The Breakdown: Why I Even Started Logging June 2019 Virgo Money Advice
You look at the title, and you’re probably thinking, “Astrology? Really? Since when did this blog turn into that nonsense?” Trust me, I get it. Back in May 2019, I was the biggest skeptic alive. I was going through one of those periods where everything I was supposed to be doing—the networking, the endless resume edits, the cold calling—was failing, big time. I mean, my bank account was starting to look like a forgotten desert. I had followed every single logical, professional piece of advice there was, and the only result was me staring at the ceiling at 3 AM, completely fried.
It was one night, deep into a pointless rabbit hole of financial doom scrolling, that I saw a pop-up ad for a “Free Daily Money Horoscope.” I’m a Virgo. The sheer desperation must have just snapped something in my brain, because I decided right there and then to ditch all the fancy business books and try the stupidest thing I could think of. I figured, what the hell, a month of tracking cosmic advice can’t make things any worse than the real world already had. This wasn’t a spiritual journey; it was an act of pure, financial surrender to chaos. I was tired of logic. I resolved to blindly follow the stars’ advice for the entire month of June 2019, specifically for career and cash flow.
The Messy, Obsessive Tracking Process
Being a Virgo, even when I’m doing something completely irrational, I still have to be ridiculously organized about it. My first move wasn’t to meditate or buy crystals; it was to set up the most over-engineered Google Sheet you’ve ever seen. I created four columns because, apparently, I needed data validation for my delusion:
- Column A: Date & The Forecast. I would copy and paste the exact, vague daily text. Something like, “Virgo must trust their instinctive sense of negotiation, but avoid high-risk ventures today.”
- Column B: The Forced Action. This was the key. I translated the vague text into a non-negotiable, real-world task. If it said “Trust your instincts,” I sent an email with a lowball price on a new freelance project I usually would have felt too timid to push. I forced myself to do the opposite of what my common sense was telling me, just to stick to the ‘experiment.’
- Column C: The Real-World Outcome. Did the client write back? Did I get paid? Did the deal happen? I logged everything, good or bad.
- Column D: The Planetary Alignment Grade. I gave the forecast an A, B, C, or F based on if the outcome matched the tone of the reading. It was meaningless, but it made me feel like a scientist.
I did this every single morning before I drank my first cup of coffee. I slogged through the first two weeks, religiously following generic advice like “focus on details” and “clear up old paperwork.” It felt stupid, and the results were a huge, fat zero. I even got a rejection email on June 10th right after the horoscope told me “your communications will be well-received.” That told me everything, right?
The Mid-Month Pivot and The Real-World Slap
Then came the middle of the month, and things hit the fan—hard. I had applied for a small, promising consulting gig on June 13th, based on a reading that said “take a calculated risk for future gains.” Calculated risk? I barely qualified for the job! The next day, I got the automatic, cold rejection email. I was officially out of leads, and my rent was due in less than a week. I panicked and called my old college roommate, Mike, who is a developer and a notorious cynic about… well, everything. I confessed the whole astrology experiment to him, expecting him to rip me a new one. He just laughed, but then he said something that actually mattered.
He told me about a niche, low-paying gig writing technical content for a tiny hardware manufacturer—a gig he had passed on because it wasn’t worth his time. I didn’t want to do it, but I realized this was a concrete, real lead I could actually use. The next day, June 15th, my horoscope read: “A blast from the past may hold the key to a small but necessary financial opening. Don’t overthink it.”
I looked at the screen, and I thought, “Oh, so Mike is a blast from the past now?” I just shut the browser and ignored the stars completely. I picked up the phone and called the hardware company directly. No fancy email, no CV—just a direct, slightly pushy call. I mentioned Mike’s name and landed the awkward, low-paying, but immediate gig. It saved my rent. The money wasn’t from the stars; the money was from a real person, giving a real tip, and me actually following it up the old-fashioned way. I realized the horoscope was just vaguely reflecting the generic possibility of human interaction.
The Takeaway: Routine Over Ruling Planets
I finished the month’s tracking out of sheer stubbornness. I kept filling the spreadsheet, but my heart wasn’t in the cosmic alignment anymore. I ran the numbers at the end of June, and the correlation was absolutely zero. The days the horoscope promised gains were my worst, and the best day—June 15th—was the result of me ignoring the generic advice and acting on a real-world tip.
Here’s the thing I pulled from this whole ridiculous nightmare, and this is the core of the practice: The spreadsheet itself, the daily commitment to fill the damn thing, was the real driver. I had to enter an ‘Action’ every day. It forced me to send that extra email, make that extra call, or look for that extra lead, just to fill the cell. It wasn’t the stars telling me to act; the discipline of the tracking forced me to act. The horoscope was just an accidental, completely illogical accountability partner.
I deleted the spreadsheet on July 1st, but I kept the habit. I replaced the astrological prediction with one real, actionable ‘Money/Career’ task every single morning. That routine is what turned the whole damn thing around, not Jupiter or Venus. Sometimes you have to trick yourself with something totally irrational just to build the discipline you need.
