My Little Experiment with Mystic Meg’s Stars
Alright, so I got thinking about Mystic Meg the other day. You know, the astrologer lady who used to be everywhere, especially in the papers. Got me remembering how popular her horoscopes were back then. So, I thought, just for a laugh, let me see if I can find some of her old predictions online and maybe follow my sign for a bit. See what happens, you know? Just a little personal experiment.
So, I started digging around online. Found a few places that archived old newspaper columns. Wasn’t easy, but I managed to find a run of her horoscopes for my sign, Aries, covering a couple of weeks. Decided I’d check it each morning, just like people used to do with their morning paper. See if any of it actually lined up with my day.
Here’s what I did:
- First thing each morning, before getting swamped with emails and stuff, I’d pull up the horoscope for that day.
- Read through the prediction. Usually pretty vague stuff, like “focus on finances” or “a conversation needs having”.
- Tried to keep it in the back of my mind during the day. See if anything clicked.
- I even jotted down a few notes at the end of the day. Like, did anything actually happen that matched?
Honestly? It was kind of funny. One day it said something like “an unexpected visitor could bring joy”. The only unexpected visitor I got was a delivery guy with a package I’d forgotten I ordered. Did it bring joy? Well, yeah, getting packages is nice, but was it Mystic Meg magic? Probably not.
Another day mentioned something about “creative energy peaking”. I spent most of that day wrestling with a spreadsheet that wouldn’t cooperate. Not feeling very creative then, I can tell you. Maybe my spreadsheet was the creative project? Bit of a stretch.
And the lottery numbers! She always had those lucky numbers. Found some of those too. Did I try them? Okay, yeah, I bought one ticket using her numbers for that week. Just one, mind you. Cost me a couple of quid. And guess what? Won absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch. Not even a tenner. Big surprise there, eh?
So, what was the point?
After doing this for about two weeks, I stopped. It wasn’t really telling me anything useful. The predictions were so broad you could make them fit almost anything if you really wanted to. Found myself almost looking for things to happen that matched the horoscope, which felt a bit silly.
My takeaway? It was a bit of harmless fun, a little nostalgia trip. Reading those horoscopes didn’t hurt anything, but it didn’t exactly guide my life or predict the future either. It just reminded me of flipping through the newspaper pages back in the day. Maybe that’s all it ever was for most people – a familiar routine, a bit of light reading with your tea. Didn’t change my skepticism about astrology much, but it was an interesting way to spend a few minutes each morning for a couple of weeks. Back to making my own luck now, I suppose.
