You know, diving into these monthly forecasts isn’t just some quick glance at an app. When I told myself I was going to drill down into September for Pisces, I knew it was going to be a proper grind. Why Pisces? Well, honestly, a couple of people I trust—close friends—were complaining that every reading they got lately felt totally generic, like it was written by an AI that just swapped out the sign names. I figured, if you want something done right, you gotta jump in and do the work yourself. This is how I rolled up my sleeves and tackled the September forecast.
The Setup: Pulling the Raw Data
I started where I always start: with the planets. You can’t write a forecast until you know exactly who is sitting where and who is throwing shade at whom. I pulled up my preferred—and slightly archaic—ephemeris tables. Yeah, there are easier online tools, but I find those sometimes skip the nuance, and nuance is where the good stuff is buried.
The first thing I zeroed in on was the Sun moving through Virgo, hitting the Pisces Seventh House—that’s the big relationship stuff. But that’s just the surface. Then I had to track the speed freaks: Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
- Mercury’s Mess: Mercury was retrograding, right? But it was finishing up that mess early in the month. I had to map out exactly when it stations direct because that flip is massive for communications and sorting out paperwork.
- Venus in Leo: This was interesting. It’s been doing its thing in Leo, hitting their Sixth House (daily work, routine, health). I had to interpret how that shift from internal focus to external routine impacts them. Is it friction? Is it creativity spilling into the office?
- Mars’s Movement: Mars is the energy, the fight. It was moving into the Eighth House of Shared Resources and deep, transformative issues. When Mars moves into the 8th, things get intense, often related to joint finances or serious emotional purging. I knew I couldn’t sugarcoat that part.
I spent a solid afternoon just charting these movements. It wasn’t clean. I had three different charting tools spitting out slightly different degrees due to various house systems. It turned into a massive technical scramble just to get the foundation stable.
The Synthesis: Connecting the Dots and Drafting the Narrative
Once I had the core planetary geometry locked down, the real practice began: interpreting this cosmic junk into actual, usable advice. This is the hardest part. It’s not just ‘Venus loves you.’ It’s ‘Venus in this position means your daily routine is demanding recognition, maybe asking you to splurge on a fancy new desk chair, but watch the credit card.’
I structured the forecast into four key areas, because people hate huge walls of text, even if they want the full lowdown:
- Career and Money (The Grind): This was dominated by that Mars in the 8th aspect, mixed with the Sun’s placement. I wrote about potential unexpected financial shifts—maybe an inheritance, maybe a surprise bill, maybe needing to finally handle that joint debt situation. It’s not simple salary stuff; it’s deep money talk.
- Love and Relationships (The Heartbeat): The Sun hitting the 7th house meant relationships are front and center. I focused heavily on communication breakthroughs right after Mercury went direct. I noted that September would be the month they finally managed to hash out that old argument they had shoved under the rug since spring.
- Health and Wellness (The Tune-up): This usually gets ignored, but Venus in the 6th means health routines get an aesthetic boost. I advised them to not just go to the gym, but to perhaps invest in stylish workout gear or revamp their diet plan to look and feel better. Practical stuff.
- The Big Picture (The Vibe Check): This is the final takeaway. It was all about transformation and letting go of old baggage, typical Pisces stuff, but driven specifically by Saturn being in their sign, making them grow up whether they liked it or not.
I went through three drafts, constantly simplifying the jargon. My first attempt sounded like an old textbook. My goal was always to sound like I was sitting across from them, telling them what’s up over a cup of coffee. I scrapped every flowery sentence and just kept the blunt truth.
The Realization: Why I Do This Messy Work
This commitment to deep-diving into the charts wasn’t born out of some lifelong mystical journey, I’ll be honest. I got into this heavy practice because about three years ago, I paid a renowned astrologer a truly ridiculous sum of cash for a personalized yearly forecast. I was excited. I waited weeks. When it finally arrived, it was maybe three paragraphs long, filled with vague platitudes about ‘destiny’ and ‘cosmic alignment.’ It was completely useless.
I felt genuinely ripped off. I realized then that most of the publicly available content is just as thin, maybe relying on a single, easy transit calculation and calling it a day. That feeling—of paying good money or spending time on crap advice—is what spurred me to take over the damn process myself.
Now, every time I complete one of these detailed breakdowns, whether it’s for Pisces or whoever, I share the process. It’s the proof of effort. It shows I actually sat there, calculated the degrees, cross-referenced the house systems, and didn’t just copy-paste some airy-fairy nonsense. This September Pisces forecast? It cost me maybe twelve hours of detailed work, but now I know, and more importantly, they know, exactly what’s coming down the pipe. And that’s worth the grind.
