The April Antichrist Conjunction


There sure are a lot of arguments between us Trads these days. Arguments about whether or not Bergoglio’s consecration was valid. Arguments about whether or not Bergoglio’s the actual pope. We’ve got formerly popular pundits I’ve written for abandoning Catholicism because they invested their emotions and predicated the legitimacy of their religion on Bergoglio being pope. We’ve got formerly popular pundits getting paid oodles of money from the outside by parties trying to destroy what’s left of the Authentic Catholic Community. Whole organizations have been built and solely devoted to destroying the final remnant of Catholics—and there’s probably only a million of us left in the world. It’s crazy how obsessed these saboteurs are over such a small number of the faithful. Over 2 billion Catholics, and yet they wanna pick at the Trads.

And it’s all centered around the question of legitimacy. Who holds legitimate authority? What acts performed over the past nine years are official and approved by Heaven? Who is the leader?

God of the Sea

This all reminds me of the prince of ancient Tyre. Ezekiel is commanded by God to proclaim:

“Because your heart is haughty and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the seas’; yet you are a mortal and not God, although you make your heart like the heart of God— behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you! By your wisdom and understanding you have acquired riches for yourself and have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.  By your great wisdom, by your trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is haughty because of your riches—

Ezekiel 28:1-5

Tyre was the jewel of the sea-faring people, the Phoenicians. These were a maritime people who dwelled in the literal land of Canaan, which we read about in the Scriptures. These are the people who manufactured and sold purple dye in ancient times—a rare and difficult color to obtain—and it is from these sea people that we get the term “Tyrian Purple.” They adorned their ships with horses’ heads, all in honor of their god of the sea, Yamm. With this connection between horses and the sea, it is clear that their sea god, Yamm, would later become what we recognize as “Poseidon” in Greek culture—and as “Neptune” by the Romans, later still.

And so, when we see Ezekiel ridiculing and mocking the prince of Tyre in this passage, we are reading how the prince is sitting in the seat of Poseidon—pretending to be God Almighty. This silly prince thinks much of himself, what with his wealth and opulence. But he looks like an absolute fool in the eyes of Heaven. God is clearly calling out this prince as an adversary—a direct challenger. An antagonist. Someone who is trying to copy God and claim God’s legitimacy for himself.

Simply put, in the context of this biblical episode, Poseidon worshippers take on aspects of antichrists.

But I am going to put a pin in this and circle back to it a little later. But first…

Cosmic Ballet

There are a lot of signs going on right now. This is of no surprise to me or anyone who is paying attention to these sorts of things. As the False Church of the New World Order begins to solidify and harden from its decades-long process of solve et coagula, and we begin to see the true anti-Christian nature of the Vatican hierarchy expose itself, as we see the germinating seeds of World War III and the eventual destruction of Babylon the Great (The West/The Globalist American Empire) begin to sprout forth—as we see all of these crazy things taking place this spring, it just so happens that these geopolitical and civilizational events are accompanied with major cosmic signs in the heavens.

There are so many signs in the sky, it is difficult to keep track of them all. And I am most certain that each of them tell a special aspect of this year’s tale in some way or another.

On March 28th, the Monday after the weekend of the false consecration by Bergoglio the Heretic, we saw an alignment clustering of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and the Moon. Personally, this tells me that strife and war will accompany an event involving God and Mary. Why? Because Saturn symbolizes God, the Father—known for his anger and judgement. Venus symbolizes the Woman, Mary—but also, this notion of Mary’s involvement is bolstered by the proximity of the Moon, a clearer symbol of The Virgin’s presence. So, in a sense, we are double-reminded that something significant with Mary had transpired. And then there’s Mars, the war maker. Wherever there’s Mars, there’s a fight. They all met in Capricorn that night—a constellation of the scapegoat, the sacrifice necessary to atone for sins. Penance, mortification, and sacrifice has been sorely needed since those miraculous days at Fatima. Mary asked us for penance then, and Heaven has demanded up until now. Just think about it for a few minutes. If you can’t put 2 and 2 together, the message is this: Mary, God, and war are all three elements that are involved in some sort of sacrifice. Is this not the theme of Fatima, itself? And is this not the theme of that clustering on March 28th?

