The Dumbest Test I Ran: Simple Luck Insights for July 2023
I know what you’re thinking. A mature guy like me messing around with “simple luck insights” from a Virgo Monthly Horoscope? Yeah. You got it right. But let me tell you, when your life train flies right off the rails, you grab onto any stupid pole that sticks out of the ground to stop yourself from rolling into the ditch. July 2023 was one of those months.
It was a pure, cold-blooded sanity check practice. I wasn’t looking for major cosmic secrets or complex astrology. I was looking for the absolute most stripped-down, easy-to-do, zero-effort crap that these free horoscope sites spit out. If I could follow the instructions for thirty days and just maybe avoid one fender-bender or find a twenty-dollar bill, then the whole system works on a basic level. That was the core idea I went after.
The practice started by just grabbing the data. I opened about ten different free horoscope sources—the ones that just have a quick paragraph or three. I didn’t care about the fluffy “Jupiter is squaring Saturn” nonsense. I was hunting for the direct, actionable advice. I simply pulled all the specific, simple “luck” suggestions for Virgo for the month of July 2023. Things like “Wear something blue on a Tuesday.” or “Avoid spicy food near the 20th.” or “A Gemini will bring an interesting idea.”
I physically dumped all that text into a cheap, lined notebook. I didn’t use a spreadsheet, didn’t use any fancy tracking app. I just wrote it down, one item after the other. It was pure manual entry. Then, the real processing began. I cleaned it up. I distilled it down to three key areas I needed help with: Money Focus, Energy Management, and Simple Social Contacts.
- Money Focus: Find the three most repeated colors or directions mentioned. (The winner was ‘green’ and ‘East’). I decided to wear something green every other day, and start my morning walk by facing East. Low effort, done.
- Energy Management: Find the three most repeated ‘avoid’ dates or activities. (The winners were “Avoid signing papers on the 14th” and “Don’t lend equipment near the 25th”). I marked these dates with a big X and committed to just saying no to those activities.
- Simple Social Contacts: Find the most repeated advice about signs to watch out for. (The winner was ‘Water Signs’—mostly Cancer and Pisces). I vowed to actually return the calls from my Pisces cousin I had been ignoring.
The entire month of July, I ran the test. I lived by that stupid, simple list. I didn’t change my job, didn’t change my diet much, just integrated those three simple rules. I checked the notebook every morning while the coffee was brewing, just to keep the data points fresh.
Now, why the hell did I bother with this low-grade, rough-and-tumble practice in the first place?
I’ll tell you why I knew to look for the simple, stripped-down stuff. About six months before July 2023, I was riding high on a big project with a client that was going to change everything. We shook hands, started the work, and I invested about 80% of my runway into setting up the infrastructure they needed. Everything was complex, everything was high-level, and everything was supposed to be perfect.
Then, the client’s CEO got into a massive, petty argument with their internal finance guy over a travel expense, and the whole deal blew up overnight. Not due to performance, not due to my fault, but because ego beat logic. They just ghosted me. I tried calling the guy, emailing the account manager, driving to their office. Nothing. Just a black hole. I was left with a massive investment in something worthless and zero income for the next quarter.
I was completely wiped out. Worse than wiped out. I had bills piling up, and the kind of stress that makes you forget your own zip code. I spent three months trying to untangle the legal crap, and all I achieved was paying a lawyer a bunch of money to tell me I was mostly screwed.
The reason I turned to the “simple luck insights” crap in July 2023 wasn’t that I suddenly believed in astrology. It was because the complex, well-thought-out, high-level systems failed me spectacularly for reasons I couldn’t control. I needed something stupid and simple that I could control. I needed a cheap mental anchor. Something that didn’t require me to analyze, strategize, or plan a complex pivot.
So, I ran the simple horoscope test. I figured, if the complex world is chaos, let’s see if the dumbest, least complex data points can still give me an edge.
The result? I didn’t win the lottery. I didn’t meet the love of my life. But—and this is the key—on the 14th, the date I marked with the big X and vowed to avoid signing papers, a smaller, local client called me about a contract. I knew the date was bad, so I insisted we do the formal signing on the 15th. Turns out, the client had an internal emergency on the morning of the 15th that would have voided the entire contract if I had signed it the night before. I avoided a major headache by adhering to the simplest, dumbest rule I pulled from some random internet scrap.
It’s not magic. It’s a tiny, simple, forced point of focus I created for myself when the complex world was a total mess. And that, my friends, is what the “Virgo Monthly Horoscope July 2023 News (Simple Luck Insights)” practice was actually about. Just a broken guy trying to find one simple, solid post to hang onto.
