The Moment I Kicked Off This Messy Investigation
I gotta be honest, I never really put much stock in horoscopes. But something happened that shoved me right into the deep end of astrological nonsense, specifically Bejan Daruwalla’s famous weekly predictions for Pisces. Why Pisces? Because my mate, Steve, is a hardcore, stereotypical, emotional Pisces, and he almost destroyed his career because he followed a line from a weekly read that sounded “profound.”
Steve had a massive job interview lined up, life-changing money. The prediction for that week? It said something about “a hidden rival emerging from the past” and advising him to “delay major commitments until the planetary alignment shifts.” He got paranoid, pulled out of the interview last minute, and lost the opportunity. When I challenged him, he just shrugged and said, “Bejan knows.” That infuriated me. I knew right there I had to figure out if Bejan Daruwalla was a cosmic genius or just running a highly effective, generalized psychological operation.
Grabbing the Data: My Initial Scrape and Setup
I decided to stop trusting and start testing. My first step was pure grunt work. I opened up my laptop and started collecting every single weekly prediction for Pisces I could find going back two full years. I wasn’t subtle about it; I just copied and pasted them all into one giant spreadsheet. I collected 104 weekly predictions, trying to capture the full cycle of advice.
Once I had the text, I knew I couldn’t just read it; I needed to break it down. I developed a simple tagging system. I labeled every sentence with one of four main categories: Career/Finance, Love/Relationships, Health/Wellbeing, and Action/Caution. Then, I assigned a sentiment score: +2 (Extremely Positive/Green Light), +1 (Mildly Good/Wait and See), 0 (Neutral/Vague), -1 (Mildly Negative/Slow Down), and -2 (Danger/Stop Now).
This was tedious. I spent three full weekends staring at sentences like, “A shift in your domestic focus demands patience,” trying to decide if that was a +1 or a -1. Eventually, I just picked a rule and stuck to it. Patience almost always meant a -1, because it implies things are currently difficult.
Deconstructing the Predictions: Finding the Core Pattern
After all that tagging, the patterns jumped right out at me. It wasn’t about specific events; it was about specific, recurring psychological states. I compiled a list of the top ten most common pieces of advice given to Pisces:
- Be mindful of expenses (Financial Caution).
- Someone close is requiring more of your emotional energy (Relationship Stress).
- Take time for introspection/meditation (Wellbeing Advice).
- Old connections may resurface (Relationship Opportunity/Vagueness).
- You feel pulled in two directions (Internal Conflict).
Look at that list. It’s almost hilariously generic! Any person, especially a Pisces known for being sensitive and indecisive, could apply that list to their life any given week. The secret, I began realizing, wasn’t foresight; it was structure.
The Real Experiment: Cross-Referencing Other Signs
This is where I moved from proving generality to proving duplication. I grabbed the predictions for Aries and Leo for 12 random weeks within my data set. I copied them and ran them through the same tagging system. My goal was simple: check if the underlying action items were the same, even if the flavor text was different.
What I discovered blew my mind, but not because it was predictive; because it was efficient. If Pisces was advised to “Take time for introspection as celestial bodies clash,” Aries might be advised to “Pause your aggressive goals and review your strategies.” Different words, identical score (-1 Action/Caution). If Pisces was told “A sudden financial windfall arrives,” Leo was often told “An unexpected opportunity boosts your status.” Same score (+2 Career/Finance).
I realized Daruwalla, or whoever was writing these, wasn’t churning out 12 unique destinies every week. They were writing 4 or 5 core narratives—a “Good Week,” a “Stressful Week,” a “Money Focus Week,” and a “Relationship Focus Week”—and then they were dressing those narratives up with character-specific language.
Pisces got themes of sensitivity, dreams, and boundaries. Aries got themes of action, leadership, and impatience. But the advice underneath was identical: Spend money carefully this week.
Conclusion: The Secret Behind the Predictions
After compiling all the data and spending weeks mapping generic advice to specific signs, I walked away with one undeniable truth. The power of these horoscopes is not divine; it’s psychological validation. The predictions were written so broadly that they acted as a confirmation bias engine. Steve didn’t fail the interview because of a hidden rival; he failed because the horoscope gave him permission to act on his inherent Pisces indecisiveness and fear of conflict.
The ‘secrets’ behind the famous predictions aren’t cosmic knowledge; they are sound, broad, recurring pieces of life advice (be careful with money, check on your partner, don’t overwork) wrapped up in culturally specific language that makes the reader feel personally seen. When you read something that is 50% true for anyone, and it uses words that feel tailored to your personality, you believe the whole thing. I showed Steve my spreadsheets. He was annoyed, but he couldn’t argue with the repetition. I trust my data more than I trust any star chart now.