Days later, on April 1st, Venus, Saturn, and Mars took up a unique configuration in the sky reminiscent to Orion’s belt. Mind you, these planets did not form in Orion’s belt. Instead—and more interestingly—this belt bridged Aquarius to Capricorn. And what is Aquarius? it is a constellation of baptisms. But, as I’ve said before in regards to Aquarius, not all baptisms are painless. Some baptisms are of water—but some baptisms are of fire. The Conflagration of the Apocalypse, the Three Days of Darkness, will be such a fiery baptism.

As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful.

Our Lady of Akita

With Noah, the world was baptized with water. With us, the world will be baptized with fire. And it is a baptism that awaits this unrepentant world, which failed to atone for its sins, as Capricorn reminded us on March 28. And looking at Our Lady of Akita’s warning, take note, again, that it is “the Father” who will “inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity.” And, again, what planet is involved here? Saturn. The all-father planet. Saturn, also known as Kronos, originator of all. (And if Saturn is a planetary symbol for God the Father, Jupiter is the planetary symbol for the Son of this Father.)

And, I must say again, it is quite significant that these three planets took the form of Orion’s belt. Why? Because Orion is a constellation symbol for Christ. Orion is the mighty hunter who fights Taurus, the reckless, primordial beast of chaos. Christ gives us salvation and protects us from the abyss if we turn to Him. Likewise, Orion fights the madness and savagery of Taurus. (I have spoken of Orion at great length HERE, HERE, and HERE.) In seeing this glimpse of Orion’s belt, we are reminded that we are entering a difficult time, and it is time to cinch up our belt, and gird up our loins for difficult times ahead. We are reminded of The Belt of Truth in Ephesians 6:14—a very necessary piece of armor in this period of lies and deception that will help us to stand firm when the day of evil comes. And if we look into this arrangement even deeper, we are also reminded of how Orion’s belt traditionally reminds us of the Three Wise Men, and thus, the people of the entire gentile world who were represented in the first day’s of Christ’s life. Thus, we might conclude that this message will involve all of the inhabitants of the Earth.

Finally, the April 1st “belt alignment” is leaving Capricorn, the goat. And it is in the process of entering Aquarius. Were one to ascribe meaning to this, it would perhaps be that we are now leaving all past opportunities for repentance and sacrifice, and now we are entering the period of cleansing. Fiery cleansing, mind you. So it would behoove us all to gird ourselves—as Orion does in his battle—and prepare for perilous spiritual (and perhaps physical) combat.

April 5th, in the predawn hours, we have seen the close conjunction of Saturn and Mars. The two planets came together, separated by only 19 arc minutes. This took place in Capricorn. Were this a cosmic reflection of events on the ground, what would it mean for us? It would mean that God the Father (Saturn) and war (Mars) will have an intimate relationship with one another. And this intimate relationship between God and war will be framed under the notion of sacrifice and atonement (Capricorn). This certainly seems to fit the theme of our times. Too bad things like this are too nuanced for moderns to notice.

April 16-24th, we will witness an alignment in the sky of Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn. Even Neptune—however invisible to our naked eyes—will be in this alignment. And they will all be joined by the Moon by April 24th. They will all be crossing Aquarius. What shall this arrangement mean to us? Perhaps we are to take it that the actors of this play are presenting themselves on the stage before an audience. Were the signs in the sky to mean anything, one might conclude this means that events involving war, Our Lady, The Father, The Son, and Neptune (more on that one later) are all about to transpire over a backdrop of a painful baptism. (I found it personally interesting that Neptune will actually be wedged in between Jupiter and Venus—as though there’s some sort of force trying to split apart Mary from her Son. but again, more on Neptune later.) By April 30th, this little cosmic presentation will be concluded…with, yet, another eclipse over Bergoglio’s homeland.

April 30th. A partial eclipse will, once again, darken the homeland of The False Prophet. This is not the first time during his pontificate that this has happened. I’ve talked about these eclipses several times (HERE and HERE). With this, we will have seen three eclipses shade his country in these past ten diabolical years. It seems an ominous punctuation that this eclipse transpires at the end of such a cosmic show as I’ve just discussed above.

