Astrology gets its power from the occult. The occult is run by the powers of darkness and the prince of darkness is the devil. Stay away from the occult unless you enjoy being lied to. It's a bunch of useless garbage. God created your personality and it has nothing to do with the stars. MBTI tests are an acurate description of how you are wired, much better than any other personality test I've taken. Stick with that and tell the occult "NO!"
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I thought this was a bad joke until I didn't see a punchline at the end >.>;;
As for astrology, let's make an example:
Chaos theory, which assumes, that if everything in the universe is interconnected in one way or another, and if yeu knew everything which exists, had ever existed, and how they had played a role in affecting each other, yeu could theoretically predict the future.
This's not considered to be occult material, nor is it considered to be myth or even silly.
Astrology is a limited understanding of such, the idea that the closest ones to us may have an impact upon how yeu exist can be important.
There's also a great number of factors which can apply as well which can be shown indirectly THROUGH astrology.
For example, I'm born in august, this means my conception was in december, around the time the christmas tree was put up. Now technically I'm a Leo, however, that in and of itself is meaningless. It does however, indicate that for a given time of year to be born in, that my genetic parents had a particular disposition to mate at a particular time of year (spring, christmas, a birthday of one, harvest, winter solstace, thanksgiving, other major holidays in various religions either may believe in), which can directly affect me.
It doesn't mean BECAUSE I'm a leo that I am automatically going to be a certain way, but it does provide evidence of the mindset of the parents at the time of conception.
Silly things like "reading yeur horroscope" is just foolish. Seriously, EVERYONE who was EVER born on a particular date range will have something in particular happen to them? Durr the only reason horroscopes are even remotely accurate, is because they're vague, broad reaching, and self fulfiling. "Yeu'll have interaction with money sometime in the next week" NO REALLY!? Wow I just wrote a cheque! I Never do that! WOW! Oh wait... I found a penny maybe that's whot it meant! Wait wait wait, I just won $20 on the lotto! Wewts! Oh noes my tv got stolen and I had to buy a new one ;_; Funny how all of these apply >.>;;
If yeu narrow things down to a particular day, and everything which occured astrologically nearby at that time, then there is a significant possibility that there MAY be affects upon yeur person. Especially if yeur parents were into astrology as well.
It's not evil, nor is it completely fictional. It is, however, exceedingly misused by most people, and generic "pick yeur sign and there yeu go" routines are just stupid. If yeu did intense study and research, and compared every single aspect interacting togeather, then it may very well be possible to make somewhot vaguely accurate predictions that may in fact be based on several unknown factors.
How reliable this is, however, is still subject to the person's belief. Self fulfilling prophecies abound. Same goes with religion. If yeu THINK yeu've felt god's presence... guess whot? if someone who goes with astrology felt that, they'd interpret it differently. Same with a hinduist. Or anyone else. Everything's open to interpretation and beaten with a hammer to be crammed into matching yeur belief set.
If yeu believe it, then it works, not neccesarily because it REALLY works, but because yeu WANT it to work.
There are, however, certain things which occur despite anyone's religious belief, or supernatural concepts. Whot causes these is anyone's guess.
Still, if we want to go the christian vs occult route, if GOD created the universe, and everything in it... and GOD created our solar system, and specifically placed THAT number of planets and such in it, in THOSE particular orbits, who's to say he didn't set very complex interactions with our world intentionally, and that astrology isn't just the feeble human attempt at understanding these complex interactions? How is that 'evil'? If anything, yeu'd THINK that god would've done something with them, rather than just toss them in there for the sake of doing so.
Or maybe the whole thing's random and god doesn't exist. Who knows. All we can do is try to make sense of the patterns presented to us.
And for that, relying on broad strokes of astrology is not going to get yeu ANYWHERE. If yeu do intense study and calculations, then maybe it will have patterns which can actually be utilized. Yeur 'sign' is virtually meaningless, other than for the provided description of date of conception above.