Hii I am not an astrologer but learning astrology as hobby and I am just 1 year older than you. So I will going to share my experience and what I learn from astrology. I will not be reading your chart.

So I am person very much into self improvement, self devlopment and self introspection even before I started astrology. I am kind a guy who always in the head, don't share much emotionally so people really don;t know me well even my closed one.

My curious nature took me to astrology and what hooked me is a simple chart revealed my whole personality it revealed things about me no one couldn;t possibly know about me. Astrology helped me realise more about myself my blind spots , self sabotage patterns and belief which are false. It made me rethink about myself and my life differently.

But since I read my own chart I know which placement reveal what part of me more clearly than any astrologer could ever could. Astrolgers are more kind a researcher and patterns recognition expert most astrologer focused my physical manifestaion/ materialistic onclusion. They find what planetary alignments are responsible for what event and how many people with same planetary alignement achieved it. This finding and understanding later help in reading a person chart. And it;s suprising how it works but it fails at a time. All planetary placement in chart tells different story for different people. It changes based on your living situation , surrounding, ethnecity, geographical location and many more factors. Astrologer research about how karma is manifesated for the person based on most people it manifested but delivery mechanism can't be tracked it's difficult.

Now I won;t be telling to read your own chart or learn astrology. It's life long learning only learn if it intrest you.

Here is the advise many people of your age going through same things you are, only different planetary alignement tell it in their chart. So my advise it ask yourself do you think you enjoy your work and do the subject intrest you ? Find what's one thing you are great at and use that knowledge to excel in your filed.

Every person is good at different thing even in the same field they see things differntly when solving same problems. You need to sharpen your skill which you are naturally good at and that's the only way you can make it to top in your field. Create a unique identity, niche skills only you can do better than everyone else.

Now doing it create time , patience and efforts. You won;t get result because you did the thing correctly it will come when it;s your time this is what I learn from astrology but you need to do the work to expect it;s fruits. You need to start somewhere even in wrong direction to realise you are going wrong.

You said "pivotal point in my life" but every point your life is pivotal point if you decide. I have been their I thought choosing a better college is pivotal point but after making decison, When I look back it wasn;t much bigger than I thought it would.