Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Dance was podcast for living understanding and defending

your Catholic faith. I'm Sy Kill at your host, Jimmy Aiken is our guest this time, and we

wanted to ask him about astrology. Actually, astrology, been around, I guess, about as long as

people have been around, but very popular on the internet. So Jimmy, thanks very much for being

here with us. Thank you, my pleasure. We got a little clip we thought we'd play for you from

the internet. It's not very hard to find astrology clips. So Darren, if you want to play that clip and

then we'll break it down a little bit and talk about the history of astrology and also about

what does the church teach about how we should approach astrology. The majority of the terror readers

and astrologers own social media. As someone who's a real astrologer who's passed the most

difficult certification exam that has offered, I can tell you that most of the astrology content

you're consuming is fake. The people behind these accounts are not real astrologers, so I wouldn't

take their advice. Wow, so I guess we need a, and we're going to need some kind of infallible

Pope of astrology to straighten this out. We've apparently broken down into clicks and groups.

But for strikes me right there, right off the bat is claiming that she's got the highest

certification. Astrology is what? Do people think of it as a science or religion? What?

Well, it's commonly understood by people as kind of a hybrid. It both is regarded as a scientific

enterprise by people who believe in it, but it also has a kind of mystical element to it as well.

That clip is interesting in that I think there's a big element of truth in what she says.

Most of the many of the people certainly who are claiming to give astrological advice are either

scammers who know what they're saying is not true, or they're very poorly trained and are not

really putting the work in that one would have to do to do astrology in a classical way.

So I'm not recommending her in her group, but I do agree with her assertion that extreme caution

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