If you want your charts to look like the ones on this blog, here are a few tips. I prefer the clean look of a black and white chart. Of course, this is a personal preference that does not impact practice.
Unfortunately, Valens does not save the color setting so it may revert back to color when you reopen. I also find the round chart more intuitive and easy to read, so I choose that over the square Hellenistic chart.
As of this writing, Valens still lacks a few of the features that are found in traditional Morinus. For instance, you cannot save a chart and instead must manually use screen-capturing software or the PrtScn button.
Ideally, this should be fixed in the near future. As I use both Morinus and Valens, an optimal solution would be to port the extra Hellenistic astrology features found in Valens into the generally more feature-rich Morinus. In this way, we can just enjoy and the programmers can just maintain one program that does everything we need. For more information on how to use Valens, please see the documentation on the site for the software.
These software draws chart wheels , synastry and composite , draws tables of essential dignities , calculates element and quality balances and allow analyzing birth aspects. The information is illustrated in different forms like charts and tables.
You can make all the interpretations and predictions using these illustrations based on your knowledge of astrology, or may use an inbuilt interpreter for help. These software allow you to match the compatibility of two persons by comparing different factors. Before going along with these software, you need to make sure that you have knowledge in astrology to some extent in terms of interpreting Natal Charts or Rasi Charts.
Although, some of these software have inbuilt interpreter to quickly display programmed predictions, but I would recommend you to use your own knowledge to interpret the illustrations. However, if you are a professional astrologer or learning astrology and would want a comprehensive astrology software, then Astrolog and What Watch would be best suited for you. Astrolog is a free astrology software for Windows which can easily be used to make horoscope calculations.
The interface is not that pleasing; however, besides some horoscope calculations, it displays wheels, aspects, midpoints, relationship charts, biorhythms, alternative zodiacs , etc. The interface starts with a default chart, displaying Zodiac for the day, hour, and location, with all the houses and plenty of other info color-coded to the chart. The menu bar has a lot to offer.
You can view different charts such as House wheel, Aspect midpoint grid, Midpoint list, Local horizon, Solar system orbit, Calendar, Influence, Transits , etc. In Graphics tab, you can see the world map, globe, polar globe, constellation, modify display, chart, and can change different color related options. The chart changes every moment, as the planets move.
If you want it to go faster, simply animate it in animate tab. Honestly, the software is a bit complex for a layman. But, for an astrologer, it is a handy astrology software.
Someone with an in-depth knowledge of planets and houses can quickly analyze and predict without exploring much into the software. It also allows you to draw freely across the interface, to make things more understandable.
You can save the picture of the generated zodiac wheel, along with the info in different bitmap formats. What Watch is a lightweight astrology software to generate horoscope reports and other related astrological information.
It has an advance and really impressive interface, providing quick access to the relevant information. It is a simple program, which requires birth date, name, and place of the person you are creating natal chart for. After entering info, it draws the chart with all the aspects and houses plotted on it. It performs calculations on Swiss Ephemeris , which is best for computing planetary positions.
It displays two wheels, so as to verify the compatibility between two persons or comparison in general. Help-files updated PDs-In-Charts  Here and now with Default Location in Options menu  Acknowledgements added to this webpage  Arabic Parts renamed to Lots  Extended Firdaria over years  Displaying FixedStars and Lots in chart radially the checked ones  Old appearance1.
Acknowledgements changed  Known Bugs added to webpage  Secondary Directions fixed daylight saving  Old almutentopicalandlots. Known Bugs updated  Lots with ayanamsa fixed  BC charts fixed charts created for a date earlier than need to be created with Julian-calendar ; [ only the source Morinus.
Version 6. Ingresses fixed crash  Possible crash-bug fixed in the chart-drawing algorithms  Heliocentric chart added to Charts-menu rudimentary  Online place-database Geonames fixed source only, i.
Note that in case of a chart created for a date earlier than Julian-calendar need to be used. Radix for and Transit for Ayanamsa: Exact Transits are not precession corrected Save As Text PDs should be used in english this is not a bug but a minor inconvenience I am not sure whether Secondary Directions is correct with the "Apparent Solar Time"-setting.
Hades Pluto, Feb 25, , AM. Hades Pluto, Mar 2, , AM. Home Morinus Sitemap. The differences between this and the modern version: No minor aspects No Uranus, Neptune, Pluto Chaldean planet order Orbs belong to the planets and not the aspects Only traditional aspects Clicking on a planet will show its aspects and orbs clicking on an empty area of the chart removes them [this can be disabled in App I] There are only individual colors not acc.
Ephemeris Perhaps it is not that clear on the webpage of the modern version: without the Swiss Ephemeris the program will use the built-in semi-analytical algorithms of Steve Moshier for calculating the positions.
The Swiss and the Moshier Ephemerides calculate the same positions for e. The more you go backwards or forwards in time, the bigger the difference will be.
