Mark Pottenger's CCRS Horoscope Program 92 does the basic chart-casting tasks extremely well. But what makes it truly extraordinary is its wealth of experimental features asked for by Dr. Zipporah Dobyns and many other researchers.

A Wealth of Techniques. CCRS includes not just longitude, but also almost every other conceivable coordinate system; not just planets but also asteroids, planetary nodes, all possible Arabic parts, 290 fixed stars, and many other sensitive points; not just aspects but any sort of angular separation (even including the actual angular distance along the great circle connecting two planets). Plus things like synodical zodiacs, parans, geo and helio planetary velocity and distances, and planetary aphelia and perihelia. All this adds up to a program specially suited for wide-ranging inquiry, not just into mainstream astrology, but also into almost any other heaven-earth correlation.

 Ideal for Research. CCRS has powerful tools for handling data. It can cope with masses of charts, each labeled with the source and quality of the data, as well as with optional comments. CCRS can go through a large chart file and pick out charts with whatever common factors you specify. It can also tally things like the house and sign placements, etc., of all charts in a file.

 Time-Saving Data Entry. You can input birth data in batches, store charts on disk, and print them when you wish. In the IBM version, there is a direct, keystroke-saving interface to the ACS PC Atlas, should you own it. In all versions, you can type in 5-letter abbreviations for your most-used localities, and the program fills in the longitudes, latitudes and city names. CCRS 92 comes with a file of 100 cities, and you can add hundreds more of your own.

 Also, you don't have to convert the time and date to one standard form. CCRS accepts and interprets input using the Gregorian or Julian calendar; Standard, Daylight, Local Mean or Local Apparent Time, and an Ascendant or MC instead of a time.

 For masses of untimed birth data, you can do speed data-entry using your word processor. You can also import data from many other programs without re-keying it.

Flexible Output. You can send CCRS calculations to a printer, computer, serial port or modem or a disk file.

GENERAL FEATURES

• Points Included: Asc, MC, East (or West) Point, Vertex (or Antivertex), Fortuna (day or night formula), Sun through Pluto, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, 8 Uranian planets, Transpluto, 0° Aries, galactic center, mean and true lunar node, geo and helio planetary nodes, solar system barycenter. With additional ephemerides supplied by author, you can list the positions of hundreds of asteroids, and can include up to 34 of these extra asteroids at once in most CCRS program options.

   

• Calculation Span: Sun, Moon, Mercury through Mars, any dates. Jupiter through Pluto, 7298 BC to AD 12,299. Asteroids, AD 1487-2101.

   

• Zodiacs: Tropical or Fagan-Allen sidereal. Ayanamsa can also be changed by user.

   

• Coordinate Systems: Geo, helio and galactic longitude/latitude; RA/declination; semiarc/hour angle; prime vertical longitude/latitude and amplitude; local space or conventional altitude/azimuth. Program can also list planetary positions as seen from any other planet or major asteroid.

   

• House Systems: Campanus, Equal (from ASC and MC in all options, and from 0° Aries or any planet on any angle in wheel printouts), Koch, Meridian, Placidus, Regiomontanus, Topocentric. Also, Gauquelin sectors and "true" or "3-D" Placidus (each planet in its own semiarc).

   

• Accuracy: State-of-the-art ephemerides give conformity to national standard ephemerides within 3 seconds of arc or better for all planets. This allows precise timong for planetary returns, and progressed and transiting aspect lists.

• Printed: A double wheel can hold any two charts with extra planets and points; new single wheel has an aspect grid, declinations, and element/quality counts. On LaserJet and PostScript printers, wheels can have a solid round ring, and there is also a new page with two small wheels. Wheels and listings have 12 characters to the inch to pack in maximum information. Glyphs can appear on listings as well as wheels, and there is a new bitmap glyph editor for creating and modifying glyphs.

   

• Screen: Screen displays include square charts made from typewriter characters. These easily alternate between geo and helio positions, an aspect list, and a list of planets in Gauquelin sectors. For rectification and electional work you can add progressed or transiting placements to thenatal positions in the wheel. For choosing the best time, there's a list of 20 Moon and angle positions, spaced out at regular intervals within any time range you choose. You can also use the screen wheel as an astro-clock, with current planetary positions that update as the planets move, and with a natal chart on the same screen.

• Synastry: You can put any two horoscopes on the same double wheel, and can get tables of inter-aspects and inter-house contacts between any two charts. You can also sort inter-aspects in order of orb, and can sort midpoints from up to 4 charts into a single list.

   

• Composite Charts: Derived, midpoint, Davison and coalescent types.

• Solar and Lunar Returns: Regular and kinetic, direct, birthplace and relocated. Anlunars. Returns to natal Sun-Moon angle each month (synodic returns) and every 19 years when they return to same angle and degrees (Metonic returns).
• Planetary Returns: Made plausible by CCRS's ultra-accurate ephemerides. You are told the worst-case error you can expect on each return, so you can judge the positions of the MC and Ascendant realistically.

   

• Progressed and Directed Charts: Secondaries (with MC progressed by solar arc, Naibod in RA, quotidian 1 or quotidian 2 rates), tertiaries, minors and custom progression and direction rates. Standard/bija, direct/converse, natal/relocated.

   

• Progression/Transit Listings: For any date, lists natal, progressed and transiting positions, plus preceding station points, and sorts these into 22.5°, 30° and 45° moduli.

• Timed Hits: Lists showing when moving-to-natal or moving-to-moving aspects enter orb, become exact, and leave orb, and also what aspects are within orb at the beginning of the period. Can include transits (tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected, with seconds of time listed, and optional relocated angles used); progressions (secondary, mean tertiary and minor, and custom rates), directions (solar-arc, planetary and custom arcs). Can be in longitude, declination, or great-circle aspects; and geo, helio or viewed from any other regular planet or major asteroid. Can include user-defined points and midpoints as well as computed single points. There are also lists of timed hits using one method of primary directions.

