Man, I never thought I’d be messing around with star signs, but here we are. It all kicked off about six months back when I was just absolutely stuck. Like, seriously stuck. You know those days when you just stare at the wall and think, “Is this it?” I needed a big change, but every time I tried to start something—a new fitness routine, learning that guitar I bought ages ago—I’d bail after three days. Frustrating is an understatement.
Then I saw that headline flash up on my phone one morning: Should You Start Something New? It was specific to my sign, Virgo. I usually ignore that kinda stuff, but the timing felt like a sign in itself, so I figured, what’s the harm in trying a little experiment? I decided to treat the daily forecast less like vague advice and more like a tactical mission plan. I wasn’t just going to read it; I was going to log the damn thing to see if it actually worked for a real dude like me.
The Kick-Off and The Logbook Phase
The first thing I did was totally old-school. No fancy app, no API hookups—I didn’t want to get distracted with coding right away. I grabbed a fresh notebook, the kind with the stiff cardboard cover. I labeled it ‘The New Start Tracker.’ Every morning, the first thing, I would open up the browser and check the OM Times forecast for Virgo. That was Step One, the daily check-in.
Here was my initial process, strictly followed:
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Log the Date and copy down the specific forecast text.
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Identify the “Start Signal” (if the text was positive about initiating action or change).
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Identify the “Hold Signal” (if the text suggested waiting, reflecting, or focusing on existing stuff).
If it was a clear ‘Start Signal’ day, I had to initiate one new small thing. It couldn’t be huge. It had to be something I could realistically do for 30 minutes, max. I logged these initiation attempts. I had a whole separate list for them so I didn’t have to think about what to start:
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New Language App Lesson (just 15 minutes).
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New Recipe Attempt (something I’d never heard of).
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New Park Running Route (changing the direction of the usual run).
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New Skill Tutorial (like soldering or photo editing).
I started this tracking ritual. The first week was actually encouraging. The forecast was generally positive, so I started three new things. Felt great, like I was actually doing something. I went hard on the foreign recipe thing—made something called Plov. It tasted awful, but hey, I started something new!
The Messy Middle and The Pivot
That initial buzz wore off fast, man. By week three, I had initiated maybe fifteen different “new starts.” My logbook looked like a madman’s diary. I had three half-finished knitting projects (don’t ask), a list of Portuguese vocabulary I couldn’t pronounce, and three totally different kinds of paint cans because I kept trying “new” small DIY fixes. It was a disaster, a true chaotic mess. I was constantly initiating, and never finishing, all thanks to following that ‘Start Something New’ advice every time it popped up. The house was a minefield of half-baked ideas.
The system I built was fundamentally flawed because I was focusing only on the initiation and zero on the follow-through. The forecasts, I realized, were totally general. They sometimes said, “Focus on what you have,” and those were the days I actually felt productive, catching up on the fifteen new things I had already started. It was the only way to clear the clutter.
I realized I had to change the whole thing. I ripped out about half the pages in that notebook—the ones filled with abandoned projects. I tossed the old ‘Start Signal/Hold Signal’ column and replaced it with one single, massive column: THE COMMITMENT LOG. My rule became: I can only start a new thing if I have maintained the oldest “new start” for at least two consecutive weeks. I had to earn the right to start something else. If I skipped a day on the old commitment, the clock reset.
The daily forecast became irrelevant almost instantly. The experiment completely flipped on its head. It stopped being about what the stars said I should start, and it became about what I had the discipline to maintain. The daily reading was just a check-in, not an instruction. It became my morning moment of truth, making me face the music: Did I do the thing I said I was gonna do?
Where I Landed Up
What started as a silly astrological experiment turned out to be a weird form of accountability coaching. I dropped the OM Times check-in completely after about two months. It was useless noise compared to my own log. The clutter was gone. I actually stuck with the running routine for a full three months straight. The Portuguese? I dropped it eventually, and it felt fine, because it was a deliberate drop, not a failure or giving up on something new. It was a choice based on my own tracking.
That feeling of being “stuck” I had at the start? It went away. I didn’t quit my job right away, but the discipline I gained from maintaining that fitness thing gave me the push to finally update my skills and start looking elsewhere for something better. The process of logging showed me that the biggest hurdle wasn’t finding the right time to start something new; it was just sitting down and doing the boring maintenance part.
I still have that notebook, taped up now and looking pretty rough. It’s a good reminder that usually, the answer to “Should I start something new?” isn’t written in the stars, but in the previous day’s log entry. It all comes down to the consistency you put in once the novelty has worn off, regardless of what the daily read says.
