Man, 2020 was just something else, wasn’t it? I remember that year hitting like a ton of bricks. Everyone, and I mean everyone, was scrambling, trying to figure out what the heck was going to happen next. There was so much uncertainty floating around, a real thick cloud of it. For me, and a lot of folks I knew, we just wanted some kind of heads-up, anything that could tell us what was around the corner, even if it was just for the next few days or a week.
My buddy, bless his heart, he’s a total Pisces. And you know how Pisces can get, a bit dreamy, sensitive, always feeling things deeply. So, when the world just went bonkers in early 2020, he was really struggling to keep his feet on the ground. He kept asking me, “What’s ahead for Pisces next week? Do you think things will get better? Any good news?” And honestly, I felt pretty useless because who actually knows, right? But his desperation got me thinking. I figured, why not actually try to “find out” what these horoscopes were saying, really dig into it for a bit, as a personal experiment, you know?
So, that’s what started my little personal project. I committed to becoming a serious horoscope tracker, specifically for Pisces, for a good chunk of 2020. I wasn’t just casually glancing at the free ones in the newspaper or on some random site. Nah, I went deep. My initial thought was, if these things are supposed to offer guidance, there must be some common threads, some strong predictions across different sources for a specific sign in a specific timeframe. Especially for “next week” stuff, that’s pretty concrete, right?
My process was pretty straightforward, but I was pretty dedicated. Every Sunday evening, I’d pull up at least five different astrology websites that offered weekly horoscopes. I’d specifically search for “Pisces horoscope next week.” I even shelled out a few bucks for a couple of the more “premium” ones, just to see if they had some secret sauce. I started with tracking general predictions for Pisces for the upcoming week – career, love, health, money. I even had a little spreadsheet going, not gonna lie. I’d jot down keywords, specific warnings, or promising outlooks. I was trying to map it out, trying to see if there was some consistent narrative emerging that I could then relay back to my buddy, or just use to understand the whole thing better myself.
I focused hard on connecting the dots. “This site says a big financial decision is coming for Pisces,” I’d note down. “That one talks about relationship challenges midweek.” “Another suggests a burst of creative energy.” I tracked things like Mercury Retrograde cycles, lunar phases, and what impact different planets were supposedly having on Pisces. I even looked into specific “degrees” and “houses” – all that mumbo jumbo that astrologers throw around. I was trying to see if the big cosmic events were aligning with the daily or weekly advice. I kept asking myself: If all these powerful celestial bodies are doing their dance, surely the predictions should start to align, right? Surely, I could “find out” a clear picture of what was ahead for Pisces for that next seven-day stretch.
What I Actually Found
After a few months of this, going through spring and early summer of 2020, I started seeing a pattern, but it wasn’t the kind I expected. The more I tracked, the more I noticed how incredibly vague or contradictory a lot of the predictions were. One site would say “expect a major breakthrough in your career,” while another would advise “to lay low and avoid making big moves.” For the same week! It was wild. Sometimes, something vaguely positive would happen to my buddy, and we’d immediately try to retroactively fit it into one of the horoscope predictions, even if it was a stretch. And then other times, a week would pass, and nothing remotely close to any of the predictions would happen.
What I really started to realize was that most of these “next week” horoscopes were crafted in a way that almost anything could fit. They used language that was broad enough to apply to a lot of people in various situations. “You might encounter an unexpected challenge,” “a new opportunity could present itself,” “take time for self-reflection.” I mean, come on, that’s just life, especially in a year like 2020! Those things were happening to everyone, not just Pisces. It felt like I was looking for a crystal-clear path, and all I was getting was a bunch of fog that shifted around whenever I got close.
My big takeaway from this whole “practice record” of trying to find out “what’s ahead for Pisces next week 2020” was actually pretty profound for me. It wasn’t about the stars or some cosmic blueprint telling you exactly what’s going to happen. It was more about how we deal with the unknown. I spent all that energy trying to predict the future, trying to get a leg up, trying to find some magical insight. But what I actually learned was that the real power isn’t in knowing what’s ahead next week. The real power is in how you handle today, how you adapt to the surprises, and how you choose to move forward, regardless of what some general prediction might hint at.
My buddy, he eventually stopped asking me about the Pisces horoscope. Not because I gave him definitive answers, but because watching me go through this whole process, he started to see it too. We both realized that 2020, more than any other year, taught us that you can spend all your time looking up at the stars, trying to divine what’s coming, but the real work, the real living, happens right here, right now, with your own two feet on the ground. It was an intense experiment, and while I didn’t “find out” what was ahead in the way I expected, I definitely learned something important about myself and about facing the future, one unpredictable moment at a time.
