OPINION:
Roughly a third of U.S. adults turn to tarot cards, astrology, fortune tellers and the like to help chart their futures or soothe their anxieties, and the practice is most common among Gen Z-ers and millennials, a recent survey shows.
It’s all fun and games — until it’s not.
Not only is God pretty clear in His condemnation of spiritual divination. But also, just as a general rule, it’s pretty poor planning to place trust on the turn of the card, the cast of a rune, the look to the tea leaf. Weighty matters of marriage, career and children shouldn’t be decided so cavalierly by coin-toss: Heads, yes, let’s marry; tails, sorry, see you later. Seriously?
The deeper theme, of course, is the damage New Age spirituality brings to society at large.
From Pew: “43 percent of women under 50 believe in astrology. … Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender are especially likely to consult astrology or a horoscope and tarot cards. About half of LGBT Americans (54 percent) consult astrology or a horoscope at least yearly — roughly twice the share among U.S. adults overall (28 percent).”
LGBT women consult astrology much more than LGBT men; 63 percent to 40 percent, Pew found.
Tarot card readers aren’t likely to preach the sin of LGBTQ-ism. Spiritualism may serve as a safe religious zone for the LGBTQ crowd. But it doesn’t serve them well with truth. It’s a false religion, teaching false principles, and leading to a community-wide cycle of wallowing in sin. After all, it’s difficult to help save the souls of the lost when they’re listening only to those who reinforce that what they’re doing is right; that love is love is love and if it feels good, then it must be right. Then again, the Christian community has become infected by New Age belief, as well.
Pew reported 27 percent of U.S. adults say they believe in astrology, including 25 percent of self-identifying Christians. That’s a shocking percentage.
Whether the consultations are for fun or to gain actual insight doesn’t really matter. Opening the door to New Age belief is a step away from God — a step toward the satanic world. The most successful converts to evil, after all, are the ones who come willingly, believing they are following good.
America’s younger generations especially face spiritual danger.
“Gen Z are ditching therapy for tarot cards,” one recent Reddit headline from a couple months ago read.
“It’s official. Gen-Z is obsessed with ‘zodiac talk,’” Harper’s Bazaar India reported in January of 2024.
“Astrology and Tarot: Gen Z’s Unconventional Path to Stock Market Success,” Medium wrote in June of 2024, on how “an emerging trend among Gen Z investors is … increasingly [to use] astrology and tarot cards to guide their investment decisions.”
And in May, in a piece entitled, “It’s the future: Nearly a third of US adults consult astrology, tarot cards,” USA Today went on to report how “Gen Zero and millennials have increasingly broadened or reconstructed their spirituality around nontraditional religious activities while abandoning Christian faith systems and increasingly describing themselves as agnostics, theirs or ‘nothing in particular.’”
America’s next generation of leaders are falling for the lie.
“Tarot is a tool to connect with your intuition … gauge with your guides, to give your angels and God, the great spirit, a voice in your life,” said one tarot card reader quoted in the USA Today story.
It’s actually a way to turn from God, to dismiss the truths of the Bible, to become more self-absorbed and to cede the decision-making process to others who dabble in the ways of demons.
This bodes darkly for America.
America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and based on the idea that individuals are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — and that governments are only in place to preserve and protect these inherent birth rights and liberties. This is the core of American Exceptionalism; this is the powerful principle that keeps government limited and citizens free; this is why America is regarded as the light on the hill that shines as an example for all the world. And it all rests on the realization that without God, there are no God-given rights.
It’s not a comforting thought to realize that with a flip of a tarot card, America’s emerging leaders might toss all that away.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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