Okay, so I dove into these weekly reports, right? The new Susyn Blair Hunt ones for Virgo. I’m not some mystic or a crystal-gazing guru, trust me. I started this whole practice as a big fat joke, honestly. Because my life was just… well, it was a total train wreck back then. I was making bad call after bad call, and my goal was to see if, by following advice from something totally random and abstract—like my star sign—I could actually stop making my usual stupid choices. Spoiler alert: my first few weeks were a disaster.
My First Screw-Up: Thinking It’s a Magic Spell
The biggest, most common mistake I see people make, and the one I made first, is treating the damn thing like a set of lottery numbers or a direct instruction sheet. You read it, and you think you have to jump immediately. Susyn says “Focus on communications this week,” and the old me immediately went and drafted a super aggressive, boundary-setting email to the guy who owed me a bunch of money. Disaster. Absolute, relationship-ending disaster.
The process I had to implement, the actual “practice” I now record and swear by, was totally different. First, I had to ditch the instant action mentality. What I learned and then wrote down in my journal—the real practical log—was this:
- Action/Verb: I first read the report on Monday morning. I read it twice, slow.
- Action/Verb: I then cross-referenced every piece of advice with what I was actually doing that week—my calendar, my bills, my to-do list. I looked for the pressure points.
- Action/Verb: I realized the mistake wasn’t the advice, it was always my interpretation. “Communications” doesn’t mean “be a jerk and settle a score”; it means “take time to clarify your message.” Huge, life-altering difference.
How I Started Tracking This Mess (The Real Method)
I started small, like super small. I literally bought a cheap spiral notebook from the dollar store. Every Sunday night or Monday morning, without fail, I would read the new report. I would highlight what felt like three core focus areas, and then I would log my day against those three items. I kept this practice up for months.
For example, if the report mentioned “financial reorganization” (total Virgo stuff, right?), I didn’t immediately move my retirement fund or cancel my car insurance. Nah. That’s the mistake to avoid. Instead, I opened my bank app, I reviewed the last three months of all the “Oops, I bought that” transactions, and I identified the hole I was digging myself into. I was just being aware. That’s the first step of the practice: just being aware and taking notes on your current state of mess.
Another major mistake to avoid, which the tracking helped me with: you don’t always need to do something. Sometimes the best action is to stop. Susyn might warn about “tension in partnerships.” The old me would immediately start a preemptive fight just to get it over with, hoping to clear the air. The practiced me now shuts up, listens harder, jots down the complaint, and then consciously walks away from the argument for 24 hours. I record the success of the non-action in the journal, too. It’s about building discipline, not chasing fate.
Why I Even Bothered with Sun Signs, Honestly
You probably think I’m totally nuts for meticulously tracking all this star sign stuff. I’m an engineer by trade, I deal in cold hard facts, not nebulous star charts. Let me just tell you why I got into this kind of obsessive, detailed tracking in the first place, because it’s the most important part of the entire practice.
Before all this logging and tracking, I worked for an investment consulting group. I thought I was untouchable, super smart. I had a tiny side hustle selling restored vintage video game consoles online, doing really well with it. Then I got completely suckered into a “guaranteed” investment deal with some flashy guy I met through an old client. He sweet-talked me into leveraging my entire savings, cleaning out the game console business account, and dumping every single penny into his supposed high-yield bond fund.
I watched the whole goddamn thing crash and burn to zero. Every. Single. Penny. Gone. My confidence? Gone too. I lost my job shortly after because I was too distracted to perform. I was so broke I had to move back into my old basement, sleeping on a busted futon that smelled like mothballs and regret, because I couldn’t even afford to keep my apartment. I literally lost the ability to trust my own simple judgment, like “Should I buy the big container of coffee or the small one?”
I was desperate to stop making financial and emotional mistakes. I was grasping at straws. When a friend showed me a stupid astrology app as a joke, I thought, “What the hell? Can’t be worse than my own brain.” I started tracking the advice like it was a lifeline, but I applied my old engineer’s process to it. I treated it like data points. The huge mistake I was avoiding was trusting myself without external structure; the solution was outsourcing the decision-making framework and then meticulously tracking the results. That’s the real practice here. Not the alignment of the planets, but the incredible discipline it forced me to build. And that’s why I still log every report, every single Monday. It keeps my head straight.
