Man, I gotta tell you, this whole process started because I realized I was making way too many major life moves based on pure gut feeling, and frankly, my gut often didn’t know squat. I needed to build a legit system to track my past decisions. Not just business decisions, but the huge, life-altering ones—the pivots, the quits, the sudden turns. I wanted to see if there were patterns, or maybe even subtle outside forces aligning themselves that I was completely blind to at the time. I wanted data, messy as it might be.
Kicking Off the Historical Audit: The Great Digital Dig
I committed myself to this project about six months ago. The goal was simple: dig up and categorize every major career change I initiated between 2015 and today. This wasn’t a quick scroll through LinkedIn. I went full archeologist. I fired up the old hard drives, the ones that had been gathering dust in the garage. I started clawing through archived emails, specifically searching for subject lines with keywords like “Resignation,” “Final Invoice,” “New Venture,” and “WTF am I doing.”
The first step was to establish a timeline. I opened up a fresh spreadsheet and started logging the dates. What was the state of the market? What were my finances looking like? What was my emotional state? And because I’m a Virgo, I also logged the ridiculous, often overlooked detail: What did the monthly career horoscope say for that exact period, if I could even find it?
The early months were just frustrating. A lot of fuzzy dates and half-remembered conversations. But then I hit 2018. That year was brutal. It was the year I finally pulled the plug on the most stable job I ever had—the one that paid the bills easily but felt like slow torture. The one where I was managing a team of fifteen, grinding away in corporate finance.
Pinpointing the Ground Zero Moment
I found the emails and the journal entries. They were crystal clear. The planning for the exit started in late January 2018, but the decision—the actual, terrifying, signed-and-delivered decision—happened right in the window between March 5th and March 15th, 2018. I had a massive argument with my then-boss on the 10th and sent my notice on the 12th. I remember the sheer panic. I had zero reliable income lined up. I just knew I couldn’t stay another minute.
I logged all this data: massive career disruption, voluntary move into self-employment/consultancy, high financial risk, high emotional upheaval. It was the single biggest, most illogical-sounding shift I’d ever made, and it happened almost overnight.
The Unnerving Data Match: March 2018 Virgo
Once I had that specific date range locked in, I needed the cosmic context. I knew I used to casually check a specific site back then. So, I started searching archived horoscope predictions. It took me a few hours of digging through Wayback Machine captures and old forum posts, but I finally located the exact March 2018 Virgo career prediction.
What I found absolutely freaked me out. It wasn’t vague fluff about “new opportunities.” It was intense. I grabbed a screenshot of the key bullet points and dropped them straight into my spreadsheet next to my resignation date.
The predictions essentially demanded this kind of chaos. They didn’t advise small changes; they advised a total overthrow. Here were the major themes that instantly clicked:
- The need to shatter old structures: It specifically mentioned that foundations built on compromise were about to be tested and would need to be torn down. I was living a life built entirely on financial compromise.
- Challenging authority and partnerships: The warning was clear: disagreements with superiors or collaborators would escalate quickly, forcing an immediate reaction. Hello, massive argument with the boss on the 10th.
- Sudden, forceful movements into self-reliance: It stressed that career stability would feel unreliable and that the only path forward was one carved out entirely by the Virgo—going rogue, basically.
It was like reading an instruction manual for the nervous breakdown I had that month. The horoscope didn’t predict I would quit; it predicted the energy and necessity of quitting.
Seeing the Major Shifts That Happened Then
Reviewing this six years later, what becomes obvious is that those cosmic warnings—if you choose to believe in them—perfectly mapped the intense pressure points I was experiencing internally. I didn’t choose March 2018 to quit; the pressure cooker finally exploded in March 2018 because all those internal and external forces aligned.
That sudden, terrifying leap into the unknown? That was the shift. Because I quit, I was forced to start building my own consulting practice from scratch. That practice, which started as a frantic attempt to just pay the rent, is what became the seven-figure business I run today. If I had stayed, even for three more months, I would have missed the opportunity to pivot into the niche market that defines my success now.
This whole exercise validated my tracking system in an unexpected way. It taught me that while I track spreadsheets and market metrics, sometimes the biggest data points are the seemingly ridiculous ones—the emotional context, the cosmic energy, whatever you want to call it—that give permission for the massive, career-defining shifts to finally happen. I had to force myself to look backward to understand that the chaotic move I thought was a mistake was actually inevitable, and exactly what I was meant to do.
