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-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 for both novice and expert astrologers providing easy access to high quality chart productionÑeasy 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!
Solar Fire's capabiities 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. 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; asteroids; dials with movable pointers; multi-criteria chart searches; 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; geodetic charts and much, much more.
Once saved, a chart is simple to find, because of a number of thoughtful touches. You can group charts into any number of files Ð 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 whatÕs 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 donÕt remember which file a chart is in, no problem Ð 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.
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.
Wheels, plain and fancy: Solar Fire lets you change the appearance of the charts. You can assign any colour that your computer screen offers to each individual planet, sign and aspect type. You can pick unusual fonts for the birth data and ÔCompliments ofÕ text. And you can pick from an exciting new array of wheels, from maximally readable to maximally colourful and exotic.
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. Also note our lovely chart art displays.PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGERS can make sense of mountains of timed hits, thanks to Solar FireÕs 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 thereÕs a full selection of return charts, including precession-corrected and converse. Also note our new calendar complete with short text.
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLORS 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.
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.
TRADITIONAL ASTROLOGERS will enjoy the unique dignities editor in Solar Fire which enables you to explore the world of medieval astrology with a unique almuten and dignity editor. You can set the editor and produce your own set of ancient calculations from a simple Essential Dignities score to a more complicated Chart Almuten. Traditional astrologers will also enjoy the 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, thereÕs also a horary page with full Lilly-style dignities, almutens of houses, planetary hours, and the day or night Part of Fortune.
You can also explore the world of Primary Directions with PtolemyÕs method. All of these methods in the one program make Solar Fire very enticing for the medieval astrologer.
ESOTERIC ASTROLOGERS can work with esoteric and hierarchical rulerships, ray interpretations, and the esoterically important planet Vulcan. You can also enjoy a range of esoteric planets.
Students of prenatal charts can use 18 kinds of prenatal chart, 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 will love the Cosmobiology dials in Solar Fire complete with pointers, as well as the ability to do transits to midpoints and watch the mid-points transiting. You can also do midpoint sorts, lists and trees in any modulus, and can include the Aries Point along with Uranian planets. You can also 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. 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).
LOCATIONAL ASTROLOGY is also featured with world mapping features, relocated, Johndro and Geodetic charts, and links to the comprehensive astro-locality program, Solar Maps.
VEDIC ASTROLOGERS can enjoy the North Indian and South Indian square charts, dasas, bhuktis, Whole Sign and Hindu Bhava Houses (Sri Pati), Lahiri, Krishnamurti and other ayanamsas. It is also possible to cast various Vedic divisional charts and to view the Nakshatras (Vedic lunar divisions) in the Solar Fire Gold tabulations which shows the Nakshatras for the current chart according to the default sidereal zodiac. The names and types of the mansions are given, as well as a few keywords describing the attributes of each mansion.
NEW: 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. This amazing new feature has to be experienced!
NEW: CHART ART GALORE
ur team of Solar Fire designers and artists has added a range of 20+ Chart Art to create beautiful back-drops for your chart work. See our beautiful array of designs by Celine Lawrence (designer), Kay Steventon (artist) and Eila Laurikainen (designer) and then choose your favourites.
NEW: BIRTHDAY POP-UP REMINDERS
Now you can select friends, family and clientsÕ 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.
NEW: ENCYCLOPEDIA
We have taken the best of DevoresÕ Encyclopedia and added our own new definitions to make up the Solar Encyclopedia.
NEW: NEW CHART DATA 2000+
Rodden-rated charts in new chart categories including Entertainment, Politics, Sports, Literature, Corporate, Science, Infamous and more.
NEW: ASTRODYNES
Also known as Cosmodynes - many of you have requested this technique and our team has responded. Astrodynes can be viewed and printed in the new Repot View tabulation list, and have also been added as 8 different page objects. These can be added to any page using the Page Designer.
NEW: INTERPRETATIONS
Stephanie Johnson, Astrologer and co-auhtor of the Solar Fire range of products has written nique Firdaria interpretations covering a person's life-span using these ancient planetary periods. Brief transit and progression interpretations have also been provided for the new Calendar.
ENHANCEMENT: CHART POINTS
Now you can view 14 new standard chart points including Selena (the White Moon), Sedna and Eris! Along with all of the current displayed points available, Solar Fire Gold now has various chart angles (including MunkaseyÕs angles) and zodiac points.
