The Reformation instilled great anxiety in the German society, long fixated with the idea of order. Μost religious thinkers yielded to the notion that God might reveal man's destiny in the stars. Luther did not place much faith in it. It was not a predictable science and it placed limitations on God’s power. But astrological speculation increased after his death, as ministers exploited popular interest in astrology to press home the message that God was angry with a society that ignored the sermons.