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Professional-Grade
Astrological Software,
Calculations and Tools
Serving Astrologers
since 1979
Calculation Software 2
New! Solar Fire Gold v. 7.3 2
Galastro Deep-Space Objects 7
Nova Chartwheels 8
Solar Maps 3 10
JigSaw 2.2 12
Placidus 14
Porphyrius Magus 15
Babylonia 1.5 16
The Imperial Astrologer 18
New! Celeste for the iPhone 28
Accessory Software 19
Chart Collections 19
AstroTides 19
Astrolabe Font 1 19
Cosmic Ray Screensaver 19
Interpretation Software 20
Professional Natal Report 20
Professional Forecaster 20
Complete Relationship Report 21
EroScope 21
Optimum*Child 22
Asteroid Goddesses 22
Mayan Life Path Astrology 23
Personal Numerology 23
Interpretation Printouts 24
Astrolabe Report Printouts 24
Astro*Intelligence Reports 26
Chart Calculation Printouts 27
About Astrolabe 28
New! Solar Fire Gold (Version 7.3)
now includes a Sneak Peek at Version 8
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ince its 2008 release, registered users
of Solar Fire Gold (Version 7) have
downloaded dozens of
free enhancements in-
stantly over the internet.
Now new Solar Fire
Gold buyers (and existing
users of Solar Fire Gold
7.1) can get not only these
accumulated updates,
but also a free foretaste
of the forthcoming Solar
Fire Version 8.
Order Solar Fire Gold
7.3 now (or get a free
online update for your
Solar Fire Gold 7.1),
and youll get these
additional features:
Expanded interpretations for na-
tal, progressed and transiting charts
plus added sign/house
interps for Sedna,
Eris, Selena and the
Black Moon Lilith.
Traditional hot/cold/
wet/dry tallies for tem-
perament (sanguine,
choleric, melancholic
or phlegmatic) accord-
ing to William Lilly.
New gemstone chart art .
Lynda Hills in-depth
Sabian symbols inter-
pretationsboth as an
oracle and as a report
on points in the chart.
(More on pages 2-7.)
A New Incarnation of Nova and
Chartwheels to Complement Solar Fire
A
strolabes new calculation
program cont i nues i n t he
tradition of Robert Hands 1980s
Nova and Chartwheels software. But
instead of attempting the encyclo-
pedic complete-
ness of Solar
Fire, the new
Nova Chart -
wheels for Win-
dows concen-
trates on provid-
ing astrologys
most complete
and in-depth
software for
symmetry stud-
i es and di al
work.
Very different in style from Solar Fire,
Nova Chartwheels gives the old-time
sensation of being at a paper-strewn
desk, working the dials to investigate
each new thought as it occurs.
Nova Chartwheels
also provides an
extraordinary ar-
ray of productiv-
ity tools for the
busy profession-
al. This includes
a free Planner that
can organize not
only your prac-
tice, but the rest
of your life as
well. (Details on
pages 8-9.)
Besides having a to-do list, daily schedule
and address book, the Nova Chartwheels
Planner has a printable monthly calendar
that can show the transits to any chart.
$3.00
Cl i ck t he quest i on mark i n
Solar Fires new Sabian Oracle
to gain insight on any concern.
New!
Celeste: Free astro-calcs
on the iPhone and iPad
(details on back cover)
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NEW: 70+ artist-designed chart
formsplus new Astrodyne, horary,
xed-star and declination pages.
NEW: Improved, to-the-second dynamic hitlists can now show the persons exact age
and the time zone at each hit. You can select the columns you want, arrange them in any
order, and sort the hitlists in numerous ways. You also get to see all aspects that are in effect,
even if they never become exact or pass in or out of orb during the period shown.
Whats new in Solar Fire
14 new points usable in the standard
wheels and tables include Eris, Sedna,
the White Moon Selena, 0 Aries and all
the Munkasey sensitive points.
1000+ new timed, sourced, and
Rodden-rated celebrity charts with
brief bios. These are conveniently
separated into categories like artists,
politicians, entertainers, royals (and a
fascinating fle of the infamous!).
New frdaria interpretations use
an old Western technique similar to
Vedic dasas to identify the quality
of life periods of a year or more. A
revealing report that you wont fnd
elsewhere!
New Astrodyne tables show relative
power, harmony and disharmony of
planets, aspects, houses and signs.
Nearest new Moons, full Moons and
eclipses, and how far away they are in
time, now show up on the Main Screen.
A built-in astrology encyclopedia.
Powerful new searches. Time and
chart fle searches now fnd midpoints,
unaspected planets, the weekday, and
additional chart shapes (with a specifed
lead planet in a Locomotive, or handle
planet in a Sling or Bucket). Time search
fnds exact transiting aspects, also house
ingresses and phase-angle repetitons in
relation to a natal chart. And you can now
bracket and nest your search terms.
Chart cloning lets you keep multiple
wheels (even real-time charts!) on the
screen, each in its own little window.
Birthday reminder pops up with
upcoming birthdays for any selected
charts in your fles. Makes it easy to re-
mind clients about a yearly update (and
send all your birthday cards on time!).
Latest update of the ACS Atlasand
you can now add your own info to it.
Pictorial previews simplify selecting
wheel and page designs, and show you in
advance what printouts will look like.
