Computer Software for Astrology
AstrolDeluxe Report Writer Software Version 4.0 - $149
This is the software that Robert uses when he does personal readings and research. It is affordable and full of great features. Be sure to read about the Interpretation Reports at the bottom of this page that go with this program.
Software Features
· Zodiac calculations for 8,000 years
· sun, moon, and planets;
· twelve house cusps;
· Ascendant and Midheaven;
· the moon's nodes (either Mean or True);
· Part of Fortune (can reverse night births);
· Vertex and East Point;
· Chiron for 1800-2100 AD;
· Ceres, Juno, Pallas, Vesta for 1800-2100 AD;
· Black Moon Lilith (the moon's apogee, either Mean or True);
· You can customize inclusion of points other than sun, moon & planets.
· 70 asteroids for 1800-2100 AD ;
· Tropical, Sidereal, or Draconic zodiac with following house systems:
· Placidus and Koch;
· Equal House/Western Style;
· Equal House/Eastern Style;
· Campanus, Porphyry, & Alcabitius;
· Topocentric and Monthly;
· Aries and Regiomontanus.
· AstrolDeluxe features customizable zodiac sign images at the center of the chart wheel.
· You can interact with the on-screen graphic aspects wheel by scrolling the aspect orb width and/or by selecting which aspects to include.
· If you have a color printer, you can print beautiful, customizable color wheels.
Note: this program is the only American-distributed commercial programs to correctly calculate the Ascendant, Midheaven and houses for circumpolar locations.
Chart comparison functions include:
· biwheel chart for visual comparisons -
· Includes outer wheel retrograde flag; house positions are based on the first (inner) chart selected;
· upon calculation and display of a secondary chart, you can instantly redisplay as a biwheel with the secondary planets in the outer wheel houses of the natal chart;
· display transits or synastry aspects between the first chart and unlimited additional charts -- aspects list can be sorted by exactness of orbs or by synastry values;
· display indexes of communication for chart compatibility;
· composite charts displaying planet and house positions using midpoints of the positions in two individuals' charts; · you can save composite charts and compare them to other charts;
· a dating service feature which allows you to rapidly search for matches between charts in the database according to user-defined criteria of sex, age and minimum required communication and compatibility index levels.
· display sortable list of aspects between the first chart's midpoints, Arabic Parts, or as many as 70 asteroids and the planets of a second chart, which can be another natal or event chart or a chart for current transits, secondary progressions, minor progressions, tertiary progressions, solar arc directions, noviens, or returns.
Calculation accuracy is as follows:
· all planets are accurate to within one minute between 1800 and 2100 A.D;
· the sun is accurate to one second and the moon to five seconds of arc;
· the planets are accurate to within several minutes for approx. 8,000 years;
· Pluto is accurate to within two degrees back to 10 B.C.;
· Chiron and the four major asteroids are accurate to within one minute for 1800-2100 AD ;
· calculations include delta t, nutation and aberration.
· time of birth, time zone, longitude, and latitude can be entered to the second;
On-screen atlas features are:
· VGA-resolution color maps of the United States, Europe and World;
· mouse click on one of the on-screen maps automatically transfers the state name, time zone, longitude & latitude positions to the chart;
· list boxes let you retrieve coordinates for 1465 United States cities, 449 European cities, 291 Australian cities, 266 Canadian cities and 192 world cities;
· a mouse click on a city list automatically transfers the country or state name, time zone, longitude and latitude positions to the chart;
· add as many as 1700 personal cities of your choice to the atlas;
· the Natal Information screen includes a drop-down list box which displays and allows you to select from any time zone in the world.
ACS PC Atlas features are:
· free ACS Mini Atlas for 5,000 world cities and 4,300 U.S. hospitals with longitude, latitude and time zone changes ;
· internal Windows interface to the Mini Atlas and optional PC Atlas - click to perform sound-alike city name searches, display all locations within a distance from any longitude/latitude, see a history table of time zone changes for a location, and add your own locations to the ACS atlas with a function that automatically attaches the time zone history of the nearest included location.
