The best astrological program in the world has just gotten BETTER!
Solar Fire 4 - $250
Brand-new Design-It-Yourself Pages Multi-criteria Chart Search Dignity and Almuten Editor Customizable Graphic Ephemeris 90° Dial with Movable Pointer	More Chart Data Chart Types House Systems Asteroids & Other Bodies Aspect & Dynamic Options	Improved Rectify-Assist Color Selection Chart File Features Interpretations Editing Interpretations Viewing
Besides having awesome power to calculate virtually every kind of astrological chart, Solar Fire is probably the easiest-to-use astrological program in history. All this, plus point-and-click chart interpretations; time maps and graphic ephemerides; 44 asteroids; dials with movable pointers; multi-criteria chart searches; 501 chart celebrity database; a unique Planetarium view of the chart with fixed star interpretations; customized ephemeris page printouts; ray astrology and prenatal charts; user-designable wheels in color; pre-designed and user-designed page layouts suitable for every level or astrological specialty; Johndro and geodetic charts and much, much more.

Something for Everyone

Predictive astrologers can make sense of mountains of timed hits, thanks to Solar Fire's Time Map graphs and its great sorting capabilities. Besides sorting timed hits in the usual chronological order, you can sort with the slowest-moving transits first. Or group natal points to see how each is affected by transits during the period. Or put exact and leaving hits up front with the entering hit to see the whole course of each transit as it starts. Or sort transits, progressions, directions, ingresses, stations and eclipses into separate sections. Dynamic lists have the same advanced options (tertiaries, minors, quotidians, Bija correction, etc.) as individual charts, and there's a full selection of return charts, including precession-corrected and converse. And, Solar Fire also includes a graphic ephemeris, primary mundane directions, and more.

Relationship counselors will be fascinated by what the multi-person composite charts (of up to 15 people) and 4-chart dials reveal about groups.

Students of astronomical cycles will like the ingress, lunar-phase, rise/set, and return charts. Returns can be for any planet or asteroid, or to any specified point in the zodiac, and you can do a whole string of returns automatically from one input. You can also find ingresses and eclipses in the dynamic search option, and can create custom ephemeris pages for any period in history.

Classical astrologers will enjoy the unique Arabic Parts Editor which lets you add any A+B-C factors with accompanying keywords. Factors can be planets, house cusps, rulers, dispositors, other Parts, the prenatal lunation or any specified degree in the zodiac. Likewise, the Fixed Star Editor lets you add traditional star meanings to those already in the program. Needless to say, there's also a horary page with full Lilly-style dignities, almutens of houses, planetary hours, and the day or night Part of Fortune and a page that lists two types of firdaria.

Esoteric astrologers can work with esoteric and hierarchical rulerships, ray interpretations, and the esoterically important planet Vulcan. They can also work with18 kinds of prenatal charts, including Bailey- and Jayne-type charts for conception and quickening.

Heliocentric, sidereal and draconic astrologers can use these options in virtually any chart, and can display charts in the different frameworks on the same multi-wheel.

Cosmobiologists and Uranians can do midpoint sorts, lists and trees in any modulus, and can include the Aries Point along with Uranian planets. They can also view midpoints on a movable dial and work with the graphic ephemeris. Uranians are able to adapt the Arabic Parts Editor to do Uranian A+B-C pictures.

Writers and editors can easily send both graphics and text to word processing and DTP programs. Wheels and aspectarians come out beautifully sharp as Windows Metafiles, and keep their clarity at any size. Listings and interpretations come out as text, which you can edit and format just like any other text.

Professionals can send some or all of the 20-odd pages of interpretations on each chart to a word processor as a starting-point for an individualized written interpretation. They can also rewrite the text database itself.

Novices will find the point-and-click interpretations a delightful way to learn.

Chart types (Italicized items are new in Solar Fire 4):

• Natal
• Progressed: by secondary, tertiary, true tertiary, minor or user rate; MC progressed by solar arc in longitude or right ascension, Naibod arc in longitude or right ascension, or Q2 ("daily houses") rate; progressed day type may be standard or Bija.
• Directed: by solar, Ascendant, Vertex or user-defined arc.
• Return: solar, lunar, planet and asteroid returns (full, demi, etc.), progressed solar return, Wynn-Key return.
• Relationship: composite (of up to 15 charts, with midpoint or Ascendant-derived houses); Davison relationship charts (time/space midpoint); coalescent charts. Prenatal: 18 types, including conception and quickening.
• Harmonic: Antiscion and contra-antiscion. Harmonic charts now use equal house system. Arc Transform.
• Rising and setting: using visual or true altitude.
• Lunar phase: transiting, progressed and lunar phase return.
• Locality: Relocated, Johndro in R.A. or longitude, geodetic in R.A. or longitude, user-defined locality charts in R.A. or longitude. Astro-clock. Precession-corrected and converse options.

