You know these weekly horoscopes in the paper under your Chinese zodiac sign. Little blurbs of a couple sentences each
Are these a sin for Catholics to read or follow?
They always have positive advice it seems. It seems pretty clean. I mean, I could probably be doing worse things than reading my weekly horoscope. In comparison to all the bad news in newspapers, my Chinese horoscope is good news!
Or does “horoscope” in traditional sense mean the crazy lady in the booth with a crystal ball conjuring up spirits type of thing?
So True, Jacques horoscope’s spirit manifest from anything other than God. Logically, The fallacy in superstition is becoming from something other than God, to me.
We become Manifested by choice becoming from the power of the selected spirit to become again the image of the spirit’s father, OMNILogically, I believe.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2116:
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.
If you are reading them for your own amusement, then I would not say that it is sinful, but if you are looking to them for special knowledge or it becomes superstitious, then I would advise against reading them.
Horoscopes fall into the same category as numerology and personality tests. They can be fun, but not to be taken seriously.
Re: “the crazy lady”, these things do exist. There are people who can see what is up ahead. But spiritual science tells us that there is a process of “sewing and reaping”. “Do unto others as you you would have them do unto you.”, is not just a “nice” sentiment. It’s also a warning. Or, as the man in the street says, “What goes around comes around.” However, for one who has taken seriously to surrendering his heart of Jesus, there is intercession. He will arrange matters in our life, not so much for our enjoyment of the things of this world (what is referred to as worship of “Mammon” is scriptures) but for our progress in surrendering our hearts to God’s will for us. Some of the things that come our way, we will not have asked for. But God knows best. We are not here on earth to have a good time. We are here to cultivate surrender to God, and to say, “Not my will, but Thy will be done.” A lot of church-goers think of religion and God as the big Amazon.com in the sky. Place your orders and wait for delivery. This is not what religion is really about. It is about aspiring to become God’s instrument with our thoughts, words and deeds. Chinese for-telling may be accurate to some degree. But for one who really wants to come closer to God, it is irrelevant, a distraction. Why would one desire to read such things with their spare time, if they could be using the same time for reading scripture, praying, and sharing the word with others? The fact is, there is only one sin…and that is doing anything other than trying to be a source of pleasure to God. Why would a devoted person want to willingly engage in that way?
I guess my weekly Chinese horoscope is out of my routine now!
The Equivalent for us is the pages in bibles that link to scripture connected to life’s issues, like Abundance, Assurance, Compassion, Contentment, Courage, so on and so forth
Not all Bibles have more than the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Some have, as it were, bonus features, and I guess that what you are describing is discussion of various aspects of life according to God’s revelation. If the Chinese horoscope merely advises certain virtues or good behavior to practice each day, it doesn’t sound bad. If it claims that there are things to do because of the position of the sun, stars, and planets or that these bodies in space predict what will happen in your life, that’s silly.
Yeah, my thoughts are similar. Since the Chinese horoscopes are just a couple sentences of always positive advice. It seems harmless.
Now, in the back of some newspapers are ads of troublesome characters like fortune tellers from Haiti (voodoo practitioners) making wild claims to tell your fortune thru a crystal ball with an animal sacrifice and using voodoo. Those must be the types of “horoscopes” we are warned about?
Mind you, the newspaper itself always contains bad news. It discusses all sorts of bad things happening: corrupt politicians, crimes, and even corrupt Catholic leaders using the news to shape their crooked agendas.
So what I’m saying is when I look at the newspaper I just go to the horoscope and usually leave it at that. Reading positive advice seems harmless and nice too. It’s good news. And good news is Catholic.
But when the cardinal is in the news telling everyone that “sanctuary cities” are wonderful and that “no human is illegal” and the cardinal is deliberately lying to the public and conflating the terms illegal and legal “immigrants” deceptively, while he is aiding and abetting alien criminals on a massive scale, well, that’s not very positive to read, is it.
It’s not good news at all when the cardinal is lying to us deliberately and using “Catholic Charities” as his cover for allowing 15,000,000+ illegal alien invading military aged men to enter the USA from over 160 countries around the globe in order to plunder the tax payers and destroy our demographics with people who hate us. That’s not such a nice read, is it. That’s not good news at all. Nope!!! It’s pure evil!!!
Whether the horoscopes are valid or not valid…they cannot be a basis for how we lead our lives simply because following horoscopes cannot give us eternal life. Only Jesus can do that. Therefore, why bother with such things? Following such advice is a materialistic orientation. Therefore Bible tells us, “What profitith a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his eternal soul?” This seems to be the criterion that helps us to decide if such things are in our best interest.
Because the horoscope is the nicest part of the newspaper. Everything else is politics, trouble, virtue signaling, and who knows what else. It’s a real drag you know?
There’s not much good news in there and my horoscope is safe & reliable
Honestly we live in a world so full of garbage media. Even our priests are tied up in nasty politics and lies. After a while, who can you trust?
Thus, I am okay with the Chinese horoscopes.
I’m a Leo. But you can basically read from any of the 12 different horoscopes and each one is positive advice
World Order Created become to love or not to love becoming in all to love only and only with the most love following the pattern, "What would Jesus do in all cases through the fulfilled faith and morality from Christ becoming in all mankind becoming again in all One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, I believe.
We know not to judge or proselytize but only to generalize the Faith becoming again in all Ond God for all to share.
Does it take from the family cause hardship for us personally? or others? We know we are not judging and only in generalization, we ask? Ourselves? Do I like to read politics also? sometimes? should I? Who wrote the newspaper? Sure we all know to Not judge we know to generalize for all the faith, I believe.
Through proper examination of Only Our own soul, the question becomes, “What would Jesus do?” We can judge him to hold our standards because He is Etrernal Priestly Authority of Spirit and life, I believe. The Question becomes, Would Jesus read horoscopes? I believe He in all generalization created them, but? so we cannot judge but only our own soul to me logically, I believe.