I do not think we are so far apart, Quix. But it takes some talking to understand each other.
Please know that , in my opinion, there is no conflict between the proper study of astrology and the word of God, as found in the Bible.
There is mighty wrong in using God's language in profane ways. Using astrology in a "soothsaying" manner is just that, and the Bible is quite clear that we are not to engage in that kind of activity, as we do not know the mind of God, and cannot pretend that we do.
"There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven" Ecclesiates 3
Astrology, properly understood, is, I think, one way Man can understand that God has a divine plan and purpose for all things temporal.
To put today's transits into perspective in a Christian way, we could know ahead of time that this period would be a "time for tears... a time for mourning", BUT we could have no knowledge of the details of the event causing our sense of loss and grief.
Now, some will claim that they have this power to predict the future, but these are fools and liars.
To condemn the study of God's incredible handiwork in the heavens because some use it in sinful ways is, I think, understandable, but inhibits the acquisition of the wisdom God hopes we will develop.
"The wise man sees ahead, the fool walks in the dark"
The so-called "astrologers" of today make me think of Job's final answer to God.
"I know you are all-powerful:
what you conceive, you can perform.
I am the man who obscured your designs
with my empty-headed words.
I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand,
on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.
Please go forth and tell those who are so silly as to ask your sign to please stop "holding forth on matters they cannot understand, and to stop obscuring God's design with their empty-headed words"...
Then, if they respond with an appropriate question, indicating that they are ready to hear, point them to the sacred nature of God's design, and how wrong it is to use it in such ridiculously simplistic ways, which the Bible condemns.
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Shiite Gunmen Ransack Police Station
Posted by TexKat
On 06/11/2004 8:24:21 AM EDT with 11 comments
Associated Press ^ | 6/11/04 | ROBERT H. REID
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fistfights broke out Friday around Najaf's most sacred shrine, a day after U.S. troops refused to intervene when gunmen loyal to a radical cleric ransacked an Iraqi police station there. Coalition forces came under fire in another Shiite city south of Baghdad. In the capital, a car bomb exploded on a highway in the Sayediya district as a U.S. patrol passed nearby. Two U.S. Humvees were slightly damaged but there was no U.S. confirmation of any casualties. The trouble in Najaf started Friday morning when hundreds of protesters marched toward the Imam Ali Shrine to express support...
A lot of wisdom in your words.
Thanks.
well put. . .
jacquej, is there anything that you see that could possibly fit into another period of mourning/loss for our nation from now until the November election? Of course, I am thinking terrorism...do you see anything?
Heck, I know a Wiccan Homeshooling Mom and she is no witch -g-