SE_Aspectarian Help
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1. The files fav1.opt and fav2.opt are designed so that you may easily load two different natal dates and times for quick-checking of transits to the two people you care about most. Loading either of these files does NOT change the start and end dates on the main form. Manually edit these files using NotePad or any other text editor to change the natal dates and times.

2. If you want an aspectarian listing for transit to natal planet aspects displayed in the larger textbox on the right after clicking "Calculate aspectarian", then select "Transit to natal planets" radio button under the "P2 Planets" column of checkboxes on the far right of the main SE_Aspectarian form. If you want transit to transit planet aspects, then select "Transit to transit planets". If you want progressed to natal planet aspects, then select "Progressed to natal planets".

3. Clicking on any of the three radio buttons in the lower right area of the SE_Aspectarian form automatically unchecks the "Ignore duplicates" checkbox. The "Ignore duplicates" checkbox is only really good to check when you are displaying transit to transit planet aspects and the checked planets under "P2 Planets" are the same checked planets as under "P1 Planets". This then eliminates duplicate aspects like Chiron square Moon, for instance, because the aspect that will be displayed is Moon square Chiron. There is no need to repeat the same information.

4. Natal times should ALWAYS be entered in their GMT equivalent. Times in aspect listings are always displayed as GMT.

5. If you need planet positions from 1200 - 1800, then download sweph_12.zip, which contains sepl_12.se1, semo_12.se1, seas_12.se1 - ephemeris files for 1200 AD - 1800 AD - from www.astro.com.

6. The mean apogee in the planet listing is sometimes referred to as Black Moon Lilith (BML).

7. Be sure to manually go through the various menu items to see what is available.

8. After displaying natal planet positions for either longitude or declination/latitude, the data is automatically loaded onto the clipboard so that you may paste it into another application using CTRL-V, if you wish.

9. "par" means parallel and "c.p" means contra-parallel.

10. When displaying natal positions and the cursor focus is in that natal position textbox, hit ESC to bring the focus back to the main form.

11. When the user selects "Transit to natal planets" (transit planet to natal planet aspects) and calculates an aspectarian, then the data output will look something like the following:

Venus 150 Pluto 02/12/2006 01:09
     speed = 0.3180 ==> 3.14 days

The second line shows the speed per day (24 hours) at which the transiting planet is moving on the date and time shown, followed by the APPROXIMATE time it takes the transiting planet to go 1 degree. This allows the user to get a rough idea of how far back or how far ahead in time the aspect is within 1 degree of exact.

12. When calculating progressed to natal planet aspects, the program takes the last birthday prior to the date set in the "Start Date" textbox, then goes back 5 years from that birthday. It then performs 9 years of calculations starting from that point. Here is edited sample output (not every aspect shown) from a progressed calculation (birthday = 22 Sep 1949 at 16.43 GMT, Start Date = 01 Feb 2006):

Moon 090 Venus 10/28/2000 17:34
     speed = 13.2733 ==> 0.90 months

Sun 060 Jupiter 02/05/2003 17:09
     speed = 1.0076 ==> 11.91 months

Venus 150 Mars 04/23/2003 16:49
     speed = 1.0417 ==> 11.52 months

Sun c.p Mars 05/07/2005 23:13
     speed = -0.2457 ==> -4.07 years

Venus 120 Saturn 09/07/2005 17:09
     speed = 1.0292 ==> 11.66 months

Mars 000 Saturn 02/25/2006 05:47
     speed = 0.5259 ==> 1.90 years

Mars par Saturn 12/31/2006 02:58
     speed = -0.1884 ==> -5.31 years

Venus 090 Neptune 11/09/2007 22:11
     speed = 1.0167 ==> 11.80 months

Moon 120 Pluto 09/04/2009 02:40
     speed = 14.6437 ==> 0.82 months

Moon 060 Mercury 10/12/2009 13:57
     speed = 14.6080 ==> 0.82 months

