O My Stars!

This is way too funny! Maybe you heard a couple of weeks ago about an announcement that is just filled with hilarious irony. A Minnesota astronomy professor announced that the 12-symbol zodiac chart is actually missing the 13th constellation called Orphiuchus. Apparently, this effectively changes the zodiac signs for more than 300 birthdays out of the year. So we have all these people who thought they were Leo’s who are actually Cancers; scores who thought their ‘sign’ was Taurus when it was actually Aries the whole time; and so on. You get the picture. Just think about all those poor folks with those strategically placed tattoos of scorpions? Whoops! Talk about an identity crisis!

Now, just think about this for a moment. Here we have all of these people living their whole lifetimes religiously charting their course each day according to a faith system only to learn that what they had been following their whole lives wasn’t actually for them at all! It is made even more hilarious by the fact that they never caught on the whole time!

Here is what one writer had to say:

“For the past 50 years I have been, as an Aquarius, friendly and humanitarian; honest and loyal; original and inventive; and independent and intellectual. Now I am, as a Capricorn, practical and prudent; ambitious and disciplined; patient and careful; and humorous and reserved… This new me is going to take some getting used to.” Kyra Gottesman

This is put in perspective by a Canada AM survey conducted last week that has 43% of viewers admitting that they always take the time to check their horoscope before heading out for the day. That makes it pretty funny really, I think. Maybe? I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry!

But I do know this – if those same people would take the same time to read the Bible before heading out each day they would be a lot farther ahead. Astrology is misguided at best, demonic at worst. Get a Bible and read it. Use it to discover who you really are and to chart your life course.