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It is in the form of catarchic astrology that astrology had its greatest effect upon society as a whole; for before one could enter into a marriage, begin a business venture, or set out on a journey the astrologer had to determine the proper and propitious moment.

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Sidon, which is the main font of the tradition of catarchic astrology in the West.

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In India catarchic astrology has its roots in the ne - cessity to perform certain Vedic rituals when the Moon is in particular nakṣatras.

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Rather, in the West interrogations seem to have devel - oped naturally from catarchic astrology when the cli - ent asked the astrologer not only, “When should I begin an act in the future?” but “What will be the result of the particular course of action I am engaged in now?”

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Mesopotamian omens on Indian ideas was in the fields of military astrology (yātrā) and the common Indian form of catarchic astrology (muhūrta), which will be discussed in greater detail below.

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The idea behind most forms of catarchic astrology is that any act is influenced by the horoscope of its inception as is any individual by the horoscope of his birth; for certain types of activity, however, celestial omens are also significant.

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This simple version of muhūrtaśāstra, largely dependent on the position of the Moon, began to be contaminated by Hellenistic catarchic astrology in the first or second century A.D.; one notices this mixture in the earliest form of the Gargasaṃhitā and in the

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The astrologer, in conceding that a person has the free will to choose the astrologically propitious mo - ment for commencing his activities, to some extent negates the genethlialogical predictions; he may reply to his critics, however, that both the genethlialogical and the catarchic horoscopes influence the course of any particular enterprise, and it would be folly to attempt to gauge the future without considering both.

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In Islamic countries catarchic astrology is, as one would suspect, a combination of the Dorothean and

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Interrogations, or praśnajñāna, never achieved the popularity of genethlialogy or catarchic astrology in India; but there do exist some early works on the subject, notably by

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