   

• Directional Arc Tables: Lists arc lengths for any progressed chart. Includes solar arc (single, half or double) in longitude or RA, solar-arc harmonic arcs, planetary arcs, Vertex arc, Naibod arc, or any arc you define. Arc position for a specific date can be saved and turned into a printed chart. Forecast Graphs: Roy Whitney "dynamic astrology" graphs rank the intensity of progressed and transiting aspects.

• Midpoints: Optional midpoint longitudes with regular chart; sorted lists in any modulus, with seconds of arc printed; midpoint trees and aspects to midpoints. Midpoints can be in any coordinate system. Munkasey Midpoint Weighting Analysis. Midpoint ephemeris printout.

   

• Arabic Parts: Lists positions of all involving the Ascendant. Can include new Parts involving asteroids.

   

• Antiscia (Solstice Points): Listed on traditional/horary page, and included in search capabilities.
• Station Points: Lists planetary stations preceding any natal chart. Shows "shadow points," including the precursor of the next direct station, and follow-up of retrograde station. Aspects to most recent retrograde and direct station points (most of Eleanor Bach's "hidden aspects") can be included in timed aspect hit lists.

   

• Fixed Stars: Gives complete positions of 290 fixed stars and shows how they relate to any chart. Also star longitudes/latitudes over Earth.

• Addey-Style Charts: Casts charts in any zodiac and in any integer harmonic.

   

• Moduli: Chart positions including midpoints can be sorted in any modulus, not just 45°.

• Traditional/Horary Page: Includes planetary hours, antiscia, essential dignities, almutens. Moon's last and next/void classical aspect in sign to planets. Mutual receptions, rulerships, exaltations, triplicities, terms, faces, oriental/occidental, swift/slow motion, final dispositor, hayz, peregrine, under Sun's beams, combust, cazimi, day/night Part of Fortune. This page can also include asteroids. The horary page and the regular wheel pages both include 30 degree strip.

• Relocated Charts: All types of geo charts can be relocated, and relocated angles can be included in timed hit lists.

   

• Local Space: Also, regular alt/azimuth charts. Azimuths or directions not only of the planets, but also of major cities as seen from any locality. This reveals the planet-city connections in a horoscope.

   

• Astro-Mapping: For any moment in time, lists longitudes/latitudes on Earth where each planet would be on horizon, meridian, zenith or nadir. You can also list longitudes and latitudes where planet lines cross.

   

• Geodetic Charts: Show where on Earth a zodiacal event will be important. Geodetic origin can be Greenwich, a particular planet, or user-specified, and measurement can be east or west from origin.

• Specula: Full or topocentric specula of all planets, asteroids and Uranians.
• Parans: Sorts planets of a chart chronologically by RAMC and points out parans.

• Ephemerides: Prints ephemeris pages for any planets and asteroids in its calculation range. Also prints midpoint ephemerides.

   

• House Tables: Prints customized house tables for any location.

• Tallying: In groups of charts, can tally zodiacal degrees, degrees in signs, aspects, house placements, placement in Gauquelin sectors, and much more.
• Searching: In groups of charts, can search for planets in signs, elements, houses, etc.; for a higher-than-threshold count in any sign or house; for terms and faces, and more.

   

• Expected Frequencies: Includes expected frequencies in Gauquelin sectors. Works with additional F.A.R. program, available from author, which gives observed frequencies of all angular separations between regular planetary pairs, and of planets in each degree of the tropical zodiac.

• File Manager: Lets you classify charts into files, sort alphabetically or chronologically within files, search for names within files, and reorganize files by moving or deleting charts.
• Link with Outside Programs: CCRS 92 reads and writes the Nova internal chart format, so it is easy to use with the Nova System. It also reads charts from earlier CCRS versions, ASCII format, and the Blue*Star export facility.

In the IBM version, you also get a free TrueType astrological font that you can use in Windows programs.

A Unique Program. CCRS is not for those who need fancy graphic horoscopes or elegant printouts for sale. But if you want to explore the frontiers of astrology, with the world's fullest implementation of asteroids and 20,000 years of planetary positions—if, in short, you want an overflowing cornucopia of astrological information—there is no better program!

 Computer Requirements.

 IBM-compatible: hard disk, 640K RAM.

 Macintosh: hard disk, 1M RAM, System 4.1 or later (including System 7), and Finder 5.5 or later. Glyphs available on the Apple ImageWriter and compatibles, and on most standard Macintosh printers.

 Amiga: hard disk, 1M RAM, DOS 1.2 or later. Parallel printer connector. With modern ephemerides only, CCRS takes up 5.2M on disk (6.1M on the Mac and Amiga). With full ephemerides it takes up 7.1M (8M on the Mac and Amiga). The Mandala slide show requires 700K more.

Printers: CCRS can be installed on over 200 brands of dot-matrix printers; charts look best at 12 cpi. Glyphs available on IBM-compatible printers with graphics, most printers with dot-addressable graphics, and HP LaserJets (with 1.5M RAM if you want smooth wheels). PostScript is supported throughout program. Mandalas and Whitney graphs output in color on HPGL, Houston Instrument and Apple plotters.

Source Code Available
Full source code is available for those who program in Microsoft QuickBASIC and want to modify CCRS for their own needs. For private, noncommercial use only.

CCRS 92 Source Code, $75

 

Asteroid Program, CCRS 92 Version, $120
Asteroid Program, Standalone Version, $150