Man, I needed to figure some things out last week. I was just staring at my computer screen, feeling completely drained, questioning every single major career move I’d made over the last five years. You know the feeling—that deep dive into self-doubt where you start wondering if you took the wrong turn back in 2017 when things first started shaking up.
The Trigger – Why Digging Up Old Dirt Was Necessary
I’m a Virgo, obviously. We overthink everything. I had this nagging feeling that I had completely missed some massive sign back then. I was looking through an old cloud drive, trying to clear out some junk files, and I stumbled across a weirdly organized folder labeled ‘Prophecies.’ Don’t judge me. Inside, there was an old text file I’d saved back in late May 2017, detailing the Virgo career predictions for the upcoming month of June.
It was a quick, lazy save I’d done when I was stressed about my job. I remember feeling anxious because my boss was acting squirrely, and I was trying to find comfort in some cosmic nonsense. Seeing that file sparked something. I needed to know if that prediction was remotely accurate, or if I had just manufactured my own destiny out of panic.
Tracking Down the Exact Source
The text file didn’t have the website name, just the raw text. I immediately opened up my search engine and started punching in every key phrase from the text, trying to find the specific astrology guru who wrote it. Stuff like “Virgo career alignment June 2017,” and “major surprises ahead.” It took me a good hour and a half of sifting through archived results and ancient blog layouts. Most of those sites looked terrible now, like relics of the early internet.
I eventually located the exact article on a medium-tier spirituality site. I took screenshots of the entire reading, making sure I captured the date stamp. I wanted solid evidence for my personal time travel investigation. My practice here wasn’t about believing in horoscopes; it was about measuring a perceived failure against a written “fate.”
Comparing the Prediction to the Absolute Mess That Ensued
Once I had the full prediction in front of me, I grabbed a coffee and started cross-referencing it with my actual diary entries and financial records from that summer. It was eye-opening, mostly because the reading was so spectacularly wrong, yet weirdly, eventually right.
Here are the three main takeaways the horoscope predicted:
- “Unexpected Financial Windfall Due to Recognition.” (They promised a big bonus or a successful side hustle payout.)
- “A Promotion or Upward Movement within Your Current Structure.” (A major title boost was supposed to be guaranteed.)
- “A Necessary Separation Leads to Greater Clarity.” (This one was vague, suggesting leaving something behind gently.)
And here is the raw, ugly truth of what actually happened to me starting in June 2017:
I didn’t get a financial windfall. My company announced a massive restructuring on June 5th, and three weeks later, my entire project team was gutted. I didn’t get promoted; I got a severance package. The “upward movement” was straight out the door and into the street. The “necessary separation” wasn’t gentle; it was brutal. I spent the entire summer scrambling, thinking I’d lost everything. I was so focused on the immediate disaster that I completely forgot I’d even read this positive horoscope.
The Big Surprise That Actually Landed
For years, I told myself that the stars, or fate, or whatever, were absolutely laughing at me that summer. But this is the crucial part of the practice, where the story flips, just like in life.
Because I was jobless, panicked, and had nothing but time, I decided to enroll in a cheap online course for cloud computing. It was something I had always put off, saying I was too busy with my old corporate job. I had no choice but to invest time into completely new skills because my old skills were now redundant.
The horoscope had predicted a “major professional pivot.” They were right about the pivot, but they got the timeline and the cause completely wrong. The pivot wasn’t a gentle rise; it was a violent kick out of the nest. But that forced shift—that unexpected, painful job loss—is what propelled me into the specialist niche I operate in today.
That summer of forced learning eventually led to my first major freelance contract that fall, and then the launch of my own successful small agency a year later. None of that would have happened if I had stayed comfortable in that supposedly stable corporate structure.
Final Takeaway – Don’t Trust the Roadmap, Trust the Engine
My conclusion from this deep archival practice is pretty simple. Those specific predictions? They are nonsense. But the abstract idea—that a massive, life-altering change was coming that month—was absolutely true. The surprise wasn’t finding gold; the surprise was that the path to success was paved with initial failure.
I keep the screenshots of that prediction now, not to remind me what the stars said, but to remind me that sometimes you need to be completely derailed to find your true track. The biggest successes in my career always started with what felt like a devastating surprise. I had to live through the prophecy being wrong in the short term to realize it was profoundly right in the long term.
