Nicole Vasquez
Writing at Star Chart Guide
About
I am a project manager based in Denver, 34. My actual job involves sprint planning, dependency tracking, and convincing people to update their status in the project management tool they agreed to use and then immediately stopped using. I also, as of about a year ago, maintain an astrology spreadsheet I describe to coworkers as a "personal research project" and then immediately change the subject.
The download-an-app story is accurate. Slow Friday, a deployment I was waiting on, a free birth chart app that seemed like it would kill fifteen minutes. What it actually did was send me down a two-hour rabbit hole I have not fully come out of. I went through the horoscope phase quickly -- those are basically fortune cookies -- and got into the actual chart data. Natal charts. Transits. Lunar cycles. I started a spreadsheet. I tracked decisions against planetary positions for about fourteen months. I still have all of it.
The patterns that showed up are harder to explain than I expected. Not because astrology is secretly science (it is not, and I am clear-eyed about that), but because tracking something consistently for over a year will surface signal in the data if there is any to find. I found some. I also found plenty of weeks where nothing the chart suggested matched anything that happened. I write about both, because the failed predictions are at least as interesting as the ones that landed.
Not an astrologer, not a certified anything. I have a project manager's brain and a documentation habit I cannot seem to stop. If you want someone who will tell you the stars are guiding your destiny, I am probably not your writer. If you want fourteen months of real tracking data and honest interpretation of what it did and did not show, this is the right place.
Articles by Nicole Vasquez
- How to Find Your Saturn Return in Your Birth Chart Manually
- How to Find Your North Node for Career Guidance and Purpose
- How to Do a New Moon Ritual for Setting Career Intentions
- How to Apply Soul Manifestation Strategies to Your Career Path
- How to Read a Birth Chart Wheel: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Non-Astrologers
- I Mapped My Exes Against My Natal Chart and the Data Was Terrifyingly Accurate
- Birth Charts for Skeptics: 5 Things My Spreadsheet Taught Me About the Stars
- Data vs. Destiny: How I Used a Lunar Spreadsheet to Manage My Career
- Data vs. Destiny: My 90-Day Experiment with Moon Reading (And Why I Still Haven't Deleted My Spreadsheet)
- What Your Moon Sign Actually Says About Your Emotional Patterns: A Project Manager’s Internal Audit
- My 2026 Moon Reading Update: A Project Manager’s Data-Driven Review
Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend astrology tools and programs I have personally used. Commission does not change what I write -- if a product did not deliver what it promised, the review reflects that.