On Windows: install python, PIL and wxpython unicode as it is written on the "modern" webpage. On Linux: e. Ubuntu, only the wxpython need to be installed because python and the PIL are already installed Note that this software needs pyhton 2. I couldn't test it on Windows but it should be ok. Open a command prompt on Windows or terminal on Linux and in the Morinus directory type: python. But in order to get Morinus use python-wxgtk2.
Link to Martin's book added and About Primary Directions changed  Conjunction symbol of the significator removed from PD-lists  User2 speculum added See General Remarks  Placidian underthepole added to the PDs  Old Morinus.
Download Source section changed  TODO changed  Synastry added  PD-calculations got much faster due to a faster sorting algorithm  Download Source section changed Linux  Menu items for managing the options explained in General Remarks  Sometimes aspects weren't shown in the charts Pisces-Aries transition problem ; fixed  Maximizing the window of the radix problem on Win7; fixed  Themes added to Appearance I; charts are drawn accordingly  About The Author section added  Synastry closed already opened child-windows; fixed  Syzygy moved to a standalone dialog from Appearance I  Spanish translation added  Selectable individual planet-colors added to Colors dialog  Selectable showing of the selected housesystem on the radix chart added to AppearanceI  Almutens 3 types added  Section about Almutens added to the webpage  General Remarks changed  Contents added to the webpage  Aspects table fixed housecusps-part  Colors fixed in Almuten tables  Background fixed in Topical Almuten table on Windows 7  Bug during loading a chart if Traditional option is selected fixed  Help added See General Remarks  Upgraded to the newest swiss ephemeris[version of sweastrology.
Old extension modules sweastrology. Whole-sign replaces Vehlow housesystem  If you want to use your saved options file Morinus. Crash-bug fixed: Topical Almutens get cleared if arabicparts removed in ArabicParts-editor  BC charts fixed see: General Remarks  Link to "A vedic astrologer's opinion about Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and asteroids" added to Articles  BC charts changed if e.
Some minor bugs fixed  Elections added to Charts menu  The caption of the Elections-window showed the date year, month, day after subtracting the timezone; fixed  Whole Sign houses with Ayanamsha fixed  Link to "Ptolemy's cosmos" added to Articles  Revolutions of a julian-date radix got fixed  Mercury in Almuten calculations fixed  Webpage changed in Aboutbox  Helpfiles changed  Asteroids removed  Important: only the source changed so not the Windows-binary MorinusWinEng.
As soon as it is possible I will upload it. Exact Transits removed form Appearance I. They are always calculated. Minor bugfix in Secondary Directions in case of a julian-radix  Houseposition calculation with Traditional fixed in the Almuten of the Chart. Traditional version  Programming added to the Table-Of-Contents  A possible solution to a runtime-bug on Ubuntu Linux added to General Remarks  Precession and Nutation corrected solars added if ayanamsa is selected  Ephemeris files uploaded and Download Binary, Windows section changed  New features added to the Traditional version  PDs in solars and lunars added right click on the chart of a solar or lunar  Find Time from planetary positions added see General Remarks  Graphical Ephemeris added  Credits dialog changed  Graphical ephemeris fixed see the lines of the planets at the top in case of year 25 [minor fix]  Traditional version changed  How to compute planetary positions without ephemeris ; added to the list of articles  Astronomy, The Basics; added to the list of articles  Profections zodiacal, currently Yearly-only added to Charts  Version 3.
Program crash fixed  Rapt Parallels fixed [Under Testing]  Link added to the book Jean Meeus: Astronomical Algorithms  Profections zodiacal, mundane added [Under Testing]  Profections section added to the webpage  LotofFortune added to PlacidusAnnualProfections [mundane]  Aspects fixed in the Profections-charts  PlacidusAnnualProfections[mundane] algorithm fixed  Julian Day added to Misc-table  Profections section changed  Spanish translation updated  Credits dialog updated  Profected LoF fixed  Max number of rows in the Topical-Almutens to 30  Program crash fixed in Arabic-Parts-options  Yesterday the encoding was removed from "Save as text" PDs.
Should work for all the languages on Linux, WinVista and Win7  Italian translation added  Syzygy added to Topical almutens  Positions table of zodiacal profs; fixed  Hot-keys changed Tables, Charts  Same row can be added several times to a Topical Almuten  Profections added to Tables  Zodiacal profections fixed  Confirmation dialog added to "Reload"  Several ayanamsa-related bugs fixed e.
Antiscia  Acknowlegdements changed  Mercury in Virgo Almutens : exaltation is not taken into account  BC charts fixed  Old almutenchart. FindTime got 25 times faster  See Profections-section  Degree and second added to approximation in FindTime  Old profections. Monthly Profections: "Steps 13" fixed  Aspects of promissors to intermediate housecups added to PDs  Iteration selection added to the secondary motion of the Moon in PD-dialog  Rounding of the longitudes in charts removed
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