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ARGUS 4.2 User manual (PDF format)

1. It may however sometimes make sense to have only a few factors to study them separately to see their movements and aspects To study transit movements or analyse a horary situation you may start with a chart for today zoom out the time navigator to cover an hour a day week or month rather than the default which is a few hours for rectification purposes If you remove the combined checkmark for MC AC the radix chart will be shown without angles rotated so that zero Aries constantly points left You may now study planetary movements when and in which degrees they go retrograde and direct and which aspects the form Memory When you open the live horoscope the shown factors will be If the birtdata are new The same as last time you closed the live chart If the birthdata have been in the live chart before The same as last time the live chart was closed for this data If the birthdata is today The live chart will assume a horary chart and uncheck all forecast factors same data means date and time within one minute The memory holds up to 100 persons and may be edited by opening the movielog nfi file in the database The limit of 100 is set in the configuration file You may change this limit by editing system variables line 91 Quick selection With so many checkboxes it will often be tedious to do so many clicks to check or uncheck for example all transits So there is a facility to check or uncheck several checkboxes
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3. You may also increment or decrement the degrees by clicking the up down arrows in the right side of the latitude and longitude input fields or the same with the minutes by holding down the SHIFT key on the keyboard while clicking ENTERING SEX You do not need to enter the persons gender this is only an additional information you may like to add if you are saving the data in the database Besides some interpretations are using this information having separate interpretations for men or women The Sex field is actually more than just sex you may also label your data as horary event country or no sex 39 BIRTHDATA NOTES The note area lets you type in free format additional info for that person It can only handle text though not pictures This field is optional To use it just type in whatever you like or paste it from somewhere else and click the OK button when finished Please note that the notes text is embedded into the namefile so adding pages of notes to your database entries could clutter up the file and make it slow Important things to note with birthdata is source and reliablility You may wish to adopt the RR Rodden Rating standard for reliability introduced by Lois Rodden AA Birth certificate A Memory B Biographies C Unknown or unreliable source DD Dirty data speculative or conflicting sources X Unknown time XX Unknown date If you click the note area with the right mouse button a pop up menu shows two
4. 74 33 will set the harmonic number to 4 33 8xxx Set master orb Replace xxx with degrees and minute of orb For example to set the master orb to 3 30 enter 8330 The terminating fullstop is mandatory 8X Select an orbsheme for all charts Replace the X with one of the letters RTPSHDCG to select one of these orbsets This will override the individual orbset for each charttype To set it back to normal use the macro 8N The terminating fullstop is mandatory 99 Clear the output window 9F Insert a new page mark in the output window at the cursor position 9L Insert a blank line in the output window at the cursor position 9X Print the contents of the output window XO Filename Call a script file Replace with the actual script filename you need The terminating fullstop is mandatory Fullstop is not allowed in the filename as this would be misinterpreted as end of name So use comma instead to separate the filename and extension myscript txt XOmyscript txt myscript xli XOmyscript xli CFn Call a submacro defined for the F Keys The F1 F12 keys an be programmed with one macro each clicking FILE gt MACRO DEFINITIONS If you have such definitions you can further embed those into other macros by inserting CF1 CF2 up to CF 12 The terminating fullstop is mandatory C Repeat macro When the macro reaches C it will start over from start until you press ESC Or in case the macro is fetching database data using the
