Honestly? I wasn’t expectin’ much. I mean, horoscopes, right? Total fluff usually. But my buddy kept buggin’ me about this month bein’ big for us Aries folks, especially after checkin’ Elle mag. Figured, what the heck, I already had the dang magazine my aunt left last month. Paid for it already, might as well flip through.
Grabbed the magazine off my stack-o-stuff-I-meant-to-read table. It had slid kinda under my sketchbook. Opened it, started flipping pages, listenin’ to the paper rustle. Feeling weirdly like I was doin’ somethin’ maybe a bit silly. Stopped at the horoscope section, scanned for Aries – always easy, first one usually.
Started readin’ it out loud to myself, just kinda whisperin’. Stuff about “bold moves” and “fiery energy.” Yeah, yeah, classic Aries boilerplate. Made me smirk. But then I hit the “Key Dates” part. That got my eyebrow goin’. Usually, it’s just vague “mid-month vibes” junk. This one actually listed specific days! Like, next week Tuesday, April 11th!
Alright, this felt… different? Maybe. Grabbed my planner off the coffee table, the clunky paper kind I prefer over my phone calendar. Needed to actually do somethin’ with this info, make it a real practice, ya know? Not just read and forget. So I flipped to the month spread for April.
Saw it right there: April 11th. Circled it right away with my red pen. Big ol’ circle, hard. Then kept lookin’ at the Elle list:
- April 11th: Their flippin’ “Mars-Jupiter Conjunction” thing. Said to launch stuff or make big asks. Sounds exhausting, but hey, maybe shoot for that coffee with the difficult client that day?
- April 15th: Sun-Uranus somethin’. New tech or unexpected spark? Made a note to maybe finally fiddle with that new app I downloaded.
- April 19th: Full Moon. They said “release tension.” Honestly? Probably just means get takeout that night instead of cookin’. Jotted that down too.
- April 20th: Sun moves into Taurus. Talk about grounding. Marked it so I remember maybe… not start a fight that day? Tact!
- April 23rd: Their Venus-Neptune square. “Clear communication”? Yeah right. Probably just reminds me texting my sister that day might be a disaster.
Finished scribblin’ in all these dates. Looked at my planner page. Normally clean, now dotted with my chicken scratch and red circles. Honestly felt kinda… proactive? Like I took their fluff and made it into a tangible action. The advice felt… well, still mostly vague (“trust your gut” – gee, thanks), but seein’ those dates in my own planner made it feel more real.
Put the magazine back, tossed my planner beside it on the table. Felt a bit dumb, honestly, circling astro dates like I’m back in high school. But also… kinda intrigued? Like, okay Universe/Elle Magazine/Gut Feeling, let’s see if anything remotely interesting happens on these specific dang days I circled. Maybe life’ll surprise me. Probably just coincidence if it does. But hey, the practice itself, actually lookin’ stuff up and markin’ it down? That felt worthwhile somehow. Cheap entertainment at least.