You know, usually, I stick to tracking practical stuff—server uptime, efficiency metrics, that kind of hard data. But a few months back, I was hitting this massive wall, both with my side hustle and just, life in general. Everything felt stuck, like pouring concrete into a drain. My wife, bless her heart, she’s really into the cosmic stuff. She kept saying, “September is your month, big changes for Pisces, you need to be ready.”
The Initial Skepticism and the Challenge I Accepted
I scoffed. I really scoffed. I’m a logbook guy. Show me the proof. Show me the data. So, she challenged me. She basically dared me to treat the September Pisces forecast, specifically the one promising “major internal restructuring” and “unforeseen financial shifts,” as a formal hypothesis for a month-long social experiment. I figured, why not? I was already miserable. What did I have to lose?
My first step was to grabbed a cheap, hardbound notebook—the kind I use for quick shell scripts—and labeled it ‘Pisces Shift Log: Sept 2023.’ I then tracked down the most intense, slightly terrifying monthly forecast I could find online. Not the fluffy “you might meet someone nice” stuff, but the heavy-duty “you must cut ties and pivot completely” kind of reading. I transcribed the five main prediction points onto the first page. These were vague, of course: ‘Release old debts,’ ‘Confront structural barriers at work,’ and ‘A sudden opportunity demands immediate acceptance.’ Total cosmic nonsense, right?
The Methodology: Logging Intentional Action
I wasn’t just going to wait for the universe to tap me on the shoulder. That’s where the practice log comes in. If the stars were going to push me, I was going to shove back. I decided to use the forecast as an aggressive prompt for taking action I’d been putting off for months. I set up a daily logging protocol. Every evening, I reviewed the day’s activities against the five main prediction points, noting any action taken and the immediate consequence.
Here’s how the process unfolded:
- Week 1: Confronting Structural Barriers. The prediction said I needed to fight the structure. I had this miserable consulting client, BigCorp X, who paid well but treated me like dirt and monopolized my time. I had dreaded sending the termination notice for weeks. Because the log demanded I record an intentional “shift” related to work structure, I finally typed out the blunt, no-apologies email, hit send, and immediately logged the action. Result? Panic for two days, followed by immense relief.
- Week 2: Releasing Old Debts. This wasn’t about money; it was about emotional debt. I had this ancient disagreement with a former business partner that had been rotting in the background for two years. The log pushed me. I reached out, apologized for my part, and closed the loop. It was awkward and messy. But I checked the box in the notebook. Unexpected immediate result: He actually sent me a small, relevant client lead two days later.
- Week 3: Preparing for Sudden Opportunity. This prediction was the hardest because it required pure preparation without knowing the target. I cleaned out my office, updated my portfolio, and started networking again, even though I hated it. I treated ‘networking’ as the proactive manifestation of ‘preparing for opportunity.’ I forced myself onto three Zoom calls with people I hadn’t spoken to in years, purely to fulfill the log entry.
The Actual Shift and the Realization
The biggest shift didn’t come from a mysterious cosmic alignment; it came from the sheer fact that I compelled myself to act based on a goofy external mandate. That termination email I sent in Week 1? It freed up ten hours a week. Those ten hours I invested back into a personal project I’d abandoned years ago. I only did this because the log entry for September 20th screamed that “the universe demands you focus on your personal innovation.”
Guess what happened? That old personal project I dusted off? It caught the eye of someone I talked to during my forced Week 3 networking push. This wasn’t a sudden, magical event; it was a domino effect triggered by the actions I logged on September 4th and 5th. By the end of the month, I received a serious, fully funded proposal to turn that pet project into a real venture. This was the ‘sudden opportunity’ that the horoscope mentioned, but it only arrived because I created the vacuum for it to fill.
I closed the notebook on September 30th. Did the stars predict my success? No. The horoscope was too vague to be actionable on its own. But the structure of the experiment—the self-imposed mandate to log proactive, difficult actions under the guise of ‘cosmic compliance’—that’s what shattered the stagnation. I needed a reason, any reason, to finally pull the trigger on those uncomfortable, necessary changes. The Pisces horoscope just happened to be the perfect, slightly ridiculous excuse to get moving.
So, is September a month of big change for Pisces? For me, it was. But only because I used the prediction as the required prompt to do the work I’d been avoiding.