Wheels and aspectarians:

• Wheels: single, dual, bi-, tri- and quadri- wheels and dials with movable pointer. Proportional or equal-sized houses; aspect lines optional.
• Aspectarians: natal and synastry aspect grids with orb and whether applying or separating; natal grid has parallels and contraparallels.
• Page designs: with single or dual wheels; aspectarian can be on same page or screen as wheel. Multi-wheels up to 12, beginner, esoteric, firdar, horary, lotus, midpoint, sect, synastry. Wheel and grid printouts have six 29-character lines for your address or business message.

User-Editable Page Layouts: In addition to designing the chart wheels, users can now design whole page layouts, dragging and resizing wheels and all sorts of tables on the same page. A single page design can be adapted specially to fit on the screen, on various paper sizes and orientations (tall or wide), and to be exported as metafiles. Page Designer objects include the following.

• Captions: Chart details (plain, boxed, brief), chart title, chart name, chart placement, compliments, user-caption line, page description, page file name, program, version, date/time stamp, copyright.
• Chart Wheels: Uni-, bi-, tri-, quadri-wheels or multiples. Any supplied or user-designed wheel style can be incorporated onto a page.
• Grids: Full, synastry, half.
• Flexible Points Lists (can contain any or all of the following in any order): Glyph, abbreviation, full name, longitude, latitude, right ascension, declination, azimuth, altitude, travel, sign, house, house rulership, dispositor, dispositor's house, any modulus of longitude, N. Node, S. Node, N. Node, travel, S. Node travel, antiscia, contra-antiscia, Gauquelin sector (36) Gauquelin Plus Zone, aspect orb ratio.
• Signs and Houses: Sign names, house cusps, house almutens.
• Aspects: nearest, nearest synastry, flexible, flexible synastry, moon aspects, fixed star aspects, asteroid aspects, arabic parts aspects.
• Dignities & Ancient: Planetary sects, essential dignities, dignity/almuten scores, planetary hour/day, mutual receptions, horary considerations, 2 types of firdars.
• Balances: Quadrants, elements, modes, rays.
• Graphical: User-supplied graphic (WMF or BMP), elements graph, modes graph, rays graph, modulus sort strip, midpoint trees.

Tables and lists:

• Chart analysis: longitudes, latitudes, declinations, right ascensions, daily travel, lunar angle and phase, and an element/mode tally that you can change. Rulerships: ruler, detriment, exaltation and fall; mutual receptions, accidental dignities, final dispositor; chart points in signs and houses, with house ruled, the dispositor, and dispositor's house.
• Aspect list: lists aspects and orbs used, then gives complete aspectarian in list form in planetary order; gives synastry aspects when two charts are selected.
• Sorted aspects: lists aspects in order of increasing orb and shows whether applying or separating.
• Aspect analysis: aspect patterns (stelliums, unaspected planets, t-squares, yods, etc.), aspect distribution grid, aspect frequency analysis.
• Chart point sort: in any modulus.
• Midpoint listing: in planetary order, and then in any modulus.
• Midpoint trees: shows each point in chart, with midpoints in aspect to that point arranged as a tree diagram with a notation of the orb and whether the midpoint is direct or indirect.
• Midpoint axes: information same as for midpoint trees, but written out.
• Horary: planetary day and hour, almutens of houses, table of complete dignities with point count per planet.
• Sensitive points: lists all zodiacal positions that make aspects to points in a chart.
• Midpoint modal sort: planets and midpoints sorted into cardinal, fixed and mutable modes; includes direct and indirect positions.
• Arabic parts: lists zodiacal positions and aspects to points in a chart. You can add or redefine Arabic parts.
• Star aspects: fixed-star longitudes, aspects to natal points, and keywords.
• Star parans: fixed stars that transit the horizon or meridian at same time as natal points, with keywords for stars.
• Planetary nodes: longitudes of planetary nodes, with aspects to chart points.
• Asteroids: (includes aspects to chart points, long., travel, latitude, R.A., declination): Aesculapia, Amor, Apollo, Arachne, Astraea, Atlantis, Bacchus, Ceres, Chiron, Circe, Cupido, Demeter, Diana, Eros, Eurydike, Hebe, Hera, Hidalgo, Hopi, Hygeia, Icarus, Isis, Juno, Kassandra, Lilith, Minerva, Nemesis, Niobe, Orpheus, Pallas, Panacea, Pandora, Persephone, Phaethon, Proserpina, Psyche, Sappho, Sisyphus, Siva, Siwa, Terpsichore, Tisiphone, Toro, Urania, Vesta.
• Other bodies: (includes aspects to chart points, long., travel, latitude, R.A., declination): Dark Moon (Waltemath), Sigma, Pan, Isis, Morya, Hermes, Osiris, Midas, Lion, Ceres (JPL Elms), Pallas (JPL Elms), user-defined bodies.