Instant mean/true node, geo/helio
and tropical/sidereal switching. And
you can now automatically have a dif-
ferent house system for sidereal charts.
All charts and settings now stored
under the My Documents folder
making for easier backups and for full
compatibility with Vista and Windows 7.
NEW: Dynamic hits also come on
printable daily, weekly or monthly cal-
endarswith pop-up interpretations and
printed reports. You can select the types of
hits and can also insert hits into MS Outlook
and similar calendar programs.
COMPLETELY
CUSTOMIZABLE
TRANSIT/
PROGRESSION
CALENDARS!
NEW: 26 different instant-access
graphs and tables deliver many sorts of
additional information about a chart.
NEW: Wheels with recently
discovered planets like
Eris (here at 2 Aries)
and Sedna (17 Ar-
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New Convenience
For upgrade prices, see page 7.
New Information
The easiest, most enjoyable to
use, and most rock-solid astrol-
ogy program on the market.
software reviewer Hank Friedman
Easy to use, uid and can be
custom ft ted to suit your own
individual re quire ments. . . .
A pleasure to in ter act with! . . .
More than enough ap pli ca tions
to keep even the most ex per i men-
tal of you in a sus tained state of
bliss. There are so many fea tures
to play with and ex plore. . . .
[Solar Fire is] something that
all as trol o gers should have.
The Dublin Astrologer
Solar Fire has the most fea-
tures, is the most customizable
and is the most pop u lar among
pro fes sion al as trol o gers.
The Astrology Soft ware Shop
Predictive Astrology: Many variations of progressed, directed, converse, return, pro-
fected, in gress, eclipse, lunar-phase and age-harmonic charts. Extraordinarily fexible
and complete hitlists and transit/progression calendars. Highly customizable graphic
ephemerides and linear fore cast ing graphs. Ephem er is tables for plan ets, angles,
Fortuna, as ter oids, midpoints and other extra points. Transiting, pro gressed and frdar
interpretations. Plus animated multi-ringed wheels, dials and ta bles that instantly
update transits, progressions and/or directions as click your way through time.
Relationship Astrology: Biwheels with optional inter-chart aspect lines and cusps
for both people. Tri, quad and quinqui wheels and dials. Synastry aspectarians and
comparative declination strips. Love and marriage in ter pre ta tions. Com pos ite charts
for 2 to15 people. Coalescent and Davison re la tion ship charts. Tran sit ing hits to a
com pos ite chart, or aspects from As pro gressed or di rect ed points to Bs natal chart.
Locational Astrology: Easy chart relocation; Johndro and geodetic charts; plus 16
maps on which you can project astro-locality, local space and eclipse-path lines.
Electional Astrology: Hitlists can include Void-of-course Moon periods and
aspects from transiting angles. Extraordinary time search in stant ly fnds periods
that ft what ev er combination of astro fac tors you specify. Planetary hour tables
for any day. Ephemeris printouts of the transiting angles and Part of Fortune.
Tables of daily risings, settings, culminations and anticulminations.
Rectifcation: Life-event storage keeps all your rectifcation data handy. rec ti f ca tion
win dow instantly recalculates chart for new time, date, or coordinates. Animated wheels
and dials let you click a chart chart forward or back by hours, minutes or sec onds.
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Encyclopedically complete
and exceptionally easy to use,
Solar Fire Gold puts the
whole vast realm of astrology
easily within your reach.
The Fullest Range of Astrological Tasks
10,000 years of high-precision, to-the-second geo and helio
calculations from the renowned Swiss Ephemeris.
50 points possible in the regular wheels and tables include
6 major asteroids, Chiron, 8 Ura ni an plan ets, mean/true
Nodes, Part of Fortune (including different day and night
formulas), Eris, Sedna, Transpluto, Vulcan, the Black Moon
Lilith, White Moon Selena, Aries point, Vertex, Antivertex,
CoAsc/Dsc, Polar Asc/Dsc and Equa to ri al Asc/Dsc.
Extra points in clude all midpoints be tween standard points, plus
8 Jayne es o ter ic bodies, 290 fxed stars, over 1,000 asteroids,
unlimited Arabic parts (including 150 new pre-defned parts), and
more. You can add these to any forecasting hitlist, extra-points
wheel or table, ephemeris table, or graphic eph e mer i s.
Solar Fire Golds opening screen with its Chart Pre view wheel and
current transiting positions, Moon phase and eclipse information bars.
Solar Fire
State-of-the-Art Calculations
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Aspect Filtering lters out all as pect lines and
grid items that youre not currently study ing. (Here,
only the aspects to Mercury are showing.)
Solar Fires Animated Chart may well become your
fa vor ite way to predict! Just click for ward or back in time,
and watch the changes in from 1 to 4 charts (natal,
tran sit ing, pro gressed and di rect ed). You can do this
with wheels, aspect grids, and even whole page layouts.
On wheels, watch aspect lines thicken as an aspect ap-
proaches exact, and become dotted as it separates.
Time Map bar graphs show how tran sits, pro gres -
sions, etc. over lap in time. Graphic Eph e mer i des
show the speed and direction of planets. They
vividly depict planetary stations and complexes or
knots of aspects hap pen ing simultaneously. Solar
Fire does geo and helio transiting, pro gressed and
di rect ed graph ic eph e mer i des in a variety of moduli
and co or di nate sys tems, including dec li na tion.
