E
erine
Guest
In the past I had gotten really into new age stuff, especially astrology. I had some hard experiences as a child and was searching and so on. I just thought I’d say a little from my experience why these kinds of things are harmful. Thank God for His grace in bringing me home to the Catholic faith.
I started doing astrology because it caught me in a vulnerable moment, when I was feeling alone, and seemed to “get” me in the sense that it said things about me that were true. In retrospect the things it said were so general they could literally apply to anyone, and I was simply naive.
As I got more into doing my “birth chart” and others’ as well, it slowly began to limit and even ruin my relationships and trust in people. It also made me think I could never be happy and there was something wrong with me, because it literally said this was true. Not directly, but it’s a really twisted practice–cast anyone’s birth chart and you will easily find information such as “you will never be happy because of your inability to open up your emotions” or “life is always going to be really bad for you” and then see other people who have things like “everyone loves you and you are always popular with the opposite sex” etc etc.
Then spending time with others who did this stuff like I did made it all worse. People with “superior” charts acted dominant and cruel to those with “troubled” charts.
It took me quite a while to (with God’s help, and ONLY the Catholic faith has been able to break this thinking pattern) let go of this thinking. It dehumanized everyone around me and myself as well. It excused unacceptable behavior in myself and others and planted jealousy and resentments and walls between us. “I know so and so was really cruel to me, but he has Mars conjunct Saturn” and other such nonsense. I had a close friend but our chart said we would lie to each other and we never trusted fully after that.
I could go on. For example, most of my “partner horoscopes” with others (by sheer mathematical odds) contained something about instability. It actually said the words that “attempt to make this relationship last is doomed to failure.” I believe I ruined several friendships based on this kind of thing and fear that it would be true, even after I had consciously realized I no longer believed in it.
There is so much more damage it did. I realize the spiritual danger and have gone to confession and prayed a lot over this, thank God. But I just wanted to explain from my experience how something that seems innocuous can get really out of hand and be very very harmful. It sounds ridiculous but I saw this sort of downward spiral of thinking happen to many intelligent and good people.
I hope this can be useful in some way.
I started doing astrology because it caught me in a vulnerable moment, when I was feeling alone, and seemed to “get” me in the sense that it said things about me that were true. In retrospect the things it said were so general they could literally apply to anyone, and I was simply naive.
As I got more into doing my “birth chart” and others’ as well, it slowly began to limit and even ruin my relationships and trust in people. It also made me think I could never be happy and there was something wrong with me, because it literally said this was true. Not directly, but it’s a really twisted practice–cast anyone’s birth chart and you will easily find information such as “you will never be happy because of your inability to open up your emotions” or “life is always going to be really bad for you” and then see other people who have things like “everyone loves you and you are always popular with the opposite sex” etc etc.
Then spending time with others who did this stuff like I did made it all worse. People with “superior” charts acted dominant and cruel to those with “troubled” charts.
It took me quite a while to (with God’s help, and ONLY the Catholic faith has been able to break this thinking pattern) let go of this thinking. It dehumanized everyone around me and myself as well. It excused unacceptable behavior in myself and others and planted jealousy and resentments and walls between us. “I know so and so was really cruel to me, but he has Mars conjunct Saturn” and other such nonsense. I had a close friend but our chart said we would lie to each other and we never trusted fully after that.
I could go on. For example, most of my “partner horoscopes” with others (by sheer mathematical odds) contained something about instability. It actually said the words that “attempt to make this relationship last is doomed to failure.” I believe I ruined several friendships based on this kind of thing and fear that it would be true, even after I had consciously realized I no longer believed in it.
There is so much more damage it did. I realize the spiritual danger and have gone to confession and prayed a lot over this, thank God. But I just wanted to explain from my experience how something that seems innocuous can get really out of hand and be very very harmful. It sounds ridiculous but I saw this sort of downward spiral of thinking happen to many intelligent and good people.
I hope this can be useful in some way.