Man, sometimes you dig through your old stuff and you find a piece of pure gold, or maybe just a pile of total B.S. I was doing this huge cleanup last week, finally tackling the stack of old hard drives in the garage – the ones filled with digital junk from like ten years ago.
I finally plugged in the dusty old tower I used back in 2015. After the thing groaned and eventually booted, I was just looking for big files to delete, but I stumbled into a folder named “Future Me Stuff.” I swear, I was a total scatterbrain back then.
The Great Dig: Finding the Pisces 2015 Reading
Inside that folder, there was this crusty old PDF labeled “Career Scoop April 15 – PISCES MUST READ.” I completely forgot I even had this. I remember paying some guy five bucks on some forum to send me these “personalized” career readings every month. Talk about desperate! So, I clicked it open, just for a laugh, figuring it’d be a two-minute joke and I’d trash the file.
But then I started reading the actual predictions, the stuff that was supposed to hit me right in the career zone that specific month. The whole practice, the whole realization, kicked off right there when I read those three specific bullet points.
The reading laid out these key ideas:
- Crucial Partnership Shift: “A key professional alliance will either solidify into a lifetime venture or crumble entirely. You must act decisively on this by the 20th.”
- Financial Turbulence Followed by Gain: “Expect a sharp dip in resources in the first two weeks, but an unexpected payment related to past work will stabilize everything near the month’s end.”
- Communication Red Flag: “Watch your back. Miscommunication in meetings could lead to an unnecessary setback. Choose your words carefully, especially with an older colleague.”
I was done laughing. Suddenly, I had to know: did any of this vague, generic nonsense actually happen? This is where the real work started. I wasn’t just reading; I was doing a full forensic audit on my past self.
Forensic Audit: Cross-Referencing Reality with the Stars
To check the “Crucial Partnership Shift,” I had to dig through my old email archives. I went all the way back to March and April 2015. What I found was hilarious. Yes, I had a partnership shift. I was working on that awful side project with my buddy, Bob, the one selling those ugly T-shirts. Did it crumble? Yeah, it did. Bob and I had a huge fight about font choices right around April 18th. But was it some cosmic necessity? Nope. It fell apart because Bob missed the deadline and I got mad. It was an inevitable disaster, not a celestial command. I acted decisively because I was broke and Bob was useless, not because the stars told me to. The reading didn’t predict it; it just described a common situation and I forced my memory to fit the bill.
Next up, the money stuff. Tight resources followed by an unexpected gain. I pulled up my bank statements from 2015 – talk about a painful experience. Was I poor in early April? Hell yeah, I was always poor. My balance was basically zero after rent. The “unexpected payment”? I remembered that! I thought, “Aha! Proof!” But wait. I kept scrolling through the records. That “unexpected payment” was actually just the last invoice being paid for a gig I finished in February. It was delayed, sure, but it wasn’t some magical windfall. It was contractual money that was late. It felt ‘unexpected’ because I’d forgotten about it, not because it was a gift from the cosmos.
Finally, the “Communication Red Flag” with an older colleague. I immediately thought of this guy, Gary. Gary was always a pain. Did we have communication issues? Yes. Were there setbacks? Of course. Gary was incompetent and drove everyone nuts. The reading basically said, “You’ll have a problem at work.” Well, duh. That’s every day in an office! The takeaway here was that I was so focused on trying to avoid the ‘predicted’ drama with Gary that I probably created a different kind of drama by being overly suspicious of him in every meeting.
The Major Takeaway: Stop Looking Up, Start Looking Around
What I realized, after spending an entire afternoon cross-checking my life against this old, flimsy piece of paper, is the real key insight. And this is the major takeaway I want to share:
The whole point of these readings is that they are so damn vague, your memory will warp itself to make them true. My practice wasn’t proving that astrology works. My practice was proving that my own head is a master of pattern recognition.
- I didn’t act on a celestial partnership shift; I walked away from a side project that was already failing.
- I didn’t get a magical gain; I got paid for the hard work I had already done.
- I didn’t avoid an issue with an older colleague; I just confirmed that the workplace is filled with difficult people, regardless of moon phases.
The biggest insight from this whole stupid exercise? The energy I spent worrying about what the stars said I should do was energy I could have spent just doing the work and making the obvious decision. Don’t look to a dead PDF from 2015 to figure out why your life is the way it is. Look at the decisions you actually made. Those are the real insights. Now, back to deleting seven years of old video games off this drive.
That’s the truth of it.