Heavenly
Predictive Features
Solar Fires extraordinary hitlists en able
you to combine transits, pro gres sions, di-
rec tions, ingresses, stations, eclips es and
more into one timeline. You can also sort
the hits in other useful ways. Besides regu-
lar points, you can in clude house cusps,
midpoints, hy po thet i cal plan ets and any
as ter oid. If you wish, you can even put in
primary di rec tions, an nu al profections and
void-of-course Moon periods.
You can also cast a huge va ri ety of
fore cast ing charts, and save them for
fu ture use. Plus, the new Life Events
stor age makes it easy to keep a record of
past oc cur renc es that can help you judge
the prob a bil i ty of fu ture events.
Powerful
Relocation Aids
With Solar Fires Relocality feature,
you can instantly recast a chart for as many
dif fer ent lo ca tions as you wish. You can
also view and print maps that show all
the geo graph i cal locations where a charts
plan ets would be an gu lar. You can map
any plan et or asteroid that is in the reg-
u lar point set, and you can view and print
local space maps and wheels as well.
Amazing Chart
and Time Searches
Check how as tro log i cal con cepts ac tu al ly
work out in practice! The new Chart
Search will fnd charts in your fles that
have one or many fac tors in com mon. Not
just a giv en body be ing in a cer tain sign,
house or aspectbut also high ly com plex
com bi na tions of multi-plan et aspect pat-
terns, phase re la tion ships, rulerships, al-
mutens, horary con sid er ations, and more.
Or use the new Electional or Time
Search to search any timespan you spec i fy.
now its easy to fnd times that meet the
ideal electional con di tions for start ing a
project. Or quickly lo cate every his tor i cal
pe ri od that has a given com bi na tion of
as tro log i cal factors.
Solar Fires 16 world and regional Maps can
show astrolocality, local space and eclipse lines,
either by themselves or all together in one map.
Fantastic Aspect
Facilities
Solar Fires As pect Editor win dow lets
you se lect from 26 pre defned as pects, plus
defne un lim it ed aspects of your own.
Ad vanced op-
tions let you set
dif fer ent orbs
for each pair of
points, do uni di-
rec tion al, sign-
to-sign or 3-D
(off-the-ecliptic)
as pects, and use Tra di tion al moi eties. You
can create an un lim it ed num ber of as pect
sets for dif fer ent purposes.
You can see as pects as op tion al lines in
the center of the chart; in square, tri an gu lar
or synastry grids; in a list sort ed with the
clos est as pects frst, and in as pect anal y sis
print outs. And now, Solar Fire can point
out 25 types of multi-aspect patterns, from
grand trines and t-squares to grand sextiles
and quintiles, heles and rosettas.
Aspect Highlighting makes the pattern of lines
clearer, enabling thicker lines for clos er as pects,
and dot ted lines for as pects that are sep a rat ing.
Provides a Lavish
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Traditional
and Horary
Solar Fire provides special strength in
Clas si cal, medieval and Re nais sance
tech niques. It includes tra di tion al planet
sets and rulerships; whole-sign, Alcabitius
and oth er tra di tion al ly
ap pro pri ate house sys-
tems; and sign-to-sign
as pects and moi eties.
It tab u lates dispositors,
antiscia, Arabic lu nar
man sions, mu tu al recep-
tions, es sen tial dig ni ties, almutens, hylegs,
planetary sect, plan e tary days/hours,
and horary con sid er ations. Plus, its
Chart and Electional Search es will
find vir tu al ly any of these fac tors in
your saved charts or any time period.
For pre dic tion, you can use var i ous
meth ods of frdaria, an nu al profections,
term di rec tions, and pri ma ry di rec tions.
Solar Fire also has remarkable Rulership,
Ar a bic Parts, and Dignity/Almuten Ed i tors
that enable you to cre ate more Parts and spec-
ify the way these old tech niques are done.
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and Uranian
Solar Fire includes Uranian planets and
the Aries point, and sin gle, bi, tri and quad
90 and 360 di als, with a point er that re-
veals mid points and aspects.
It also has mid point trees; mid point lists
sorted by plan et, modulus or mode; and
Munkasey Mid point Weight ing Anal y sis.
Plus, you can use the Ar a bic Parts Ed i tor to
create 3-point plan e tary pic tures, and then
add these as sen si tive points to wheels,
dials and predictive hitlists.
Declination Studies
Besides showing parallels and contra-
parallels in the full aspect grid, Solar Fire
shows declinations in tables sorted to
make parallels and out-of-bounds plan ets
easy to see. There are also new graph ic
dec li na tion strips. Dynamic hitlists now
show not only transits and progressions
in dec li na tion, but also directions in dec-
li na tion. Plus, you can print ephem er ides
showing dec li na tions as they change over
time. There are also new lon gi tude equiv a-
lent tables and charts.
Eclipses
Solar Fires Eclipse Search lets you search
any timespan between 2000 bce and 3000
ce for solar and/or lunar eclipses in a given
Saros series, eclipses that aspect a speci-
fed zodiacal position, or eclipses that as-
pect a given chart. For each eclipse found,
you can see the eclipse type, Saros num-
ber, magnitude and duration, and you can
double-click on it to view a chart wheel for
the moment of maximum eclipse. You can
also calculate a whole string of consecu-
tive eclipses, and can include eclips es in
the dynamic hitlists.
