Part 2 of My Predictions 2024

At the end of Part 1 I asked you all to ask more questions about world events I didn't cover. Here's the first batch of what came of it:

This continues to be open as an option. Got more questions? Please email me at love@heathercarlucci.com with the heading: “Predictions”

and here is what you asked about:

Will the hostages taken on Oct 7 be released?

Any hostage release is a nuanced situation and this is no different.  I see some getting out over time.  One here, another there.

It will go well and then the opposing side (in the spiritual neutral this is how it refers to the side of the hostages) will push too much.

But that push is not about the hostages.  There is a brazen gesture by the opposing side (again, not the hostages themselves) that puts them in some danger. 

Casualties, yes with a side note that casualties could also mean a hostage lives but retains issues from the experience: an injury or mental health issue. No surprise there.

The hostages not being released also doesn't mean death as well.  There are still moments of humanity and one of the hostages as well as a hostage taker that will separately write about the nuances of war and survival between humans and honor among people stuck together (ie: hostages and captors caring for each other). On a more technical note, this reads like a big "scribble of human energy"; chaotic but if you unravel you can see the thought pattern behind the chain of events---we just don't hear the other side, too involved in our own.

Animals and plants: Around here, the natural variation in weather and other factors causes surges or lows in specific crops and animals. Some years are huge for apples, some not. Some years, cicadas, most not. Turtles or foxes or porcupines everywhere or not.  Any predictions for 2024?

We're going to be seeing a bit of shift in how animals survive.  Almost a "despite human aggression, we'll do this other thing".  It doesn't read that we'll see it this year specifically but looking back science will track it to now (we can't get anymore specific as mere mortals). Where we may know a certain specie to migrate a specific way until it's endangered/extinct we will now see how others will move a bit "to the left or right to survive".  ie: a turtle that always lays eggs on sand will evolve to lay eggs on rocks or other places. Fertility will change, location will change, mating habits will change.  Butterflies will begin fly differently with the wind in order to survive and actually thrive.  These years promise to be the years looked back upon to see a real evolutionary change the coping mechanisms of insects, amphibians and non-human mammals.

Gatherings: people will, as they always do, come together offline offscreen outdoors over food, drink, music, art, sport, and shared tasks and needs.  In 2024, anything surprising, amusing or interesting?