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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.
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!
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.
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 ‘Compliments of’ text. And you can
pick from an exciting new array of wheels, from maximally readable to maximally
colourful 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. Also
note our lovely chart art displays.
‘The deeper you look, the more you find gold.’
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.

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, there’s 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 Ptolemy’s 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.
WHAT'S NEWS IN GOLD?
New features that attract and amaze


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!


CHART ART GALORE
Our 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.
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.
ENCYCLOPEDIA We have taken the best of
Devores’ Encyclopedia and added our own new definitions to make up the Solar
Encyclopedia .
NEW 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) Many of you have requested this technique and our
team has responded. Astrodynes can be viewed and printed in the new 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.
INTERPRETATIONS
Stephanie Johnson, Astrologer and Co-author of the Solar Fire range of
products, has written unique Firdaria interpretations covering a person’s
life-span of these ancient planetary periods. Brief transit and progression
interpretations have also been provided for the new Calendar.
Our exciting enhancements are often simple but oh so appreciated
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
Munkasey’s angles) and zodiac points.
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!

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 Fire’s
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! 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.
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.
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.
Our treasure box of new little gems
STATIONS: Stations are now shown with “S”
on wheels, and listed in Basic chart report. You can define “Station” in the
Preferences.
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.
TRUE/MEAN NODE: You can now switch between
these for any calculated chart/s (using Ctrl+L as a shortcut).
RETAINED CHARTS: You can now add a single
extra retained charts instead of having to re-retain all charts at once
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.
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 free disk space for a full installation
- SVGA Screen with 800x600 pixels minimum, XGA with 1024x768 or better is recommended
- Internet access is recommended