Solar Fire 9 Astrology Full Version
Giselda Sasao
SOLAR FIRE V9 is an exciting culmination of years of hard work and creativity. This astrology program for Windows was first produced in 1992 and has been expanding ever since to become a world leader. Earlier versions brought an unprecedented level of ease to casting and working with astrological charts. The current version adds many more calculations, extra convenience features, more interpretive text, and exciting new kinds of graphic displays.
SOLAR FIRE V9 contains something for everyone. For Advanced Astrologers and professionals, it has a great variety of high-precision astrological calculations, and an exceptional degree of user-customisation. For Novices, its innovative point-and-click chart interpretations provide an enjoyable way to learn, and its many easily-explored options are an invitation to experiment with new techniques.
SOLAR FIRE is designed to provide easy access to high quality chart production - easy in the Windows environment. SOLAR FIRE V9 uses state of the art planetary calculations from the highly accurate Swiss Ephemeris. You can create charts galore.
SOLAR FIRE's capabilities include natal, progression, directed, any planet or asteroid return, pre-natal, rising/setting, lunar phase, locality, heliocentric, composite, harmonic and harmonic arc transform charts and more...
Why the loyal following? It all begins at Solar Fire's main screen, which makes the most of Windows visual and easy-to-use environment. Immediately you feel a certain calm and order, a restful respite from information overload. And yet, somehow, it's all there. You can immediately see the current state of the program and what charts and options are currently selected. In addition, every one of the huge array of program functions is accessible from this deceptively simple main screen's menu bar. How did such awesome power get packed into so simple and easy an interface? The secret is consistency and thoughtful, careful planning.
The data files that Solar Fire uses are simple, straightforward and, most importantly, similar to each other. This means that once you learn how to select an aspect set, for example, selecting any of the myriad of other options is pretty obvious.
Entering the place, zone, latitude and longitude also couldn't be simpler, because Solar Fire comes with the built-in ACS International Atlas. Just type in the data and place and the latitude, longitude and time zone are automatically looked up for you.
Once saved, a chart is simple to find, because of a number of thoughtful touches. You can group charts into any number of files - files for you, your family, your first-time clients, your ongoing clients, your research projects or books. In addition to the file name, you can write an 80-character description of what's in the file; this appears on the screen to jog your memory each time the file is selected. Even though a file can contain more than a thousand charts, you can locate a chart quickly by typing the first few letters of the name, or re-sorting the file into various alphabetical orders, by date of birth, or by when the chart was added to the file. And if you don't remember which file a chart is in, no problem - Solar Fire will look for the chart in all your files at once. Files are easily reorganized by moving, copying, deleting and editing charts. Plus, for every chart you store, you can keep unlimited comments that you can read and edit whenever the chart is selected.
WHEELS - PLAIN AND FANCY: Solar Fire lets you change the appearance of the charts. You can assign any color that your computer screen offers to each individual planet, sign and aspect type. You can pick unusual fonts for the birth data and 'Compliments of' text. And you can pick from an exciting new array of wheels, from maximally readable to maximally colorful and exotic.
In case none of these wheels suit you, Solar Fire has a unique, innovative Wheel Designer that lets you easily design your own. Let's face it: most of us don't need 200 wheels, we just need a few that we like. Using the Wheel Designer, you can have the fun of changing the size and number of circles and charts on each wheel, the line style, cusp style, placement size and type style and dozens of other attributes, and really create the wheel of your dreams. The neatest thing about it is that you can see the changes take place as you make them. No waiting and no unpleasant surprises!
You can also choose from an array of page designs to suit your needs. Take your pick from a range of high-quality page layouts or design your own page complete with unique wheels, reports and even your own logo. You can find a page to suit your needs whether you are a horary, medieval, psychological or esoteric astrologer. Astrological publishing has never been this easy.
