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Solar Fire 5 is the latest version of
the best-selling all around astrology calculation package. The new version adds
astro-locality maps, animated charts, automated tasks, and synastry
interpretations to an already feature-packed, easy to use program. Available
on CD ROM only, the new program is for Windows 95 or better and includes a
free ACS PC Atlas (if you don't already have one)!
New in Solar Fire
5:
32-bit
programmingmeans Solar Fire
takes full advantage of the advanced features of Win95 and up, including
faster operation and long file names.
New
Internet support.Automatically
download the latest updates of Solar Fire 5 from the Web! Send chart-wheel,
page and other graphic images by email as JPG attachments, or automatically
send any quantity of of birth data, chart positions, as text. No other
astrological program makes it so easy.
New
state-of-the-art accuracy.Planet positions are derived from
the Jet Propulsion Lab equations and agree closely with best astronomical
sources over more than 10,000 years.
Newly
Powerful Ephemeris Generator: With Solar Fire 4 you could
create customized ephemeris pages for regular and Uranian planets, plus
Vulcan, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hygeia, Astraea and the Mean or
True Node. Solar Fire 5 is even more powerful. With it, you can also do
custom ephemerides for the Ascendant, MC, East Point, Part of Fortune (great
for gambling), fixed stars, extra asteroids (45 are supplied with the
program, and you can plug in any others from the Pottenger or Swiss asteroid
programs), and other extra points such as the Jayne hypothetical planets.
Get longitudes, latitudes, right ascension, declination, daily motion, day
of week, sidereal time. Use tropical or sidereal zodiacs, geo or helio
coordinates, for any time span and interval. The tables can be precise to
either the minute or second of arc, and expressed in either decimal degrees
or degree-minute-second format. Besides printing out customized ephemeris
pages, you can dump the decimal-degrees ephemerides to an ASCII file for use
in spreadsheets and word-processing documents.
Fabulous
new eclipse options. In-depth study of eclipses has never
been easier! With Solar Fire 5's one-of-a-kind 5,000-Year Eclipse Database
you can search for solar and lunar eclipses for any date range between 2000
BC and AD 3000. Search by eclipse type, Saros number, degree, or aspect to a
chart--and just double-click to calculate the chart of any eclipse in the
list. Now you can study eclipse cycles in depth, and can instantly see how
any eclipse affects any chart! Plus, chart pages can now include tables of
prenatal or postnatal eclipses and lunar phases. You can also generate a
series of charts for the lunar-phase families.
Free
astro mapping: Built into Solar Fire 5 are instant astro-locality
and local space maps for any chart you select. Plus eclipse-path maps for
mundane work!
Time-saving
Task Automation. Record a whole sequence of operations for
one chart then replay them for other charts from then on! You can now reduce
some really complex operations to a couple of clicks. Use this feature to
progress composite charts, display a triwheel with different sets of planets
in each wheel (for example, all natal, transiting outers, and progressed
inners), merge dynamic hitlists and do just about anything else that your
ingenuity suggests!
Animated
charts! Not just a handy updating chart wheel for the present
moment! You can also run any chart wheel forward or back in time, as fast or
as slow as you want. You can even run a quadriwheel, and watch transits,
progressions and solar arc directions update around a natal chart!
New
synastry interpretations. Now there are built-in synastry
interpretations, as well as natal and transiting interpretations. Pop up
individual interpretations instantly on the screen--or view and print the
whole report in your word processor. It's easy to change or add to
individual reports and also rewrite the text database itself, selecting many
different kinds of chart tallies and factors to write about. Solar Fire's
on-screen point-and-click interpretations are useful memory-joggers and are
an easy and enjoyable way to learn basic astrology. While not suitable for
batch processing and commercial applications, Solar Fire's printed reports
of up to 25 pages are great for personal use and for for giving to clients
to promote your services or to serve as a reminder of your consultation.
Full
ASCII Data Export. Now you can export birth data, or
positions of planets, house cusps, midpoints, stars, asteroids, Arabic
parts, ephemeris positions, etc. to word-processing files, spreadsheets and
other astrology programs. You can include longitude, latitude, right
ascension, declination, azimuth, altitude, travel, retrogrades, etc. for any
chart or group of charts, and can export all this to the clipboard or a
file.
Store
your chart files anywhere. On any drive, in any folder—even
share your chart files on a network!
The
fullest support for asteroids anywhere.Besides the Big Four
and Chiron, besides the included 40-odd extra asteroids--you can now plug in
any number of additional asteroids from both the Pottenger Asteroid
Ephemeris and the Swiss Asteroid Ephemeris. Not only do you get these extra
asteroid positions, aspects, etc. in table form, you can now add them to the
chart wheels along with other extra points! And put them in dynamic hit lists
and both graphic and conventional ephemerides.
New
wheel possibilities. Now you can add any mixture of
midpoints, stars, asteroids, hypothetical planets, Arabic parts,
user-defined degrees, prenatal lunar phases and prenatal eclipses to a chart
wheel. Pick your own symbols and abbreviations for these points, and on the
same page add tables showing the meaning of the symbols, aspects that these
points make, etc. You can also put two sets of house cusps around a single
chart for comparison purposes, or show each chart in a biwheel with its own
house cusps, European-style. Or put a tropical and a sidereal zodiac ring
around the same chart. A new Chart Superimposition feature lets you line up
the same point in two charts and even recalculate the zodiac of one of the
charts so that the two points have the same zodiacal position.
