Leo Career Horoscope July 2024 Big Changes Coming Your Way

My Wild Ride Following That Leo Career Horoscope

Honestly? I almost scrolled past that “Leo Career Horoscope July 2024 – Big Changes Coming Your Way” headline last week. Sounded kinda fluffy. But hey, I’m a Leo, July’s my month, right? So I figured, screw it, let’s see what it actually says and try following it step-by-step. Like a weird experiment. Documenting this is gonna be messy, just like real life.

First things first, I actually read the damn thing. Properly. Past me woulda skimmed and moved on. This time I sat down, coffee in hand, and forced myself to take notes. The main points hammered home for July Leos:

• Stop settling for the comfortable crap. Yeah, that stung.
• Take a real risk on something you secretly want. Oof.
• Big shifts are brewing, but you gotta initiate.

Okay, fine. So where am I settling? My freelance gigs. Stable, pays the bills… soul-crushing. Been designing logos and websites for small businesses I don’t care about for way too long. My passion? Actually creating my own stuff – illustrations, maybe merch, telling my visual stories. That horoscope line about “comfortable crap” felt like a punch in the gut. Was I bullshitting myself that freelancing was freedom?

Next step: Identify the damn risk. The horoscope was vague on specifics (duh, astrology), so I had to get concrete. I realized my safe-but-boring gigs were sucking up all my creative energy. Zero left for my own projects. Taking a risk meant cutting that cord, freeing up time to chase my vision, even if it meant leaner months. Terrifying. Textbook “comfortable crap” holding me hostage.

Then came the initiation part. Easier said than done. The horoscope said “initiate,” but how? I decided on two things:

1. Politely fire my worst client. You know the one – endless revisions, pays late, never happy. I drafted an email: “Appreciate the work, shifting my focus, here’s 30 days notice.” Hitting “send” felt like jumping off a cliff. Sweaty palms, heart racing.
2. Finally launch that dang portfolio site. All my real, personal artwork and projects – stuff for me, not clients. I bought the domain name months ago and chickened out. Not anymore. Pulled two all-nighters, threw it together warts and all, and hit publish. Total amateur hour website, but it was mine.

And then… things got weirdly connected. Like the horoscope’s “big shifts” engine kicked in. That client I fired? Their replacement designer (found through a mutual contact I mentioned my site to) loved my personal stuff. Turned out their friend runs this small indie art collective looking for fresh illustrators for a collab project. Reached out to me two days after my janky portfolio went live. Completely outta nowhere.

Did the horoscope cause this? Heck no. But did following its stupidly vague advice – pushing me to finally ditch the dead weight and put my real work out there – create the conditions for it? Abso-effing-lutely. That “big change” wasn’t some magic offer landing in my lap; it was the direct result of doing the scary thing it told me to do: stop settling and initiate.

The result? Just finished signing the contract for that illustration project. Pays better than the gig I ditched, aligns with what I actually want to be doing, and opens a door I never saw coming. July ain’t over, but the “big changes” feel real because I made them happen. Turns out the horoscope was less about prediction, more about a cosmic kick in the pants. Still not sure I buy astrology, but hey… sometimes you just gotta take the leap. For us Leos, maybe that cosmic nudge is what we need to stop playing safe.