For instance, we hear of the Zik-i Shahriyaran of Yezdigird III and the Kitab al-Mawalid wa Ahkamiha (Book of Nativities and their Judgements) in Arabic language or Islamic texts. [In addition to astrological references in surviving non-scriptural Middle Persian texts, we find references in Arabic texts describing other Middle Persian texts that are now extinct. The cultural role is nevertheless deep-seated. The role of Astrology in Zoroastrianism is cultural and not religious. These texts are based on earlier (now extinct) religious texts. However, astrology plays a prominent role in Middle Persian (8th to 10th century CE) non-scriptural Zoroastrian religious texts such as the Bundahishn (Creation) and Jamasp Namah (the Book of Jamasp, see below). There are no references to astrology in surviving Zoroastrian scriptures. References to Astrology in Zoroastrian Texts
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What a person does with it is a matter of free will and free choice. Once found, it can, however, be lost - a person can 'loose' herself or himself if a person's spirit and commitment are not strong enough and if she or he is easily distracted especially by base ambitions. Sometimes people find their khvarenah easily and sometimes after some searching. A person needs to recognize her or his own khvarenah.
The khvarenah is therefore the archetype of what a person can grow to if allowed to grow to the limit of her or his capacity in grace it is a person's higher calling – that person’s potential meaning in life.
When employed for good, a person manifests her or his higher meaning in life. The khvarenah is a particular talent or set of talents and with which everyone is born and which a person can develop through free will and then employ for good or evil to the extent of her or his ability. One way to understand the Zoroastrian approach to the interplay between providence and free will is to examine the concept of the khvarenah. Astrology may be used to indicate potential rather than absolute fated destiny, or perhaps favourable and unfavourable timing to undertake a venture. However, if this writer may be permitted to hazard an opinion about the place of astrology in such a philosophy, the orthodox Zoroastrian approach may be to seek possible answers to one’s lot in life or predicaments in astrology, while maintaining that within the boundaries of circumstance, an individual has the ability to make choices in every thought, word and deed based on free will and the orientation of her or his spirit – choices that have the ability to change circumstance. Since Zoroastrianism philosophy recognizes free will and a person’s individual and complete responsibility for her or his every thought, word and deed, it automatically rejects any suggestion that a person’s choice of thoughts, words and deeds were a result of movements of astral bodies in the skies.
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