Man, sometimes life just throws you back into the exact same weird loop, doesn’t it? I’ve been running this blog for years, always tracking my shifts, my spiritual work, my business pivot points, and lately, I hit a wall. A huge one. I felt like I was trying to solve a puzzle with pieces from three different boxes.
I found myself repeatedly screwing up the same dynamic. It wasn’t about work or money this time; it was about how I handled unexpected shifts in my environment—how I reacted when things I thought were stable just dissolved. It happened last year, it happened three years ago, and I realized this pattern was older than I thought. It really started to bug me. I wanted to understand the root cause, not just the symptom.
I started digging. I wasn’t looking at my current charts or the current predictions. I was bored with those. They tell you what’s coming, but they don’t tell you why you react the way you react when it arrives. So, I figured, maybe the answer isn’t in the future. Maybe it’s in a specific past moment that defined the initial fault line. That’s what got me thinking about my 2018 archives.
The Retrieval Process: Hunting Down the Past
Why 2018? Specifically, August 2018. That was a watershed moment. I quit a job, moved continents, and entered a relationship that completely restructured my belief systems. It was pure chaos, but defining chaos. I remembered reading my monthly Virgo horoscope right before all that mess truly erupted. I needed to see what those predictions said then, knowing what I know now about how the whole year actually unfolded.
This wasn’t easy. First, I had to figure out who I was reading back then. I remembered I followed three specific YouTube channels and one specific website. I started with the YouTube search. I filtered by “Virgo Monthly” and “August 2018.” Half the videos were deleted or privatized. One channel was still up, but the reader had changed their style completely. I scrubbed through that old video, trying to isolate the core themes they focused on.
Then I tried the website. That site was gone. Domain parked. But I knew the analyst’s name. I tracked down the analyst on social media, found a link to their new archive site, and started cross-referencing their 2018 analysis with the old video’s themes. I spent a good four hours just playing digital archeologist, scraping up snippets of predictions from six years ago.
What I Dug Up: The 2018 Prediction
What did I pull out? I collated the major points from the sources I could verify that I had consumed back then. The focus for Virgo in August 2018 was shockingly specific, and it wasn’t about success or money:
- Theme 1: The necessity of severing ties with restrictive figures who drain your vitality. They framed it as a “karmic clean-up.”
- Theme 2: A major emphasis on the 12th House, focusing on hidden enemies, self-undoing, and the subconscious need to retreat or sacrifice personal stability for the greater good of a group.
- Theme 3: The prediction warned that the act of clearing the past would feel painful, like losing a piece of yourself, but that piece was never truly yours anyway.
When I read that back in 2018, I interpreted it very literally: “Oh, I need to quit that toxic job.” And I did. I thought the problem was solved because I addressed the external symptom.
The Realization: Understanding the Past Life Trend
But here’s where the “past life trend” part hit me like a ton of bricks. My current recurring problem—the one that triggered this whole investigation—was exactly the issue of sacrificing stability for a relationship that was fundamentally draining. It was the Theme 2 issue repeating, just dressed up differently.
I realized the 2018 prediction wasn’t just telling me about August 2018; it was flagging a deep-seated behavioral pattern. The horoscope was describing a tendency I carry—a tendency tied to past life dynamics—where I believe I must endure restriction or sacrifice myself (12th House stuff) to achieve external validation.
The ‘past life trend’ isn’t about knowing you were a baker in 1450. It’s realizing the emotional scripts you wrote for yourself in previous incarnations—scripts about duty, restriction, and sacrifice—are still running on autopilot today. That 2018 prediction detailed the precise mechanism of that script: severing the external restriction doesn’t work if you haven’t severed the internal belief that you deserve to be restricted.
I started tracking my current behavior against those 2018 themes. Every time I felt that urge to put someone else’s stability ahead of my own boundaries, I mentally checked it against the August 2018 warning about the 12th House. It’s like the universe gave me the manual back then, but I only read the table of contents.
My recommendation? Stop looking at next month’s predictions. Dig back five or six years to a truly chaotic turning point in your life. Find the horoscope for that specific month. You might find that the reading wasn’t predicting your immediate future, but was actually articulating the deep-seated, persistent pattern—the past life trend—that you’ve been struggling to break free from ever since.
