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Solar Fire Gold 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.
Our international team of EXPERT ASTROLOGERS and software developers is all set to answer your questions, and ensure that your astrology needs are met. If you have the knowledge then we have the software that places the skills and calculations at your fingertips.
Our software is the leader in ACCURACY and DYNAMIC software solutions. Download our progressive patches for the freshest most up-to-date software. Our software evolves with your needs.
SOLAR FIRE GOLD 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-customization. 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 for both novice and expert astrologers providing easy access to high quality chart production—easy in the Windows environment; SOLAR FIRE GOLD uses state of the art planetary calculations from the highly accurate Swiss Ephemeris. You can create charts galore!
BASIC FEATURES
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, what charts and options are currently selected and 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 important, 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 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.
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.
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.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: We have taken the best of Devores’ Encyclopedia and added our own new definitions to make up the Solar Encyclopedia.
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 Gold your
selected reminders will pop-up and jog your memory for the birthdays of
clients, family and friends.
CHART DATA: 2000+ Rodden-rated charts in new chart categories including Entertainment, Politics, Sports, Literature, Corporate, Science, Infamous and more.
ASTRODYNES (also known as Cosmodynes): Astrodynes can be viewed and printed in the 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.
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. These include natal charts, transits, progressions, firdaria and synastry reports. 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 and hit list interpretations a delightful way to learn. You can also link directly to the illustrated range of purpose-built Solar Writer report writers (as well as other professional astrology tools).
INTERPRETATIONS
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.
UK Astrologer Julian Venables has also written Midpoint Interpretations exclusively for Solar Fire Gold. And world-renowned Sabian expert Lynda Hill has written Sabian Oracle and Sabian Natal Interpretations text.
Solar Fire’s 25 - 50-page Natal Report includes short paragraphs about a very wide variety of factors -- not only planets in signs, houses and aspects, but also in degrees (Sabian Symbol and Ebertin-style medical meaning), decanates, elements, modes, quadrants and hemispheres. There is also text about house cusps, dispositors, rays, and lunar phases. Also, there are now Sign and House interpretations for Chiron, Eris, Sedna, Selena and the 6 standard asteroids, and aspect interps for Chiron. This report is updated with each new version becoming more and more comprehensive. In the latest Solar Fire Gold text for the Vertex has been written by Alice Portman, an Australian astrologer and expert on this subject. The Solar Fire interpretations text is continually updated and improved for your enjoyment. You can find all types of information by clicking on the Chart’s Displayed Points or producing a report in your Word Processor.
The 18-page (approx) Synastry Report is a comprehensive interpretation of the relationship between the planets in two people's charts. It is written mainly from the perspective of a romantic attachment, but can shed light on other types of relationships.
Solar Fire also contains comprehensive interpretations reports for Transits and Progressions. These are designed to outline the energies at any given time. Aimed primarily at astrologers, they can also be given to clients.
If you are a fan of Midpoints then you may enjoy the interpretations by UK Astrologer Julian Venables. His years of expertise make this feature a welcome addition to any astrologers' tool kit.
A Firdaria report is also contained in Solar Fire Gold. This ancient tradition is based on "periods" of time being ruled by different planets. The Firdaria report is available as a single interpretation for the current period (approx one page), as a report for the Previous, Current and Next period or for a lifetime.
Sabian Interpretations are also available in the form of a handy Oracle and for your Natal Chart work. These interpretations have been written by world-renowned Sabian expert Lynda Hill.
DYNAMIC
PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGERS can make sense of mountains of timed hits, thanks to Solar Fire’s Time Map graphs, graphic ephemeris and its great sorting capabilities. Besides sorting timed hits in the usual chronological order, you can sort with the slowest-moving transits first. Or, try grouping natal points to see how each is affected by transits during the period. Or, put exact and leaving hits upfront 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. Also note our new calendar complete with short text.
THE PLANET OR ELECTIONAL SEARCH: You can search through your chart files one at a time to discover charts with similar features. You can look for planets in the same signs, house, aspects and/or position. The powerful time search capability enables you to use a wide range of astrological criteria and chart data criteria. Solar Fire makes it all so easy and the results are fascinating. NEW SEARCH FACILITIES - If you were already delighted with Solar Fire’s electional and chart search facilities, then you are likely to be amazed by the new search conditions in the latest versions. Now you can search for Chart Shapes, Unaspected planets, Day of Week and Midpoints! Some chart shapes also allow selection of which planet is key (eg. Lead planet in a Locomotive, Handle planet in a Sling or Bucket). And if that is not enough Solar Fire Gold now allows for full Boolean logic support! And there’s more…
DYNAMIC REPORTS: Such a simple addition but such a welcome one is the ability to define your own dynamic report columns and now include AGE! And now you can see aspects already in Orb at the start of each report. This means that long term transit hits are always visible in report, even if no E/X/L event occurs during report period. Our Dynamic events now always have highest accuracy possible, including for large time steps. Auto DST adjustments are now applied to report events and a timezone column added to show which timezone applies to each event.
