The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

to predict and provide celestial information to humans on their planned or desired ventures. The idea is based on the fact that each constellation or star group in the sky appearing at a particular time in the year had corresponding humans over which it ruled. Considered as orbiting or revolving spiritual bodies, the stars were thought to be communication from the fallen angels they symbolized and to inhabit a certain group of people born on the planet during their times of traversing the universe. That belief is what sustains the practice today as darkened humanity seeks to obtain information about its future and destiny from these fallen spirits. To visualize for their believers the nature and appearance of these normally invisible creatures, they point out the celestial shapes in the sky that seem to correspond with animals (most of all), household utensils (the Big and Little Dippers, for instance), and hybrid creatures forming the bodies of animals and humans or one animal or another. The idea is to give the worshipper/spiritual offspring a vision of the powers of the heaven that controlled their destiny. To fortify the belief further, the ancient world was convinced that these celestial creatures or beings were delivered volumes of text on the individual destinies of those over whom they ruled. It is this information that astrologers and horoscopists draw on from their spiritual informers to pass on to the one whose sign they pretend to read. See Horoscope as a form of divination. Each star constellation in the zodiac was touted as having received from the council of gods the library of fates and destinies on every human born and was empowered to decree them and exercise their superior power and authority to force their decrees to happen in the lives they divined. To gain secular acceptance and escape the consequences of being rejected as a religion, modern-day astrology fought to divest itself of its religious, although not spiritual roots. It renamed many of its practices and operations, shed some of its former idolatrous tags and applied for acceptance as merely another science. That way astrology could be integrated in public school curriculums, sold to intellectuals, and pursued as an irreligious alternative to spirituality. Facilitating this agenda are modern educational systems. They require their student’s study of ancient deities under the heading of mythology, and ancient worship forms under literature and the arts, or perhaps antiquities and archaeology. Joining the trend of severing the ties between religion and spirituality, astrology gained acceptance as a contemporary cultural resource for planning one’s future and forecasting the outcome of one’s life ventures peddled by the media and modernists in every area of human existence. Refer to Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 21:3; Acts 7:42.