Other Cosmic Signs, Not Necessarily Zodiac in Nature

There’s other signs in the sky as well. They all seem to demarcate a period of severe historical significance. I am talking about the increased solar activity. The earth is being lashed with one solar eruption after the other. Coronal mass ejections are shooting at our world, and thankfully only grazing us for now. But the sun continues to lash us over and over these days, to the point that we are beginning to see the aurora borealis in skies in much more southern latitudes than before.

While it remains to be seen when we will be blasted with a CME that will obliterate our electronic capabilities on the ground—it is all in God’s hands—one thing is for certain: even the smallest solar activity is having an even greater impact on our globe than ever before. The reason? Our very own magnetosphere is diminishing in strength. I’ve spoken about this threat before:

Losing the magnetosphere, alone, exposes us to a bombardment of solar and galactic radiation that will alter our behavior, our health, and our weather. Whenever the International Space Station crosses over the South Atlantic, they have to shut down their systems as they cross a portion of the globe where the magnetosphere has been severely weakening. And it’s only getting worse.

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The shrinking of our magnetosphere is happening because our magnetic poles are moving. At first, they were moving slowly, but they are getting faster and faster in their movement. It is likely we will see this pole reversal take place within the next decade. And, quite possibly, if God chooses to use a natural means to effect the Three Days of Darkness, a pole shift like this would be it. With a temporarily diminished magnetosphere, the cosmic forces of our solar system will scorch and burn the globe in a terrible way that none of us can even possibly imagine. This is all happening right now. The flurry of wild aurorae that we’ve been witnessing attest to this phenomenon. And don’t forget that heaven also likes to use the aurora to emphasize important moments in history.

It was just such an aurora that marked the start of World War II in 1938:

Sister Lucia, the seer of Fatima, knew the source and purpose of the great light. A Dorothean nun in a Portuguese convent at the time, she looked out the window of her cell on the night of Jan. 25, 1938, and recognized in the emblazoned sky an ominous sign from heaven.

On July 13, 1917, during the third apparition of the Mother of God at Fatima, she heard Our Lady say, “When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, famine and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.”

Sister would recall that Jacinta, her companion at Fatima 18 years before, while she lay dying, tortured by visions of war and death and hell, reminded her of “the light which the Lady told us would come one night before the war.” When Lucia realized that this was the great sign Our Lady had predicted, she wrote to the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon:

“War is imminent. The sins of men will be washed in their own blood. Those nations will suffer most in the war which tried to destroy the kingdom of God. Portugal will suffer some of the circumstances of war, but because of our country’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she will not suffer them all.”

An unknown light in 1938 demands our attention – even today, by Barb Ernster

There are many other things in the sky, other than the constellations and the zodiac, which can and will alert us to heavy, consequential events permitted by Heaven. Solar activity is one of them. I cannot help but ask: have you not noticed that the sun looks more white these days than the happy, pleasant yellow of your childhood? This is not your imagination. A lot of people have taken notice, though few are seeking out explanations.

The Next Cosmic Act: A Neptunian Conjunction

Let us circle back to the earlier discussion of Poseidon from the beginning of this article. Only, let’s call him by his Roman name: Neptune. As I stated earlier, the prince of Tyre tried to enthrone himself as Neptune did: the god of the world. Our True Lord laughed at this insolence, and He sent Ezekiel to deliver a scathing message of rebuke to this mariner king. The prince of Tyre was an antichrist. He wanted to be a type of christ, but he wasn’t. He was a phony. Just as the ultimate Antichrist, himself, will be a phony. Just as the False Prophet (Bergoglio) is a phony. They want to delegate the title of godhood unto themselves, and they want to use the trappings of their wealth and their clever, sly, weaponized ambiguous language to achieve this. But ultimately, they have set themselves up to be direct, human adversaries to God.

In this way, Neptune is a symbol for antichrist.

Now, for what I am about to explain to you, just remember this: Remember that Bergoglio is not a legitimate pope. Remember that his consecration is not a legitimate consecration. Remember that the West’s leaders aren’t even legitimately elected leaders. Remember that there is illegitimacy EVERYWHERE. The spirit of Neptune—the spirit of antichrist—is everywhere.

