Indians often do this with marriages, by checking the astrological compatibility. All of it honestly seemed like bs to me, if anything it’s job security for so-called soothsayers and astrologers, who have been grifting generations of families
The problem is, it doesn't actually solve anything and as you said, its just securing work for the incumbents.
I live up north, in the valley of Kashmir which has historically been shielded from mainland Indian traditions and culture.
https://upcomingkoshurmahraz.wordpress.com/
I started writing about my own efforts to get married so you can read how things happen in my town. And some of my inner ramblings on the issue
She reported two mutually exclusive predictions.
She did not see what that implied.
She has a graduate degree in statistics.
Woo is a mindkiller.
Astrologers are grifting charlatans.