How to render astrology in service to God?
Astrology is a powerful form of storytelling, for it uses the steadiest and most reliable movements of our phenomenal existence, the mathematically predictable motions of celestial bodies, to articulate its meaning.
For those who dismiss it as mere fact-fitting, the particular potency of its fitting must still be accounted for. And for those who find its power so convincing as to prove astrology real beyond doubt, without a trace of fact-fitting, as though all were fated, how then to keep astrology in service to God? For to remain in the service of God, astrology must lead to liberation, not entrapment; to empowerment, not resignation. It must clarify freewill, not obliterate it.
The truth is, for one it must do the other. For the skeptic of astrology it must show fate, and for the true believer it must raise question. If only one side is shown, only half the picture is shown. Such cannot be divine reflection. God is the whole story. All of it, not just the part we happen to like. So, astrology must show both sides, both extremes; the whole story. Only then can it show the story itself. And with the story shown, the teller emerges, the listener emerges, and the present, rediscovered anew, emerges.