I got into astrology too and was
always looking at horoscopes, reading about astrological
signs, and so on and so forth. Pretty soon I
became the astrology expert. If a friend was interested
in a new guy, all I had to do was ask his date of birth
and I’d give my friend a run-down of his positive
and negative traits, his strengths and weaknesses, and
his favorite foods. I knew all along that astrology
isn't very Islamic. (Oh, who are we kidding, astrology
is considered a major sin, with astrologers and soothsayers
being condemned to the pits of hell, along with all
those who consult them). When people asked me whether
I realized that astrology is considered a sin, I said
yes, but I was only interested in it from the “personality”
angle, and I wasn’t really interested in knowing
my future. Well, apart from those little sneak peeks
at the horoscope section in the Dawn every morning.
And The News. And the Daily Times. And Yahoo Astrology…
Anyway, after years of following
astrology, reading horoscopes in the paper and on the
web, putting in people's birth information to get clues
about their behavior and character, I woke up one morning
and realized that I was letting this dubious art influence
me just a little too much... I realized that although
there were times when horoscopes seemed to be accurate,
it was more often that they were wrong. But most of
all I realized that it's really limiting to let your
life be ruled by astrology. I was pigeonholing people
into behaviors and personality traits based on their
date of birth. I was letting myself get intimidated
about things based on the phase of the moon or whether
or not Mercury was retrograde or whatever. And I was
getting tired of thinking that way. It really, really
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