I say this, because a very unique conjunction is set to take place on April 12th. What will happen here is that Neptune will have a conjunction with Jupiter in Pisces. This is quite a significant conjunction for many, as it is quite rare. Even more significant is its location. And even more significant, still, is the time period this is happening in. Because what are we seeing, here? We are seeing a confrontation between the illegitimate “christ” (Neptune) and the god-son, Jupiter. And this confrontation is taking place in Pisces—the symbol for the Christian Church.

This is amazing for me, personally. This year, more than ever, we are seeing an absolute battle between a fake, worldly power—the literal False Prophet and friend to the Beast (globohomo)—against the legitimate powers of Heaven. Bergoglio is in a war against Truth and Logos. He is a walking-talking lie, just like the prince of Tyre.

The Neptune-Jupiter conjunction will be on Holy Tuesday—of Holy Week. And it is this year, more than ever, that people are coming out and recognizing Bergoglio’s fakery. And, might I add, what are the readings for Holy Tuesday? On that day, we will read in Matthew 25 about the ten virgins who are asked to have their lamps ready for the bridegroom, that they might not be shut out from the wedding. That lesson is one of vigilance and perseverance. We are warned not to be weary and tired. We are warned not to be like the five foolish virgins who did not have enough oil for our lamps and were shut out. And what are our times, if not a struggle to maintain vigilance and perseverance?

False men are testing our vigilance. Many people, soft and weak, aching for comfort, are falling into the traps of liars and deceivers. Fakes are challenging legitimate authority across what was once known as Christendom. This is the spirit of that ultimate fake, the Antichrist, and it is the spirit that goes along with Neptune.

One more time, antichrist Neptune will challenge Jupiter (the planetary symbol for Christ) in Pisces, the constellation for the Church. People, it’s an extremely rare conjunction that points out a battle in the heart of the Church. Even the very Heavens are proclaiming Bergoglio’s fraudulence. I cannot help but wonder if something is about to give after a thing like this.

Fr. Paul Kramer: “I think that the Third Secret refers to an antipope-heretic.”

Fr. Malachi Martin: “Would that that was the only thing the Third Secret referred to.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, the fake consecration of this fake pope was in response to messages from Our Lady at Fatima, in which the very Third Secret, itself, warned us of an antipope who would be the False Prophet, himself. This has been known in quite a few circles, and we all know it already instinctively. It’s just a matter of admitting it at this point.

Final Reflections

When I consider the antichrist power that underpins Bergoglio, again, I am reminded of that biblical prince of Tyre and his notion that he could dare to take the office of Neptune. Read Ezekiel’s rebuke against this ancient prince, and tell me if the rest of this passage from Ezekiel 28 doesn’t fit the mold of our own False Prophet in these diabolical times:

Therefore this is what the Lord God says:

‘Because you have made your heart like the heart of God, therefore, behold, I am going to bring strangers against you, the most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and profane your splendor. They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die the death of those who are killed in the heart of the seas. Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of one who kills you, though you are a mortal and not God, in the hands of those who wound you? You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken!’ declares the Lord God!”’”

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

“Son of man, take up a song of mourning over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “You had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, the topaz and the diamond; the beryl, the onyx and the jasper; the lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; and the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, was in you. On the day that you were created, they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked in the midst of the stones of fire. You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you. By the abundance of your trade you were internally filled with violence, and you sinned; therefore I have cast you as profane from the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, you covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.


Your heart was haughty because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I threw you to the ground; I put you before kings, that they may see you. By the multitude of your wrongdoings, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; it has consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the eyes of all who see you. All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have become terrified and you will cease to be forever.”’”

Ezekiel 28:6-19

I’m sorry, but I can’t help but feel that this condemnation was actually reserved for Bergoglio, millennia later. History is typological, as I like to say. And, after all, isn’t it said that there will be a terrible revolt in Rome shortly before or during a third world war? We have multiple prophecies of priests and bishops being killed in that event, and I cannot help but think that this passage is a typological description of what is about to happen to Bergoglio and his gay mafia in the next few years. I would like to think that, shortly after their expiration, people read this passage from Ezekiel once more to remember God’s omnipotence and amazing sense of timing.

