Astrology: Maybe it’s real. Maybe it’s fake. 

All I know is this: Today, the day that I leave for New York, my horoscope boiled it all down to 4 words. “You can do this.” 

Maybe they have some sort of algorithm tracking my internet behaviors. Algorithms that see me scrolling through pages and pages of incredible work done by the agencies I’ll visit in the next coming days. Algorithms that see me preparing, compiling a document of every question I have coming into this experience. Algorithms watching as I agonize over an Excel spreadsheet, attempting to fit every NY experience possible into a short 1-week window. 

Maybe that’s how they calculated what my horoscope should be today. Or perhaps it was just dumb luck. 

All I know is this: Today is the day we leave for New York. We can do this. 

-Carly Belin 5/4/19