When man first looked to the heavens, it was not merely for direction but for dominion. The stars, cold and ancient in their luminescence, have inspired poets, guided sailors, and stirred philosophers. Yet in every age, there arises a subtle seduction, a yearning to give those stars voice, agency, and power over our souls. This seduction finds its present form in astrology, a practice that promises revelation but delivers illusion, wrapping human identity in constellations and not in Christ.
“They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.”
—Isaiah 45:20, ESV
To place hope in the stars is to bow before a throne that never speaks. Astrology enthrones creation and silences the Creator. It gives credence to patterns, not purpose. In doing so, it is not harmless entertainment, it is idolatry dressed in cosmic glamour.
“You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.”
—Deuteronomy 18:13–14, ESV
The stars are His handiwork, not His mouthpiece. They mark seasons and give light to the earth, but they do not declare destinies. God does. He has not permitted His people to be guided by the same omens that blind the nations. Astrology does not merely distract, it replaces the sovereignty of God with a counterfeit logic rooted in rebellion.
C.S. Lewis once warned that “idols always break the hearts of their worshippers.” So too does astrology, for it tells the child born under one sign that their anger is fated, their failure forecasted, or their future fixed. It places the eternal image of God into a rotating wheel of planetary whims. And this is not freedom, it is fatalism.
“Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them.”
—Jeremiah 10:2, ESV
This dismay at the heavens is not new. Even the ancients feared eclipses and read omens in the stars. But the Christian is not to fear what others worship. For the stars are silent, and our God speaks.
Billy Graham wrote, “The Bible teaches that God has a plan for every life, and He has given us His Word and His Spirit to guide us. Don’t be misled by astrology or any other form of the occult.” He understood that the Christian life is not determined by Saturn or Venus, but by a cross raised on Calvary and a tomb left empty.
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”
—Ephesians 1:11, ESV
Let us not exchange the counsel of the Living God for the whispers of the zodiac. There is no salvation in Sagittarius. No mercy in Mars. No truth in Taurus. Only in Jesus Christ is there hope, purpose, and truth.
“I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me.”
—Isaiah 45:5, ESV
The stars may glisten, but they do not govern. The heavens may declare the glory of God, but they do not determine the will of God. That belongs to the One who stretched the heavens out like a curtain and calls every star by name.
And He calls you not by your sign, but by your soul.