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Wow, as I read this I was thinking about astrology and how we are warned in scripture to stay away from such things. My astrological sign is Sagittarius. I used to read it every day but stopped when I found out it was superstitious. This is an in depth analysis of celestial movements with ominous results……very interesting, I’m not sure how to feel about it …. I will keep listening…..Lord please lead and instruct us. Amen.

Father Heilman has done some looking into these celestial movements of the stars as this gentleman does here.  I do not have a full grasp on it but what limited understanding I have of it is this is considered astronomy but not the astrology we know to be forbidden.  Someone correct me if I have that wrong.  It goes along the same lines as the way the Three Wise Men knew a King of Kings was about to be born and how they found Him etc.  My understanding on this matter is so limited...almost nothing, but this is how it was explained to me.  Astronomy and Astrology I guess are very different.

Having read about the messages of Our Lady and prophecies and visions of Saints, I tend to believe most of this analysis. But I also remember having read somewhere that thru the prayers and fasting of the faithful, God can be appeased. 

Pray! Fast! Go to the Sacraments!

Thank you for posting! 

True, very true!

Flavia Talladen Schott said:

Having read about the messages of Our Lady and prophecies and visions of Saints, I tend to believe most of this analysis. But I also remember having read somewhere that thru the prayers and fasting of the faithful, God can be appeased. 

Pray! Fast! Go to the Sacraments!

“Laramie Likes Astrology.”

If I am to be taken to task for the above charge—if I am to be called out on the carpet—I suppose this is my reply.

In 2016, I turned my attention towards celestial signs in the sky.  I had already been a fan of astronomy ever since I was a kid, so my mind was fertile ground for this sort of topic.  What really kicked off my journey down the cosmic rabbit hole was the “Our Lady of Revelations” conjunction, which I talked about on my old blog.  I distinctly recall Patrick Archbold also writing about that event in a Remnant article, back in late 2015, and I’ve cited it quite a few times.

Ever since, I’ve been noticing a lot of strange correlations with events on the ground, conjunctions, eclipses, and comets.  I’ve written enough for a book, and even enough for a revised second edition.  And I’ve covered these kinds of topics so much, that it’s now sort of expected of me to cover this kind of news when it comes up.

I like Patrick Archbold, and recently he said something interesting on Facebook that caught my attention.  And I could not help but reply.  The exchange, I thought, was personally noteable:

Archbold: “There needs to be a new word for the certain type of ennui that occurs after you become interested in a subject, deep dive on it on months on YouTube,  and then get to the point where all that remains is superficial videos from people who know less than you. When the rabbit hole ends, but you don’t yet have the energy to climb back out and begin again… yeah, that kind of ennui. We need a word for that.“

Laramie: you sent me on a Christian astrology rabbit hole journey back in 2016.

Archbold: Not astrology. Nope. But I hear ya.

Facebook exchange, April 10, 2022

And thus, the elephant in the room presents itself.  The word: astrology.  A practice I’ve been accused of more than once over the past seven years.  And while I usually refer to these observations of mine as mere “cosmic, astronomical observations,” taxonomically, the simple truth is that I’m engaging in a primitive, inert form of astrology.  But so was Archbold.  And so we’re you, this past Christmas, when you admired the story of the Magi.  Or two December’s ago when you got excited about the Winter Solstice “Christmas Star.”  Or when you celebrated your birthday last year.  We all do.

But for now, today, I will stick with explaining only myself.  So here we go.

Taxonomy and Semantics

To begin with, it’s important to pay attention and understand that “astrology” is a word.  It encompasses a lot.  Astrology is not “the sin of noticing the stars.”  We cannot paint the term astrology with a broad brush and blow off the entire subject. (If you doubt this, then please proceed to tear various selections out of the Holy Scriptures.)

“Astrology” comes from the Latin word astrologia, which further traces to Greek:

“astron” = star     -logia = “study of”

Let’s put it this way: astrology is a study of the stars and planets and how they relate to the affairs of mankind.  This is different from astronomy, which is simply examining what stars and planets are.  Astrology is noticing how an arrangement of worlds and stars indicate something happening to the world.  Astronomy is pointing a telescope to the sky and seeing what Mars is made out of.

(I’ll just add, the word “cosmology” is a study of the universe as a whole.  So, the heliocentrism-vs-geocentrism discussion falls under the cosmology category.  Rick DeLano, rest in peace.)

