The Picatrix, a Latin translation of the Ghayat Al-Hakim, has an oversized influence on “European” astrology. In actuality it is not the sum of all astrological magic.
After all no student of the picatrix has ever established a cultural center that lives up to Baghdad

the story of the translation and transmission of the “Picatrix” is particularly an interesting one and the comparison of the Latin to the Arabic original is illuminating especially given it’s role as as source text in the English world

Electional astrology, or the “astrology of beginnings” predates the Picatrix by several hundred years and likely is one of the older branches of the tradition.
In the Islamic world it would become the mostly widely used of the branches and widely popular among the masses

people would elect marriages, conception, business deals, even times to rest.
Astrological elections would permeate Islamic societies at a level completely unheard of in the Latin “West” where it remained mostly the preserve of the few

Highly recommend Liana Saif’s brilliant Arabic Influence on Early Modern Occult Philosophy and Atrell and Porreca’s stellar translation of the Latin Picatrix