How I Actually Put a 2020 Horoscope to the Test
You might be scratching your head wondering why I bothered digging up a monthly horoscope from three years ago, specifically the Virgo Monthly Horoscope 2020 from GaneshaSpeaks. Trust me, it wasn’t for fun. I usually scoff at this stuff, but 2020 hit me like a train, and when things go that sideways, you start looking for answers in weird places. I needed to know if the universe, or at least GaneshaSpeaks, saw the absolute mess coming.
I started this whole messy project late last year. I was cleaning up my old cloud storage files, trying to clear out the digital junk, when I stumbled across a folder simply labeled “2020 D-Day.” Inside were a bunch of screenshots I had saved back in early 2020. I remember doing it then, thinking it would be fun to check later. Turns out, later meant three years and a whole lot of drama later.
The moment I opened those files, it hit me: I wasn’t just going to read them; I was going to turn this into a proper audit. I was going to treat it like a serious piece of data analysis—except the data was my life, and the report was written by some star-gazer I’ve never met. I decided right then and there I was going to cross-reference every single prediction against my actual life events that year.
This wasn’t quick, let me tell you. I first had to dig up my old paper journals and my chaotic calendar entries from that year. That was the hardest part. Trying to reconstruct 2020 felt like trying to piece together a car crash from memory. But I committed. I opened up a fresh spreadsheet—I swear, I treat everything like a project now—and structured it simple:
- Column A: Month (Jan through Dec 2020)
- Column B: GaneshaSpeaks Core Prediction (Work, Health, Love)
- Column C: My Reality (What Actually Went Down)
- Column D: Score/Accuracy (Hit or Miss)
The Practice: Reconstructing the Chaos Month-by-Month
I started with January 2020. The prediction was about “stable career growth and finding new financial footing.” My reality? I had just taken a calculated risk on a big job move. So, technically, that prediction was leaning toward a hit. It felt good, the optimism was there. So I marked that one as a “Partial Hit,” because the footing wasn’t exactly stable yet.
Then came the real test: March and April. Everyone remembers those months. The horoscope for March talked about “minor relationship tensions” and needing to “focus on self-care.” What actually happened? My minor relationship tension turned into a major blow-up, and my self-care involved frantically wiping down groceries with disinfectant while panicking about the global situation. Massive miss. The prediction was nowhere near the level of upheaval I was actually dealing with. I literally wrote “NOPE, GLOBAL PANIC INSTEAD” in Column C.
I pushed on through the summer. June was interesting. The prediction highlighted “unexpected financial expenses but improved communication with family.” My actual summer involved a sudden and massive appliance failure—$2000 gone—which nailed the financial expense bit dead on. But the family communication? We were locked down together, arguing over bandwidth. Communication was at an all-time low. So, 50% accurate. I scored that a “Flimsy Hit.”
The back half of 2020 was where the GaneshaSpeaks analysis really started to show its weaknesses, mainly because the predictions were so generic. October’s prediction was something about “health concerns requiring attention” and “a period of reflection.” My reality was recovering from a minor surgery and having way too much forced reflection time while stuck on the couch. Okay, that was a huge hit! It was oddly specific to my personal event. Full Hit. I was genuinely shocked.
The Final Tally and What I Learned
After compiling all twelve months, going through screenshots, journal entries, and even old credit card statements to verify the unexpected expenses, I tallied up the score. I didn’t use any fancy statistical model; I just counted the “Hits” versus the “Misses” and the “Flimsy Hits.”
Out of the 12 monthly predictions, focusing on the three key areas (career, finance, personal):
- Full Hits (Undeniably accurate): 2 (One in October, one early February about a promotion change).
- Partial/Flimsy Hits (Generic stuff that could apply to anyone): 5 (Like “Watch your diet” or “Prepare for a new challenge”).
- Total Misses (Completely ignored major life events or got the outcome wrong): 5 (The spring months and the entire holiday season felt totally ignored by the stars).
So, How accurate was it? Statistically, I found it was about 17% specifically accurate, 42% ambiguously accurate, and 41% wrong, especially concerning major life decisions or world events that clearly impacted my personal life trajectory.
What’s the truth I found? This whole investigation taught me two things. First, the human brain is incredible at latching onto the two things that were right and forgetting the five things that were absolutely wrong. We want to believe the chaotic nature of life has some sort of blueprint. Second, trying to retroactively analyze a prediction about a time period you actually lived through is incredibly tedious and not worth the effort, but it sure was satisfying to formally close the book on that weird little personal mystery I started three years ago. I confirmed what I suspected: life is messy, and maybe only 17% of it is written in the stars, if you’re generous.
