The Point Where I Started Logging Everything
I know what you’re thinking: why are we digging up an astrology post from way back in August 2020? That’s ancient history, man. But you gotta understand, that specific post, the one about Virgo facing massive shifts, that wasn’t just some casual forecast I threw up. That was the exact moment I formalized this whole ‘tracking my life against the stars’ thing, turning a nervous hobby into an actual documented practice.
It wasn’t about believing in magic; it was about finding a pattern when my own life had completely fallen apart. Before that summer, I was just drifting. I was working a dead-end gig that suddenly vanished when the whole world went sideways in early 2020. No savings, no plan, just sitting at home staring at the walls. I desperately needed to make a move, a huge pivot, but I was paralyzed by indecision. I was reading everything—self-help books, finance blogs, whatever—just searching for a sign, anything to tell me which way to run.
That’s when my neighbor, old Mrs. Henderson, a real sweet lady who always talked about planets, sat me down. She wasn’t some professional astrologer, just a regular person looking for comfort. She told me, “Honey, stop looking for someone else’s solution. Just track your own sign’s cycles. See what sticks when the pressure is on.” That simple instruction felt like the first piece of solid ground I’d found in months. That led straight into the August 2020 cycle for Virgo.
Executing the Deep Dive Practice
I started logging everything. Seriously, everything. This wasn’t professional charting; this was sheer manual labor fueled by panic and necessity. For Virgo in August 2020, there were a couple of major things happening—Mercury moving into the sign, and Mars squaring off against some key slow movers. The energy was electric, demanding action. I had to figure out what that actually meant for someone trying to reboot their life from zero.
- I scraped basic data first. I’d go to three different cheap websites—the ones with the worst interfaces, usually—and manually write down the ingress dates and the general themes happening in the last week of July leading into August. I wasn’t using fancy software; I was building a messy Excel sheet with just the raw planetary locations.
- Next, I compared the interpretations. I’d read the generalized description from Site A, Site B, and Site C. Site A said, “Career explosion!” Site B said, “Internal reflection required.” Site C said, “Watch your communication and contracts!” I wasn’t just copying; I was looking for the common, messy thread, the shared theme that applied to the major crossroads I was facing.
- Then, I mapped those themes to my own decisions. I specifically remember the transit right around August 20th. I had to finally decide if I was going to take that huge risk and invest the last of my money into learning that new tech skill everyone was talking about. The theme I pulled from the combined planetary readings was “radical simplification and focused, aggressive energy towards the future.” That theme became the backbone of the “Get ready for these big changes!” message.
- Finally, I synthesized the “big changes” concept. My early drafts were sloppy. They were just lists of planets. To make it into a shareable post, I had to translate the dense, confusing jargon into actual human advice. I threw out all the terms like ‘trine’ and ‘sextile’ and just focused on the immediate output: “You are being forced to change your routine right now, so lean into it.”
The whole point of the Virgo August 2020 piece was that the cosmos was basically screaming, “Get off the couch and decide something, dummy!” That overwhelming sense of urgency, that forced pivot, was what made the practice stick. I realized this whole tracking thing wasn’t about predicting the lottery; it was about structuring my response to the inevitable chaos that life throws at you.
The Evolution of the Record
The first version of that post was terrible, honestly. I drafted it in a simple notepad file, filled with caps lock and half-formed sentences. It read like a nervous breakdown written down, linking Mercury transits to whether I should buy new socks or move cities. I had to brutally edit it down, stripping away the personal panic and leaving just the actionable, thematic insights—that strong, direct “Get ready for these big changes!” hook. That was the biggest struggle, taking the messy personal journal and making it into a structured, helpful record that others could use.
I kept that practice going, month after month, logging my actions and decisions against the perceived astrological pressure points. That early Virgo analysis wasn’t polished, but it was real. It proved the concept for me: if I tracked the external noise (the stars) and tracked my internal chaos (my decisions), I could force some clarity into the confusion. That is why, even years later, I still reference that August 2020 post. It was my official entry point into this whole sharing game. It’s what taught me how to turn raw, scary life events into shareable, structured lessons without needing to hide behind fancy charts or confusing terminology.
It’s still a rough process sometimes, but it’s miles better than sitting around waiting for the universe to send me an email. I took control back, and that whole monthly horoscope explanation thing? It’s just the proof that I actually did the work to figure out what was really going on.
