I am I doing a sin?

it’s not a sin, sweetie, don’t worry. if anyone tells you it is, don’t listen. As long as you believe unconditionally in Jesus Christ as your lord and savior it’s okay. curiosity will lead different places, it’s not like you’re starting to practice witchcract haha even if you dabble in astrology and tarot cards, it’s fine. I love to study differerent religions, I’ve studied anywhere from greek to wiccan to satanism…doesn’t mean I’m tossing the bible and rosaries out my window and praying to the devil. Besides christianity stemmed from many different. Christianity is based on several different earlier religions anyways. as it grew, it adapted their cultures, rituals and symbolism in an attempt to lure new members iwht similiar principles they were familiar with, but also to attempt to overwrite those preceding ‘pagan’ religions permanently. In additing other religions into itself, Christianity only added more room for questions. sorry to deviate from the point, just trying to make you understand. hope that helped

Astrology is older than christianity. According to Christanity it is a sin but its if yoiu think it is. you can belive what ever you want. You shouldn’t have to change your belifes to fit a religion you decide what you want to belive and if a religion happens to fit than so be it.

There’s nothing supernatural about astrology (or mediums, for that matter). Both astrologers and mediums rely on some of the same weaknesses in our perception.

Astrology has been refined over the years so that it plays on innate flaws in the way we see the world. It mainly relies on the Forer effect, which is the tendency for people to think that broad, general descriptions apply especially to themselves. Forer was a psychologist who, in order to test this idea, gave surveys to a group of people, completely ignored their answers, and then gave them each the exact same astrology-like description. 85% of the test-takers thought his description of their personality was accurate. :)

A related phenomenon astrologers and mediums rely on is the tendency for people to remember the “hits” and forget the “misses”. If a person is told a handful of statements, and only one of them turns out to be accurate by chance, they’ll have a tendency to be so taken aback by the accurate statement that they’ll completely forget about the inaccurate statements. This is why people will say “my horoscope is always dead on” or “the medium knew uncle Johns name” when in actuality, the horoscope doesn’t match all that well on specifics, and the medium had to say “I’m getting a name… it starts with a T or a J… Jack.. Jim… John.”

This ties in with another trick mediums and astrologers (if you’re having your horoscope given to you by a person) use: cold reading. Magicians, mystics, and frauds have known of this manipulation for centuries. They’ll pepper you with many statements at once, and observe the subtle movements of your eyes and facial muscles, body language, or even unconscious gasps in order to discover which apply to you - without you ever knowing that you’re essentially telling them the answers. Using this they can hone in on specifics through trial and error, but seem as if they’re getting the information from some mystical source.

One interesting thing about these techniques is that you can learn them without knowing it. I met a tarot reader (tarot readers use all these tricks too) who I really think was a good, honest person. She was using cold reading techniques like a pro, but when I asked her about it, she didn’t seem to know what it was. Over the years she refined her technique to the point where she unconsciously discovered each of these principles on her own, and chalked it up to her getting better at readings. The point is that even the folks generating this stuff can be fooling themselves; not all of them are actually trying to trick you.

Another thing to watch out for is flattery. :) If they’re telling you what a good person you are, and only describing your defects in a positive light, they’re probably buttering you up in order to more easily exploit you.

Anyway, I’d just put it aside if I were you. Like I said, there’s nothing supernatural about it, so there’s no reason to think you’re going to be possessed or anything, but it’s certainly not doing you any good.

the devil is the father of all lies and will often try and make you think that wrong is right and to answer your question yes because anything that is not from God is wrong and I bit of advice to you is to stop listening to what people tell you because the devil may be using them to get to you and seek the kingdom of God before you do anything and pray that he gives you the power to discern what is right and what is wrong

as Christians we believe that god is in control of our lives so if we get really serious about trying to find out the future etc then we aren’t trusting god. Yeah its fine reading them for a laugh - I d do sometimes - I reckon they make them up in the mags anyway! They are quite funny really! just don’t get hooked! Chill about! If you feel bad about it then don’t read them!

There’s some very good debunking videos on youtube by some professional stage magicians (unfortunately, I can’t recall exactly who) demonstrating the exact sort of tricks that make people fall for astrology.

The only sins god doesn’t like are, fornocation, adultery, poligamy, apistacey, robery, murder, pornography, and I could name more but, those are some of the sins god doesn’t like people comitting.

…the only sins god doesn’t like??? Can you name some sins that he DOES like?

dude I totally know what ya mean haha. one of my favorite bands are morbid angel. they are very anti christ. but I love god.

its just all really confusing. but what you are doing isnt as bad as mine. actually yours isnt a sin at all.

No its not a sin if you look at medium astrology books. The only sins god doesn’t like are, fornocation, adultery, poligamy, apistacey, robery, murder, pornography, and I could name more but, those are some of the sins god doesn’t like people comitting. Anyway, I love reading astrology. You’re fine!

wow bby im surprised you didnt ask me dis ? sooner you got 2 remember a couple of things that astrology book and the bible were both written by man but when used correctly they both can serve as a wonderful guide 2 help throughout your life astrology can give you a better understanding of your self an others the bible when used correctly guves you a better understanding of GOD and can help deepen your relationship with the lord people have in tym thought of it as blasphamy but the bible has been misinterpreted many times and confused many people bby all I got to say is keep your faith in da lord and live your life wit da fullest and enjoy it

there is absolutely nuthin wrong wit that in my opinion bby

No, you are not committing a sin. Astrology is the study of the heaven’s to predict the future. I think that as long as you are trusting God and seeking his will first you will avoid sinning. Understand, however, that no man but a prophet of God has ever predicted the future completely correctly, so it is unlikely that you will be able to forsee your own future using an astrology book. For clarification, a medium is a person who attempts to tell the future or speak to the deceased by communicating with spirits. In the Bible, King Saul went to see a medium and it was considered to be a dangerous sin, so I would advise you to stay away from mediums and fortunetellers.

Scripture does say that those things ARE real, but are not of God. Phycics (cant spell it) lol ect… I know there are some people who use that for good and I think we are to use any gift we have for His glory, but scripture does talk about it and says its not of God. I read my horoscope sometimes for fun…do I rely on it and believe in it. No!

as long as you keep faith its fine