CALENDAR: See your personal and/or daily transits and interpretations in our elegantly designed Calendar. You can easily and quickly display any dynamic report in calendar format, for a day, week or month at a time. You can print your Solar Calendar or email it to your family, friends or clients. Your interpretations can be shown as popup hint bubbles, or as a separate report. The Calendar can also be produced as a PDF file and then easily exported as calendar events into other calendar programs such as MS Outlook, or any other calendar applications that are compatible with the iCalendar or vCalendar formats.
FORECASTING
All Kinds of
Forecasting Charts Solar Fire Gold lets you cast all types and
variations of forecasting charts and save them for future use. You can
choose from:
Transiting Charts: Direct or converse, tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected.
Progressed Charts: By
secondary, tertiary (mean or true), minor or user rate. MC progressed
by solar or Naibod arc in either longitude or right ascension, or by Q2
(“daily houses”) rate. Progressed day type may be standard or Bija. Can
also be direct or converse, tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected.
Directed Charts include solar, Ascendant, Vertex and user-defined arcs, and these can be direct or converse, with whole, half, double or reverse arcs.
You can view any forecasting chart either by itself or in a multi-ringed wheel along with the natal and other charts. You can also cast forecasting charts with extra points and view them using Solar Fire’s extra-points wheel rings and tables.
Return Charts include returns of the Sun, Moon or any planet or standard asteroid to its natal or any other specified position. Returns can be tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected; direct or converse; full, demi, quarti, or any other harmonic; and you can do a whole string of returns from any starting date. Other types of return include progressed solar returns and Wynn Key Cycles.
Lunar-Phase Charts include progressed and transiting lunar phases, eclipses, phase returns, and Pessin lunar phase families.
Age-Harmonic Charts create a harmonic chart for a given moment in someone’s life from the person’s exact age at the time. You can do these for the person’s age, or age plus one year.
Animated Charts let you put natal and forecasting charts on the same multi-wheel, and then click forward or back in time to watch the changes in the transiting, progressed and/or directed (and even profected) planets and aspects. Solar Fire's aspect highlighting feature makes the changes even more dramatic, thickening an aspect line as the aspect builds in intensity, and then changing it to a broken line as soon as the aspect separates. Not only can you animate chart wheels, you can also animate aspectarians and even whole pages in order to watch their tables of dignities, arabic parts, rays and a lot more change through time. You can also animate dials, get point-and-click interpretations, and print out any chart that you see on the screen. This simple and direct way of looking at charts could well become your favorite way to forecast!
A Real-Time Chart shows you a wheel or page with constantly updating current planetary positions. To get it, you simply put the animated chart on automatic update. (This is in addition to the constantly updating planet, MC and Asc positions that you can have always visible on Solar Fire’s Main Screen.)
Dynamic Hit lists are extraordinarily
flexible and complete in Solar Fire Gold. You can do transits (to
natal, transiting, progressed or directed positions), progressions
(secondary, tertiary, minor and user-defined, to natal or progressed
positions), arc directions (solar, Ascendent, Vertex or user-defined
whole, double, half or reverse arcs), sign and house ingresses,
stations and eclipses. You can also include parallels of declination or
latitude, primary directions (mundane or Van Dam), annual profections,
and void-of-course Moon times. You can do any of these by themselves or
mix them in one timed list, and you can gain even further flexibility
by merging hit lists.
As points, you can include both moving and natal asteroids, hypothetical planets, midpoints, and even the moving Asc, MC, Vertex and Equatorial Ascendant. Plus, as natal points you can include intermediate house cusps, Arabic parts, and any fixed points that you specify. You can use different point sets for transits, progressions/directions, and the natal chart, and can use different aspects and orbs for transits vs. progressions/directions.
Other choices include natal or relocated; geo or helio; tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected; regular or converse; and timing to either the day or the minute. Once you set up all your selections for a given purpose, you can name and save them for future use.
Once a hit list is calculated, Solar Fire’s sorting capabilities help you to make sense of it. Besides sorting timed hits in the usual chronological order, it’s useful to sort with the slowest-moving, most important transits first. Or sort by natal points to see how each factor in the chart is affected by the transits during that period. Or sort by the moving point to see what each moving point is doing to all the planets in a chart. Or group entering, exact and leaving dates together to see the whole course of each transit as it enters orb, perfects and separates. Or sort by type of aspect. Or sort transits, progressions, directions, ingresses, stations and eclipses into separate sections.