Display options include:
· new, improved list of transits or progressions for a period anywhere from a day to years in length which tells to the minute when planets will form aspects to any saved chart. Can show when aspects will come within orb and leave orb (can use different orbs for each of 21 aspects as well as different applying and separating orbs). A valuable new feature is to show in the final column the aspect or angle that exists between the two planets in the natal chart. Can now include the transiting or progressed Ascendant, Midheaven, Moon's Nodes, and Black Moon Lilith. Can do the progressed list for secondary, minor, tertiary, and user-defined rate progressions and for secondary arc directions. For all types of progressions, you have a choice of six rates of directing the midheaven: R.A.M.S., Solar Arc in Longitude, Naibod Longitude, Solar Arc in Right Ascension, Quotidian Standard, and Quotidian Bija . The transits list in Astrology for Windows program gives times only to the AM/PM and does not use orbs.
· table of aspects including precise aspect angle and orb for any chart;
· table of angles between all planet points for a chart - shows the angle between planets even when it is not a defined aspect ;
· Table of Planets and Houses can toggle to 360° numerical format for transfer to a spreadsheet via the Windows clipboard;
· Chart Analysis table includes dignities, mutual receptions, dispositors, ruling planet, planetary hour lord, sign modalities, sign elements, house modalities, house elements, angular planets, planets in critical degrees, moon phase, moon latitude, moon distance, out-of-bounds declination planets, and declination aspects;
· table of midpoints between all selected planet points for a chart ;
· table of aspects between chart planets and midpoints - uses separate customizable midpoint orbs.
· table of Arabic Parts - can draw upon any of several customizable collections - largest collection has 265 formulas ;
· table of aspects between chart planets and Arabic Parts - uses separate customizable Arabic Parts orbs;
· display or print the text tables using astrological glyphs for the planets, signs and aspects if you own a TrueType glyph font such as the optional $49 Halloran TrueType glyph font which has both normal letters and astrological symbols (can also put glyphs in your documents)
· double-click on any planet glyph on a graphic chart to display the name and sign of the planet together with a list of that planet's aspects .
Derived charts include:
· progressed chart (a day for a year), can direct the Midheaven in four ways - R.A.M.S. (Naibod rate in right ascension), Solar Arc in longitude, Quotidian Bija, and Quotidian Standard ;
· minor progressed chart (a day for a lunar month) ;
· tertiary progressed chart (a lunar month for a solar year) ;
· user-defined rate progressed chart ;
· solar arc directed chart (all points directed by sun's progressed movement) ;
· novien chart (described by Sidereal Zodiac astrologer Cyril Fagan) ;
· declination to longitude equivalent conversion chart (used by Kt Boehrer and other members of the NCGR
· Declination SIG) ;
· solar parts chart and lunar parts chart (called the Secondary Chart by astrologer Carl Payne Tobey);
· planetary nodes chart (which can be for Heliocentric or Geocentric planetary nodes) ;
· solar and lunar return chart for any angle (0 degrees, 180 degrees, etc.) and for Tropical or Sidereal reference frame;
· composite chart constructed from the midpoints between the planets of any two individuals' charts ;
· You can save a derived chart to file and instantly compare it to the natal chart or compare it to other charts.
Additional features include:
· print an optional information courtesy block on charts with your name, address, and phone
· choice of the printer fonts installed on your system and specify point size, bold, and italic for header text and body text;
· customize colors of planets, chart circle, and screen background for the graphic wheels - all color printers aresupported;
· import charts from ASTROL96, AstrolDeluxe for DOS (all programs, including Astrology for Windows), Matrix BlueStar™, CompactData™, QuickCharts™, Astrolabe Nova™, Cosmic Patterns Kepler™, and Esoteric Technologies JigSaw™ and Solar Fire™ 2 & 3 ;
· creates a chart file that can be read by all Halloran Software DOS-based interpretation programs (not needed if you get the all-Windows-based AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter;
· copy the bitmap graphic wheels and fourteen different text tables to the clipboard for insertion into a word processing document;
· customize orbs for 21 aspects and 6 types of comparison .
