By all means, I believe in astrology and often enjoy it. More importantly, the Bible also believes astrology is a real thing.

I would go further and say that scripture not only believes astrology is real, but sees it as an effective way of understanding the universe. As such, it treats astrology as a kind of technological system that is dangerous and prone to abuse, much like social media or drugs and alcohol.

You could actually make the argument that the Bible sees astrology, modern technology, and other theurgic systems as the vital weapons used by anti-Christ entities in the greater cosmic war unfolding across the universe, particularly on planet Earth after the fall of Adam and Eve.

This is all just to say that astrology is likely real and likely useful. In the Book of Enoch, astrology is explicitly labeled as forbidden knowledge given to humans by fallen angels. In the Old Testament, the warning is not as direct, but still unmistakable: in Deuteronomy 4:19, we are forewarned that astrology can lead us to be “drawn away” (נִדַּחְתָּ) from the pure magic of God’s creation.

Here, I’m going to outline a few reasons Christians should always approach astrology with skepticism and a bit of distance, so that we are not drawn away from our higher power, but drawn into the full zenith of God’s mystery.

Minimizes Your Sense of Self

Astrology focuses more on cosmic cycles than on human agency or the divine power behind creation. It can shift our limited attention away from the agency God gave us in Genesis and the grace Christ offers us, drawing us instead into a worldview where the human soul is just a small particle in the great zodiac wheel.

The astrological worldview can make us feel like we’re part of a larger plan, but the plan within astrology-based systems often degrades the divine power infused in us by God and Christ. In more secular terms, the zodiac runs the risk of inflating the role of fate while minimizing the role of our free will.

Service Is Greater Than Aesthetic Order

The literary scholar William F. Lynch draws a clear distinction between two very different kinds of heroes: the hero of the Greek god Apollo, and the hero of the human God, Jesus Christ. Apollo is the hero of light, form, and evolutionary progress; Jesus is the hero of the cross, brokenness, and divine rescue.

Hero	Apollo	Christ
Symbol	The Sun	The Cross
Core Traits	Beauty, Order	Broken, Raw
Key Actions	Music, Art, Design	Charity, Sacrifice
Langauge	Symbols	Embodiment
State of Humanity	Incomplete, Transitional animal striving for the next step	Fallen, Separated from God after the Fall
Governance	Natural	Supernatural
Final Goal	Evolution	Salvation

This has a lot to do with zodiac and New Age thinking. The beautiful order that the zodiac and Apollo (the sun God) offer can distract us from the true nature of our reality. As Christians, human life is not about decoding symbols—charts, houses, glyphs, and archetypes—it’s about serving others and helping people without any real reason other than faith.

In many ways, the zodiac and the call of Apollo’s New Age order is a call for beauty, design, and sense-making. The message of Christ, by contrast, is one of humble servitude expressed through acts of service which, like Christ’s death and resurrection on the cross, defy all logic and rationality. The truth is not written in the stars; it’s written by the charity you do for others.

Time Never Ceases, A Portal Never Opens

By almost all interpretations, astrology is cyclical and endless. Human life unfolds within the Earth’s axial precession, which slowly moves through the zodiac epochs. A full cycle through the 12 epochs takes roughly 26,000 years, and this cycle repeats infinitely. The zodiac wheel becomes a cosmic prison, a framework of eternal reoccurrence with no portals beyond its equinoxes and precessions.

However true this zodiac framework might be, the incarnation of God as man in Christ is the belief in the opening of a portal outside of the solar system. In John 10:9, Jesus says exactly this: “I am the portal,” Christ declares. “If anyone enters through me, they will be saved.” Saved from what? From the endless precession of life and death, from the endless turning of the zodiac wheel, from biological churning, and into the eternal plane outside of the physical universe.

As we read the stars, then, we must keep in mind that, as Christians, we believe in transcending time and space. The zodiac wheel might spin forever in this universe, but through Christ we will one day move through a portal to another universe governed solely by the love of God.