Man, I gotta tell you, this project started as pure, unadulterated annoyance. If you know me, you know I’m a Virgo. And if you know me, you also know that December 2018 was a total train wreck for my career. I was stuck in a job that was actively crushing my soul, and every single horoscope my wife showed me was shouting about “unforeseen stability” and “entering a period of financial harmony.” Absolute crap.
I carried that little irritation around for years. Finally, this past winter, I got laid off from a completely different gig, had some unexpected free time, and decided to settle the score. I wanted to know: were those astrology writers smoking something that month, or was I just the statistical outlier? I had to figure out, How accurate was the Virgo career horoscope December 2018?
The Messy Start: Digging Up the Past
The first thing I realized was that finding archived horoscopes from that exact month was a pain in the rear. You’d think the internet keeps everything, right? Nope. So many of those free astrology sites from five years ago have either vanished, pivoted, or just deleted their old content. I spent three full days just hunting down digital ghosts.
I had to use these ancient internet snapshot tools—you know, the ones that show you what a website looked like back then. Most of the time, the text was broken, images wouldn’t load, or the whole layout was completely garbled. I managed to scrape together five primary sources—five different, well-known astrology sites that had specific, paragraph-long career predictions for Virgos for December 2018. I tossed all the vague stuff, like “be mindful of your choices.” That’s not a prediction, that’s just life advice. I was looking for concrete stuff: Will money improve? Will a new contract come through? Will there be conflict with a boss?
I opened a fresh spreadsheet—I’m a Virgo, I can’t help myself—and I titled it “2018 Virgo Vetting.” I manually typed out every single prediction into column A, and I highlighted the core prediction phrases. For example:
- Source 1 said: “A long-awaited promotion finally materializes, bringing significant financial bonus.”
- Source 3 said: “Prepare for high-level conflict with management leading to unexpected shifts.”
- Source 5 said: “The final weeks of the year will be marked by steady, if boring, structural stability.”
See the problem? They were all over the map. They couldn’t all be right.
Finding the Sample: Getting Real-World Data
Analyzing my own experience was easy—I checked “Source 5” as totally wrong, and “Source 3” as dead accurate (I had a massive shouting match with my regional manager that month, it was bad). But one data point is useless. I needed other Virgos who had actual career changes in that 31-day window.
I run a small, unrelated forum about antique radio restoration, oddly enough. I decided to leverage that crowd. I posted an anonymous, specific poll, asking anyone who was a Virgo (sun sign) to tell me what their career looked like in December 2018. I promised complete anonymity and offered a small Amazon gift card incentive to the first 30 detailed responses.
I got 27 usable responses. I asked them to categorize their month using four simple options:
- Massive Negative Change (Fired, demoted, major conflict)
- Massive Positive Change (Big raise, promotion, new high-paying job)
- Steady State (Boring, same old routine)
- Minor Friction/Minor Gain (Small bonuses, minor arguments)
I then cross-referenced their actual outcome with the predictions I had collected.
The Expert Analysis: My Spreadsheet Conclusion
This is where things got really interesting, and frankly, hilarious.
Out of the 27 people who responded, here was the breakdown of their real December 2018 experience:
- Negative Change (Category 1): 9 people. (They lost jobs, got disciplined, or had severe workplace stress.)
- Positive Change (Category 2): 4 people. (One massive promotion, three unexpected job offers.)
- Steady State (Category 3): 11 people. (Just ground through the holidays, nothing happened.)
- Minor Friction/Gain (Category 4): 3 people. (Small raises, annoying staff meetings.)
Now, I took my five horoscope predictions and scored them based on how often they matched the outcomes. I gave myself a strict rule: if a prediction was vague enough to cover two outcomes (like “stressful but ultimately rewarding”), I only gave it half credit if the result fell into one of those two. Otherwise, it was a zero.
Prediction Match Scores (Out of 27 possible matches):
The “Promotion/Financial Gain” predictions (Sources 1, 2, 4) only matched 4 real-life outcomes. That’s a dismal 15% accuracy rate for three major sources.
The “High-Level Conflict” prediction (Source 3) nailed 9 of the outcomes, which is about 33%. That’s the closest anyone got, but it still missed the majority.
The “Steady State/Stability” prediction (Source 5) matched the highest number of outcomes—11 people—giving it about 40% accuracy. But here’s the kicker: predicting that nothing will change in a random month is the safest bet in the world. It’s like predicting the sun will come up.
My final takeaway? If you averaged the five most popular Virgo career horoscopes for December 2018, the average accuracy was hovering around 25%. They were wrong three times out of four.
So, were they totally worthless? Yeah, pretty much. Did it solve the lingering grievance I had about my terrible retail management year? Absolutely. I spent a full week digging up ghosts and confirming that when my wife told me to “trust the stars,” I should have just trusted my gut and looked for a new job. But hey, now I have a really complicated spreadsheet to prove it.
