Man, let me tell you, I hit a wall recently. A proper, concrete career wall. After grinding for seven years in the same niche—doing decent work, making good money—I woke up one Monday and just felt hollow. Like I was operating on autopilot. This feeling of being utterly stuck in the mud made me start questioning every single life decision I’d ever pulled the trigger on.
I decided to clean up my digital graveyard. You know how it is—folders full of junk from years ago. I was deep-diving into my 2017 archives, trying to delete useless crap, when I stumbled upon an old screenshot. A blurry capture of a career horoscope for Virgo, August 2017. I had completely forgotten about it. At the time, I must have been feeling lost enough to read that rubbish, but seeing it now, five years later, hit different.
The text was something cheesy but surprisingly pointed. It basically screamed: “A foundational upheaval is necessary. If you cling to the familiar, stagnation will swallow you whole. You must shift your entire operating environment, not just the title.”
I remember August 2017 clearly. I was working for that dreadful startup, barely scraping by, hating the commute, and convinced I was the next big thing. The horoscope felt like utter nonsense then. But now, seeing it years later, I had to know: Did that random, silly digital fortune-telling actually predict the seismic shifts that followed? I wasn’t going to just rely on memory; I decided to treat this like a proper investigation.
The Practice: Digging Through the Career Graveyard
I wasn’t satisfied just glancing at LinkedIn. That stuff is sanitized. I needed the real, ugly truth of my job hopping. So I pulled up my old tax documents, specifically the W-2s from 2017 through 2020. I cross-referenced those with my old Gmail “Job Search” folders and the calendar entries that tracked interview dates. I needed the dates of separation and the dates of new hiring, down to the week, to see if they lined up with that August 2017 warning.
First, I established my baseline. In August 2017, I was technically still employed at “Startup A.” But the air was thick with layoffs. I was miserable. My work was repetitive.
Next, I tracked down the resignation email. I finally pulled the plug on Startup A on September 28, 2017. That was close enough to the “August Upheaval” warning to raise an eyebrow.
Then came the real test: what did I jump into? The horoscope said I had to “shift the operating environment.”
- Move One (October 2017): I accepted a role at “Agency B.” It was the same industry, same type of coding, but smaller company, different management style. I told myself it was a shift.
- The Reality Check: My W-2 confirmed I lasted exactly six months there. Why? Because it was the exact same environment, just dressed up differently. I quit in April 2018.
I realized the horoscope wasn’t talking about tiny shuffles. It demanded a true shift.
The True Shift: Did Destiny Drag Me Out?
After Agency B, I was truly desperate. I had no solid leads. I started doing short-term contract work just to pay the rent. This period, from May 2018 to January 2019, was brutal. I was freelance, unstable, and stressed out of my mind. But I was also working with completely different kinds of clients—manufacturing, logistics, stuff I never touched before. I was forced to learn new systems.
Then, the big one hit. I landed the job at “Corporate C” in February 2019. This was not just a different company; it was a completely different sector. I transitioned from niche tech consulting to embedded software management for utilities. The structure was different, the stakeholders were different, and crucially, the tech stack was 90% new to me. I had finally moved away from the “familiar” hell I was stuck in since 2017.
I compared this trajectory to the August 2017 fortune. The horoscope didn’t predict the job I’d get, but it damn sure predicted the necessity of the journey I was about to embark on. My first move (Startup A to Agency B) failed because I didn’t listen to the part about changing the operating environment. It took a near-total financial and career collapse (the freelance months) to force me into the radical shift that finally felt right at Corporate C.
What I Concluded from the Data
The prediction was scary accurate, but not in a magical way. It just pointed out the glaringly obvious thing I was too stubborn to see. The data confirms: I resisted the change initially, trying to make lateral moves (2017-2018). I only found stability and satisfaction once I was forced to completely change sectors (2019).
Did the Virgo career horoscope August 2017 come true?
Yes, but only because I messed up the first try and life smacked me hard enough to make the mandated “upheaval” happen two years later. It didn’t foretell my future; it just saw the massive pile of refusal I was standing on in August 2017 and correctly identified the only way off the pile was burning the whole damn thing down.
So, yeah. Clean out your old files, folks. Sometimes the biggest warnings you needed were sitting in a dusty screenshot from five years ago.