Chart pages can show prenatal eclips es,
and you can also include these as sen si tive
points in wheels and dials.
Fixed Stars
Solar Fire in cludes the po si tion, mag ni tude,
spec tral class and other info on 290 stars.
Its extraordinary Fixed Star Editor lets you
add more stars, sort them, print star lists,
and even fnd exact star positions in eras
re mote from our own. You can put stars
into chart wheels and listings, list planet-
star as pects and parans, and print eph e mer-
i des show ing changing star positions over
the eons. (Adding the Galastro da ta base,
you can also put black holes, quasars,
etc. into the Plan e tar i um and your charts.
See page 7.)
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Oprah Winfrey
Natal Chart
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Natal Chart
Jan 29 1954
7:51 pm +6:00
Kosciusko, Mississippi
33N03'27'' 089W35'15''
Geocentric
Tropical
Placidus
Mean Node
Pt Name Long. Travel Lat. R.A. Decl. Pt Name Long. Travel Lat. R.A. Decl.
Moon 12 -32'22'' +1237' ~0329' 25034' ~2545'
Sun 09 =38'34'' +0100' ~0000' 31205' ~1750'
Mercury 20 =16 +0144' ~0141' 32314' ~1619'
Venus 09 =39 +0115' ~0109' 31225' ~1857'
1 Mars 23 H56 +0034' +0100' 23149' ~1747'
1 Jupiter 16 T37 ] ~0002' ~0022' 07531' +2223'
3 Saturn 09 H03 +0001' +0227' 21728' ~1211'
Uranus 20 17 ] ~0002' +0029' 11201' +2224'
Neptune 26 03 ] ~0000' +0142' 20447' ~0828'
Pluto 24 [08 ] ~0001' +1003' 15003' +2256'
North Node 23 \12 ] ~0003' +0000' 29503' ~2126'
Ascendant 10 R26'27'' +30428' +0000' 16156' +0739'
Midheaven 08 T39'19'' +33926' +0000' 06655' +2145'
Hs Long. Hs Long.
1 10 R26
2 06 21
3 06 H13
4 08 -39
5 11 \16
6 12 =11
7 10 26
8 06 21
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Family Patterns: Reveals the hidden links between the charts in any group
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2.2
THE NEW TUTORI AL VERSI ON
New in Version 2.2:
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Family Patterns
features a frst in the astrology worlda
Group Astro Dynamics report, written by the
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friends. Just input three or more charts, and
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The prominent harmonic and mid-
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Bradys insightful interpretations
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Rectifcation
can optionally be automated, to speed the
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you can watch the transiting, progressed and
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as you either click on each life event indi-
vidually or move steadily through time.
Besides rectifying with transits, pro-
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Even when you know the birthtime,
JigSaws rectifcation module is useful for
tracking how a chart has responded to tran-
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known birth time to improve the accuracy of
forecasts. Plussince it intelligently accepts
input of events even when you dont know the
exact time or dateJigSaw is the perfect place
to keep a record of all your life events.
Research
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To get you started, JigSaw includes
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Life events for Buzz Aldrin, Cyril
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34 timed astronaut charts
43 timed British royal family charts
13 timed natal and event charts for
the Kennedy family
41 timed charts of U.S. presidents
21 dated charts of Australian prime
ministers
55 dated charts of popes
399 dated charts of stage and
screen stars
629 dated charts of pub lished Aus-
tralian poets
500 worst storms, 1600-1990 CE
1,600 dated charts of popular musi-
cians
1,900 rainfall records
130+prominent Australians,
categorized by profession
JigSaw comes with different sets of interpreta-
tions specifcally for each type of group.
The Family Patterns section also en-
ables you to manually search for patterns
within groups of charts. In the Display mode,
you can view charts side by side in linear
rather than circular form. This immediately
lets you see what degrees are shared by the
charts in any harmonic. Once you have
determined the pattern, you can click on
the Delineate button and produce your own
profle report with interpretations.
JigSaws Family Patterns module provides
a fascinating way to study any human group.
It can also reveal the common patterns in stock
market movements, earthquakes, weather
events and other groups of related charts.
2.2
becomes much easier and actually fun
when you do it with JigSaw. To create a re-
search group, you can enter birth data directly
into this program. For convenience, JigSaw2.1
now includes the complete ACS PC Atlas,
which automatically looks up the longitude,
latitude and time changes for you.
Alternatively, you can import charts
from Solar Fire, Blue*Star, QuickCharts,
Astrolabe Reports, Nova Chartwheels, or
any other program in the Nova System. You
can also use charts from the chart collections
sold by Astrolabe (see page 14) or collections
like the AstroDataBank. Plus, you can import
chart data that is in plain text format.
For all the charts in a large database,
you can easily change the zodiac (tropical
or any sidereal), house system (nine, plus
equal from any point), node (mean or true)
or coordinate system (geo or helio).
Most important, JigSaw makes it easy to
generate matched or random control groups.
You can also easily separate specifc charts
(like all with Mars in Aries, etc.) into sep-
arate data fles for further study.
