Man, May 2022. What a weird month. I was seriously in a rut at my old gig. You know the feeling? Punching the clock, doing the bare minimum, feeling like all the air had gone out of the balloon. I’m a Virgo, been checking these astrology newsletters for years, mostly just for a laugh, but in May 2022, I was desperate. I read this one article and decided to actually try the “four critical moves” they were selling. I figured, what did I have to lose besides a little bit of my dignity? That’s my story of how I went from being totally stuck to owning my time, and it started with a bunch of cosmic fluff.
The Four Moves I Tried to Follow
The first step was just reading the damn thing. It felt like they were talking right to me, which is the whole trick, right? But whatever, I wrote them down on a sticky note and stuck it on my monitor. This was the “practice” I started that month.
- Move One: Shake Up the Network. They said something about Mercury going into Gemini and that I needed to talk to people outside my usual circle. I hated networking. My usual circle was the vending machine guy and my cat.
- Move Two: The Deep Dive on Old Stuff. This was about Mercury Retrograde, telling me to review ancient contracts, old projects, and agreements I’d totally forgotten about. I thought this was just a way to clean out my attic, but I went with it.
- Move Three: Take a Whacked-Out Financial Risk. Something about Mars and Jupiter lining up to give me “bold opportunities.” I literally had zero savings, so risking what? My sandwich money? Still, I paid attention.
- Move Four: Lock Down the Routine. Classic Virgo stuff. Fix the diet, fix the sleep, fix the gym schedule. If I was going to change my career, I first had to stop living off lukewarm coffee and sheer panic.
My Personal May 2022 Playbook
I started with Move Four. That’s the easiest, in theory. I bought a cheap treadmill. It became a clothes rack almost immediately, so that was a bust. I tried getting up at 6 AM. I stayed up later instead. I was feeling great about myself. Zero progress.
Then I hit Move Two. My job was just data entry at the time, soul-crushing stuff. I had no contracts to review, but I did have a bunch of old, dusty portfolio materials from when I first started out, almost ten years ago. It was from a totally different field—something artistic, high-energy, but I quit it because the money was garbage.
I didn’t mean to follow Move One, but it just happened. As I was digging through that old portfolio, I realized the files were outdated. So, I spent a whole rainy Sunday updating the whole thing, just for myself, just to see if I still had the chops. I uploaded a few samples to my LinkedIn, mostly as a backup, not actually thinking anyone would look at my sad little page. I figured it was a good way to “review old projects.”
The very next Tuesday, I got a call. It wasn’t my current boss, thank God. It was a guy I used to work with on that high-energy artistic project, back before I even had that portfolio. This guy, Sam, had completely moved on, left the industry, and opened a string of high-end bakery and coffee shops. He was scaling fast. Real fast. He saw my old, updated work and called me up, not to do the creative stuff, but to handle his operational finances. He needed someone who was meticulous and a total workhorse, which, let’s face it, is a Virgo’s default setting. He said my old stuff just proved I had the drive.
The Real Boost
We met up. He offered me a salary that was nearly double what I was making, plus a percentage of the profits. I literally laughed in the coffee shop. This was my Move Three—the whacked-out financial risk. I was risking leaving stable mediocrity for exciting instability. I quit my job that day. I didn’t even put in two weeks’ notice. My old company didn’t even notice I was gone until the following Monday, which tells you everything you need to know about that place.
The “four critical moves” didn’t give me the exact path, but they did push me. The real trick wasn’t the star alignment, it was simply doing something different. I reviewed old stuff, I accidentally networked, and I took the risk. Now, I am crunching numbers for a growing company, I set my own schedule, and I use that treadmill every day, not as a clothes rack, but as a place to pace while I’m on calls. That horoscope was just a narrative hook for the change I already needed to make. May 2022 turned out to be the month I stopped waiting for the stars and just went for it.