More
tables and other objects to add to your pages. New page
objects include chart comments, chart points in Arabic lunar mansions,
nearest lunar phases, nearest eclipses, hyleg, detailed Arabic parts,
Directions (Egyptian terms), planetary hours with 36-year cycles, and
detailed fixed stars with longitude, latitude, right ascension, declination,
azimuth, altitude, and rise, set, culminate and anticulminate times. To make
selecting from all the vast page possibilities easier, there's now a
user-adjustable directory tree and a way to preview pages as you select
them.
Improved
subsidiary charts. Do the same types of subsidiary
charts—progressed, return, harmonic, etc.--for a whole group of natal
charts at once. And you can now save subsidiary charts for future reference.
Pick
your favorite Pluto, Uranus and Capricorn glyphs. There are
now three easily selectable Pluto glyphs, and two glyphs each for Uranus and
Capricorn.
Instantly
relocate the chart wheel. Not only can you rectify the time
of a chart, you can now watch how the houses change as you change the
longitude and latitude. All this is in addition to the various locality
options in the regular menus and the Maps feature.
Better
Hit lists. Include hits from midpoints, transiting angles (Asc,
MC, East Point, Vertex), lunar nodes, regular and extra asteroids, stars,
and hypothetical planets (Uranian, Jayne, Vulcan, Transpluto, and more)!
Include hits to all of the above, plus house cusps, Arabic parts, and any
fixed points you specify. Besides the usual kinds of progressions and
directions (several varieties of secondary, tertiary, minor, solar and other
arc, and primary) Solar Fire 5 has annual profections, a simple but
effective medieval technique that advances all planets by one sign per year.
More
Traditional Western options.Solar Fire 4 made great strides
into traditional horary and other early techniques, with dignity tables
defined by a powerful dignity/almuten editor which you could adjust for all
sorts of variations, tables of planetary hours, almutens and hylegs, mutual
receptions, planetary sect, firdaria (Schoener and nodal variation types),
horary considerations, lunar and fixed-star aspects, and Arabic Parts
defined by a powerful Arabic Parts editor that allowed you to create Parts
from planets, house cusps, and even other Parts. It also featured primary
directions (Ptolemy degree-for-a-year, Naibod, and natal solar rates), the
day/night Part of Fortune, and moiety-style and sign-to-sign aspect options.
Solar Fire 5 adds two types of early Western square chart forms, a new table
of planetary positions in the Arabic lunar mansions, planetary hour tables
with added 36-year and 1-year planetary cycles, and almuten calculations
that can take minimum honors into account. There are also now three methods
of hyleg calculations: Ptolemy's, Omar's and Bonatti's. For traditional
forecasting, in addition to firdaria there is a table of directions by term,
and the progressed chart, animated chart and dynamic hitlist sections now
include annual profections.
More
Cosmobiology and Uranian.Solar Fire 4 had midpoint axes,
sorts and trees, and dials with any choice of points and a moving pointer
that shows aspects and midpoint trees as you turn it. To this, Solar Fire 5
adds Munkasey Midpoint Weighting Analysis, and a very useful Difference
Listing that sorts the arcs between each point in the chart in ascending
order. This is an elegant and simple way to discern all the four-point
planetary pictures in the chart. Plus, dynamic hitlists and both graphic and
conventional ephemerides can now include aspects or positions of the moving
midpoints.
More
Vedic. Solar Fire 4 had the leading Vedic zodiacs,
appropriate house systems like Hindu Bhava, and Vedic-style unidirectional
and sign-to-sign aspects. Solar Fire 5 adds dasa/bhukti tables and square
chart forms in both North and South Indian styles. Perfect to start you out
in Vedic astrology without having to buy an additional Vedic program.
More
everything. Open Nova-style chart files as well as earlier
versions of Solar Fire chart files without having to convert the charts.
Save progressed, return, combined, harmonic and other subsidiary charts.
Enter comments and client notes in the original data input window as well as
the chart file window, and print them out if you like on the chart wheel
pages. Old Style/New Style dates; 2-digit year entry for any time span you
specify. Rodden source ratings for birth data. New tables of rising,
setting, culmination and anticulmination times for any body (including fixed
stars) enable you to study parans and know when during any 24-hour period
that body will be angular. The perfect complement to astro-locality maps and
Kinetic Mundascope graphs, these tables give you the exact times of day when
a planet will be angular at any given locality. Planetary distance values in
tables. Charts for Lunar Phase Families as in Dietrech Pessin's book Lunar
Shadows. Huber-style chart forms, and much, much more.
Solar
Fire Leads in: Design-it-yourself wheels and pages, unlimited
Asteroid selection, fixed stars, traditional, horary, esoteric and prenatal
astrology. Plus, no other astrological calculation program gives you so much
control over wheel and page design, types of aspects, dignities, Arabic
parts, fixed stars and other extra points.
System Requirements: Solar
Fire 5 is available on CD Rom only. You must have a PC with pentium or higher
processor using Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000 or higher, a minimum of 32 MB RAM, and
a hard drive with at least 65MB of free disk space.