The data fles that you create can be of
unlimited length. To each record, you can
add unlimited numeric or textual data felds,
and then you can use JigSaws Boolean logic
to select or flter the records in the fle.
JigSaws powerful Criteria Search of-
fers an almost endless list of conditions you
can search for. Just some of the possibilities
include planets in signs, houses, decanates, es-
sential dignities, declinations and azimuths.
Select any combination of criteria, and
youll quickly get a graphic display of the
results. Both bar and polar graphs let you see
in a fash whether the effect is worth pursuing,
and tables give you the exact fgures. To get an
instant chi-square evaluation, you can simply
click on any part of a table or graph.
JigSaw enables you to keep a fle of
notes on each of your projects. You can also
make high-resolution printouts of all the
charts, tables, graphs and diagrams, either
for a personal record or for articles and re-
search papers. Plus, in the new 2.2 version,
you can easily share your research results in
emails and word processing documents.
Research
Requires: Chip: Pentium or better.
Drive:CD ROM. Hard disk: 10 mb free.
Video: min. VGA; rec. XGA or better.
RAM (min. & rec.): Windows 95, 98, 98
SE, 32/64 mb; Windows 2000, 72/144
mb; Windows XP, 128/256 mb;
Vista and Windows 7, 500mb/1gb.
Set JigSaw up in your PC (a
few minutes only), enter data
(no time at all), and expect
to spend the rest of the day
engrossed by the important
relationships youll discover.
--Ken Gillman, Considerations
T HE NEW T UTORI AL VERSI ON
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PlaciDuS:
Compare All Types of Primaries
Placidus instantly produces lifetime lists of primaries in your choice of methods and degrees
of detail. The fullest list (above) gives you side-by-side comparison of the hit dates produced by 8
different keys (conversions of arc to time).
Direction types: Placidean, Regiomontanian, Topocentric and more. In mundo and zodiacal,
direct and converse.
Keys : Ptolemy, Cardan, Naibod, Placidus, Kepler, Kuendig, Van Dam, Suns travel on birth-
date, and user-defned.
Types of contact: to angles and cusps, planet-to-planet, planet-to-itself. By conjunction or
aspect, or by in mundo or rapt parallel.
Promissors and signifcators include 170 fxed stars.
Standard techniques, too so you can integrate them with primaries. Natal wheel, transits,
secondaries, solar arcs, and symbolic directions as well as solar and lunar returns. These are
displayed in 1- to 4- ringed static or animated wheels.
Explore the Celestial Sphere
The 3D Horoscopes control panels and more than 100 menu choices enable you to visualize in
mundo relationships in the chart and see how they change when points are directed. You can also
explore house systems, great circles and coordinate systems.
Speculums include Placidus (classic or under the
pole), Regio, Campanus and Topocentric, plus an
Alcabitius house cusps speculum.
Finely divided Gauquelin Chart (a.k.a. Placidus
mundoscope) has 12 sectors, each with 30 sub-
divisions. Here, anything that looks like a con-
junction, square or opposition is actually a paran.
See Uniquely
Revealing Views
of the Chart
The animated Mundo Placidian Lab lets you
step through time and watch the hits as you
direct a promissor to a signifcator.
PLACIDUS
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Primary Directions Software
Astrologys Most Complete
The unique PorPhy-
rius Magus chart
wheel uses special
symbols and color-
coding to show the
cosmic state of each
point in the chart.
You can view either
a natal chart or an
animated chart for
any date and time.
A control panel at
the lower left and a
menu bar at the top
let you choose points,
calculation methods
and other features.
The menus also give
access to many other
informative windows
such as the ones
shown below.
The auThOr: Dr Rumen
Kolev has spent 20 years
of wide-ranging research
on primary directions.
He has written two
books on primaries,
journal articles, and computer programs
including Placidus.
His Porphyrius Magus program adds
his research into the many chart evaluation
methods of Hellenistic, Arabic and Medieval
astrology. Both programs enable you to test
and compare all methods for yourself.
Requires: 32- or 64-bit Windows 98
through 7. At least 20Mb of free disk
space and a True Color 800x600 or
better display.
The Porphyry Almuten Wizard lets you deter-
mine how a Porphyry almuten is calculated.
This Hyleg-Alcocoden-Almuten table lets you
compare the results of these calculations done
according to 10 different sources.
The All Almutens Wizard enables you to eas-
ily experiment with the many different ways of
calculating the almuten.
The Heliacal Phase window graphs the phases
of all the visible planets with regard to the Sun as
of the chart date.
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POrPhyriuS MaguS:
Hellenistic, Arabic & Medieval Techniques
Placidus (Primaries), $320
Porphyrius Magus (Hellenis-
tic, Arabic & Medieval), $160
Both together, $480
Comparative
BABYLONIA 1.5
BABYLONIAN ASTROLOGY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
W
ith their meticulous record-keeping of heliacal ris-
ings, eclipses and the path of the planets through the
constellations, the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia laid the
foundations for all of the Western and Vedic astrology that
followed. Their actual, immediate observation of celestial
happenings makes a refreshing and instructive complement
to our more abstract approach today.
Now, after years of study, Rumen Kolev has released his
Babylonia computer program to help you understand and do
research on the practice of the Babylonian astrologers.
