I checked the Virgo thing back in July 2023.
This whole practice kicked off because I was absolutely stuck in a rut. I’d been grinding at the same design firm for six years. I liked the actual work, but I absolutely hated the corporate environment and the manager was just a nightmare. I kept scrolling through job sites every single night, but I never actually hit the ‘submit’ button on anything worthwhile. It was all just mental window shopping, I promise you. I found myself thinking, “I need an external force. Maybe the universe needs to give me a proper shove or something.”
I saw that stupid clickbait title one morning while I was having my first cup of coffee. You know the one: “Is a New Job Coming for Virgo Career July 2023? Find Out What to Expect!” I usually just laugh at that junk. My mom, a proper Virgo, actually believes every word, but I just skim the headlines. Anyway, I clicked it. I figured, what the hell, I’ll treat this horoscope prediction like a market signal or a project brief. I decided to follow the exact script they laid out, just to see if the cosmic garbage actually worked.
The Practice: Executing the Cosmic Schedule
The prediction pointed at three main action windows. The first window, around July 4th, they said was for ‘clearing space’ and ‘organizing the future.’ I spent that week actually clearing my desktop folders, unsubscribing from junk email lists, and updating my LinkedIn profile photo. I didn’t send a single application. I was just doing preparation. I was half-assing the whole thing, honestly, purely as a joke on the universe.
The second window, they declared, was July 15th to 22nd. This was the ‘opportunity knock’ window. They demanded I send out my best three applications and activate my professional network. I went into my old files, pulled out the resume template I hadn’t touched since 2017, and rewrote maybe 60% of it, focusing on results, not duties. I targeted three specific companies that had been on my wish list forever—the ones I thought were too ambitious for me. I hit send on the 17th. I followed up with an old colleague via text message, just checking in. That was it. I waited for the stars to deliver.
I got two immediate, form-letter rejections on the 19th. The third company never responded at all, even to just an automated confirmation. I chuckle d at my desk. “So much for the stars,” I thought. But right then, right when I was enjoying my cynicism, the real practice kicked in, the part the horoscope never mentioned.
The Crash: What the Stars Failed to Predict
My biggest project, the one that accounted for maybe 40% of my company’s current revenue, hit the wall on July 24th. I walked into a mandatory morning meeting. The CEO looked pale, sweating and shuffling his feet. He announced the client had pulled out. All of them. Instantly. It was a total, sudden mess. My job, my specific role, just disintegrated right there in front of me. I didn’t get officially fired, but the work I was hired to do vanished. They called it a ‘strategic repositioning’ and gave me two weeks’ severance. I sat there and stared at my empty to-do list for three hours before I started packing my personal items into a cardboard box.
I remember thinking later that afternoon: The horoscope wasn’t completely wrong, it just flipped the entire script. The prediction said a new job was coming. What actually happened was the old job left violently, thus forcing the new one to materialize. It was a violent cosmic push, not a gentle, polite handover. I had no income coming in after those two weeks.
My wife was furious, naturally. We spent August frantically searching for the type of high-level design role I just left. I received absolutely nothing. Just boilerplate email responses and automated ghosting. I kept hitting that ‘submit’ button, but the industry was clearly slowing down. I burned through my savings way faster than I had ever planned, and I started doing simple freelance tasks for pocket change.
The Pivot: Building the New Reality
I gave up on the ‘dream job’ search entirely by early September. I sat down and looked at my actual transferable skills, not just my expensive title. I called an old college friend who had pivoted into industrial safety consulting years ago. He told me they always desperately needed people who could quickly sketch and prototype new safety tools and routes.
- I signed up for a local community college certificate course in basic CAD modeling.
- I bought a cheap, loud 3D printer and started messing around with simple utility designs for his company as a casual favor.
- I took a terrible, mind-numbing part-time contract gig doing boring, basic wireframing for an HR software company just to keep the lights on. I hated it, but it paid the immediate rent.
That part-time HR gig led me to a contact who needed a much better, clearer way to visualize emergency and safety routes in a massive factory setting. Guess what? My new CAD skills came in super handy! I got hired by his company in November 2023, not as a designer, but as a ‘Visual Safety Solutions Coordinator.’ It’s a completely different and stable career path. I never would have considered it if my comfortable old job hadn’t just vaporized back in July.
The third window the horoscope mentioned was ‘late September/October for financial growth.’ I laughed at that back then, because I was truly flat broke and scraping by. But my new gig, the actual, totally unexpected new job, officially started the last week of October. It paid less than my old job initially, but the benefits package was huge, and the strict 9-to-5 hours were great for my family life.
I look back at that whole “Virgo Career July 2023” practice now. It didn’t predict the new job; it just predicted the necessary chaos needed to force me into an entirely new, better, and more stable direction. I had to lose everything to build the good thing. I went from a burnt-out designer to a safety guy, and I’m honestly much, much happier. I did the practice, and the unexpected result was real, but it was ugly. That’s the real log.