5. Automate time consuming calculations Do the same calculation many times at certain time interval The simplest way to enter a macro is to press key C or click the Macro area on the status line at the bottom of the argus window This will open an input dialog box where you enter the macro To execute the macro just click OK The macro commands are mainly the same as the keyboard shortcuts Pressing V on the keyboard or entering the macro V both result in outputting a chartwheel A few things like data input etc works slightly differently however For a full list of keyboard shortcuts and macro commands see the appendix Repetition Try for instance to press C on the keyboard then enter the following macro RV RV RV RV RV RV This will take 6 names from the database provided that you do have 6 names entered from the selected name onwards or if nothing is selected from the start of the base For each data radix positions and a chartwheel will be output The above example can be simplified Try entering the following please note the fullstop at the end RVC6 This will do exactly the same The C6 at the end will make the whole thing repeat 6 times 23 If you omit the count the repeat will continue until you press ESC or the macro fetches a blank name or reaches the end of the namefile RC In this case the fullstop at the end is optional If you have a long database open the macro will calculate all the chart
6. Especially for Pluto on the ASC or DESC it will make quite a difference 88 You can easily see if an astromap have ecliptpic positions because in that case there will be two points in the world where all curves are crossing in the same point whereas with true positions the crossings will be somewhat displaced from each other PART OF FORTUNE METHOD Part of fortune method Traditional Part of fortune is ascendant Sun Moon Continental Daytime Part of fortune is ascendant Sun Moon Nighttime Part of fortune is ascendant Moon Sun AGE POINT For the progressed charts you can have the progressed part of fortune replaced with other points of interest Part of fortune Not replaced use part of fortune Huber age point Age point according to the HUBER system 6 years per Koch house starting at the ascendant at age 0 and interpolating the houses linearly True Huber AP A sligthly improved way of calculating the HUBER age point not inerpolating the houses linearly but using the Koch house calculation formula Logarithmic AP The age point according to A T Manns logarithmic time scale MOON S NODE Moon s Node True node Use true moons node which can move retrograde due to the Moons plane of orbit osculating 89 Mean node Use mean moon s node which moves at linear speed CHIRON Chiron is a kind of asteroid or comet which belong to a group of bodies called Centaurs You can include or exclude Chi
7. To calculate the time In the time field enter an M followed by degrees minutes and sign number for the desired MC position separated by spaces for example M 13 21 8 to find the time for MC in 13 21 in Scorpio Click OK The desired time will now show up in the the time field and you can run the radix to check that the MC is placed in that degree To get an ascendant time replace M with A ENTERING TIMEZONE The timezone is the standard time used in that country In case of daylight saving time this is included in the zone If you enter the timezone manually you will at the same time deactivate the automatic daylight saving time mechanism In that case enter hours and minutes if necessary separated by spaces To activate the automatic daylight saving time you can enter the country area code eg GBE for England then click OK The field will now show either of the following depending on the date in the date field is a date when daylight saving time or double daylight saving time was used 000 E GBE 100E GBE DST 200E GBE DDST Some countries have several area codes with individual daylight shifting schedules 37 For example Germany has 4 areas D1 D2 D3 and D4 England has just one GBE When finding a city in the gazetteer the area code is automatically inserted With the area code in place the zone is recalculated if needed when you change the date a 100ED1 EL If you only know latitude and longitude
8. Use separate sets Mean G Minimum HELP X Cancel lola Pos Poo Peo Peo Peo Peo co Poo co Poo Poo Peo elf si aj of sj of of of of of of of sj o ool ol ol ool lolol ololoaloalala GSlS ISISISISISISISISISISIS As you can see you can set an orb for each planet and for each aspect type So what happens when two planets aspects each other which results in three different orb limits one for each of the planets and one for the aspect Generally the lowest of three orbs is used You may though change the default orb combine from minimum default to mean or maximum In that case the highest of the two planet s orbs is used Some astrologers prefer the mean setting which fits the idea that each planet has a sensitive area its orb and that an aspect between two planets mean that their areas auras touch 67 Whatever you choose the aspect type orb will set an upper limit So having a combined planet orb and an aspect type orb the lowest of the two will be used If you need to set up separate orbs for applying and separating aspects as might be needed for a horary chart you must tick the use separate sets in the applying separating group box Now you can click the Applying or the Separating box below and set up the orb limits for each To set up an orbset for a chart type e g Radix n the panels open the orb limit dialog by clicking the MORE button under the orb field n the use with co