Comparing Babylonias computations with Francesca Roch-
bergs complete collection of extant Babylonian horoscopes,
the author fnds a high level of agreement with the ancient
cuneiform texts. The data for erecting these early horoscopes
is included in a 32-chart fle that comes with Babylonia 1.5.
Simulating Direct Observation
The opening screen of Babylonia 1.5 shows a unique view
of the sky as an observer would see it at a given time from a
specifc location on earth. You can change locations, and can
even animate the sky to watch the planets and principal stars
rise, culminate, set and anticulminate as time passes.
Also included are tables showing the rise and set times of the
Sun and planets, their azimuth of rise and set, and the bright-
ness of the planets. As a bonus, heliocentric views show in-
formation about the planets apogees and perigees, aphelia
and perihelia, and current distance from the Sun and Earth.
Computing Heliacal Phases
One of the most important parts of Babylonian astrology
was observation of heliacal risings (the frst appearance of a
celestial body after its conjunction with the Sun) and helia-
cal settings (the bodys last appearance before its conjunc-
tion with the Sun).
Accurate computation of the dates of heliacal risings and
settings depends on many factors, including the brightness
of the body, its declination, and the latitude of the observer.
In computing the theoretical heliacal phases of planets, the
author uses Schochs Oxford tables for the arcus visionis of
the planets, and Jean Meeus astronomical algorithms.
So that you can track the lunar and planetary phases as the
Babylonian observers did, Babylonia 1.5 shows all the phas-
es. There are circular diagrams of a given bodys phases like
the ones shown on the next page. Theres also a very use-
ful Babylonian Planets Calendar table that inter-sorts the
Babylonias unique sky view helps you see how the planets and
stars relate to the local horizon and meridian when seen from a par-
ticular spot on earth. It also shows how far each body is north or
south of the ecliptic (shown here by the next circle from the middle).
Additional displays include a bar graph depicting when the Moon
and visible planets will rise, transit (culminate) and set, and when
this will happen relative to twilight and the day-night cycle. The
hours are shown across the top, and the vertical dotted line repre-
sents the current moment.
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You can convert modern-style dates
to the Babylonian calendar and vice
versa. Plus, in case youre working
with Babylonian texts, you can in-
put time directly in the Babylonian
calendar. There are options for 7
different Babylonian eras. Since
the Jewish calendar is similar, you
can also use this feature to convert
Jewish dates to modern ones.
Babylonia 1.5 requires: Windows 98 to XP and 16-bit Vista
(64-bit Vista and Windows 7 soon). At least 20Mb of free disk
space, 60 mHz (or faster) processor (math co-processor rec-
ommended) and a 1024x768 True Color (or better) display.
phases of selected planets in one timeline and includes the
phase, magnitude, Gregorian and Babylonian date and time,
arcus visionis, azimuth distance between the planet and the
Sun, elongation, and rise/set times of the planet and the Sun.
Babylonia 1.5, $120
with Babylonian Anthology, $200
Babylonian Anthology alone, $120
Babylonia 1.5 is a standalone program that expands the ba-
sic Babylonian astrology features in Placidus/Porphyrius. It
was created for all who want to read the sky the Babylonian
wayat twilight, with the unaided eye, taking in the heliacal
phases and noting the appearance (and beauty) of sunrise and
Enhancing Primary Directions
Babylonia 1.5 also has a module for computing some very
useful primary directions to the angles.
In most primaries, 1 day = about 360 years. With the prima-
ries available in Babylonia 1.5, you can have much faster
directions, such as:
1 Babylonian day = 12 Babylonian years
1 Babylonian day = 1 Babylonian year
1 Babylonian day = 1 Babylonian month
1 Babylonian month = 1 Babylonian year.
Using the slower, more conventional primaries you can block
in time periods when a certain infuence will prevail. Using
the faster Babylonian primaries you can then fnd when that
infuence will peak.
The author has checked this method with past events on vari-
ous charts, and is very pleased with the results. Looking frst
at the ordinary primaries and then at the faster primaries with
the same planet, he pinpointed several events in his own
chart and that of another person down to the day of the oc-
currence. Besides enabling more precise forecasting, these
faster primaries also have the potential to improve rectifca-
tion, and there is a special display to facilitate this.
For convenience, Babylonia also provides transits and the
ordinary primaries of planets to angles, including 1 day =
360 years and 4 minutes (1 degree) = 1 year.
This circular graph of one
complete Venus heliacal cycle
shows the inferior conjunc-
tion (IC), heliacal rising (frst
morning appearance, MF),
morning elongation (ME),
heliacal setting (morning last
appearance, ML), superior
conjunction (SC), heliacal ris-
ing (evening frst appearance,
EF), evening elongation (EE),
heliacal setting (evening last
appearance, EL) and next inferior conjunction. Listed for each
phase are the Babylonian and Gregorian date, the planets tropical
longitude and magnitude (brightness), and the degrees of elonga-
tion or arcus visionis (Suns distance below the horizon).
