Setting the Stage: Why April 23, 2025?
You know me. I don’t just read some quick five-line prediction on an app and call it a day. I treat this stuff like a deep-dive project, a personal audit. My practice log for today focused hard on career and work, specifically for that mid-week date next year. Why? Because right now, I’m wrestling with a big pivot at my current gig. I’m tired of the corporate shuffle, but I need to make sure I jump at the right time. That date, April 23rd, 2025, sits exactly six weeks before the renewal deadline on a major contract I’m considering signing. I needed the cosmic weather report for that exact moment I’d be making the final call.
I started the whole process the way I always do—by pulling the actual raw charts. Forget the fancy interpretations. I just wanted the positions. I grabbed the data, dumped it into my own little custom spreadsheet tool I built years ago, and started looking for the big planetary conversations. This isn’t about guessing; this is about seeing which heavyweights are in the room and who they’re talking to.
The Deep Dive: Crunching the Cosmic Numbers
The first thing I zeroed in on was Mars. That’s the engine, the drive, the ‘get stuff done’ planet for work. On the 23rd, Mars is chilling out in a spot that makes you want to work hard behind the scenes but might make public presentation a nightmare. I flagged that immediately. It screamed, “Heads down, avoid meetings, get the actual code shipped, not the proposal written.”
Next up was Saturn, the taskmaster, the corporate boss planet. Saturn was basically throwing a huge side-eye at the planet that governs communications. This made the whole chart feel heavy, like whatever proposal or idea I try to float around that time is going to face huge resistance or delays. It’s not a ‘No,’ but it’s definitely a ‘Wait in line for six months and file three extra forms.’ I recorded that as a major friction point.
Finally, I looked at Jupiter, the big daddy of luck and expansion. This is what you hope will bail you out. Jupiter was trying to be helpful, hanging out in a sector that suggested opportunities related to long-distance travel, education, or law—something big-picture. So, the vibe I logged was this:
- Strong, productive underground work time.
- Zero cooperation from the management structure (Saturn/Communication clash).
- The real opportunity, if it exists, is far away or highly academic.
I didn’t stop there. I went back and cross-referenced this planetary pattern with my own personal career charts from two previous years—one good year (2021 when I got the big promotion) and one disaster year (2018 when my whole team got downsized). I wanted to see if the overall feeling matched either of those periods. The result? It was closer to 2018’s heavy, slow, resistant feeling. That locked the prediction down for me: April 23, 2025, is a time to hide, review, and not sign anything major.
The Real Reason I Do This Annually (And Why It Matters)
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Why this exhaustive, borderline obsessive practice just to figure out when to sign a contract? Why not just ask a lawyer?
The truth is, I used to trust the surface advice. I used to trust the lawyers, the HR department, and especially the well-meaning, five-line horoscopes I saw pop up in my feed. That ended for good back in 2018.
I was working at a consulting firm. Things were getting shaky; the merger talks were everywhere. I was stressed out of my mind. A colleague—someone I thought was a friend—pulled me aside and told me the only way to save my job was to volunteer for the new, impossible-to-deliver compliance project. It was a massive commitment, brutal hours, and no extra pay, but she promised me it was the path to the C-suite. That same week, I remember opening up a random email subscription I had, and the Pisces advice was a generic, “Be careful not to overcommit; small favors now lead to massive long-term burdens.”
I laughed it off. “It’s a compliance project, not a massive burden!” I told myself. I threw myself into it, working eighteen-hour days. My mental health was shot. Three weeks later, my ‘friend’ was promoted, and I, the now-burned-out guy who was too focused on an internal project to network externally, got the axe. They used the ‘impossible’ nature of the compliance project as the official reason for ‘restructuring’ my role.
They cut me loose with a terrible severance package, and because I had been so mentally invested in this sinking ship, I wasn’t prepared. I spent the next six months battling HR lawyers and trying to just get my final paycheck sorted out, all while watching the company I gave everything to flourish without me. That little generic horoscope? It was absolutely spot on.
I learned the hard way: never, ever trust someone else’s simplified reading of your life, whether it’s a corporate VP or a generic app. You have to pull the charts yourself. You have to do the work. You have to see the Jupiter/Saturn clash for what it is—heavy resistance—and not some soft-pedaled opportunity for growth. That experience cost me six figures and three months of recovery time. So now, when a date like April 23, 2025, pops up, I don’t mess around. I run the numbers, I check the friction points, and I log the reality. This practice is my insurance policy against trusting a lie, and so far, it’s working.