Dynamic forecast lists:
You can mix:

• Transits: to natal, transiting, progressed and directed positions; windows give transit interpretation and recent instances of same aspect. Also available are transits to user-defined extra point sets which can include midpoints, fixed stars and arabic parts as well as transits and progressions from midpoints.
• Progressions: secondary, tertiary, true tertiary, minor or user-defined, to natal and progressed positions, with MC advanced by several methods.
• Arc directions: solar, ascendant, vertical, user-defined, primary, to natal.
• Ingresses: house and sign.
• Parallels: of declination or latitude.
• Stations and Eclipses: windows show aspects to natal points.
• Entering and leaving orb hits: You can choose period covered, points and aspects included, orbs, natal vs. relocated, precessed and converse options, and exact times as well as dates of events. You can view the lists in graphic form as Time Maps, and can also see a complete chart for any event time on the list. Lists can be sorted by date of each event, by date of entering orb, in planetary order by static or moving point, by the speed of the moving point (so the slow movers come first), by the type of event (all transits together, all progressions together, etc.), or by the type of aspect (all conjunctions together, all trines together, etc.). You can also create a graphic ephemeris of transits, progressions or directions with user-defined points, timespan and modulus.

Zodiacs: Tropical, any sidereal, precession-corrected, draconic.

Coordinates: Geo and heliocentric. Helio charts can appear next to geo charts in bi- or double wheels, synastry grids, and dual-chart listings. Declinations and latitudes appear in basic chart details listing and can be included in dynamic listings; declination aspects appear in aspect grid.

House systems: Placidus, Koch, Campanus, Meridian, Morinus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Whole Signs, Hindu Bhava, Alcabitius, and equal from any point including 0° Aries, 0° of Sun sign, Part of Fortune, equal with Ascendant in center of 1 and equal with MC on the 10th. Houses can be calculated for geographic or geocentric latitude.

Points included: Sun through Pluto; Moon (regular or parallax); mean or true lunar North and South Nodes; Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hygeia and Astraea; Vulcan (by D. Baker or L.H. Weston calculations); Black Moon Lilith (mean position); 8 "Uranian" planets; Asc, MC, East Point, Vertex, Part of Fortune.

Calculation span: Asteroids AD 1800-2050; other points unlimited.

Aspects: Includes 26 aspect types, each with its own glyph. User-defined aspects with user selected characters as the glyph. For each, you can select a color, line-style, the applying and separating orb, moieties, unidirectional orbs, orbs by planet ratios (to apply different orbs for each planet and aspect combination), aspects by sign, and 3-D aspects (previously applied as a general option across all aspect sets. You can have different orbs for the luminaries vs. other points, and different orbs for natal, transiting and progressed use. You can include points in the chart without including aspects to them. All reports now show whether aspects in declinations (as well as longitude) are applying or separating.

Desktop publishing: You can export wheel and page designs to the clipboard as bitmaps or Windows Metafiles, or to a file as Windows Metafiles. You can also export lists as Windows Metafiles; in DTP and word-processing programs you can edit these as text. Natal and transit interpretations can also be exported as ASCII text, which you can edit and print in a word processor.

Chart Import/Export: Imports charts from JigSaw, Blue*Star, QuickCharts, Kepler and any program that can output *.NOV chart files, including Nova, Chartwheels and CCRS Horoscope Program. Exports charts to any program that can read *.NOV files.

Other Conveniences:

• Interpretations: Direct access to interpretations through a new "interps" menu item on main screen. New in-depth set of natal interpretations with fuller paragraphs on key items. Transit interpretations expanded to interpret more minor aspects and outer planet transits. Easy interpretation editing with no need to use compiler.
• Chart Files: Multi-criteria chart search. Printable chart comments. Printable listings of charts in file.
• Calculation Enhancements: Batch calculations of subsidiary charts that allow multiple selections. Enhanced rectify assist.

Take a peek at some of these screen shots: Uranian Dial, User-defined Page, Planetary Search, Chart Wheel, Graphic Ephemeris.

Download a sample natal interpretation for Michael Jordan

Download a sample transit report for Jacqueline Kennedy - 11/20/63-11/20/63
These files require the free Adobe Acrobat Viewer 3.0 or better.

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System Requirements: IBM-compatible, 486 or higher, with 8Mb RAM (16Mb recommended); Windows 3.1 or higher; high-density floppy drive; hard disk with at least 10Mb free; color or monochrome VGA or SVGA display. Windows-compatible black or color printer printing at least 150 dpi.

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