CHART ART GALORE: Our team of Solar Fire designers and artists has added a range of 110+ Chart Art to create beautiful back-drops for your chart work. See our beautiful array of designs by Celine Lawrence (designer), Kay Steventon (artist), Hank Friedman (artist) and Eila Laurikainen (designer) and then choose your favorites. Since first releasing our Solar Fire Gold we have added new Chart Art with themes - Love Art for Relationship Astrology Work and Child Art for children's charts. So please make sure that you update with our dynamic software.
SOLAR RETURN CHART ART: We have exciting news with a brand new set of Solar Return Chart Art. This is a thrilling new concept straight from the desk of a working astrologer in association with a graphic designer. The Solar Return Chart Art is a set of 12 illustrated templates with a brief interpretation of the Solar Return Sun in each House. These colorful pages can be printed out with a current Solar Return of a client, friend or family member. The background colors for each page graphic are in keeping with traditional house colors and the brief keyword text has been written by a professional, working astrologer.
50 Standard Points are available throughout the program. These include Sun through Pluto, North and South Lunar Nodes (mean or true), Part of Fortune (fixed or different day/night), Asc, MC, Vertex, and Equatorial Asc ("East Point"); Earth, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hygeia and Astraea; 8 Uranian planets, Transpluto, Vulcan (D. Baker or L.H. Weston version), and the Black Moon Lilith (mean position). Also included are points such as Eris, Sedna, Selena (White Moon), Polar Ascendant and much more. You can include any or all of these points in the main ring of wheels and in virtually all other calculation options of Solar Fire. You can create and save different point sets for different uses, and in Solar Fire's lists and tables you can have the points arranged in the order that you prefer. PLEASE NOTE that not all 50 points have interpretations for planet/point in sign/house, etc.; only those points specified below under Interpretations are delineated in the natal, transit, progressed, synastry and other interpretive reports.
30 House Systems include Placidus, Koch, Campanus, Meridian, Morinus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Whole Signs, Alcabitius and Hindu Bhava. There are also equal houses from the Ascendant; equal with the Ascendant in the center of the 1st; equal with any planet, the lunar north Node, the Part of Fortune, the Equatorial Ascendant, 0 Aries or 0 of the Sun sign on the 1st; and equal with the MC on the 10th or the Vertex on the 7th. Houses can be calculated for geographic or geocentric latitude. In addition, Gauquelin sector positions are available in tables and in the chart and electional searches. The Part of Fortune Whole Sign System has been added to Solar Fire V9.
Fantastic Aspect Support: 26 predefined aspects for the first 12 harmonics (conjunctions through semisextiles, plus septiles, noviles, undeciles and their multiples), and also parallels and contraparallels. Each predefined aspect has its own glyph, and can have its own color and line style. You can also define additional aspects with their own arc widths, orbs, colors, line styles and alphabetical symbols. You can set different orbs for natal, transiting and progressed use, and different orbs for the luminaries vs. other points. Or, you can create different orbs for each individual pair of points by choosing Solar Fire's "planet ratio" orbs. Other available ways of doing aspects include moieties, unidirectional, sign-to-sign, and "3-D" (off-the-ecliptic) aspects. You can create and store an unlimited number of different aspect sets for different purposes.
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.
BIRTHDAY POP-UP REMINDERS: Now you can select friends, family and clients' charts for a special pop-up birthday reminder! Every day that you open your Solar Fire your selected reminders will pop-up and jog your memory for the birthdays of clients, family and friends.
ASTRODYNES (also known as Cosmodynes): Astrodynes can be viewed and printed in the new Report View tabulation list and have also been added as 8 different page objects. These can be added to a page using the Page Designer.
Natal, Synastry, Transiting, Progressed, and Firdaria Interpretations by Stephanie Johnson. You can get pop-up interpretations of individual aspects and other factors by clicking on planets and other items in the chart wheel or hitlist. You can also view, edit and print complete multi-page reports through your favorite word processor. If you wish, you can put your own stamp on the interpretations by rewriting and adding to the text database itself. Alice Portman has added comprehensive Vertex interpretations to the Natal interpretation file.
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