ASTEROIDS: Sirius comes with about 1,500 asteroids. The customizable "My Asteroids List" in Sirius includes a listing of about 650 asteroids used commonly by astrologer Demetra George can be produced in Sirius. This list has formatting features, such as removing right ascension, speed, etc. if desired, and to have the asteroid data in columns, and also to print with 2 different size fonts. You can also purchase an optional 38,000 additional asteroids CDs.

HARMONIC ASTROLOGY FEATURES: In addition to the harmonic features that are in Kepler, Harmonic Age Charts can also be calculated automatically. A Harmonic Age Chart is a chart calculated based on the age of the person on a given date. Sirius also calculates fractional harmonic charts, rather than only harmonic charts that are whole integer numbers.

INTEGRATED LISTINGS: Sirius introduces Integrated Listings. These are listings that combine different kinds of information in a report. For example, you can produce a listing of the solar return positions for about 100 years (an entire life), with aspects in the solar return chart, aspects between the solar return and natal chart, and optionally also monthly progressed Asc and MC solar return cusps, with a choice of 4 calculation methods for these progressed solar return cusps: Naibod, Wynn Cycle, Mean Sun, and Wynn Cycle in zodiaco instead of by RAMC. A list of lunar return and planetary return positions can also be produced. These listings provide a way of seeing influences over many years as an alternative to looking at the return chart wheels, and other kinds fo reports.

RECTIFICATION (AUTOMATIC): This Rectification is elegant, automatic, flexible, and powerful. We used some of the computing power that we developed for AstroSignatures to create the new Rectificaiton feature, and the result is spectacular. Simply enter life changing events in your life then Sirius will do the chart rectification process for you aumatically.

• Sirius produces a graph that visually shows the likelihood of various birth times. Customizing the AstroSignatures used in the rectification feature is easy.
• AstroSignature such as marriage, accident, etc. that you can view and customize are provided. Select the forecast methods you wish to use and then a line graph is displayed that indicates the likelihood of birth throughout the day.
• You can now visually see the likelihood of different times of birth according to the techniques and AstroSignatures being used and you can much more easily see what astrological influences are in effect that produced the scores.
• You can select the range of time during the day desired and how often you wish calculations performed. For example, if you are fairly certain that a person was born between 12 noon and 3 PM there is no reason to analyze the rest of the day, and you may choose to perform calculations every minute or every few minutes. When calculating for an entire day, it is more likely you will perform calculations less often so that the processing is faster. All of these selections are very easily selected on the screen and you can adjust them very easily as you work to narrow down what time a person was born.
   

 ANIMATED SKY MAP: In Sirius the constellations can be displayed, you can zoom in or out on the Sky Map to see greater detail, and you animate the Sky Map to watch it move! This beautiful Sky Map is a fabulous tool for teaching as well as for exploring how the planets are actually placed in relationship to particular fixed stars and constellations.

VEDIC: In addition to the Vedic features that are in Kepler, Sirius has these additional features:

• In the chakra (North Indian or South Indian chart) you can place the chara karaka and bhava anuradha.
• Select whether you want the minutes and also the degrees of the positions, and whether you prefer glyphs, letters, or a number for zodiac signs and also whether house numbers are displayed. This greater flexibility allows you to have the chakra in a style that is comfortable for you.
• Calculate which sign is stronger using either the rules of N. Rao or S. Rath.
• Shad Bala values using any of the following tables to display: Basic information, Shad bala table, Shad bala graph, Upagrahas, Bhava Arudha, Special lagnas, and the Dasas. Having this information in a scrollable window with the chakras preferred in another scrollable window makes the Vedic features in Sirius very intuitive and natural for the consulting Vedic astrologer and for students as well.

PANCHANGA: Sirius can produce a very nicely formatted Panchanga Table.

MUHURTA: Sirius can also produce Muhurta Tables for a large number of different areas of interest. As is typical of Sirius, these features are flexible, attractive, and technically accurate.

VEDIC PLANETARY STRENGTH: Produce a flexible listing of Vedic planetary strengths and benefic/malefic table. You can easily select the rules desired according to about a half dozen different Vedic astrology authorities.
 

NEW REPORT IN OTHER LANGUAGE: In Sirius the Cosmo Natal Reports is available in Italian and Swedish. This report can also be produced in different languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Norwegian, and Japanese.

RESEARCH: In Sirius the research features are easily accessible.

