What is the Authoritative Catholic explanation of why the Magi get a pass, yet Catholics are to reject astrology?

**What is the authoritative Catholic explanation of why the Magi get a pass, yet Catholics are required to reject astrology?** [Catechism of the Catholic Church | Divination and magic, 2116]( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a1.htm) has: >All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future [Cf. Deut 18:10; Jer 29:8]. Consulting horoscopes, **astrology**, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone. The [Magi](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09527a.htm) utilizing their Magian [astrology](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02018e.htm) , were led Christ. It appears that the stars have a knowledge, a science. What made the *Magian astrology* acceptable, and would that type of Astrology be permissible to Catholics? Please see this answer also: [What types of signs are given by the “lights in the expanse of the heavens”?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/31247/what-types-of-signs-are-given-by-the-lights-in-the-expanse-of-the-heavens/31339#31339)