9. but not the city name or timezone you may use the area code finder That is the small magnifying glass icon to the left of the zone entry field First enter the latitude and longitude manually in the city latitude and city longitude fields Now click the area code lookup icon Argus will now scan the atlas to find the closest cities with differing timezones and show them in a window You can now choose the zone you find most probable EE Time zone Closest area code from the given latitude and longitude Latitude 44 21N Longitude 97 01 E Zone MOGI Mongoliet Dzachuj 77 km Cancel OK The zone shown in the example MOG1 belongs to the closest city found in the atlas If you click the button in the right side of the zone box you will see a list of other more distant zones The program will not be able to decide which zone a given place belongs to unless it is precisely on a city found in the atlas i e the distance is 0 km Here the distance is 77 km to the closest city but in theory this could be across the border to another country or timezone Sometimes you will have to judge for yourself which zone you must use If you click OK the lookup window will close and the area code chosen will be inserted in the zone field of the data entry panel As with time input you can increment or decrement hours by clicking the up and down arrow In this field you cannot increment minutes or zone this way Also here you may repla
10. it will retrieve the stored bookmarks and planet selections The birthtime date must match within a minute to be recognized The live chart memory is preset to 100 persons at which point the oldest ones will be discarded The memory is a normal Argus database file named movielog nfi which can be opened and edited in the database panel Live chart worldmap Clicking the globe icon in the upper left part of the livechart graphic will produce the 57 worldmap background which is shown in pastel colors to keep the chartwheel clearly standing out To remove the map click the same icon which has changed its appearance to a crossed out globe When you click somewhere on the map the chartwheel will update itself to the new coordinates as if the person was born at the same GMT time but at the new place The illustration above shows just the birth chart but you may happily include progressions and transits The current location is shown with a crosshair symbol If you keep the mouse button down and move the cursor the chartwheel will move as well and show the changes THE NAVIGATOR The world map can be zoomed and displaced The navigator has a total of 12 buttons t This button zooms in one level This button zooms out one level O This button zooms out completely 58 arrows moving the map W NW N NE E SE Sor SW The button in the centre will try moving the map so that the chosen location appears at the centre of th
11. you will see that the command pane has changed removed commands will have disappeared and newly selected commands will have been put into place Commands manager Ags Radis Ca Biorythm Die Apos Ms Polar Ephemeris 7 1 Month Ephemeris Miu Live chart lat radi Install nstall ES Edit module aspects Di bi wheel Das second The commands are placed on the pane just the same way as the windows desktop Just single or doubleclick the icon and the command is executed Try for instance to click the Radix The window will switch to output mode and you will see the resulting output using the data you inserted into the data input panel The command icons are placed in an invisible grid You can drag them around with the mouse but they will snap into nice rows and columns and will refuse to overlap To drag them without executing their command click the left mouse button on them keep the mouse button down while dragging the icon You will see that the mouse cursor changes to a no parking symbol until you reach a free parking place where it will change to a hand symbol Now release the mouse 42 button and the icon will drop into place Some of the commands are macros others are scripts The difference between macros and scripts is that macros are more or less a single line of program instructions while scripts are files which can hold much more code e g interpretation texts or complex printout module
