*Editor’s Be aware:
In mild of the Pew Analysis Heart just lately discovering that 30% of Individuals seek the advice of astrology, tarot playing cards or fortune tellers, the Church & Tradition workforce thought it might serve to repost this weblog from earlier this 12 months on the rise of astrology amongst youthful generations.
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4.5 million movies.
That’s what you get if you search #astrology on TikTok.
4.5 million movies.
And there’s one era that’s driving the curiosity: Era Z. In spite of everything, members of Gen Z make up nearly all of TikTok’s customers.
However astrology isn’t simply making a splash on social media. Astrology apps providing day by day horoscopes or recommendation are among the many hottest apps round. As an article within the Wall Road Journal defined, “You enter your birthdate, time and site and the app calculates your particular delivery chart, shedding mild in your passions and predilections.”
In 2020, one of many extra common horoscope apps, Co-Star, an American app that makes use of AI to mix NASA information and content material from astrologers, had been downloaded by a staggering 15% of all American ladies ages 20 to 24 amongst its 7.5 million world customers. By 2023, it had climbed to 30 million.
Don’t count on the rise to finish, at the least not anytime quickly. Not if the advertising and marketing minds behind it will probably assist it. These apps are monetized, and spending on astrology-related merchandise is projected to develop to $22.8 billion by 2031—up from $12.8 billion in 2021.
Why the sudden curiosity? One London-based creator who has 1.2 million followers on TikTok means that her predominantly Gen Z followers had turned to astrology for a “sense of company” when life felt chaotic. Additional, she urged that her motivational movies carried out higher as younger individuals appeared for “self-development and self-empowerment.”
Astrology platforms, and astrology itself, supply the sensation of group, course, calm within the midst of hysteria, that means and function. It suggests a solution to the everlasting query, “Why am I right here?”
Victor Olliver, the editor of a web based journal created by the Astrological Affiliation, admits:
You can’t get throughout profound truths on Instagram or TikTok, whichever platform you’re speaking about, you can not get throughout the sophistication or depth of astrology, however what you are able to do is open a door. You’re attempting to make use of imagery and quick little sentences to attract individuals in.
Sure. It’s the opening of a door that’s attempting to attract individuals in. And it’s a door you don’t want to enter. For those who do, you can be coming into the world of the occult.
The phrase occult simply implies that which is hidden or secret past the vary of extraordinary human information or beneath the floor of regular life. Utilized in that sense, it’s nearly a impartial time period. However it has come for use as a reference to these practices that hyperlink up – deliberately or not – with the hidden, secret world of Devil and his demons. That’s not impartial, as a result of it entails participating the forces of darkness. After we do this, we’re willfully opening up the door of our life to their presence and exercise.
This brings us to studying your horoscope.
The primary attribute of one thing occultic is the disclosure or communication of data unavailable to people by means of regular means. This entails issues like horoscopes, fortune-telling, psychic hotlines and tarot playing cards.
The data they declare to own comes from someplace—and if it’s not from God by means of the sources God has ordained, then it’s from the evil one and his forces. There isn’t any “energy” floating round on the market that simply exists, impartial and impersonal, that has a voice or that may be tapped into, some sort of cosmic consciousness for secret information about the way forward for a human life. Every part falls below Heaven or Hell, good or evil, God or the evil one.
Certainly, the Bible teaches that not solely did God create the celebs, however He additionally created their patterns. Within the ebook of Job, we learn that, “[God] is the maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south” (Job 9:9, NIV). So, issues just like the constellations which have enchanted individuals’s imaginations for hundreds of years and guided numerous explorers over uncharted waters, have been normal by God.
However then the Bible offers a warning about not taking that enchantment too far: “And if you look as much as the sky and see the solar, the moon and the celebs – all of the heavenly array – don’t be enticed into bowing all the way down to them” (Deuteronomy 4:19, NIV). The temptation all through historical past has been to make extra of the celebs than there’s—to see in them one thing mystical, one thing magical, one thing supernatural. Even to the purpose of utilizing them for divination or to get steering as a supernatural supply.
That’s what astrology and horoscopes are about.
Simply to make clear, this isn’t about astronomy – the scientific research of the celebs – and even about God’s use of the celebs in His personal workings and miracles, similar to main the sensible males to the newborn Jesus. We’re speaking about astrology, which is the try to make use of the celebs for some sort of hidden information in a supernatural type. They don’t maintain that energy.
After we try to make use of them that approach, we’re merely inviting one other energy to enter our lives—that of the occult.
For this reason the Bible offers this warning:
“You’ve gotten trusted in your wickedness… your knowledge and information mislead you…. Catastrophe will stumble upon you, and you’ll not know find out how to conjure it away… carry on, then, together with your magic spells and together with your many sorceries… let your astrologers come ahead, these stargazers who make predictions month by month… they’re like stubble; the hearth will burn them up. They can’t even save themselves… every of them goes on in his error.” (Isaiah 47:10-15, NIV)
So when you have the Co-Star app, or every other astrology instrument, you now know what you’ve been dabbling in.
And I hope you recognize why it’s time to hit delete.
James Emery White
Sources
Chip Rotolo, “30% of Individuals Seek the advice of Astrology, Tarot Playing cards or Fortune Tellers,” Pew Analysis Heart, Could 21, 2025, learn on-line.
Lara Wildenberg, “Era Z Flip to Astrology ‘to Reply Life’s Massive Questions,’” The Instances, January 19, 2025, learn on-line.
Haley Velasco, “Why Astrology Apps Are Rising,” The Wall Road Journal, February 20, 2020, learn on-line.
