KEPLER 5.0 VERSION RELEASED
NEW FEATURES IN KEPLER 5
ART WHEELS: Art wheels are beautiful chart
wheels. These chart wheels are works of art and suitable for framing. They are
best printed on a color printer. For an incredibly stunning chart wheel, print
an art wheel on glossy paper with your color printer. Kepler
comes with 30 different art wheels, with themes ranging from sky images to
nature scenes to geometric patterns. The images used in our art wheels were
developed by graphic artist Paul Guess.
For each wheel style, you can choose a portrait (normal) or landscape
(sideways) version.
NEW FORECAST FEATURES: Suppose that you
are an astrologer and you would like for your clients the following information
for the coming year: outer planet transits to the natal chart, secondary
progressed to natal, secondary progressed to progressed, and solar arc to natal
aspects. Kepler has been able to provide you this
information even 10 years ago, but now it is much faster to obtain and easier
to read. In Kepler Ver 5,
you no longer have to individually select these printouts. A screen is
displayed that allows you to check which forecasts you want, and you can save
this set of selections as a default for the future. The forecasts are displayed
in time line format. The simple text listing format is still available, but
only the time line format is available in this more elegant method of selecting
forecasts.
We
also made improvements to the time line format: now the calendar date is
printed periodically so that while scrolling through the printout, you can see
what the dates are without needing to scroll up and down repeatedly.
Also,
the date when the aspect is exact now appears in the time line printout.
Because the date was not given, some Kepler users
continued to use text listings, but now this limitation has been removed.
The
time line format is quickly becoming the preferred method of most Kepler users, and with these new
features will undoubtedly continue to become more popular. The time line format
has the advantages of allowing you to quickly and easily see what astrological
influences are occurring, when they occur, and how strong they are at any time.
After
making your selections, you can scroll through the list of transits and
progressions without needing to jump between printouts.
We
have also improved the selection of forecasts easier by providing a menu that
allows you to jump more quickly to the different kinds of forecasts available.
In earlier versions, all of these methods appeared together in a large menu,
and some users did not realize, for example, that they have the powerful
Profile Time Line feature which gives scores for areas such as athletic
performance, accident proneness, etc. Now you won't miss these features hiding
in a menu of selections that takes time to read.
VEDIC ASTROLOGY: Kepler has been
able to produce a listing of dasa and bhukti periods (used in forecasting in Vedic astrology) and
the nakshatra of the Moon, but many other basics of
Vedic astrology were not available. We have added the Vedic square chart wheel
styles (both North Indian and South Indian style), the 16 vargas, and calculation of shad bala
and a graphic presentation of gochara, which now
means that Kepler provides you with most of the
fundamental features of Vedic astrology.
BIRTH DATA CATEGORIES: In recent versions of Kepler
our database of famous people, companies, earthquakes, and other notable events
has grown. In fact, it has grown to over 18,000 charts! Having all of this data
is wonderful, but as we add one feature, it creates the need for another
feature! Now that we have the data, it would be nice to select all musicians,
or more specifically all pianists, or perhaps all singers, etc. Earlier
versions of Kepler had a complex system of research
codes that sometimes could help you do this, but we have replaced this with an
easy‑to‑use menu selection. This is available in the data entry
screen as well as in the research section of Kepler.
Another big improvement: if you select, for example, basketball players, in the
research section, Kepler will now be smart enough to
search only through the basketball players and give you the research results
promptly. Research in earlier versions of Kepler was
slow because Kepler would search through all 18,000
charts even if you wanted to research just basketball players. Well, it was
difficult to select only basketball players, anyway, and this seriously limited
the usefulness of Kepler's research feature. Now it
is easy to research any particular group that you are interested in.
Making
your own categories for data, and quickly retrieve them: In Kepler
5 you can also save the members of your church group in a category that you
give it (perhaps "church members" for example) or save the members of
your students in a class you teach in "Adv. Astro
2001". There are already many pre‑defined categories for you for
family members, friends, etc. and you can also make up some of your own.