12. Moon 8 PtFt 5 Opp8 qui 3 Mercury 8 MC 5 Sqr 8tre 3 Venus 8ASC 5 Tri 8biq 3 Mars 8 11 0 Sxt 8sep 3 Jupiter 812 0 Ssq 3 2sep 3 Saturn 82 0 Ses 3 3sep 3 Uranus 83 0 qqx 3 Neptune 8 Midp 3 ssx 3 Pluto 8 Chiron 8 orb combine Minimum D Day chart Sun 3 Node 3 Cnj 3dec 3 Moon 3 PtFt 3 Opp 3 qui 3 Mercury 3 MC 3 Sqr 3tre 3 Venus 3 ASC 3 Tri 3biq 3 Mars 3 11 0 Sxt 3sep 3 Jupiter 3 12 0 Ssq 3 2sep 3 Saturn 3 2 0 Ses 3 3sep 3 Uranus 3 3 0 qqx 3 Neptune 3 Midp 3 ssx 3 Pluto 3 Chiron 3 orb combine Minimum H Horary Chart Applying aspects Sun 8 Node 5 Cnj 8dec 3 Moon 8 PtFt 5 Opp 8qui 3 Mercury 8 MC 5 oqr 8tre 3 107 Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Chiron H Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Chiron G Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter 108 8 ASC 8 11 8 12 82 83 8 Midp 8 NO oO Tri 8biq 3 Sxt 8sep 3 Ssq 3 2sep 3 Ses 3 3sep 3 qqx 3 ssx 3 8 orb combine Minimum 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Horary Chart Separating aspects Node PtFt MC ASC 11 12 2 3 Midp OoOoo0oo n orb combine Minimum Transit and progression graphs 1 Node 1 PtFt 1 MC 1 ASC 1 11 1 12 1 OO O Cnj 1 dec Opp 1 qui Sqr 1 tre Tri 1 big Sxt 1 sep 1 1 1 1 1 Ssq 1 2sep 1 Cnj 1 dec Opp 1 qui Sqr 1 tre Tri 1 biq oxt 1sep 1 Ssq 1 2sep 1 Ses 1 3sep 1 qqx 1 ssx 1 Saturn 12 0 Ur
13. The list of colorable items is multiselect Holding down the CTRL or SHIFT key you can click and select more than one item you would like to give the same color When selected click the COLOR button and choose a color for those items then click OK EDITING SYSTEM VARIABLES The options entered above are all saved in the file PCA CFG If you wish to get your fingers dirty you can use this dialog to edit the settings manually If you do you should make a backup first because it is possible to change critical values which will make Argus malfunction or even not start at all and you may happen to change something which you cannot remember how to change back Still as long as you do not save the changes to disk Argus will start with the old values next time you use the program SAVE OPTIONS To make Argus remember the new settings next time you start the program you need to click this option KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Keyboard shortcuts Enter name Enter date Enter time Enter zone Enter latitude Enter longitude akRWN 100 N OD OUcrIrQor oumm u dXA Enter sex Enter notes Enter orb Radix positions Radix2 Transit Secondary progression Tertiary progression Minor progression Solar arc Solar return Lunar return Composite chart Relationship chart Day chart Converse Transit Converse Secondary Converse Tertiary Converse Minor Converse Solar Arc User S XLI script User Z XLI script Chartwheel Housel
14. appear in the input pane If you changed the latitude and longitude using the world map these changes will also be exported At the same time when you click the update button you will then see the time adjustment display change to 0 meaning that the current slider position is now the new origin in time Restore button Restore will let you cancel a previous Update and write the original data back to the main Argus data input including the original latitude and longitude Mark special birthtimes Kundig Bonatti Special birthtimes Certain rectification systems such as the K ndig Section system or pre natal epoch recommend using only special calculated birthtimes Using the special birthtimes buttons you can make Argus calculate all such special birthtimes in the current 24 hours span and bookmark them in the radix slider Then you will be able to jump from one to the next or back using the navigation buttons 64 Very briefly the K ndig section partner theory says that the MC axis must divide the RA arc between the MC IC rulers in either 1 10th 2 10ths etc A Bonatti section is a moment in time when one of the angles conjuncts or opposes a planet With the pre natal epoch birth Moon must be on the Epoch conception charts ASC or DESC and vice versa The conception chart is not necessary for the time of physical conception but will be around that time The pre natal epoch is not included in Argus but mey be in a futu
15. call the module To install a module from the internet To download in Argus click HELP Click ELECTRIC EPHEMERIS WEBSITE Your webbrowser will now open the EE website Click DOWNLOAD Lookup the module you wish to download f there is a manual available you may open this and print it out Right click the module Choose save target as Internet explorer or save link as Mozilla Firefox In the file menu lookup your Argus folder normally C ARGUS4 Save the file in this folder Close the internet browser Back in Argus right click an empty area on the command panel Click INSTALL n the file menu locate the file you downloaded Double click the file Close the commands manager dialog A new command icon should now have appeared on your command panel The module is now installed and can be activated by clicking its command icon You may be asked for a password the first time you call the module Commands manager EAs Radis CHF Biorythm Did Aus RTE FE Polar Ephemeris Mist 1 Month Ephemeris GE Live chart Cx radix i nt a Edit module dit module i aspec Di bi wheel Ela cin IF YOU ARE UPDATING FROM ARGUS 3 Argus 4 will install in its own folder and it can work in parallel and independant from the old version You may wish to import your old namefiles You can open namefiles in other folders and you can import data from PCA DOS namefiles BACKING UP Programs can be re
