You know, for years I thought all that astrology and horoscope nonsense was just for people who needed an excuse for being late. I was the typical stable guy—spreadsheet warrior, five-year plan, zero tolerance for wishy-washy ideas. I used to laugh at people who based life decisions on the stars.
Then 2023 hit me like a truck. And not the good kind of truck that delivers a bonus check. I had just walked away from a big client project, convinced I could launch my own startup fast. Big mistake. Huge. Six months in, I was draining my savings faster than a leaky faucet, and the confidence I started with had turned into a sweaty kind of anxiety.
My wife, bless her heart, had been pushing me to ‘seek guidance.’ She meant a therapist or maybe a financial advisor. What I ended up seeking was much weirder. I was sitting at my messy desk one July morning, completely stumped, staring at the screen, and I just typed into the search bar: ‘Virgo Career Disaster July 2023.’ I wasn’t even looking for a forecast; I was looking for confirmation that the universe hated me personally.
That’s when I stumbled across this piece. The title was exactly what I ended up sharing: What are the top chances for virgo career horoscope july 2023? Read the forecast! I figured, what the heck? I’d already hit rock bottom. Might as well see if the planets had better advice than my own brain.
The Core of the July 2023 Forecast
I read the whole thing, but I didn’t just read it; I treated it like a project brief. I highlighted the key ‘chances’ it mentioned for Virgos in that specific month. The language was flowery, but when I boiled it down, it gave me three actionable items. I scribbled them down on a sticky note—my Virgo self needed to organize the cosmic chaos, obviously.
- Chance 1: Embrace the Unexpected Pivot. It talked a lot about Mars moving into a new sector, suggesting that trying to stick rigidly to old plans was going to fail. It basically told me to scrap the polished startup idea and try something completely new, even if it felt disorganized.
- Chance 2: Tap Hidden Networks. This was about reaching out to contacts I hadn’t spoken to in years—people from way back, not my current industry buddies. The forecast specifically mentioned looking for help in places I considered ‘outdated’ or ‘irrelevant.’
- Chance 3: Financial Risk is Necessary, but Calculated. It implied that holding onto the last bit of my cash out of fear was the wrong move. I needed to invest in some kind of crucial tool or service that I had been cheaping out on.
Now, usually, I would have thrown that sticky note in the bin. But my usual plan wasn’t working. So I decided to treat the horoscope like the advice of a very eccentric, very ancient consultant. I committed to the practice.
My Practice Records: Actioning the Star Advice
I started with the Pivot. My original startup idea was complex software. I straight-up abandoned it. I had spent years building internal training materials at my old corporate job. Boring stuff, but effective. I decided to switch gears completely and just start offering those corporate training workshops as a side hustle, something I had previously thought was beneath me. It was disorganized, raw, and totally unplanned. Exactly what the stars ordered.
Next was the networking part. This was the most uncomfortable. I pulled up my LinkedIn contacts and filtered by people I hadn’t interacted with in five years. I reached out to a former college dorm mate who now ran a completely separate physical business—a logistics firm, totally outside my tech sphere. I didn’t ask for a job; I just asked for advice on ‘managing decentralized teams.’ He invited me to lunch.
The last point was financial risk. I had been trying to build a website myself on a free platform to save fifty bucks a month. The horoscope shamed me. I bit the bullet and hired a very basic, cheap but professional web designer to build me a decent landing page for the training workshops. It cost me about $500—money I didn’t want to spend, but the advice insisted I had to “show seriousness.”
The Outcome and Why I’m Sharing This Now
You wouldn’t believe what happened. That casual lunch with the old dorm mate? He wasn’t interested in my training workshops, but he was facing a massive operational logjam with his fleet scheduling software. He needed a custom solution, fast. Because I had pivoted away from my complicated software idea, I had the time and mental space to quickly sketch out a much simpler, bespoke solution for him.
That initial logistics contract—which came directly from applying the “tap hidden networks” chance—was enough to pull me out of the financial hole I dug myself into. It wasn’t the sexy, world-changing startup I initially dreamed of, but it paid the bills, stabilized my life, and, critically, gave me back my sleep. That July 2023 reading forced me to stop being a stubborn, rigid Virgo trying to force a perfect plan, and instead, just react to what was actually happening.
If I hadn’t been so desperate that day to even consider reading a horoscope, I would still be sitting there, refining my five-year-plan for a failing business. Sometimes, when life completely messes you up, the only path forward is to throw out the playbook and listen to the weirdest advice you can find. It certainly worked for me.
