Having a major problem with astrology

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You have developed a habit. Habits are obsessive and can be hard to break. Put your trust in God and stop feeding your obsession (which whether you admit it or not, you have made into a god).

Go to confession weekly, without going into details about the predictions, which would frankly, be wallowing in the slime. Don’t do it!

Pray the following scripture daily. Pray slowly and deliberately until it fills your mind and spirit.

John 1:1-51
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …

Let it go.

I will pray for you.
 
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I think the OP’s solution may lie in how much power he or she has to stop a thought. I mean any thought. It’s actually a skill one can practice, in my opinion. Throughout the day, practice stopping unwanted thoughts. Also practice stopping wanted thoughts. You know when you’re at Mass, you might be planning dinner or thinking about designing clothes and then when the Consecration comes, you may have to stop your day dreaming and focus. That’s the skill and the discipline to which I’m referring. You can also practice replacing thoughts. So if you get a negative thought, you can replace it with a thought about picking raspberries in a big field.

If this is difficult, you may not be a very disciplined individual to begin with, so you might start with an easier exercise: set your clock for a given time to go to bed AND to wake up. Set timers so that tasks are completed in limited spaces of time. For instance, shower and dress in under 11 minutes. I think your basic problem is discipline. You may have an artist’s brain, which likes to toy with ideas.

Question to the OP. If you had a child whom you wanted to discourage from smoking, would you (a) explain all the reasons smoking is bad and show your child youtube videos or (b) tell your child that smoking is for losers and dummies, and leave it at that. I’ve often thought a study should be done to test my theory that the children learning the second way would smoke less than the first way. Likewise, you may benefit from an inner parent telling you to stop worrying about astrology, as the priests have tried to do, rather than an inner parent that is playing around with ideas without end. I’m willing to bet you’re an artist.
 
Okay, so let’s put it all on the table and say this psychic was given a glimpse into your future and told you what was going to happen. So what? God knows what will happen to you too, does that make you worry? I don’t think you should believe your fortune is absolutely set in stone, but even if it was, what difference does it really make? What’s going to happen is going to happen. The only thing that matters is whether you get to Heaven or not, and the only thing that could ever keep you from Heaven is yourself. Not this psychic, not the external events outside of your control, but your choices and your actions.

The whole point of what happened and is happening to you is to make your worry, to make you doubt yourself and to focus your mind on fighting this external thing instead of living the life God wants you to live. Maybe this is a burden you’ll have to carry with you forever. Or maybe God will step in and make the next prediction not come true. Either way, predictions can’t force you to be evil, so they have no real power over you at all. The psychic didn’t make you, God made you. The psychic doesn’t control the world, God controls the world. If things happen to you, it is His plan. Not theirs.

So just let it go. Accept that you made a mistake and you’re dealing with the consequences and you might deal with those consequences for the rest of your earthly life. Earthly life is short. Some people do stupid things and they lose their limbs, or accidentally hurt someone, or lose something precious forever. They have to live with that for the rest of their life too. That doesn’t mean they can’t get to Heaven or have to turn away from God. It means they have a burden that God chose to put on them for His reasons.

Stop worrying if it is true or isn’t true. I would even say stop trying to avoid the predictions or fight against them. What if Satan wants you to avoid or fight against things that God wants you to accept? A good way to trick you would be to tell you it’s fate and scare you into thinking you have to fight against it. Instead just tell yourself:

God’s will be done, not mine.
 
You went to see the astrologer/psychic with your mother. Your mother was wrong to go in the first place and even more wrong to take you along. However, one thing I remember an astrologer/psychic saying in an interview is that they find out things about the person before seeing them. Your mother may have told this person things about you so that it seemed to you that her “knowledge” of you, your life, problems, etc just came from the beyond, that she had “the gift,” as they call it.

Astrologers will use the trick of “just stopping” or “saying a few more things” as a ploy to get you to come back. She was obviously hoping that the more dire her “predictions,” the sooner you would return to have her lift this alleged “curse” from you. Don’t do it. You aren’t cursed. You’re highly impressionable and superstitious if you believe these things are happening just because of some astrologer’s “predictions.”

Were you a church goer before you became a Catholic? I ask because the Bible is read in the Catholic and Protestant churches. In the Catholic Church, we have the Daily and Sunday Readings. Protestant congregations read whatever the pastor selects for that Sunday and Wednesday. Even so, the Bible is very clear that we are not to get involved with astrology or anything like that. Were the verses ever read in your church or pointed out to you by a pastor or priest? (Now you can also use Google or any search engine to find them as well.)
 
There’s a lot of really good feedback and comments on this thread. Specifically, I really liked what @ChunkMonk had to say in his last post. I encourage you to re-read what he said and reflect on it.

@redsox712, if I may, I’d like to speak from the perspective of someone with specific charismata that the Lord has given me. Something I have come to realize is when it comes to prophecies, people often still have a choice en route to the event(s) in question. In the past when I give information about an event or something that will happen, people still make several choices that lead them down that path. At any point they could have decided different, but instead they willingly moved ahead anyway.

People still often have a choice. What I have told people would happen could often have been avoided if they chose differently So lets say this astrologist was handing out legitimate prophecies. You still have the ability to choose to go down another path.

Do you have a spiritual director? I highly encourage you to find one if you don’t. And as always, the Sacraments.
 
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ChunkMonk said:
Either way, predictions can’t force you to be evil, so they have no real power over you at all.
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I want to touch on this line, which really resonates with me.

My father abused me as a child. He also (at minimum) sexually assaulted his third ex-wife while they were married. I won’t get into all of the psychological and/or hereditary elements, but child abuse is cyclical (“inter-generational cycle of violence”).

Based on my father and his actions, there was a very real chance I could follow in his footsteps. I have had people tell me that I would go down that path eventually, because those cycles are hard to break. They predicted that I would fail solely based on the kind of man my father was. Others were scared that there was a chance I would fail. And for many years, I thought that I was an inherently terrible person because of what I felt, what I thought. The metaphorical ghosts of the past taunting me, haunting my nightmares.

I came to realize a few things, one of which is this; despite my background, I have a choice. I can choose to break that cycle, for my child to have the love from his father that I never got from mine. I can help bring redemption to my father’s lineage by raising a son with integrity, and living my own life with integrity. I can choose to not use violence as a language of communication with my son.

I am choosing a different path than the one predicted for me by many. You can choose a different path as well. Live your life with integrity and with the Sacraments, and continue your journey.
 
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Even if thirty predictions did come true, that doesn’t mean the 31st will.
 
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