Spoiler alert: Judgement card people shake things up wherever they go.
They have this energy that makes you question everything you thought was working fine in your life. Sounds like your querent met one of these types. Someone who has gone through their own significant changes and now triggers the same process in others without even trying.
After you cross paths with them, your old patterns just don’t fit anymore. You see where you need to go next, whether you wanted to or not.