How I Tracked and Forced My Own Virgo Career Boost
You see that title? Virgo, September 2022, Career Boost. A load of cosmic crap, right? That’s what I thought. But my practice wasn’t about believing in the planets; it was about believing in the desperate need to stop the bleeding.
It was late 2021, early 2022. I had just walked away from a stupid side hustle that ate up three years and all my savings. I mean, absolutely torched the runway. My previous big-shot job? I was still getting calls from the old team, the ones who replaced me, begging for help because they couldn’t figure out half the systems I set up. But me? I was parked on the sofa, watching my checking account balance slide like a kid on a water park ride. My wallet was basically screaming at me in all caps.
I was applying for jobs, sure, throwing my resume into the void, but nothing was sticking. It was the same old routine: send application, wait a week, maybe get a canned rejection email if I was lucky. I needed a kick. A forced deadline.
So, one miserable Tuesday, I stumbled across this Virgo write-up for September 2022. I’m a Virgo, so I gave it a glance. It said something dumb about Mars being trine to whatever, and the punchline was a “significant career breakthrough” and “unexpected financial gain.”
I immediately decided I was going to treat this horoscope not as destiny, but as a mandatory, do-or-die quarterly goal. I didn’t care if it was nonsense; I was going to use it to force myself into action.
The Implementation: Building the Chaos Tracker
My practice began by structuring my own messy reality. It was like trying to build a new system using a hundred different incompatible legacy parts. It became my personal ‘big soup’ of data points.
- I opened a fresh Google Sheet.
- I named the first tab “Mars-Jupiter-Money-Watch” — just to remind myself how ridiculous this was.
- I established three core metrics, because you can’t measure a ‘boost’ with feelings:
- Metric 1: Net Worth Delta (The only thing that truly matters).
- Metric 2: Proactive Career Moves (Applications, interviews, cold outreach initiated by ME).
- Metric 3: Side-Hustle/Investment Bets (Any high-risk, high-reward financial action).
For nine months, I logged everything. I tracked the pathetic results. I watched the Net Worth Delta stay flat or go slightly negative. The process was grinding. It was tedious. I’d fill a cell with a number, close the laptop, and feel the soul-crushing weight of inertia.
The September Push and the Outcome
Then came the middle of August 2022, and the self-imposed deadline was looming. I had three distinct possibilities on the table, all of which I was hedging against because I was scared of failing again.
- Option A: Take a safe, slightly lower-paying job with a stable old company (The Coward’s Route).
- Option B: Launch a small, low-risk affiliate site I’d been tinkering with for months.
- Option C: Go all-in on a contract gig that required me to learn an entirely new platform in 30 days, but paid 40% more than my previous salary.
Based purely on that nonsensical ‘career boost’ narrative, I ignored the safe route. I shoved aside the low-risk site.
I picked Option C. I went for the absolute maximum career and financial volatility. I sat down and rewrote my entire pitch, demanding a higher rate than I even thought I deserved. I sent the proposal. I called the hiring manager directly and just hammered the points through.
Within 48 hours in the first week of September, I got the verbal confirmation. I signed the contract ten days later. The “boost” materialized. The immediate financial gain was massive—I cleared that previous year’s loss in the first three months of the contract.
The Real Realization
Did the stars align? Maybe. But here’s the actual takeaway, and it’s always the same messy truth with these things.
I looked back at my previous failures—the people, the projects, the old employers who wouldn’t let me back in the building even when I had the proof I was healthy (sound familiar?). The problem wasn’t the environment; the problem was my own hesitation.
The horoscope didn’t give me the job; it just gave me the non-negotiable mental justification to demand the job. It was the arbitrary, external pressure I needed to overcome my internal crap. Sometimes, you need a phony, external catalyst—whether it’s a Virgo forecast or a personal crisis—to make you execute the high-risk, high-reward move you were too scared to try on your own. I didn’t get a career boost; I took one. And that’s what the data on the “Mars-Jupiter-Money-Watch” sheet now clearly proves.