There was no real significant distinction between astrology and astronomy until the 17th Century’s “Age of Reason”, when we first began to see the modern Enlightenment struggle of men to separate themselves from the Divine.*  It was then that, in the widespread community, “astronomia” distinguished the mundane study of the stars from astrologia—which became synonymous with the idea of star divination.

(It still must be said that there were yet some instances in which a distinction was remarked on by one great mind or another, such as in the case of St. Jerome**)

It may seem elementary and basic to state the obvious, but this plain distinction between terms will be much more relevant in later, potential posts.

Astrology’s Divisions

There are many forms of astrology throughout the world: Chinese, Vedic, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Celtic, Egyptian, and so on.  For our purposes, we are focusing on Western astrology.  A cursory look at Western astrology reveals that it has even more divisions: natal, horary, electional , mundane, medical, and relationship-related.  

Most of the modern practices of Western astrology exist in order to predict something.  These people want to see what kind of social or material benefits they can get out of astrology. They want to somehow “game the system” for their own profit.  It’s a very utilitarian use of astrology, when one thinks about it.  These people know that there is some kind of correlation between the heavens and terrestrial events.  But instead of looking at the stars for meaning or affirmation of God and His works, they try to “cheat the matrix,” as it were, searching for that “string of computer code” that will lead them to fortune.  I suppose one could compare these kinds of astrologers to the day traders and hedge fund managers of the stock market who treat the whole system like a casino.  Such stock traders don’t value these companies  for their intrinsic worth.  These guys only care about businesses insofar as they can profit from them.  The same can be said for your everyday astrologer.

And so, we are now speaking of divination.  The most common astrologers try to divine the future by reading the position of worlds.  Effective or ineffective, that is their play.  

Horary astrology involves constructing a horoscope for an exact time in order to answer a question.  Electional astrology is used to decide appropriate, auspicious occasions for events to transpire.  I can easily believe that the satanic prometheans of the world’s regimes use electional astrology as a part of their Satan worship.  For example, we must ask ourselves if Bergoglio‘s visit to Babylon during the Apophis flyover was an occasion of public, electional astrology.

Then we have the most popular form of astrology, which is natal astrology.  How does it work?  Basically, they look at the location of each and every planet, the sun, and the moon on the exact moment of your birth.  Then, looking at where these worlds settle during different parts of your life, they try to predict what kind of person you will be.  Mundane astrology is like natal astrology, only it focuses on nations and civilizations instead of private individuals.  And romance astrology utilizes natal readings to pair you with an ideal companion.

As for medical astrology, most people have shelved it.  (It utilizes planet location and the humors.) Though, there could be a niche group or two somewhere out there.

Natal Charts: Permissions and Prohibitions 

Natal astrology is the most used form of astrology out there.  When abused, evil is worked through its application.  And yet, it is the one form of astrology that we can say has the most leeway and acceptance within the Catholic Church.  How is this so?  As Fr. Hugh Barbour explains:

Natal astrology is not against the law of God because it does not make any claim to predict the future or to assert that human freedom can be determined by the heavenly bodies. Thus, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Alphonsus Ligouri all allow it. St. Alphonsus even says that a horoscope written from the point of view of the minute and location of a person’s birth is licit, as long as it does not claim to predict the future but only indicates tendencies found in nature.

Steer Clear of Modern Astrology”, Catholic Answers

Again, it was/is believed that the planets have some kind of influence upon a person, and taking note of these influences in the case of people, nations, relationships, or even medical practices or planting/harvesting seasons—taking note of those influences was not sinful.  This kind of astrology was even frequently practiced throughout Christian, Medieval Europe without any fear of offending our Lord.

The danger of natal astrology manifests itself when one believes these celestial influences determine that person’s future in a fixed, unalterable way.  When one considers all this starry stuff, and they conclude an unchangeable future, they are then quite wrong.  If someone tries to divine the future like this, then in their mind, the future is fixed, and their free will cannot change their destiny.  This belief is a type of predestination that is obviously heretical.  The name for this error by the Church Fathers is: fatalism.

