You know, back in 2019, I was floating in that weird space most of us hit in our careers. You’re doing the job, but you feel like the whole thing is just spinning its wheels. I was working in logistics tracking, staring at spreadsheets that moved slower than a glacier. The pay was fine, the hours were garbage, and my soul was slowly leaching out of my body. It was right around that time, late April, that I started getting serious about making a jump. Not just any jump, a proper career pivot.
I was desperate, sure, and when you’re desperate, you start looking for answers in weird places. I’ve always been a Virgo, and my partner—bless her heart—is obsessed with astrology. She always sends me those weekly career horoscopes. I usually just delete them, but this time, the May 2019 prediction for Virgo really grabbed me. It wasn’t flowery or vague. It flat-out promised a “major cosmic realignment leading to unexpected professional opportunities” around the middle of the month, specifically related to long-term goals.
My first thought was, what a load of crap. My second thought was: Let’s prove it’s crap.
Setting Up The Tracking System
I decided to treat this like a proper project. If I’m going to mock the stars, I need evidence. I opened up a new spreadsheet—yeah, I know, more spreadsheets—and structured it to track three core metrics against the prediction. I called the file: Operation: Star Charts vs. Reality, May 2019.
I committed to logging entries every single night, detailing not just events, but my subjective “Job Energy Level” on a 1 to 10 scale.
My tracking criteria were simple:
- Metric 1: External Validation Events (EVEs). This meant job interviews scheduled, unexpected calls from recruiters, or significant positive feedback from my current boss (rare, but possible).
- Metric 2: Internal Action/Productivity (IAP). How many meaningful applications did I send? How many hours did I spend upskilling or researching new fields? Did I actually feel motivated to work on my side projects?
- Metric 3: The JEL (Job Energy Level). A pure, gut-feeling rating from 1 (I want to quit and become a hermit) to 10 (I feel like I could conquer the world).
I started recording on May 1st. The horoscope said the first week would be slow but building tension. And damn, it was slow. My JEL was hovering around a 3. I sent out four applications the first three days and heard absolutely nothing back. Just silence.
The Mid-Month Chaos
The horoscope promised the big alignment around May 15th. I was skeptical, but my JEL went up to a 6 just on pure anticipation. And then, everything went sideways.
On May 13th, I walked into the office and found out the company was restructuring the entire logistics department. My manager called me into a meeting—I instantly thought, this is it, the opportunity!
Turns out, the opportunity was a reduction in force. They needed to cut staff, and because my performance reviews were “satisfactory, if uninspired,” I was one of the first names on the list. I was officially laid off, effective immediately. They gave me a decent severance, but man, talk about a punch to the gut.
My JEL plummeted instantly to a 1. I wrote it down in the spreadsheet: May 13th: EVE: Termination. IAP: 0. JEL: 1 (Felt like zero, but I stayed alive).
My partner rushed home and was frantic. “The horoscope said unexpected professional opportunity! This is BAD LUCK!”
But the Virgo prediction had a little asterisk that I had skimmed over: “Expect a radical shift in your foundations before the new path can emerge.”
The Pivot and The Payoff
I spent May 14th and 15th absolutely stewing in anger and self-pity. My spreadsheet was ignored. But on the 16th, I snapped out of it. I had severance pay and no immediate responsibilities. I suddenly had 40 hours a week to dedicate to finding a job I actually liked.
The IAP metric shot up. I started networking like a maniac. I didn’t just fire off applications; I called people I knew, had coffee meetings, and overhauled my entire resume to focus on the pivot into supply chain management consulting that I had always dreamed about.
Then, the EVEs started flooding in. On May 22nd, I got two requests for initial phone screens. By May 27th, I had scheduled two in-person interviews, one of which was with a firm that specialized exactly in the niche I wanted.
The key was that the layoff was absolutely the catalyst. If I hadn’t been kicked out, I would have stayed put, comfortable and miserable. The horoscope didn’t predict a bonus or a promotion; it predicted a realignment. And nothing realigns you like getting fired.
Final Rating: Good or Bad Luck?
Looking at the raw data for May 2019, it’s a mixed bag of chaos, but the net result was positive. The prediction of “unexpected opportunities” was technically true, even if the delivery mechanism was brutal. My JEL started low, dipped dangerously mid-month, but ended May 31st at a solid 8 because I had real, promising leads for a job I actually wanted, not the one I was stuck in.
Was the Virgo career horoscope May 2019 good or bad luck?
- Luck Rating: 7/10. It was bad luck delivered with an immediate, positive side effect. A necessary shock.
- The Verdict: It was good, but only because I forced myself to act on the vacuum the bad luck created. The stars don’t hand you opportunities; they just knock your old building down so you have room to build a new one.
So, we rate this month’s job energy level as HIGHLY VOLATILE, BUT ULTIMATELY ASCENDING. It taught me that sometimes the stars just tell you to brace for impact, and the opportunity is in how you handle the collision.
