Curious? Ask Who Knows

By Thomas Creen, MJ • Phoenix, AZ

What does 2017 have in store for you?

When I was a teenager, I always checked my horoscope for these kinds of questions. Read it every day. Its accuracy always seemed very low, but I would try to excuse how off it seemed to be, especially concerning girls. It would say something like, “Tomorrow you will meet an amazing person who will become your soulmate.” Then I would be at school the next day, keep my eyes open, come home, and say to myself, “Wrong again. OK, Horoscope. I’ll give you one more chance for tomorrow.”

By the end of high school, I wised up and realized horoscopes were trash. It is interesting that NASA posted a statement saying something similar:

“Astronomers and other scientists know that stars many light years away have no effect on the ordinary activities of humans on Earth. Astrology is something else. It’s not science. No one has shown that astrology can be used to predict the future or describe what people are like based on their birth dates.” (cf. http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/150688852794/zodiac)

Even more interesting, important, and authoritative is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#2116) says about horoscopes and the like – that they go against the 3rd Commandment:

“All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to “unveil” the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.”

Just ask God.

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