I remember sitting there, staring at the screen, way back in late December 2019. I wasn’t looking at my own chart, nope. I was actually wrestling with my friend’s paranoia. He’s a total Virgo, meticulous to a fault, and he was getting ready to make a huge jump in his career—start his own small e-commerce operation. The problem? He became obsessed with this one astrology site that kept screaming about “Saturnian restriction” and “avoiding new financial ventures” for January 2020.
My goal wasn’t to argue metaphysics; it was to document how much these vague warnings actually messed up real decisions. I needed proof. So, I went straight to the sources. I didn’t just read one article. I opened up five different major astrology websites—the ones everybody reads. Susan Miller, *, a couple of YouTube channels specializing in monthly forecasts. I opened a massive spreadsheet, Google Sheets, because I needed to track every single prediction they had for Virgo career and finance between January 1st and January 31st, 2020.
I started the process by categorizing the advice. This wasn’t easy because these reports are designed to sound deep while saying nothing specific. I forced them into three buckets:
- “Green Light” (Good News: Take risks, expand, sign contracts.)
- “Yellow Light” (Warning: Review documents, wait until the third week, minor hurdles.)
- “Red Light” (Bad News: Avoid major commitments, financial losses likely, conserve cash.)
What I discovered immediately was the sheer chaos. Site A would say “Green Light! Jupiter ingress means massive expansion is available!” Site B, reading the exact same sky, would warn “Red Light! Avoid all partnerships as Mercury is squaring the outer planets!” It was a mess. They canceled each other out. But my friend Mark, he was only hearing the “Red Light” warnings, because that’s what fear does.
The Practice: Tracking the Damage
My practice wasn’t just collecting predictions; it was tracking the real-world consequence of acting on them. Mark had secured a small loan and was ready to sign the warehouse lease for his new business on January 15th, 2020. The “Red Light” articles peaked that week. They screamed about Neptune dissolving career plans.
Mark got cold feet and pulled the plug. He called the warehouse owner, paid the cancellation fee, and decided to “wait until March,” because one report promised better Venus alignment then. He killed the momentum he had spent six months building. I logged the decision in my spreadsheet: Action Avoided due to Red Light warnings.
I kept tracking him, and I kept tracking the macro environment. Remember what happened between Jan 2020 and March 2020? Yeah, the world basically shut down. COVID hit hard. Logistics crumbled. Supply chains vanished. Had Mark signed that lease in mid-January, he would have been locked into a high-cost overhead just as the entire retail market vaporized. His e-commerce venture, selling non-essential goods, would have died immediately, bleeding him dry of his startup capital.
When March rolled around, Mark felt totally justified. “See!” he crowed. “The stars saved me! If I had opened, I would be bankrupt!”
The Real Takeaway: What to Avoid
But here is where the deeper part of the practice kicked in. I flipped the entire experiment. I started asking: what if he had ignored the ‘Bad News’ warnings, which were clearly correct in their timing, even if they used the wrong language?
I drove myself into the historical data. I dug into public market sentiment for early 2020. January 2020 was a weird time. Everyone knew something was happening in China, but no one in the West thought it would impact local markets yet. Businesses were still functioning on the old, fragile supply chain models. It wasn’t the stars causing instability; it was a creeping, global viral threat that smart business people were already quietly preparing for, entirely divorced from Jupiter’s position.
I realized the real “Bad News” to avoid wasn’t the career path Mark chose, or the timing of his launch, but the vague advice itself. The astrology reports were so generalized that they become a perfect mirror for whatever fear you already carry. If Mark was afraid of failure, the “Red Light” confirmed it. If he had been hyper-optimistic, he probably would have ignored the “Red Light” and only focused on the “Green Light” reports, launching his venture straight into a pandemic.
The practice taught me the only thing worth tracking: avoid confirmation bias disguised as cosmic advice. Mark was “saved,” yes, but not by Neptune. He was saved by having enough cash left over to wait, cash he might have lost if he had followed the advice to “Wait until March for better alignments,” only to find the entire world closed for business in March.
The total recorded outcome was clear: My original goal was to prove the horoscopes were meaningless noise. Instead, I proved they are dangerous amplifiers. They don’t predict failure; they just give your existing failure mechanisms a fancy, celestial excuse to act. The only thing you should ever avoid is letting non-specific warnings stop specific action you’ve already researched and planned.
