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What Your Horoscope Doesn't Tell You
In a world controlled more and more by technology, astrology offers people a system to help them figure out how to live peacefully in an unpredictable world.
Astrology has been the leading practice of the so-called New Age movement for more than 25 years. But is astrology's 'wisdom' true wisdom? Is it science or religion? Real or counterfeit? Is astrology in harmony with the will of God?
Charles R. Strohmer answer these questions from his experience as a former astrologist. he explains where astrology came from and how it 'works'. he shatters the myth that astrology is a benign 'game' that people play, and he reveals what is behind it - what your horoscope doesn't tell you.
Astrology has been the leading practice of the so-called New Age movement for more than 25 years. But is astrology's 'wisdom' true wisdom? Is it science or religion? Real or counterfeit? Is astrology in harmony with the will of God?
Charles R. Strohmer answer these questions from his experience as a former astrologist. he explains where astrology came from and how it 'works'. he shatters the myth that astrology is a benign 'game' that people play, and he reveals what is behind it - what your horoscope doesn't tell you.
123 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1988
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April 2, 2025
A heck of a lot of bible-bashing in this book.
I thought I would read this book as it’s important to read opposite viewpoints to my own but I feel like the author couldn’t catch on to his own hypocrisy of saying astrology has no basis yet when speaking about Christianity and the Bible didn’t mention the basis of evidence for why we should be believing this.
Also the irony that the author (who was previously an astrologist that read birth charts) has explained in great detail how when he read birth charts he was super accurate but then goes on to say that it should not be believed. Weird.
This author clearly goes from one religion/way of life to another and whole-heartedly believes in whatever is his flavour of the month at the time. Maybe it is worth examining oneself to see what hole inside this is trying to fill and why there is the need to try and intensely persuade others to follow your religion.
I thought I would read this book as it’s important to read opposite viewpoints to my own but I feel like the author couldn’t catch on to his own hypocrisy of saying astrology has no basis yet when speaking about Christianity and the Bible didn’t mention the basis of evidence for why we should be believing this.
Also the irony that the author (who was previously an astrologist that read birth charts) has explained in great detail how when he read birth charts he was super accurate but then goes on to say that it should not be believed. Weird.
This author clearly goes from one religion/way of life to another and whole-heartedly believes in whatever is his flavour of the month at the time. Maybe it is worth examining oneself to see what hole inside this is trying to fill and why there is the need to try and intensely persuade others to follow your religion.
December 2, 2022
A religious polemic of the simple kind of anti-logic that was prevalent in the 80s. This is largely fatuous and hypocritical, and reads like my school dissertations.
Hypocrisy #1 - Strohmer spends at least 4 chapters attempting to tear down the foundational pillars of astronomy, but the foundations he wishes to put in place are accepted as if they are true, without reflection and without logical argument. At all. It's not like the arguments are bad - they are just not there.
Hypocrisy #2 - Strohmer tells us vehemently and with authority that most books on astrology don't tell us certain 'facts,' as if he knows the true foundations of astrology, while at the same time, missing THE fundamental law of astrology. It is irrelevant for this argument whether it is true or not - the fact that 8 years of intense study (his words) of Astrology have failed to impress on him the most basic rules, does not bode well for the clarity of thought in this book.
The pop-psychology and simplistic mythology would be cute, if this book were for children. But the constant straw-manning of the subject he derides does not lend any confidence in his appeals, sans reason, to the "Truth" we should all follow instead.
Okay, this is a book of its time, deriding "Aquarian practices", in a poorly veiled Christian apologetic. But frankly, it should stay in its time.
Hypocrisy #1 - Strohmer spends at least 4 chapters attempting to tear down the foundational pillars of astronomy, but the foundations he wishes to put in place are accepted as if they are true, without reflection and without logical argument. At all. It's not like the arguments are bad - they are just not there.
Hypocrisy #2 - Strohmer tells us vehemently and with authority that most books on astrology don't tell us certain 'facts,' as if he knows the true foundations of astrology, while at the same time, missing THE fundamental law of astrology. It is irrelevant for this argument whether it is true or not - the fact that 8 years of intense study (his words) of Astrology have failed to impress on him the most basic rules, does not bode well for the clarity of thought in this book.
The pop-psychology and simplistic mythology would be cute, if this book were for children. But the constant straw-manning of the subject he derides does not lend any confidence in his appeals, sans reason, to the "Truth" we should all follow instead.
Okay, this is a book of its time, deriding "Aquarian practices", in a poorly veiled Christian apologetic. But frankly, it should stay in its time.
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