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Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Against

Podcast for Living Understanding and Defending Your Catholic Faith. I'm Sy Kelly at your host Jimmy Aiken is our

guest this time and we want 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 from 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 is 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 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

Jimmy that's for strikes me right there right off the bat is she's claiming that she's got the

highest certification astrology is what what do people think of it as a science a religion what?

Well it's 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's also has a kind of mystical element to it as well

and that clip is interesting in that I I think there's a 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

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