· divide charts between multiple files, such as for personal or business ;
· enables a group of astrologers to share clients' charts by merging separate chart databases and see whose
· program originated each chart ;
· all date entry and display conforms to the Windows international settings;
· customize which planets rule which zodiac signs for two sets - modern and traditional; select which set the program uses;
· automatically calculate a true sunrise chart for any date and place ;
· Access 2.0 database feature in which you can record the address and telephone for the subject of each saved chart.
· for a birth place, automatically calculate the hours, minutes and seconds of the local time zone - useful in doing premodern era charts ;
· option of copying text tables to the Windows clipboard with or without the legend bearing the subject's birth data - with the legend lets you easily paste a person's complete chart information into Windows e-mail(Versions 2);
· easily relocate a return chart or progressed chart through direct access to the information contained in the city lists;
· supplemental chart calculations include declinations for the planets, ascendant, and midheaven, the Julian Day number, and the sidereal time;
· have your computer dial the NIST and update your system clock ;
· Windows Help which is context-sensitive - the F1 function key brings up the section of the manual which describes what to do at your current location;
· Help manual Appendix includes astrological symbols, a trouble-shooting guide, introduction to astrology, bibliography of astrology books, glossary and index;
Research features include:
· enter dated Life History events for chart subjects - click to see entry screen (18K image);
· save charts to a dBase III format file ;
· paste planet/house longitudes to a spreadsheet program as numbers, not labels;
· enter source and reliability rating for a chart's birth information; have the source/rating print on the chart legend;
· user-friendly, fully integrated search module lets you search your saved chart files for charts that have particular placements or aspects ;
· searches narrow the list box names to those that meet your criteria ;
· searches are cumulative - Undo returns the previous search results ;
· double-click on a chart name in the search list box to instantly display the chart wheel with all information ;
· return from displaying the chart back to the search results screen ;
· search for charts that have a particular planet in a particular house (and customize advance orb, if any )
· search for charts that have a particular planet in a particular sign ;
· search for charts that have a particular planet in a particular longitude window, as small as .01 degrees;
· search for charts that have two planets in a particular aspect or angle, and specify the orb ;
· search for charts with particular birthdays, and use <, >, and ? symbols in the year field ;
· search for charts with particular words in the Remarks field, and perform logical AND, OR, and NOT searches;
· search for charts that have the midpoint of two planets in a particular aspect or angle to a natal planet ;
· search for charts that have the ruler of a house in a particular aspect or angle to another planet - select modern or traditional ruling planets;
· search for charts that have the ruler of one house in another house ;
· easily create control group files that will help you discover if a particular sample of charts contains any
· astrologically significant factors, or if your search results coincide with expected astronomical and demographic frequencies.
Personal Path professional natal reports - $100.00
AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter can use this file containing excellent, detailed natal interpretations to produce a variety of natal reports. With the addition of Midheaven delineations and aspects, these are the same interpretations as in the Natal Professional program, whose reports describe the heart of a person better than do reports from any other software program, according to one customer who owns them all. Some delineations are as long as a page in length. A Standard template natal report averages 30 pages.
LifeTrends professional transits reports - $100.00
This interpretation set for the Windows-based
ReportWriter greatly expands the transiting Jupiter through Pluto delineations
in the DOS-based LifeTrends program. These are the most significant transiting
planets. If you are new to astrological forecasting, I suggest that you learn
about transits before learning about progressions, which are a more advanced
technique.
Copyright 2000 Robert Camp
themagi@7thunders.com
Seven Thunders Publishing Company
1614 Stillman Ct.
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