs for Surprises
A genuinely unforeseen event cannot be reliably named and dated in advance. Yet developments later described as “black swans” can involve warning signs that were dismissed or excluded from prevailing expectations.
The practical task is to recognize fragile assumptions, examine where disruption would have serious consequences, and prepare alternatives while the precise trigger remains unknown.
You do not need certainty about every possible outcome to begin examining where your plans are vulnerable.
Who This Webinar Is For
Investors
Examine the expectations behind your long-term plans and recognize developments that deserve a closer look.
Business owners and professionals
Consider how accelerating change could affect your business, career, and the decisions you are making today.
People making consequential decisions
Explore alternatives to a familiar outlook and identify circumstances that would warrant revisiting your plans.
Independent thinkers
Connect historical cycles with today’s technological and geopolitical conditions.
Bring a willingness to question a familiar expectation and examine what would change your mind.
About William Stickevers
Strategic Astrological Advisor
William Stickevers has practiced astrology since 1989, with a focus on geopolitical and financial astrology since 2007.
His earlier career as a Senior Enterprise and IT Network Systems Engineer in New York City and Silicon Valley informs his understanding of technological systems, infrastructure, and the conditions that enable or constrain change.
Over more than three decades, he has advised clients in 28 countries on business, finance, and personal decisions. His annual Global Outlook forecasts and ongoing briefings examine the forces reshaping economies and geopolitics.
His approach integrates mundane astrology, historical patterns, geopolitical developments, markets, and technology to assess consequential turning points.
William’s Record of Seeing Developments Ahead
A partial list from William’s published prediction record:
Bitcoin’s early promise
Forecast: 2010
Identified Bitcoin’s potential to become a significant financial asset, years before mainstream adoption.
Source recordBrexit
Forecast: 2015
Anticipated Britain’s exit decision before the 2016 referendum.
Source recordCOVID economic disruption
Forecast: February 2020
Warned of coronavirus waves and severe economic disruption before widespread lockdowns.
Source recordRussia–Ukraine war
Forecast: January 2022
Forecast war before Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion.
Source recordIran–Israel confrontation
Forecast: February 2025
Rated direct military confrontation as highly likely before the June 2025 war.
Source recordBitcoin above $100,000
Forecast: February 2024
Forecast the threshold Bitcoin crossed in December 2024.
Source recordGold’s $2,400 milestone
Forecast: February 2024
Targeted roughly $2,400 per ounce; gold exceeded that level in 2024.
Source recordBiden stepping aside
Forecast: February 2022
Raised the possibility Biden would not run again; he withdrew in July 2024.
Source recordU.S.–China trade war
Forecast: January 2017
Anticipated aggressive trade confrontation before tariffs escalated in 2018.
Source recordBritain’s Labour landslide
Forecast: February 2024
Forecast a Labour landslide before the July election.
Source recordAI becoming pervasive
Forecast: February 2018
Forecast AI becoming a pervasive societal force, years before ChatGPT’s public launch.
Source recordThese are selected outcomes from William’s own record, which also includes partial outcomes and misses. Past forecasts do not guarantee future results.
As Heard On
The Final Webinar in the 2026 Threshold Year Series
Throughout the 2026 Threshold Year Series, William has examined major forces reshaping our world.
This closing webinar turns to the expectations we bring to those developments and how to recognize when our plans need to change.
Look ahead with a broader perspective—and a clearer sense of where to focus your attention and preparation.
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Beyond Consensus: Prepare for Exponential Change
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Sunday, November 1, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is the live webinar?
Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 11am Pacific Standard Time / 2pm Eastern Standard Time. U.S. daylight saving time ends that morning. Check your local time.
What will I learn to apply to my own decisions?
You’ll learn how to examine an assumption your plans depend on, consider alternative scenarios, and identify evidence that would warrant revising your outlook. Consider what changing conditions could mean for your business, career, investments, or daily life.
Will William discuss real-world examples?
Yes. The webinar includes real-world case studies.
How does astrology fit into the webinar?
William uses planetary cycles to examine timing and recurring themes of change. He synthesizes those patterns alongside historical precedents, technological developments, geopolitics, markets, and current evidence to assess how they may unfold under today’s conditions.
Will this teach me to predict exactly what happens next?
This is not a class teaching predictive techniques. The focus is on evaluating forecasts, recognizing vulnerable assumptions, and preparing for plausible alternatives so that you can be proactive, make a plan, and take action.
What If Your Assumptions Fail?
Join William Stickevers for Beyond Consensus—and prepare for the exponential change ahead.
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