Man, sometimes you look back four years and just wanna smack your past self. You know that feeling? I got hit with a ton of bricks last week, and it all comes back to February 2020. That stupid month when the world was just starting to spin sideways and I had a decision to make.
I was cleaning up my desktop—yeah, I know, four years late—and I stumbled across an old spreadsheet. This wasn’t just any spreadsheet; it was my ‘What If’ sheet from early 2020, laying out the projections for taking that consulting job versus staying put at the corporate gig I hated. I chose the hated gig. Why?
I remembered the whole drama vividly. I had the offer, decent money, high risk, high reward. Everyone was telling me to jump, but something held me back. I was nervous about the global vibe. And then I recalled that I actually checked my Virgo career horoscope for February 2020. I remember reading it, thinking, “Oh, good. An excuse to be lazy.”
The immediate urge was to find that exact advice. I needed to see if I was just making up excuses for my failure or if the celestial advice was genuinely garbage. So, I dove into the archives. This wasn’t easy. That specific astrologer’s site had changed hands like three times since 2020. I had to use the Wayback Machine. Took me nearly three hours just wading through archived blog posts and poorly rendered mobile versions.
Retrieving the February 2020 Virgo Career Forecast
I finally snagged the screenshot. It was buried in an old forum thread where people were debating whether the advice was too cautious. I pulled the text and lined it up against my decision criteria.
Here’s the gist of what that thing preached:
- “Virgos should focus on internal restructuring this month.”
- “Avoid significant partnerships or major financial shifts.”
- “The stars reward patience; wait until Q2 before signing major new contracts.”
- “Your current foundation is secure and provides the necessary stability for future growth.”
Stability. That was the keyword that nailed me. I read “secure foundation,” and my nervous, pandemic-fearing brain interpreted that as, “Don’t jump ship into the unknown chaos.”
The Practical Test: Did I Miss the Chance?
Now, I executed the real check. I opened up my ‘What If’ spreadsheet again. That consulting job? It involved early-stage blockchain infrastructure. Remember how everyone scoffed at that in early 2020? Yeah. They weren’t scoffing six months later.
I compared my actual earnings (staying at the boring corporate job until I finally quit in late 2021) versus the projected earnings had I taken the consulting job in Feb 2020. The consulting job would have paid less initially, but included equity that vested starting mid-2021. And guess what happened to that specific sector mid-2021? Explosion.
I crunched the numbers for two full days, pulling up stock charts and old company valuations just to be absolutely certain. My findings were sickening.
If I had ignored the horoscope—if I had jumped on the risk—I would have been sitting on roughly 400% more net worth right now. That’s not a small margin. That’s a “house paid off” margin. That’s a “retire five years early” margin.
The Verdict on the Forecasts
The forecast told me to value stability and avoid major shifts. In a normal market, maybe that’s solid, gentle advice. But Feb 2020 was the absolute last moment before the entire economy changed gears and accelerated certain tech sectors into the stratosphere. The horoscope was catastrophically wrong for the macro environment.
My biggest takeaway from this whole painful process of digging up old dirt? It’s not that I blame the astrologer—I blame myself for outsourcing my risk analysis to something that literally reads tea leaves. I let a vague, comforting piece of text validate my fear and inertia.
I should have been paying attention to the technical signs, the market shifts, the actual opportunity right in front of me, instead of looking for permission from the stars to stay small. I locked in a huge loss because I was looking for cosmic stability when I should have been embracing earthbound chaos.
So, yeah. I checked if the forecasts were right for my situation. They were the perfect validation for missing the biggest chance of my professional life. Never again am I letting generalized predictions be the reason I sit still when I should be moving.
I deleted the spreadsheet and the screenshot immediately. Too painful to keep around. Lesson learned, even if it cost me a fortune.
