Digging Up the Past: My 2017 Pisces Horror-Scope Archive
You know I’ve been trying to clean up my digital life lately. It’s a total disaster area, right? Like, I have external hard drives that haven’t seen the light of day since the last time I moved houses, and that was ages ago. I figured, “Today’s the day I consolidate all this junk into one drive.” What a laugh. I started the process last week, and man, the things you find.
I was sifting through this massive archive drive—the big, clunky black one—and I stumbled across a folder simply labeled “Old Obsessions.” I had completely forgotten about it. Inside, buried under a thousand screenshots and half-finished coding projects, was a spreadsheet: “Pisces_Weekly_Tracking_2017_Final_v1.*.” Yes, you read that right. I, your supposedly mature and steady blogger, actually spent a good chunk of 2017 tracking a specific weekly Pisces horoscope update from a site I don’t even remember now.
The Practice: Reconstructing the Weekly Ritual
I opened the spreadsheet. It was formatted like a mad scientist’s journal. On the left, I had the date of the week starting. Next to that, the actual prediction copied and pasted. Then, a column for my initial gut feeling, and the final column, labeled “Result/Action Taken.” The thing was meticulous. I must have been seriously bored, or stressed out, back then.
My practice wasn’t just to read it; it was to document my emotional response and then wait. That’s the key. I was actively trying to make the predictions come true, or at least be ready for them. Looking back, that’s wild.
So, the current practice, the one I did today, was different. Now I had the finished records, years later. I decided to cross-reference the weekly predictions with my old, handwritten journal from 2017. I wanted to see, with cold hard evidence, how much of that prediction garbage had actually played out in the real world.
Running the Cold Hard Checks: Hits and Misses
The process took me nearly four hours, thumbing through old, coffee-stained pages and squinting at this ancient Excel file. I went week-by-week, focusing on the ones where I had marked my initial gut feeling as “Strong” or “Immediate Danger.”
- The Big Finance Prediction (Week of March 20th): The horoscope said something vague like, “Expect a sudden influx of resources to ease a long-standing burden.” I remembered being psyched about this. I thought I was getting a bonus. Reality Check: That week, my car transmission blew up. The “sudden influx” was my emergency fund suddenly out-fluxing $3,000 to the mechanic. Total miss. I marked the cell with “FAIL. Opposite happened.”
- The Personal Relationship Alert (Week of July 3rd): This one was about a ‘secret’ coming to light, causing temporary friction but long-term clarity. I was nervous all week, checking my phone constantly, wondering which friend was hiding what. Reality Check: Turns out, my neighbor’s cat had been sneaking into my garage and peeing on a stack of old magazines. The “secret” was cat urine. The “long-term clarity” was that I finally bought a better garage door seal. Another miss.
- The Spooky Career Hit (Week of October 9th): This is the one that threw me. The prediction was cryptic: “A long-forgotten opportunity, stemming from a past error, will return and require immediate, total focus. Do not delay.” I wrote “Nonsense” in the initial feeling column. Reality Check: That Tuesday, I got a call from a client I hadn’t worked with in six years. They had accidentally messed up the archiving of a crucial project I did for them back then, and now they needed me to drop everything and rebuild the whole infrastructure—like, yesterday. The pay was enormous, and it forced me to rearrange my entire work schedule for the next five months. It was a massive pain, but it paid for that transmission repair from March. This one was strangely spot-on.
The Payoff: Why I Shared This Ancient Update
So, what did I actually achieve by dragging up this old, irrelevant 2017 update today?
Well, I realized that I spent so much energy back then trying to control the future based on some random writer’s weekly guess. I was making myself anxious, looking for signs that weren’t there. I was waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen.
The only reason I found that file was because I finally buckled down and started doing the painful work of cleaning out the digital cobwebs. I had to face the mess I’d created over the years. That cleanup, the ‘sudden return of a long-forgotten project,’ was the actual, real-life prediction coming true this week—eight years too late, and having nothing to do with the stars, but everything to do with me finally growing up and doing the hard administrative work I’d been avoiding.
Sometimes the biggest updates aren’t the ones you wait for in the stars; they’re the dusty files you finally decide to open. Go clean your hard drive. Seriously. You might learn something about who you were, and who you are now.