This graph of a lunar cycle
shows the Gregorian date
on the outermost ring of the
wheel and the Babylonian
date on the next ring in. The
Babylonian month begins at
the new moon crescent (NC),
when the Moon frst becomes
visible. It proceeds to the frst
quarter (FQ), acronychal ris-
ing (AR), cosmical setting
(CS), last quarter (LQ), and
last crescent (LC). The new Moon occurs midway between the LC
and NC points, but is not shown because it is then invisible to
the observer. The full Moon occurs midway between the AR event
(Moon seen rising just before sunset) and CS event (Moon seen
rising just after sunset)events which, unlike the moment of the
exact Sun-Moon opposition, can be precisely observed by anyone
looking at the sky.
Converting Babylonian Dates
Babylonia 1.5 also does something that even scholars in the
feld can have trouble doingconverting between Babylo-
nian and Gregorian dates. Conversion is possible for all lo-
cations where this is valid (i.e., those below 66 latitude).
The auThOr: Long interested in the observa-
tional astrology of the Babylonians, Rumen
Kolev has published 4 volumes of a scholarly
journal, the Babylonian Sky Observer. He is
now gathering all 4 volumes, plus new material,
into a 300-page Babylonian Anthology, which
is being sold at a discount to those who buy Babylonia 1.5 at
the same time. This contains material not found elsewhere, and
it will help you to get the most from the program.
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As an added thoughtful touch, the opening screen dis-
plays the current days tetragram and its meaning.
T
he Imperial Astrologer takes
Chinese astrology calculations
far beyond the 12 animal signs. It
also includes a 78-page tutorial that
gets you started understanding and
interpreting the calculations. The
tables it generates include keywords,
and there is a gracefuly written
2-page natal interpretation by Malvin
Artley that makes an attractive gift
or item that you can sell.
You start by entering birth
data (with the help of a full built-in
ACS Atlas) or using a chart already
cast in Solar Fire. The Imperial
Astrologer then computes your
place in several Chinese methods of
timekeeping, including the solar and
lunar month and year, the day of the
lunar month, and the Chinese double
hours and minutes.
Then you can screen-view
or print out both natal and predic-
tive tables, diagrams and lists. Your
choices are:
A Four Pillars diagram, listing
and interpretive report. Based on
the natal chart, this deals with
the Year Pillar (animal sign and
element, signifying ones ances-
tors and social group), Month
Pillar (birth family), Day Pillar
(self and partner), Hour Pillar
(children, friends, creativity)
and Minute Pillar (legacy to the
future). The listing includes the
relationships among the pillars
and elements, the constellation
of the day, Japanese and Chinese
versions of the 9-Star Ki, and the
tetragram for the birth.
A Tzu Wei natal chart and
6-page tabulation with brief
delineations on specifc areas of
The Imperial Astrologer
Your Gateway to Chinese Astrology
Imperial Astrologer, $130
for Solar Fire users, $89
Requires: PC or Windows-enabled
Mac with Windows 95, 98, ME,
NT4 (with SP6), 2000, XP, Vista
or Windows 7 with at least 32Mb
RAM, 50 Mb free disk space, a
640x480 screen and a Pentium or
better processor. Internet connec-
tion needed for program updates.
With its12 palaces, the Tzu Wei chart is reminiscent of
a Western horoscope. The 5-page outline that comes
with it describes your fate in 12 life departments.
The Lifetime Fate map and accompanying
Lifetime Fate Cycle printout indicate the benefac-
tor and driving force during each decade of your life.
life. These include service, travel,
health, fnance, children, marriage,
peers and siblings, destiny, par-
ents, karma, property and voca-
tion.
A Chinese Calendar listing for
the year following the chart date.
Includes the dates and times of
that years lunar months and also
of its solar points (Chinese-named
subdivisions of the tropical zodiac
seasons).
A Lifetime Fate map and listing
of the elements and character of
each decade of life.
An Event Fate Cycle graph and
listings of the current years pro-
gressed minute, hour, day, month
and year pillars. Shows their sym-
bolism, subperiods that they cover,
and their chances for strength,
productivity, creativity, learning
and balance.
With The Imperial Astrologer doing
the complex calculations and provid-
ing lots of keyword and tutorial help,
youll be well on the way to practicing
Chinese astrology. Youll also have the
fun of generating Chinese mini-reports
for your friends, family and customers.
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Chart Collections
More than 600 20th-century achievers and
newsmakers, all with timed charts taken
straight from birth certifcates by Janice
Mackey and Jessica Saunders. Includes
many life-event dates.
Contemporary Data Collection, $50
Includes over 500 historical fgures, from
the Emperor Augustus to the frst test-tube
baby. Compiler Arthur Blackwell has put in
years of painstaking research, not only into
biographies, but also into the timekeeping
conventions of other times and places. He
includes some life events.
Historical Data Collection, $50
Nick Campion offers the charts from his
celebrated Book of World Horoscopes
handily pre-cast for you with brief com-
ments. This epic collection of more than
400 charts of nations and historical events is
based on decades of painstaking research.
Book of World Horoscopes, $85
Courtney Conrad has compiled three col-
lections of timed and untimed charts from
major areas of American sports from the
1990s and earlier. She includes sources and
brief biographies.
The Basketball database includes hun-
dreds of charts of basketball teams, players,
staff and events.
The Football database includes more
than 1,500 charts of U.S. football teams,
players, staff and important events.
The General Athletics database includes
more than 200 charts for fgures in baseball,
basketball, football, skating, golf, tennis,
Olympics and NASCAR racing.
