Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Astrology is Real but a Jew can over come Influence of Heavenly Bodies

 Ibn Ezra (Shemos 23:25) That what befalls human beings depends on the alignment of the planets and what their arrangement indicates at the time of a person’s birth. The aforementioned is extremely difficult to understand. If a woman is born under an arrangement that decrees she will not be able to carry her children to term, then it will be the nature of her womb to abort the children in it. The same is true if the woman is born under an arrangement that decrees that she be barren and not have children. Now if a person who is born under an arrangement of the planets that determines that he will have a physical makeup that is unable to beget children cleaves to God, then if he truly cleaves to God, the revered God will strengthen the power of this man’s kidneys and see to it that his sperm functions properly so that he will be able to have children. God therefore told Abraham, I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou whole-hearted . This is what the rabbis meant by “Cease thy planet gazing.” God told Abraham, “If you make a treaty to serve Me, I will greatly multiply you, as I will overcome what nature has decreed for you.” This is not a victory over the arrangements of the stars, for they were not created to do good or ill to the lowest world. On the contrary, they always go and do the service of God, as that is what they need to do. The inhabitants of the lowest world receive a thing and its opposite from them in accordance with their desire. Thus if we observe the Torah we will not receive evil from the heavenly bodies.

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