In contrast, men like Origen (in his letter to Plotinus) argued that the stars do not cause earthly events, but instead they are regarded as divinely appointed signs of things to come.  He attacks those who say “that the cause of everything on earth is from the disposition of the stars.”  And yet, in another breath he states that: “It is possible to listen to astrologers, who trace the cause of all madness and demon possession to the aspect of the moon.“

Christendom and Astrology 

In the literature of Origen, Aquinas, and others, the astrology debate is not a simple good-or-bad binary value.  Yet, other Church Fathers and their contemporaries, unlike Origen, were happy to cast a wide net and lump all forms of astrology together.  Astrology, divination, and magic were all a part of the same package.  Frequently, it was speculated that astrology, as a whole, was taught to men by the demons—even with references to the Book of Enoch.   Early literature broadly condemns all astrology; although, ironically, one can read between the lines and understand that these authors actually had detailed knowledge of how astrology functioned.  Local superstitions seemed innocuous, but astrology was reserved as a particular target in early Christendom.   

For the early Christians—men who were, don’t forget, at odds with the non-Christianized world—the defeat of astrology was a symbolic defeat of pagan fate.  Victory against astrology was an important win for the wider war on behalf of Christ. So important was this struggle, that the early Christians even utilized pagan Roman literature in their argumentation against astrology.

But again, there were other notable Christian prelates, even saints, who treated the topic with more nuance than their predecessors: St. Zeno of Verona, St. Albert the Great,  Blessed Duns Scotus, The Recognitions of Pseudo-Clementine, and Dante Alighieri, to name a few. The most widely-used astrological house system in the world came from the Catholic Italian monk, Placidus de Titus, a mathematician whose writings were utilized by the Catholic Church in its arguments against the Copernican theory.  (Hat tip to the documentary, The Principle, by the way.)

Hippolytus ridicules the Allegorizers of Aratus, and yet they appropriated the ancient veneration of the heavens for the service of Christendom—enabling a Christian understanding of the constellations that we enjoy today.  Even Tertullian, who rejected astrology, claimed it was valid in the time before Christ.  And even St. Augustine, enemy to the astrology of his time, conceded that it is not absurd to consider that heavenly bodies can influence bodies on Terra Firma.  

Pope Paul III and Julius II were fans of astrology.  Pope Leo X even established a chair of astrology at Sapienza University of Rome.  Pope Sixtus V, who condemned natal astrology, is said to have contradictorily ordered his life and pontificate on the basis of his natal chart.

And Now, The Verdict On Yours, Truly

We read in The Book of Enoch that the fallen angels taught men how to make blades, armor, and metallurgy.  Yet, we do not condemn everything made out of iron.*** Smoking can cause cancer; however, tobacco is not demonized in our catechism.  If you drink too much alcohol and get drunk, you are committing a sin. Yet we do not broadly regard wine and beer as evil substances.  Adultery, fornication, and sodomy are ruining Western civilization, but we do not condemn sex as an intrinsically evil act.  For these things, it is not so simple. There are degrees, nuances, and proper ways of looking at the subject.  The same is true for the topic of astrology.  Truly, there is such a thing as traditional, Christian astrology.

So let’s cut to the question. Have I partaken in astrology? Yes.

There’s no reason to beat around the bush. It would be dishonest to play coy and never address this accusation. Obviously, I have publicly recognized astrological phenomena and discussed them. So has Patrick Archbold. But anyone who’s referred to a farmer’s almanac has as well. We may ignore astrology as a fringe concept, but it’s ingrained in our culture in a way most people do not understand.

I would like to think that, to my credit, I haven’t tried forecasting or divining anything. My observations of these phenomena have taken place either as they are happening or after they’ve occurred. The correlation of these “signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars,” as Christ calls them, are too obvious not to notice. I’ve never really been interested in natal charts, although the Pluto Return at the exact historical moment that the American Empire effectively destroyed its economy and credibility with this Ukraine fiasco—this phenomenon was far too intriguing to ignore. But as for astrological predictions and the like, there is far more abundance in approved Catholic prophecies that give us detailed warnings of what is to come. In my mind, the existence of celestial correlation with geopolitical history-in-the-making events is more of a Divine stamp that God is in control, He is outside of time, He knows what’s going on, and He’s affirming our belief in His power, as He demonstrates His message in all aspects of nature.

