Man, let me tell you about September. I’m a Pisces, right? And August? August absolutely sucked. Sucked the paint off the walls. I got hit with a huge unexpected tax bill, then my kid’s school had some fees I didn’t see coming. It felt like the universe was just kicking the dirt on me, and I was sitting there saying, “What the hell is going on?”
I needed a win. Badly. So I did what a lot of people do when they’re desperate and feeling low. I didn’t call a financial advisor or a counselor; I dove deep into the internet to see what the stars were saying about my situation. I figured, if this month is going to be terrible too, I need a heads-up. I wasn’t just checking one site, either. I went full-on manic researcher to prove or disprove this whole Pisces-in-September idea.
The Great September Horoscope Stakeout
I started the whole process by hitting up every single free, generalized horoscope site I could find. Co-Star, Astro-Twins, Susan Miller, some random blog from 2012 that looked like it hadn’t been updated since then—I grabbed it all. My desk looked like a conspiracy theorist’s den. I had about twelve different daily predictions pinned up for the first week of September alone. I was determined to see if the cosmic advice was actually tracking with real life.
What did I actually do? Simple. I got myself a small, cheap spiral notebook from the dollar store. I didn’t use any fancy apps or spreadsheets, nothing high-tech. That felt too professional for this kind of messy project. I wrote the date across the top, then I manually boiled down the “official” prediction from these twelve sites into one, unified sentence. If eight of them said something about money, I wrote down, “Financial breakthrough is imminent” or something equally dramatic. If they talked about family drama, I wrote, “Conflict with a loved one.”
Then, and this was the key part, at the end of every day, I checked the damn prediction against what actually went down in my life. I marked it. My system was super basic—no room for wishy-washy interpretation:
- GREEN: Total hit. It happened exactly as predicted, no stretch.
- RED: Total miss. The complete opposite went down, or nothing at all happened.
- YELLOW: Vague BS. It could mean anything to anyone, like “be careful with communication.” Who isn’t supposed to be careful with communication every day?
The Detailed Log of Financial Miracles (That Didn’t Happen)
The first ten days were a disaster for the prediction sites. I spent hours every evening tallying up the hits and misses. I’ll give you a couple of examples of what I found when I put these cosmic experts to the test.
One major astrology site was screaming about a “major financial transformation” right around September 5th. I was psyched. I actually put off paying that huge tax bill, hoping this cash flow miracle would arrive and cover it. I imagined a surprise check or a winning lottery ticket. Guess what? On the 5th, my ancient refrigerator officially died. I mean, totally stopped working. Not a “transformation,” just a massive $1200 expense I had to scramble to cover via a credit card. RED. The site was full of it. It taught me right away that the universe wasn’t going to just hand me money because I was a Pisces.
But here’s the kicker, the energy did shift, mostly because I shifted my energy. I kept tracking everything. Around the middle of the month, the predictions started getting weirdly accurate, but only for the days I was actually doing something proactive. One prediction was about “a surprising opportunity coming via an old friend.” Total Yellow Flag—vague BS, right? Could mean anything from a text message to a job offer.
I took a shot anyway. I thought, what if I initiate it? I texted three buddies I hadn’t talked to in ages. Just a simple, “Hey, what are you up to?” One of them replied instantly, asking if I wanted to freelance some quick web writing for a project he was swamped with. Easy money, ten hours work, paid the fridge bill. GREEN. But I had to initiate the contact. The horoscope didn’t make it happen; it just gave me a loose idea, and I acted on the vague advice.
The Final Tally and My Realization
By the time September ended, I had pages and pages of notes. I had about 20% total “Hits,” 30% “Misses,” and a whopping 50% “Vague BS.” The majority of the free, generalized Pisces content was utterly useless unless you squinted really hard and tried to retroactively fit it to your life. It’s like those companies are throwing darts in the dark and seeing what sticks, and they get paid either way.
The total breakdown of how my September went for my sign was this: September only felt good on the days I stopped waiting for the prediction to magically happen and started forcing the good things to occur. I realized the only reason I was paying so much attention to the horoscope was that I was paralyzed by August’s bad luck.
I finally figured out the game after three weeks of intense tracking. When the horoscope said, “Time for new beginnings,” that really meant I needed to clean my garage and finally start that side project I’d been putting off. When it said, “Unexpected romantic encounter,” it just meant I needed to stop sitting on the couch and actually ask my partner out on a proper date. You get what I mean? It’s a road map, but you have to drive the car; you can’t just stare at the map and wait for the destination to appear.
Was September a “good month” for Pisces? On paper, based on the stars, maybe. But for me, the only thing that made it good was the insane, three-week-long process of tracking every darn prediction and finally realizing the power was sitting on my side of the desk, not in some random blogger’s star chart. I packed up my notebook, threw out the sticky notes, and felt way better. The process itself was the actual breakthrough, not the prediction.