For more information about a hit, you can click on it to see other
instances of the transit, a paragraph of interpretation, or a full
chart wheel for the moment.
Dynamic Interpretation Reports: In addition, for the entire period
covered by the hit list, you can view and print a multi-page transiting
and/or progressed interpretation report. You can also copy just the
hits themselves to a word processor or spreadsheet, where you can edit
them, manipulate them in tables, etc.
These reports aren’t intended for batch
processing and commercial applications, but they’re great for getting
your interpretive juices flowing, promoting your services, and giving
to a client as an extra along with your consultation. And for
beginners, they’re an easy and pleasant way to learn astrology.
“Time Maps” show the whole hitlist in graphic form. Using a horizontal bar to indicate the duration of each event, these graphs make it easy to visualize how the transits, progressions, directions, and other events overlap in time.
Graphic Ephemerides: Ebertin-style graphs of planetary motion give you an additional way to make sense of transits, progressions or directions. Making it immediately obvious how fast each planet is traveling, and in what direction, they vividly depict planetary stations and complexes or “knots” of aspects. You can do graphic ephemerides with or without a natal chart, and you can view them not only in longitude (in 360-, 30-, 45-degree or any other modulus) but also in latitude and declination.
In Solar Fire Gold you can move the cursor to see the exact date and zodiacal degree of any point on the graph. Even better, you are free to scroll these graphs forward and back in time as much as you wish without needing to return to the selection screen.
Custom Ephemeris Tables use state-of-the-art accuracy and go way beyond what you can get in books! Over any timespan and in whatever time zone and time intervals you choose, you can generate your choice of longitude, latitude, right ascension, declination, and daily motion not only for planets, but also for the MC, Asc, Part of Fortune, midpoints, regular and extra asteroids, stars and hypothetical points. You can do these in geo or helio coordinates; in the tropical, draconic or any sidereal zodiac. Your printouts can also include the sidereal time and day of the week, and they can be precise to either minutes or seconds of arc. You can also generate ephemerides in decimal-degree format for export to spreadsheets and other applications.
Life-Event Lists attached to the natal chart make it easy to store and organize a person’s whole life history and keep adding to it whenever you wish. Just click on the main screen’s Chart Preview window to enter the dates and times of these events. From then on, they stand ready for instant recall as transiting, progressed or directed charts. Life-event lists also enable you to jump to the time of these events instantly in the animated chart view.
RELATIONSHIP
Solar Fire contains all of the features that you would like for your relationship astrology work - Synastry Grids and Interpretations, Composite Charts, and more.
Composite Chart Art Solar Fire Gold v8 also includes 12 new Chart Art pages have been designed displaying key notes for the house location of the composite Sun.
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELORS will be fascinated by what the multi-person composite charts (of up to 15 people) and four-chart dials reveal about groups. A synastry grid with orbs lets you quickly spot the issues. Or you can make a Synastry interpretations report.
Ashtkoot Compatibility System The Ashtkoot Compatibility System is a system that has its roots in India and is primarily used in Vedic astrology. Vedic and Relationship Astrologers will love this simple calculation that compares two people’s charts and comes up with a compatibility score. Anything over 18 is a green light. Try your charts and see how you go. As Solar Fire’s own Neville Lang explains: “Ashtkoot” simply means “8 factor”. The scoring within this system is based on the position of the sidereal Moon (Lahiri) of the two people and the 8 factors are scored on the integration of these two Moon positions. The maximum score is 36. The implementation of this system in Solar Fire Gold v8 allows a user to select two charts from either the chart files or ones that have been entered and if a zodiac used in those charts is one other than the Lahiri zodiac then Solar Fire Gold v8 automatically converts the Moon position to the Lahiri (sidereal) position internally and the scores calculated. Neville Lang has studied about 100 couples over a 10 year period (still a small sample size) using the Ashtkoot Compatibility system he has come up with some tentative boundaries of the Total score. If you think about using traffic lights as a quick indicator then the Red light will represent scores of 40% of the maximum 36 (a score of 14.4) and lower, the Orange light will represent the range from 40% (14.5) to 69% (24.7), and the Green light will represent scores of 24.8 and higher. Basically, the Red light indicates a warning for the long term viability of the relationship, the Orange light means that is it “middling” and requires more analysis of the two individual charts while the Green light indicates a high degree of compatibility for the relationship to run for the long term.
MEDIEVAL OR TRADITIONAL
Traditional Astrologers will enjoy the growing body of features included to enable you to explore the ancient world of astrology.
Solar Fire traditionalists have a choice between a round chart wheel or a Traditional Square one. A round wheel can display the Decans and Terms while Traditional Squar