Man, I gotta tell you, lately I’ve been doing this deep dive into my old finances. Like, proper forensic accounting, which is crazy since I’m not an accountant, just a guy with a spreadsheet. I was trying to figure out where all the cash went in the last five or six years, right? I was prepping for a big house purchase down payment, and suddenly I realized I had zero memory of how I survived mid-2018.
That’s when I stumbled across this ridiculous thing.
I was digging through an old external hard drive, looking for tax documents from 2018, and what pops up? A screenshot. A friggin’ screenshot of a July 2018 Virgo career forecast. I must have saved it back then because I was either super desperate or just goofing off, probably both. It was one of those standard, flowery predictions about a massive career shift or a huge financial boost. I remember feeling so much pressure back then, like everything was supposed to change but nothing ever did.
The Investigation: What I Did
I saw that screenshot and I immediately thought, “No way.” I remembered 2018 was a total dumpster fire for work. I was sick of my job, I was putting in zero effort, and frankly, I was doing nothing but playing phone tag with headhunters who ended up wasting my time. The prediction felt like a huge joke. So, I decided right then and there to turn this into a proper experiment. I grabbed that forecast and I went hunting for the concrete evidence.
The first thing I did was try to pin down the exact source of that prediction. No luck there; the site name was cropped out. It didn’t matter, though, because they all sound the same, right? I just took the core predictions they were pitching and went to my own personal records.
The July 2018 Virgo Forecast basically pitched this:
- A significant, unexpected professional opportunity would appear—the big break.
- Financial pressure would ease up due to a work bonus or salary increase.
- A boss or higher-up would finally recognize your true value and reward you.
- Time to make a major commitment to a long-term project that would secure your future.
It sounded like a dream, the kind of crap you read when you’re praying for a miracle to get you out of the 9-to-5 grind. But let’s look at the reality. This is where I started pulling in my old data, including stuff I hadn’t looked at in years.
The Reality Check: What Actually Happened
I dragged out my bank statements from that specific month. Then I opened up my old journal—I used to keep a sloppy one on my laptop—and pulled out the calendar entries and email logs, focusing only on the dates between July 1st and July 31st. I wanted to see, hour-by-hour, how well this crazy thing lined up. And man, the contrast was brutal.
Opportunity? Financial Boost? Recognition? Forget about it. The universe missed the memo entirely.
Let’s break down the evidence I found, checking each item off the list:
- Unexpected Opportunity: The only professional opportunity I got that month was a two-hour interview with a company that was looking for someone with half my experience but paying half my salary. I walked out after ten minutes because it was a total waste of gas. I checked my job search folder: the whole month was rejection letters, followed by more rejection letters. The big break was a dud.
- Financial Relief: I looked at the bank statement for July 2018. It wasn’t a bonus or a raise that showed up. It was a massive medical bill from that stupid root canal I had to get in June. My bank account actually dropped to a scary low point. The ‘financial pressure’ didn’t ease; it basically got a concrete anchor slapped onto it. I remember having to sell some old comic books just to cover the grocery bill.
- Boss Recognition: The closest I got to recognition was my manager sending me a passive-aggressive email about being five minutes late to a team meeting on July 10th. No ‘true value’ recognition. My journal entry for July 25th just said, “Boss is an idiot. Quit trying to impress him,” and I spent that entire afternoon playing Minesweeper at my desk, trying to look busy.
- Major Commitment: I did commit to a long-term project. It wasn’t work-related. It was getting absolutely obsessed with fixing my busted riding lawnmower that had sat dead in the shed since spring. I spent every single weekend in July covered in grease, trying to resurrect that thing. Work commitment? Zero. My focus was on grass, not growth.
The Final Tally: Why We Do This Stuff
So, the score is zero out of four. A clean sweep for reality over fantasy. The whole forecast was a total bust, the absolute opposite of what happened in my life. The only thing that changed in July 2018 was the oil in my lawnmower engine. The whole exercise made me kind of laugh, though.
I realized why I even bothered to save that screenshot back then. I was looking for an easy way out, a sign that things would just happen to me if I waited long enough. I was waiting for the universe, or a random website, to hand me a solution, instead of actually getting off my butt and fixing the problems that were staring me down.
It was the same kind of desperate waiting game I played later that year when I finally rage-quit my job without a solid backup plan, thinking something would just pop up because I was ‘due’ for good fortune. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. That moment of true financial panic taught me more about budgeting and hustling than five years of reading job boards and random forecasts ever did.
This whole review, digging up the past like this, it wasn’t really about proving a horoscope wrong. It was about seeing how desperately I was looking for an external answer to an internal problem. If I had actually committed to a long-term career-boosting project instead of the busted lawnmower, maybe that prediction would have come true. But I had to put in the work first. Nobody hands you the good stuff. Not in July 2018, and certainly not now. You gotta go get it.