You
can also easily read in a group of charts quickly. Suppose you need to run a
chart wheel for all students in a particular class. Now you can do this very
easily.
ASTEROID EPHEMERIDES: We have improved the ephemeris calculation
feature of Kepler to allow you to produce an
ephemeris of any of the 1,000 asteroids included in Kepler,
and if you own the 22,000 asteroids option, any of these asteroids as well.
(Note that our 10,000 asteroids option is now a 22,000 asteroids option! We are
adding asteroids to this collection almost as fast as they are being
discovered!)
RECTIFICATION ASSISTANCE: You can now enter the date when a person got
married, was in an accident, or experienced other major events, and obtain a
total score based on how many transiting and progressed aspects occurred that
match the events. Then you can adjust the birth time and compare scores. You
can, of course, change the astrological weighting for each transiting or
progressed aspect. For the astrologer who is serious about chart rectification,
this feature is a big help.
AUTO‑SELECT PRINTOUTS: In addition to the easier selection of
forecasting that is mentioned above, it is now also possible to save a
selection of printouts and auto‑select it later.
EDITING INTERPRETATIONS: It has always been possible to edit
interpretations in the Kepler program. Doing it has
always been easy too; just read in the file and edit the interpretation and
save it back. There has been one problem, though: knowing which file to read,
and finding the specific interpretation within that file. Now you can select
the interpretation from a menu; no more hunting through the file to find it. A
list of interpretive reports is provided, followed by an index to the
interpretations in that report, so you can quickly find the
interpretation you want to edit.
OTHER CHART WHEEL FEATURES: Every chart wheel can now be viewed or
printed in landscape (sideways) as well as in portrait (normal).
In
order to make the art wheels as beautiful as possible, we added the ability to
add shadowing to the planetary information in the chart wheel. This adds extra
pizzazz to the art wheel.
There
are several other improvements, such as the ability to print the positions of
the polar ascendant and co‑ascendant in a table, ability to add a
background color to tables or to the background of the page, and the ability to
quickly select among sets of font sizes.
DECLINATIONS:
If you own Kepler 4.7, you can get transit to
natal declinations, and progressed to natal declinations, and of course there
is a list of delination positions in the chart wheel,
as well as the parallels of declination. With Kepler
5 you can also obtain midpoint structures in declination and a graphic
ephemeris in declination.
IMPROVED DATA ENTRY SCREEN: Kepler 5 has an improved
data entry screen. As you add new entries, the entry appears as a
"tab". You can more easily see entries as you add them. You can now
delete entries from your current list of entries easily, something which was
not possible in earlier versions of Kepler. A list of
entries also appears on the right side of the screen in the "Quick
Select" list of entries. This list appeared in earlier versions of Kepler, but the listing was short, and if you had a large
number of entries, more scrolling was needed to access them. Most people only
have a few entries at a time, so this generally was not a problem, but the use
of tabs plus the Quick Select list is a nice improvement to the data entry
screen.
The
Main Data Entry Screen (the screen that appears when you start Kepler) is also more beautiful, which makes using Kepler more enjoyable and pleasant.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS: We added the ability to obtain a listing of
conjunctions to over 8,000 fixed stars, a list of parans
(a feature used by some astrologers in relocation analysis), and Sabian Symbol degree interpretations. See page 12 of the
enclosed catalog for more information on these features. We have not mentioned
every improvement above, but we have tried to describe some of the most
important improvements to the program.
Free Chart Wheel on Your Web Site: If you own Kepler 4.7 or Kepler 5 and you
own at least one interpretive report option, you probably already realize that
you have your own automated online chart service. A few months ago we added a
new feature to your online chart service: a free chart wheel. If you are
unfamiliar with the online chart service feature of Kepler,
you can read more about it by visiting our website, www.AstroSoftware.com, and
clicking on the "New Feature" link at the bottom of the screen.
