Man, 2019. Feels like a lifetime ago, right? Especially June. I remember sitting there, glued to my laptop, feeling like I was driving a car with no gas. Just totally stuck in a rut. I wasn’t fired, I wasn’t failing, but I sure as hell wasn’t moving forward. You know that feeling when you’re just waiting for something big to happen, but you won’t actually do anything to make it happen?
That’s where the whole “Pisces Sun Sign Advice” practice came from. Not proud of it, but hey, when the practical stuff isn’t working, you start checking the cosmic options. I’m a Pisces, always have been, but I’d never seriously looked at career astrology before. This was desperation, pure and simple.
My Practice: Digging for Gold in the Zodiac Dust
The first step was just digging. And I mean digging. I didn’t just read the free weekly horoscope; I went full psycho-mode. I cross-referenced three major astrology sites, trying to see if they agreed on anything for June 2019 for Pisces.
- The Main Clue: Every single one of them harped on about Neptune (our ruling planet) and its position in relation to Jupiter, which was transiting through a financial or “long-term planning” house, depending on which site I trusted.
- The Vague Advice: It all boiled down to something like, “A major, almost spiritual opportunity for advancement will present itself, but you must take an absolute leap of faith, especially involving travel or water.” Seriously. Travel or water. What the hell does that even mean for a guy working in a windowless office park fifty miles from the nearest coastline?
- The Action Plan I Built: I boiled the entire confusing mess down to three verbs: Network more aggressively, Propose a big, creative idea at work, and Seek out some kind of lateral move inside the company. No travel or water involved, obviously. I focused on the stuff I could control without risking everything. Classic Pisces cowardice, looking back.
I spent two weeks straight implementing this timid plan. I actually did it! I went to three boring networking events. I sat through two meetings pitching a new internal process I thought was “creative” but was actually just a bigger spreadsheet. And I applied for a manager role in a different department—a total lateral move, slightly better pay, zero risk.
Guess what? Nothing moved. The pitch was shot down. The networking events were useless. I didn’t get the manager role because they said I lacked “recent people management experience.” Total, complete flop. By the end of July 2019, I threw the printouts away and figured astrology was just a bunch of fancy words for “maybe try harder.”
The Realization: Seeing the Missed Shot Two Years Later
Here’s the part that really kills me. The reason I brought this whole practice up now is because I finally figured out exactly what that stupid, vague, cosmic advice was actually pointing at.
Fast forward almost exactly two years, deep into 2021. I was talking to a former colleague, Mike. Mike had quit just before June 2019. We were grabbing a beer, and he started telling me about the job he landed right after he left the old company.
Turns out, right in May/June 2019, this startup, a massive tech platform for maritime shipping and logistics (hello, water!), was looking to hire their first Creative Strategy Lead. They needed someone who understood the corporate side but could totally reinvent their branding and approach—a true leap of faith role. They needed someone with a decade of corporate experience but the brain of an artist—the very definition of a high-level Pisces creative role. The whole thing was based in Miami (hello, more water and definite travel to the docks).
The best part? Mike didn’t get it. But he was in the running. He said the person who did get it was someone who had never done logistics before, just jumped in because the salary was massive and the job description sounded insane.
I stared at Mike. I remembered the printed-out charts. “Spiritual opportunity… major leap… travel or water.”
That manager role I applied for? It paid an extra $5k. The maritime logistics job? It paid over $40k more, came with stock options, and involved flying between Miami, Rotterdam, and Singapore.
I realized I had spent all of June 2019 trying to move the furniture inside the burning house, when the stars were yelling at me to run outside and jump in the ocean. I saw the advice, understood the keywords, but was too focused on the immediate, safe, internal solutions to recognize the screamingly obvious, real-world external opportunity that involved a crazy, literal interpretation of the advice. I knew about that company, too! I just dismissed it as “not my industry.”
So, the practice record is simple: I followed the stars’ direction for a career move in June 2019, missed the biggest opportunity of the decade because I was too literal-minded and scared, and only figured it out two years too late while drinking cheap beer with an old pal.
Next time the chart says “take a boat,” I’m buying a ticket, man. This retrospective practice taught me one thing: the universe whispers, but you have to be loud enough to hear it, or you lose the boat.
