My February 2021 Virgo Horoscope Mess: Why I Even Bothered Looking Back
I know, I know. Me, the guy who usually only talks about budgeting and which cheap router actually works, digging up a two-year-old monthly horoscope, specifically the one for my sign, Virgo, back in February 2021. Plain crazy. But stick with me because the reason this particular piece of digital crap is even on my desktop right now is tied to one of the biggest, stupidest shifts I ever made in my career. And yeah, I wanted to see if the stars were really trying to tell me something, or if I just had a massive head cold and made a bad call.
February 2021. Man, what a time. The world was still reeling, and my own little world was collapsing in a spectacularly boring way. I was working remotely, grinding out reports for this big, boring corporate firm. Everything felt like sludge. Anyway, I’d been working on a side project for almost a year—a massive application that, frankly, was my ticket out. It was a hell of a risk because it meant quitting my steady paycheck and living off savings for a bit. The due date for the corporate bigwigs to approve my resignation was set for the last Friday of Feb 2021. I was absolutely freaked out. I needed a sign, a nudge, literally anything that said, “Yeah, idiot, jump.”
The Practice: Hunting Down the Vague Warnings
So, what was the process? It was a breakdown, honestly. I wasn’t doing proper “research.” I just typed “Virgo Feb 2021 Horoscope Quick Summary” into a search engine after drinking way too much coffee one Tuesday morning. I skipped all the long, flowery stuff and just looked for a “quick summary”—exactly what the title of this review is. I ended up on some trashy-looking astrology site that I promptly printed out because I felt like I needed to hold this advice in my hand. That’s how desperate I was. It was so stupid.
I distinctly remember what I did when I got the summary. I didn’t read it all at once. I went through and highlighted three things with a terrible yellow marker:
- Career/Work: The summary mentioned something about “financial uncertainty requiring a necessary, almost brutal, clearing of the slate” and “a professional partnership ending unexpectedly, leading to unexpected freedom.”
- Money: It warned of a “brief, but sharp, dip in resources” but followed up with “an opportunity for rapid growth rooted in self-reliance.”
- Health: Just generic stuff about not burning out and drinking water. The usual crap.
I tucked that piece of printed paper—all blurry and cheap—into my journal. I reviewed it every night for a week leading up to that resignation deadline. I was looking for confirmation bias, plain and simple. I wanted the stars to tell me what I already wanted to do: quit and build my own thing.
The Real Story: How the Stars Got It Both Totally Right and Completely Wrong
Remember that side project I was working on? The one that was supposed to be my escape? Well, three days before my resignation was due, my “professional partner” (my cousin, believe it or not), whom I was building the app with, called and said he was pulling out. Just gone. The corporate gig was fine, but my escape plan just blew up in my face. Total shock, total betrayal.
I was done. I looked at that printed horoscope, and the line about “a professional partnership ending unexpectedly, leading to unexpected freedom” hit me like a train. Was it a lucky guess? Maybe. But the key was what happened next, and this is why I know what I’m doing now.
Most people would have kept the corporate job. They would have said, “Okay, the Universe has spoken, stay safe.” But I was already so fed up with that boring work, and the betrayal with my cousin made me realize I couldn’t trust anyone else with my career. It was a turning point. Instead of retreating, I saw the “unexpected freedom.” I ripped up my resignation letter, rewrote it to be effective immediately, and walked out two days later. That was my “brutal clearing of the slate.” The dip in resources was severe; I lived on rice and beans for months.
Fast forward to now. I built the app myself, on my own terms. I started this blog to share the experience, and now it’s paying my bills and then some. The thing that’s really telling, and why I know that corporate life is a toxic mess? Because three months after I left, that miserable boss I had called me back. Not to hire me, but to ask if he could pay me as a consultant to fix the exact garbage system I had just spent two years complaining about. They just couldn’t do it without me.
I hung up on him, same as I blocked all those old colleagues who suddenly remembered I existed. You know the drill. That corporate consulting job is still listed on LinkedIn, only now they’ve hiked the pay up by almost 80%. That’s their penalty for treating good people like they did. That whole mess, the reason I know what goes on inside those places, started with that one moment of pure anxiety in Feb 2021.
The Verdict: Don’t Trust the Stars, Trust the Gut
So, did the horoscope work? No. I wasn’t just told to quit. I was pushed by betrayal and anxiety, and I chose to read a vague piece of text as permission. The stars didn’t force me to walk away; they just validated the insane decision I was already leaning into. The real practice here wasn’t reading the horoscope; it was reviewing my guts under pressure. And that, frankly, is a much better practice than looking at the stars.
