Okay, so listen up. You know me, I keep everything, even the junk. A few months back, I was cleaning out the storage unit—the one with the leaky roof, don’t ask—and I stumble across this old box. Dusty mess. Inside? My 2015 planner. I almost tossed it straight into the recycling bin, but something made me stop and flip it open.
I crack it open just to see how messy my handwriting was back then. And there it is, scribbled right on the margin of the August 1st page: “Pisces Career Horoscope August 2015. Check.” Underneath that, just a couple of rushed notes that meant nothing to me at first. I remember doing this, I was going through a phase where I was super into that kind of stuff for about three weeks, trying to find some logic in the madness.
Digging Up the Old Dirt
My first thought was, why August 2015? That was a rough time. It felt like ten years ago was another life. I get my laptop warmed up, my fingers flying, typing that exact title from the margin scribble: Key insights from career horoscope pisces august 2015. Took a bit of digging because those old flash-based sites are mostly dead now, but I managed to find the original prediction. It was from some site I can’t even remember the name of, all purple and sparkly, but the words looked familiar.
I sat there for twenty minutes actually reading the whole thing, comparing it to my quick planner notes. What did it say? It wasn’t sunshine and rainbows. It was basically a warning sign. It went something like this:
- The First Two Weeks: Expect deep conflict. Boss or authority figure friction is guaranteed. Watch your back because a major roadblock hits around the 10th to the 14th. You will feel trapped.
- The Middle: Stagnation. Everything slows down to a crawl. Don’t push too hard or you’ll burn out for nothing. You need patience, but you won’t have it.
- The End Game: A sudden, unexpected opportunity appears around the 28th-30th. It will be outside the established structure. This is your exit ramp.
I wrote all that down onto a new sheet of paper, just like I was documenting a server failure, and then I went back to the 2015 planner to cross-reference my own damn life.
What Really Went Down in August 2015
I started flipping through the rest of the planner, looking at the meeting notes, the coffee stains, the scribbles. And man, the reality hit me hard. I’d completely whitewashed that memory. I was working for that huge telecom company, the one with the miserable fluorescent lighting and even more miserable people. The horoscope prediction was ridiculously, weirdly right on the money.
I remember August 12th now. I had a handwritten note, underlined three times: “Bob is a menace. Quit? Need new plan.” Bob was my manager at the time, a total brick wall of a guy. We had this huge, loud fight over vacation time and a ridiculous project deadline he kept moving. I actually went home and started drafting my resignation letter that night. I was ready to walk out. Conflict? Yep, check. The trap was real.
Then came the middle two weeks. Just like the stars said, everything froze up. Bob refused to even talk to me directly. My project funding, which I desperately needed, got suddenly pulled with zero notice. I was literally just moving paper around my desk, attending meetings that should have been emails, and doing nothing productive. I felt totally wasted and like a ghost in the office. Stagnation? Double check.
I was done. I remember telling my wife on the 26th that I was going to turn in my resignation on the 31st, no matter what. I just couldn’t take the toxicity anymore. I was already writing my exit emails, ready to clean out my desk. I seriously thought I was getting fired, or I was going to quit, which is the same thing when you have zero income lined up.
Now, the end of the month. This is the absolute kicker, the part that makes this whole stupid exercise worth sharing. I was sitting there, feeling miserable, on August 27th. But my friend, Gary, who worked on the marketing side in a completely different building, pulled me into a coffee meeting. He had just won this small, kind of messy pilot contract, and they weren’t running it through the usual soul-crushing channels. He needed a quick-and-dirty engineer—a fixer—to spin something up in secret and make it work.
August 29th: I wrote in the planner, right next to a list of groceries: “Gary project. Small start. Maybe a way out of the Bob mess. Keep quiet.” It bypassed Bob entirely. It was a complete side-hustle inside the company that eventually turned into my full-time, better-paying job at that company later that year, leading to the big project I finally jumped ship from for good a year later. The structure was totally bypassed. Success? Yes, but only because I was forced out of the toxic main track.
So, Was August 2015 Good for Success?
The short answer is no, not in the comfortable way you usually define it. It was a massive, stressful dumpster fire that forced me to find success somewhere else. The horoscope didn’t hand me a gold star or a promotion; it accurately described the storm that shoved me onto a better lifeboat I didn’t even know existed. I share these old logs and practice notes, not because I believe in magic, but because sometimes seeing a pattern—even a silly, decade-old star-pattern—helps you see the real-life pattern you’re currently stuck in.
It was a bad month that led to a great year. Always write down your predictions, even the silly ones, folks. You might need to look back at them when you clean your junk drawer ten years later.
