The Pew Research Center study found some 30% of U.S. adults stated that they consult astrology or a horoscope, tarot cards or a fortune teller at least once a year. Most, however, said they engaged in the practice for fun and few said they based major life decisions on what they are told.
Black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics were more likely to believe in astrology than white Evangelicals.
According to Christian apologetics ministry Got Questions, the belief that astrology impacts your destiny “is a false belief.”
The ministry notes, “The royal astrologers of the Babylonian court were put to shame by God’s prophet Daniel (Daniel 1:20) and were powerless to interpret the king’s dream (Daniel 2:27). God specifies astrologers as among those who will be burned as stubble in God’s judgment (Isaiah 47:13-14).”
The also say that “Astrology as a form of divination is expressly forbidden in Scripture (Deuteronomy 18:10-14).“
While respected Christian researchers like George Barna have been sounding the alarm on the dangers of syncretism to a biblical worldview in recent years, a new study in April, Breaking Free of the Iron Cage: The Individualization of American Religion, suggests more Americans are leaving organized religion in search of personalized faith perspectives that embrace a fusion of different religions and beliefs, such as astrology.
The researchers referred the change as “religious rebellion.”