This wasn’t some theoretical exercise, believe me. I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to look up the Career Horoscope for Pisces March 2015 for fun. I dug this old piece of crap up because of a total screw-up that happened just last month.
I’ve always said that most career planning advice is just a big mess of optimistic nonsense. People fork over big bucks for coaches and reports that are no better than the $5 readings you get from some psychic on the internet. And what is a horoscope, really? It’s just old-school predictive analytics, only based on planets instead of user data. I wanted to see how badly these old predictions fail when you hold them up against real life. But the real fire fueling this whole project? That was all down to one guy: my former boss, Mike.
The Catalyst: Why I Dived Into 2015
You see, I’ve been trying to land this small, cushy consulting gig for ages. I thought I had it locked down. They called me, we talked, they loved the plan, they said they’d send the contract. Then, nothing. Zero. Ghosted. I was fuming, seriously ready to throw my laptop through the window.
I reached out to an old contact—someone who’d always given me solid, no-nonsense advice. We were talking about how brutal the market is, and he suddenly brought up Mike. Mike, a March-born Pisces, was the guy who totally blindsided me back in 2016, effectively pushing me out of a decent gig right before a big promotion I’d earned. I never forgot it. My contact told me that Mike was now apparently a hotshot VP somewhere huge. My blood boiled. He screwed me, and now he’s thriving?
I closed the call, but I couldn’t shake it. This guy was a total train wreck back then. He made all the wrong moves. How did he suddenly become a ‘hotshot’? That’s when the idea snapped into my head. I needed to see what the stars told him to do, because I was convinced he must have done the exact opposite.
The Practice: From Archival Search to Reality Check
My first step was pure detective work. I remembered Mike was a huge believer in a specific, slightly cheesy astrology site back then. I launched my archival tools and began hunting. It was brutal because the site archives were a mess, but I persisted for two solid evenings. I dug deep into cached versions and forum mentions.
Finally, I hit the jackpot. I retrieved the exact text for Career Horoscope for Pisces March 2015 – Best Job Moves.
The advice was actually quite specific. It essentially pushed the following agenda:
- “Focus all energy on solo projects; team collaboration is a drain.”
- “A major move into an area of high risk (like cryptocurrency or emerging finance) is mandated.”
- “Sever all ties with former colleagues who hold negative energy.” (I laughed out loud at this one).
- “The best job move is to leave the security of the big corporation and strike out on your own.”
I transcribed the whole thing into a big spreadsheet. This was the ‘Plan A’ the cosmos laid out for Mike. Next, I had to figure out what Mike actually did. This was the ‘Reality Check’ column.
I scoured LinkedIn (yes, I made a dummy account), I checked company registries, and I even talked to a couple of old, trusted contacts who still worked near him. I pieced together his career path from early 2015 onwards.
Here’s the stunning reality I uncovered:
- Mike did not go into crypto or high-risk finance. He landed a stable, safe management role at a legacy insurance company.
- He did not strike out on his own. He climbed the corporate ladder, moving only to bigger companies, never getting near self-employment.
- He focused entirely on highly collaborative, politically charged roles. In fact, the promotion that led to him pushing me out was all about corporate politics.
My conclusion after I lined up the plan with the reality? The entire horoscope was completely and utterly wrong. Mike, the jerk, became successful precisely because he ignored the advice the stars were giving him. He did the exact opposite of the ‘Best Job Moves’ recommended by the cosmos. He stayed safe, played politics, and chose stability over risk.
What I Achieved by Documenting This Mess
I spent days putting this together, and what did I truly realize? It wasn’t about the stars, and it wasn’t about the advice. It was about sheer, dumb luck and ruthless self-interest. The practice of tracing a failed prediction against a successful outcome just proved what I already knew: there is no secret formula. You can either follow the predictable path (like the horoscope told him) and fail, or you can forge your own mess (what he did) and land on your feet.
It didn’t get me the consulting gig, but documenting this process shut down the little voice in my head telling me I should have taken more risks. My old boss, the Pisces, he succeeded by being boringly corporate. And I recorded all the evidence needed to prove it. This whole ridiculous practice achieved one thing: it let me close the book on that old, petty grudge and focus on the next job, not the old ones.