ENHANCEMENT: WHEEL AND DIAL PREVIEW
This simple but effective addition adds to the ease of Solar Fire. Now you can preview your chart or dial style before selecting it!
ENHANCEMENT: REPORTS
The Chart Reports facility has always been a welcome addition to Solar Fire but now if you look you will see an extra Tabulations button. Click on this and be amazed by the elegance of the tabulations. All of the familiar chart reports are available with the addition of new ones.
NEW SEARCH FACILITIES If you were already delighted with Solar FireÕs electional and chart search facilities, then you are likely to be amazed by the new search conditions. 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!
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.
ENHANCEMENT: CHART VIEWING
The Chart View screen has new Print Preview modes. Three buttons now allow you to also see the page as it would be printed (print preview), and also a zoomed, scrollable print preview.
ENHANCEMENT: ATLAS
The built-in full ACS Atlas is a great boon, but now it is really Gold with the ability to add your own Place data.
ENHANCEMENT: STATIONS
Stations are now shown with ÒSÓ on wheels, and listed in Basic chart report. You can define ÒStationÓ in the Preferences.
ENHANCEMENT: HOUSE SYSTEMS
You can now switch more easily between house systems. For instance you can select a different default house system for Vedic charts, and the Sidereal/Tropical toggle option (Ctrl+Z as a shortcut) therefore now also toggles the house system.
ENHANCEMENT: TRUE/MEAN NODE
You can now switch between these for any calculated chart/s (using Ctrl+L as a shortcut).
ENHANCEMENT: RETAINED CHARTS
You can now add a single extra retained charts instead of having to re-retain all charts at once.
ENHANCEMENT: EXTRA RING POINTS
Wheels can now show the aspects between the extra points. Note that this requires use of a wheel design which displays extra points only ie. without displaying standard points.
ENHANCEMENT: OPENING SCREEN BAR
Your Planet Status bar at the top and bottom of your Solar Fire opening screen has now been improved with pop-up hints and the nearest lunar phases and eclipses.
Computer Requirements
Software Requirements:
- Windows 98 or later. Windows XP or Vista recommended.
Hardware Requirements:
- PC or compatible computer with Pentium processor (or equivalent).
- CD or DVD drive
- RAM depends on which version of Windows you have: - Windows 98, 98SE - 32 MB of RAM minimum - 64 MB of RAM or more recommended; - Windows ME, NT4 - 40 MB of RAM minimum - 80 MB of RAM or more recommended; - Windows 2000 - 72 MB of RAM minimum - 144 MB of RAM or more recommended; - Windows XP - 128 MB of RAM minimum - 256 MB of RAM or more recommended; - Windows Vista - 512 MB RAM minimum - 1 GB of RAM or more recommended.
- About 120 MB of disk space for a full installation
- SVGA Screen with 800x600 pixels minimum, XGA with 1024x768 or better is recommended
- A mouse pointing device
- Internet access is recommended
Please note: The name provided on checkout will be coded into the software as part of the serial number and password to protect your program from being used by others should the disk become lost. If you are purchasing this as a gift, please indicate the name it is to be registered under. Only proper names are permitted.
Due to licensing agreements, we may not sell this product to individuals residing in Australia, the United Kingdom, or New Zealand.
Solar Fire Pricing & Ordering
Solar Fire Deluxe - First Time Users
Comes with built-in ACS Atlas and printed manual
Standard Domestic New User Order - $330.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping).
Kepler Student Special Rate New User Order - $265.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping).
Solar Fire Deluxe - Upgrades
Standard Domestic Upgrade Order (NO Manual) - $107.00 USD from v. 6 (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Standard Domestic Upgrade Order from v. 6 (WITH Manual) - $107.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Standard Domestic Upgrade Order from v. 3, 4, or 5 (NO Manual) - $137.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Standard Domestic Upgrade Order from v. 3, 4, or 5 (WITH Manual) - $152.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Kepler Student Special Rate Upgrade Order from v. 6 (NO Manual) - $87.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Kepler Student Special Rate Upgrade Order from v. 6 (WITH Manual) - $99.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Kepler Student Special Rate Upgrade Order from v. 3, 4, or 5 (NO Manual) - $111.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
Kepler Student Special Rate Upgrade Order from v. 3, 4 or 5 (WITH Manual) - $123.00 USD (includes U.S. ground shipping)