• In Sirius you can produce an Astrosignature Forecast Graph, just as you could in Kepler, but in Sirius you can also produce a graph of financial values (such as a market index like the Dow Jones Industrail Average, or a commodity value such as gold prices) or other performance values, obtain the correlation value between the actual values and the predicted values, and whether the correlation is statistically significant!
• This feature, combined with some of the new research features in Sirius to find patterns in data, was used to create the Gold Forecast option that is an optional add on to Sirius,. The Gold Forecast forecasts short-term (3-month) gold prices with statistical significance!
• Also, stock price data for a number of companies is already included with Sirius so you can start researching financial astrology right away, and other financial data can be imported from websites.

 ARTIFICIAL INTELLEGENCE RESEARCH: There is also an Artifical Intelligence feature, which is an analysis of an AstroSignature to determine which factors in the AstroSIgnature are most effective and which ones are less effective, or possibly even reducing, the accuracy of the AstroSignature.

• You can also correlate an AstroSignature for birth charts with scores. For example, you can correlate psychological test scores or other performance scores with the AstroSignature scores and even perform a t-test (a statistical test) to determine if the correlation is statistically significant, all right within Sirius without ever having to export the data to a statistics program! Of course, you would first have to have performance scores for the charts and assign a score to each chart in order to do this, and this capability is proviided in Sirius.

When doing AstroSignature Research, the Details WIndow appears in the upper left corner automatically, without having to manually select it. A panel next to the Details Window makes it easy to select a particular chart and even view a popup wheel of the chart!

ASSUMPTIONLESS RESEARCH: In addition to the assumpltionless research that are in Kepler, we added more this feature in Sirius. From the "Midpoints and Harmonic Patterns" button in Sirius, you can now select "Midpoint Aspects Midpoint", "Midpoint Structure Analysis", and "Harmonic Pattern Analysis" to identify the midpoint and harmonic patterns that occur most often in a group. A window with several tabs for viewing the results in different ways makes this a powerful feature for serious researchers.

 BIRTH DATA: The number of charts included in Sirius is over 40,000. The additional data provides you more data of famous people and research data for you to work with.

• Sirius allows you to have notes of unlimited length for charts.
• A very powerful feature of Sirius is that you can assign an unlimited number of keywords to a chat, so, for example, you can assign keywords like "pianist", "heart disease", and "alcoholic" to a pianist who also was an alcoholic and died from heart disease. You can then conduct research based on these keywords and also access charts by keywords.
• Also, it is not necessary to calculate charts before researching them. Sirius will automatically calculate any uncalculated chartsh.

ASTROMAPS: Sirius provides several new kinds of AstroMaps in addition to the AstroMaps that are also in Kepler:

Asteroids AstroMap. This is a simple "Just Lines" Map of any asteroid lines that you wish to place in an AstroMap. If you own the 38,000 asteroids option, you can select any of these 38,000 asteroids. Otherwise, you can select from among about 1,500 asteroids. You are no longer limited to seeing influences of planets in AstroMaps. Now you can select any asteroids to view as well.

Fixed Star AstroMap: Lines of the fixed stars are shown on the AstroMap. If you select the option to display the fixed star map lines in mundo, then you can see where fixed stars rise, set, culminate, and anti-culminate, which is something that was regarded in ancient systems of astrology and by modern astrologers as well. WIth both an Asteroids AstroMap and Fixed Stars AstroMap, you can explore many more possibilities. Fixed stars played a prominent role in ancient astrology and perhaps they shoud in our astrology today as well. With tools like this, we can see how fixed stars are operating in charts. We can look forward to new articles and books by professional astrologers and researchers as they use these tools to easily see astrological influences that otherwise would be extremely difficult to calculate.

The Zenith AstroMap should perhaps be called a "Zenith and Nadir AstroMap" because it shows points on the map where fixed stars would appear directly overhead (at the zenith) and directly beneath you (at the nadir). This map is actually a mapping of the constellations onto the Earth and shows the places where a fixed star has a particular powerful effect in a relocated chart. The constellations are literally mapped onto the globe of the Earth and now for the first time we can easily see exactly where they are placed on the Earth.

ASTROMAP POPUP RELOCATED WHEEL: Click on an AstroMap to see a Popup Wheel of the relocated chart at this location. You can also click on the AstroMap to determine distances between points and to obtain an AstroMap interpretation of that location.

ASTROLOCATLITY REPORT: The interactive interpretation that appears in Sirius and can also be produced as the AstroLocality Report. At the end of this report includes the interpretations for conjunctions of the relocated angular cusps to fixed stars and the score on various themes, such as Love and Romance Score, Vocation and Career score, etc.

TRACK HURRICANE PATH: For astrologers interest in AstroMeteorology, it is now possible to view hurricane paths on an AstroMap and also to download additional hurricane data and import it so that these hurricane paths can also be viewed.

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