NEW INTERPRETIVE REPORTS:
The
Centaur Report: Philip Sedgwick is well known for his pioneering work with
asteroids and deep space objects. In this report, he interprets the influence
of Centaurs, a relatively new classification of asteroids. Chiron is now
considered by many astronomers to be a Centaur. Centaurs have an orbit that
takes them from very deep in space to within the orbit of Jupiter. This is an
intriguing and very interesting report. It is short, about 8 pages in length.
The price is $100. The Centaur Report works only with Kepler
5.
Senior
Report: Most astrological reports assume that the reader is an adult, and is
concerned with issues of career, marriage, romance, family, and inner
development. The Senior Report addresses the issues that people face in later
years. Author Robbi Dyer has written intepretations for planet and house combinations and
created a database of almost 2,000 interpretations so that the interpretations
zero in on specific details of the person's life. Robbi
describes how you can maximize your potential in your later years to live a
fulfilling and meaningful life. The price of the Senior Report is $125.
Nature
Appreciation Report: The Nature Appreciation Report focuses on our relationship
to the natural environment, and how each of us, as individuals, can enhance our
environment. Pollution and the degradation of our natural resources are a fact
of life that we cannot ignore. In this report Lorna Houston describes how you
can be a positive force for the betterment of our planet. The price of the
Nature Appreciation Report is $125.
Medicine
Wheel: This natal report by Dr. Randall Roffe is
based on the Native American approach to astrology. Dr. Roffe
has extensive experience with various tribal traditions, and is able to convey
the language and perspective of this approach to astrology with great depth of
insight. The zodiac signs are associated with different animals than those more
commonly used, and the interpretations can be a different. The price of the
Medicine Wheel report is $100.
AstroQuest Report: The AstroQuest Report has been available for several years. It
is a horary report. Rather than entering the birth data of a person, you enter
the time that a question arises in your mind, and the AstroQuest
Report applies the methods of horary astrology to answer your question. Author
Dr. Randall Roffe added a new variation of the AstroQuest Report: the LoveQuest
Report, which answers questions specifically regarding love and romance. The LoveQuest Report is now included with the AstroQuest Report.
IMPROVEMENTS
TO COSMO REPORTS: The Cosmo Natal Report now comes in English, Spanish,
Portuguese, French, German, and Norwegian. The Cosmo Forecast Report is now in
English, Spanish, French, and Norwegian. The Cosmo Compatibility Report is now
in English, Spanish, French, German, and Norwegian. These reports are all
included in Kepler 5.0
Cosmo
Forecast in English: Now includes the outer planets interpretations.
NEW
VERSION OF PEGASUS: Pegasus users, we haven’t forgotten you! There is a new
version of Pegasus available now, Pegasus Version 2. Pegasus Ver 2 has a BiWheel, improved
atlas, and easier-to-use data entry screen. Call or e-mail us for details on
how to upgrade.
WHAT’S NEW AT COSMIC PATTERNS:
We
want to welcome our latest staff member, Jorge Lopez, who joined our team this
summer. Jorge brings to the job experience in technical support, and making
sure that orders are processed, and questions from customers are answered.
Jorge is completely fluent in English and Spanish. We also wish to welcome our
new authors, Philip Sedgwick and Robbi Dyer. Both of
them have worked hard to bring refreshingly new kinds of interpretive reports
to us. Learn more about them at our web site, www.AstroSoftware.com. Click on
the "Cosmic Patterns Staff" link at the bottom of the screen.
Thanks
also to our translators, graphic artists, and distributors for your valuable
contributions, as well as to you, our customers, who make all this possible
through your support , encouragement and suggestions.
SPECIAL DISCOUNT:
The
prices on the enclosed price page are accurate, except that a discount price is
available through January 2002 if you purchased Kepler
very recently.
If
you purchased Kepler 4.7 in September 2001, then the
upgrade price is $50, and if you purchased Kepler 4.7
in October or November, then the price is $30. Add the shipping charge to this
amount. These reduced prices are available only through January 2002.
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