U.S. Athletic Collection, $50
Accessory Programs
These carefully sourced charts are usable with
Solar Fire, Nova Chartwheels, Solar Maps, Jig-
Saw, Imperial Astrologer and Astrolabe Reports.
Sublime Screensaver
Zone out on ever-changing
mandalas of jewel-like color
based on the cross, star, spiral,
wheel and astrological glyphs.
Select the symbols, speed, and
other variables as you wish.
Also includes copyright-free
cosmic photos from NASA
and Hubble. Windows 98
through XP.
Cosmic Ray 2, $20
Complete Astro Font
This medium-weight TrueType and
Type 1 font has all the regular and Ura-
nian planets, major asteroids, signs and
aspect symbols easily accessible on the
keyboard. Plus, using the Alt key gives
access to alternative planet and sign
symbols, Moon phases, subscripts, stars
from three to many points, and more.
Proportionally spaced and with serifs,
this font looks especially good in text.
Astrolabe Font 1, $50
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Graphic Ephemerides
Transit graphs and more! Specify transits, progressions or solar arc directions;
and geo, helio, declination or latitude coordinates. Include natal data (if any),
start/end dates, zodiac, modulus (360, 45, 90, 30 or other), and points to
include (available: regular planets, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Chiron and natal
MC and Asc). We recommend:
1. 3-month transit graph with Moon. With natal lines, $10 per page.
Moving planets only, $5 per page. (2 page minimum.)
2. 6-month transit graph without Moon. With natal lines, $10 per page.
Moving planets only, $5 per page. (2 page minimum.)
3. 5-year transit graph of Jupiter through Pluto. With natal lines, $10
per page. Moving planets only, $5 per page. (2 page minimum.)
4. Life diagram: 100 years of Solar Arc Directions with natal lines. $10
5. 20 years of secondary progressions with natal lines. $10
6. 3 years of tertiary progressions with natal lines. $10
AstroMaps and Locality Reports
1. Planet and Local-Space Lines (specify either or both) projected on a
map (world, U.S., or any continent). $10; color map $15.
2. Local space wheel,
natal or relocated. $8
3. Local i ty report.
Lists and interprets
the planet lines, lo-
cal space lines and
parans in effect at any
specified location.
$10 per location; 3
locations for $25.
Specify smaller wheel with aspect grid (shown at
left) or full-page wheel without aspect grid.
1. Natal or event chart. $5
2. Forecasting chart: Provide natal data and data
for forecast chart. Specify Secondary Progressed,
Tertiary Progressed, Solar Arc Directed, Solar
Return, or Lunar Return. $3 when ordered with
natal chart; $5 without natal chart order.
Solar Fire Chart Calculations
Chart Calculations
Solar Fire Dynamic Hitlists
Chronologically sorted lists include exact hits to natal Sun, Moon, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Mean North Node,
MC and Asc. Aspects include the conjunction, semisextile, semisquare,
sextile, square, trine, sesquiquadrate, quincunx and opposition.
1. Transits to natal points (1 year, specify start date): a) transits from
Mars through Pluto and North Node (about 4 pages): $10; or b) from
Sun through Pluto and North Node (but no transiting Moon) (about 16
pages): $25.
2. Progressions to natal and progressed points (3 years, specify start
date): Includes progressed Sun through Pluto, Node, MC, Asc, with
progressed house and sign ingresses (2 to 3 pages): $8
3. Solar arc directions to natal points (3 years, specify start date): Includes
directed Sun through Pluto, Node, MC, Asc; hits by conjunction, semisquare,
square, sesquiquadrate and opposition. House and sign ingresses also.
a) With forward and backward whole arcs (about 3 pages), $5; or b) With
forward and backward whole, half and double arcs (about 8 pages), $12.
4. Transits and progressions (1 year, specify start date): Progressions
as in #2, plus transits from a) Mars through Pluto and Node to natal
and progressed points and house cusps (about 7 pages), $15; or b) with
transiting Sun and Mercury added (about 28 pages), $40.
5. Progressed lunation listing: 84 years of progressed lunar phases plus
progressed sign and house ingresses of Sun and Moon (3 pages): $15
Regular Lotus
Teardrop
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About
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Founded as Astro-Graphics Services in late 1979 by the astrologers Robert
Hand, Gary Christen, Arthur Blackwell, Steve Blake and Patricia White,
Astrolabe is celebrating its 32nd year. Starting with programs for the Radio
Shack TRS-80, the Apple II and early CP/M computers, it is now a world leader
in astrology programs for Windows which can also be run on Macs. Besides
publishing programs for individual users, Astrolabe develops custom software
for third-party commercial use, including the Kiosk, a turnkey astrological
package for web developers. In addition, the Michelsen-Simms Trust has
appointed Astrolabe to administrate the ACS PC Atlas and license it to other
software and web developers.
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ancient Greece to the 18
th
century. This
elegant instrument was actually an analog
computera working model of the sky as it
appears to turn about the earth each day.
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continue their tradition of precision and
ingenuity, adding the remarkable power and
speed of todays computer technology.
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A wheel for any birth chart that you input, with the coordinates and time
standard automatically supplied by the ACS Atlas.
Interpretations for each birth planet in its sign, and for current applying
personal transits.
Get Celeste at the iTunes store, and you can do horoscope calcs anytime, anywhere.