And while it is true that much of these signs we see transpire in what we’d call a Hellenistic framework of the planets and the zodiac, God has demonstrated time and again that He is completely willing to work within the confines of our cultural and political structures to make a point. He, after all, condescended to come to Earth and die as a sacrifice for our sins.

There is no category of astrology that I know of that categorizes the act of simply noticing astrological events that transpire in the present and the past. There is no term for observing signs and arrangements when big things happen in the world. But these observations, nevertheless, are derided as “astrology” by knee-jerk reactionaries. And this is a very true, taxonomic accusation. Because again, while astrology is the observation of celestial bodies correlating to events among mankind, astronomy is simple star study. So perhaps we can give this school of thought a new name. Maybe we can call it herald astrology, since these signs we’ve been observing these past years appear to herald big changes happening in the world.

Do I think celestial bodies affect behavior? With the moon, certainly. We all should know about that one—gravitational effects and all that. With the sun? I’ve been reading more literature lately of how photonic energy, sunspots, and coronal mass ejections have previously unnoticed affects on our psychology. But the planets? I can’t fathom how the distant planets—some without magnetospheres—could possibly affect us. But I am not arrogant enough to presume we know everything. I’ll let the “Enlightenment” thinkers wear that crown.

But I’d like to also add in my defense, that not only do I avoid the traps of divination and fatalism—for, our free will reigns over this proto-Calvanistic notion—but also, at least, I’m not worshipping the planets as demigods, as was the case of the Chaldean star worshippers. An overlooked-but-obvious danger of astrology for the ancient pagan world. Origen was careful to decry such beliefs, although I’ve never needed him to tell me that cloud-covered Venus wasn’t a goddess.

But that is enough. I feel like qualifying myself in this way is mere naval gazing. A non-binary, careful look at Christian history on this matter should provide enough justification for this position. And, perhaps we will go down that road in future posts. Maybe we can take a look at some of the precise things the Church Fathers have said and done in regards to astrology, both pro and con. We’ll see.

For now, I’ll just conclude: this topic’s been one heck of a rabbit hole. I never expected to be talking about these sorts of things. I’ve always been interested in things like Voyager reaching the Heliopause, or perhaps a probe mission to Sedna. I’ve concerned myself with whether or not the moon landings as we’ve known them were faked, or Elon Musk’s ambitions for Mars. But the stars as traditionally viewed throughout the millennia hold an artistic beauty in the story of mankind that proves irresistible. The universe is not a cold, indifferent, meaningless jumble of gases. That is the crime of godless 17th Century enemies of civilization, and a school of thought embraced by today’s perverse globalists. And I would even go so far as to say that the current mind of NASA is actually a new, godless astrology, wiped clean of any trace of the Divine, solve et coagula-ed into existence on the bones of previous discoveries. But their new-religous zeal for oblivion and meaningless is a topic for another day.

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* “Incidentally and indirectly, Sir Isaac Newton may be said to have done as much for theology and psychology as he has done directly for astronomy. He has banished from the speculations of the psychologist and the theologian all concern about the stars, all interest in corpus coeleste and primum mobile. He and his successors have wiped out for ever star-worship and astrology; and astronomy thus remaining on their hands, they have assorted it among the sciences to which it is nearest akin, namely, dynamics and chemistry, to trouble the metaphysician no more. — Of old, men worshipped the stars, as the Hebrew prophets reproached the people with adoring all the host of heaven (2 Kings xxi, 3, 5: Ezech. viii, 16: Jer xix, 13: Amos v, 26: Acts vii, 42).”
A note from Joseph Rickaby, S.J., in his translation of Summa Contra Gentiles of St. Thomas

** “God has put within the power of mankind all arts, for we see that a vast number of men have mastered them. To pass over those which the Greeks call βάναυσοι, as we may say, the manual arts, I will instance grammar, rhetoric, the three sorts of philosophy—physics, ethics, logic—geometry also, and astronomy, astrology, arithmetic, music, which are also parts of philosophy; medicine, too, in its threefold division—theory, investigation, practice; a knowledge of law in general and of particular enactments.”
– St. Jerome, Against the Pelagians, Book I

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