Is It a Sin to Get a Spiritual Reading? An Honest Answer

I would rather lose your trust by being honest than keep it by being slippery. So if you came here asking whether it is a sin to get a spiritual reading, I am not going to give you the easy answer you might expect from someone who reads for a living. I am going to give you the true one, which is more careful — and, I think, more freeing.

First, the honest part: Scripture forbids real things

Let me say plainly what the Bible condemns, because it does condemn things, and any honest reader has to start here. In Deuteronomy 18:10–12, God forbids among His people anyone who “useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch… or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.” Leviticus 19:31 says, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards.” In Acts 16, Paul casts a spirit of divination out of a girl who told fortunes.

So hear me clearly: if “a spiritual reading” means fortune-telling, contacting the dead, summoning spirits, or seeking hidden powers apart from God — yes, that is forbidden, and I would tell you to stay far away from it. I am not going to soften that. My grandmother, a devout Catholic, would have softened it even less.

So the real question is: what kind of reading?

That is why “is it a sin to get a spiritual reading?” cannot be answered yes-or-no until you ask the next question: what is actually happening in the reading? The word covers wildly different things — from outright occult divination, which Scripture forbids, to something else entirely.

Let me tell you exactly what I do, so you can judge it against the Word yourself.

What the Three-Gate Reading is NOT:

• It does not tell your fortune or predict your future.
• It does not contact spirits, the dead, or any “familiar spirit.”
• It does not claim hidden power in any object, card, or ritual.
• It does not put me, or anything I use, in the place that belongs to God.

What it is: a tool for seeing and naming a pattern that has been handed down your family — what Scripture calls the “iniquity of the fathers” (Exodus 20:5), and what I call the chain. The “three gates” are simply past, present, and future as a structure for looking honestly at a bloodline — not a window I peer through to predict, but a frame for naming what is already there. And the breaking of it belongs entirely to Christ: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13).

In other words, it is closer to discernment and confession than to divination. It is the same discipline I hold everywhere — I never even let people pray to angels, only to God, as I explain in what the Bible says about guardian angels. The line against the occult is not something I tiptoe around. It is something I guard.

What about your conscience?

Here is the most pastoral thing I can tell you. Even after all of that, if your conscience is not at peace, do not do it. Scripture says “whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Romans 14:23). If you cannot sit at my table in faith, then it is not for you, and I will bless you and send you on your way with no pressure at all. I have turned away souls who were not at peace, and I would do it again. A real shepherd never bullies a troubled conscience.

If it helps you weigh it, others have asked the same honest questions and looked into who I actually am — you can read is Celestino legitimate? and my story.

“My grandmother taught me.”

So — is it a sin to get a spiritual reading? If the reading is occult, yes. If it is the honest naming of an inherited wound, brought to God for healing through Christ, then it is no more a sin than a Christian counselor helping you see a pattern in your family, or a pastor helping you confess. The form has an old shape, but the heart of it is this, and only this: Lord, help me see what I am carrying, so You can set me free of it.

That prayer has never been a sin.