Hunting Down the Old Files: Why I Bothered Looking Back
I’m a Virgo, which means I naturally document everything. It’s a curse, honestly. That habit came in handy last week when I decided to revisit a weird personal experiment I started back in 2021. I was cleaning out an old Dropbox folder—you know the one, filled with random screenshots and PDFs you never look at—and I stumbled across an email attachment: “Virgo Monthly Report – February 2021.”
I distinctly remember when I first read this report. I was feeling pretty lost that January and decided, on a whim, to sign up for one of those slightly expensive, detailed monthly forecasts, just to see if they were anything more than vague nonsense. I wasn’t relying on it, but I was tracking it. I kept a running physical journal that year, detailing every major work event, financial worry, and family squabble. My initial thought upon finding the file was simple: I needed to verify it. Did the “cosmic pressure” they talked about actually align with the miserable, confusing February I actually lived?
The first thing I did was open the PDF and then immediately pulled out the corresponding journal volume from the bookshelf. I flipped through the pages, dusting off two years of forgotten memories. This was less about astrology and more about auditing my own life records against an external data set. I wanted empirical proof, even if the “data” was just starlight and generalized predictions.
The Cross-Reference Grind: Lining Up Predictions with Reality
The report had three major, specific predictions tailored for a Virgo based on the planetary movements happening that month. I wrote down these three points on a separate sheet of paper and then spent the next hour cross-referencing them meticulously with the entries in my notebook. I assigned a rating: Strong Hit, Partial Match, or Total Miss.
Here were the big three themes the report focused on:
- Career/Public Image: A sudden and necessary dismantling of a long-standing structure, likely resulting in temporary chaos but long-term clarity.
- Financial Stability: A noticeable dip in available funds mid-month tied to unexpected expenditure, followed by an opportunity to recoup those losses through an old resource.
- Home and Emotional Life: An intense conflict with a close family member or partner over boundaries and space.
Let’s talk about the hits first. I focused on the Career prediction. “A sudden and necessary dismantling of a long-standing structure.” I turned to my entries from February 18th to the 24th. I had been struggling with a massive side project that was draining my resources for six months. My journal entry for Feb 21st simply stated: “Felt like crap. Just told [Client X] I’m out. Necessary chaos achieved.” I quit the project cold turkey. It was certainly sudden, chaotic, and necessary. That was a solid Strong Hit.
Then I moved onto the finance prediction. “Noticeable dip mid-month tied to unexpected expenditure.” Bingo. I remembered this clearly. Around Feb 15th, my main computer’s graphics card completely fried. I spent almost a grand I hadn’t budgeted for, replacing it immediately because I needed it for work. Dip achieved. The report added: “followed by an opportunity to recoup those losses through an old resource.” Now, this is the part that freaked me out a little. On Feb 28th, I got an email saying I had a refund coming from an old retainer with a vendor I stopped using months prior. It wasn’t the full grand, but it was substantial, and it was certainly from an “old resource.” That’s another definitive Strong Hit.
The Misses and The Lesson Learned
The third prediction, the relationship conflict, was where the wheels fell off the cosmic bus. “Intense conflict with a close family member or partner over boundaries.” My notes for February 2021 show almost the opposite. My partner and I were both completely swamped with work stress (related to the career dismantling I mentioned). We barely talked. There was zero intense conflict. We were just two quiet, exhausted people sharing a couch. The boundary issue was that we were both too busy to have boundaries, not fighting over them. I marked this one as a Total Miss.
So, the final tally? Two major predictions were dead-on, providing weirdly specific details about unexpected hardware failures and old vendor refunds. One was entirely incorrect. That’s a 66% accuracy rate on the big stuff. For a general monthly forecast, that’s actually pretty high, though maybe two hits out of three is just a lucky guess.
What I really took away from this retrospective audit wasn’t about whether I should start believing in star charts. What I realized is the immense value of keeping detailed logs of your own life, especially during periods of stress. Because when you can check back and see that the cosmic nonsense actually paralleled major real-life events—even if just by coincidence—it forces you to reflect on those events more deeply. Why did I quit that job? Why did I need that specific refund? It’s a fantastic exercise in self-accountability. I encourage anyone who doubts the “woo-woo” to start logging their life events now, and then pull up some old generic prediction in a year or two. The comparison itself is the real gold, regardless of the accuracy.