16. can now choose e nstalled modules which are those represented by an icon in the Argus command panel eOpen start file which lets you open any XLI file on your harddisk 78 Sections 1 Jupiter in Anes 2 Jupiter in Taurus 3 Jupiter in Gemini 4 Jupiter in Cancer 5 Jupiter in Leo B Jupiter in Virgo Jupiter in Libra 8 Jupiter in Scorpio 9 Jupiter in Sagittarius v When you have opened a module you will see one or more files shown in the upper left panel Clicking one of those files will produce a list of paragraphs in the lower left panel Clicking a paragraph will show the content of this paragraph in the right panels where you may edit them When you are done editing the paragraphs you can click the button Save changes If you just click EXIT or if you click another file in the file list you will be asked if you wish to save the changes When you are done editing a file a backup will be saved both of the original file and of you latest changes This way you may return to the earlier version or even the original one if you should run into problems To restore a previous version or the original choose the file in the file list then click FILE in the menu line and choose Restore latest edited version or Restore original version Please note though that this will cancel your changes THE CODE WINDOW The XLI script codes are those determining what should happen in that paragraph To
17. edit them you must know the details of these codes These details are availabe in the XLI manual which you can find on the download page on our website If the script interpretation is encrypted the filename has extension scm this window will be hidden and you cannot edit the code Most commercial interpretations are encrypted THE ASTRO COMMENT WINDOW This window shows the headlines for the text part In interpretations they may 79 show the astrological basis for printing this paragraph An option in the Argus preferences list lets you switch on or off these astro comments to match the target reader of the output The headlines do not determine if a paragraph is output or not this is the job of the code part So it is no use to change the headline from e g Jupiter in the 4th house to Jupiter in the 5th house the paragraph will still be output only if Jupiter is in the fourth THE TEXT WINDOW This window holds the text which is going to be output The content is plain text you cannot change font size color bold or italics as you can do in a word processor Even if such formatting is possible in XLI it must be done in the code part and you cannot see the changes in the editor only when the output appears in the Argus output window The code part can define up to 15 text styles This is normally done by XLI coding in one of the first paragraphs in an interpretation These mey be selected by XLI codes in the code pa
18. macro n the type field select macro sin the macro field type in the macro string from the icon list select an icon of your choice click OK n the command manager window click OK Now you will see that a new icon has appeared on your command pane just click to execute your macro SCRIPTS Argus has an inbuilt script language interpreter which makes it possible to add 75 interpretations and special modules which greatly expands the functionality of the program The script language XLI is not easy to master It has roots back from even before DOS in 1987 when the first versions of PCA for CP M came out with a simple XLI language When understood properly you can do a lot of tricks with it and if you just need to write straight interpretations it is quite straightforward The XLI scripting handbook can be downloaded from our website Most users will prefer installing ready made scripts Some scripts are free others are paid for Some of the commands in the basic Argus installation are XLI scripts for instance the elements showing triplicities and quadruplities Argus 4 will run most of the older scripts you may have on your harddisk even those for DOS PCA To include such a script as a command item Right click a free area on your command pane n the commands manager window click ADD NEW n the create or edit comand item window do this oln the name field enter a name identifying the script oln the type
19. new window will cover the old one meaning they are superimposed To toggle between them click Window At the bottom of the resulting pulldown you can now see 1 2 etc as many windows as you have open max 8 Just click the one you need You can also click WINDOW and then select TILE CASCADE to arrange the windows In this case each window is smaller so that you can select them by clicking Output is sent to the active winodw which is the one you clicked last To close the extra windows first select the window you want to close then click WINDOW then CLOSE The original window cannot be closed you must always have at least one window open for output Full screen graphics If you double click a graphic chartwheel aspect grid astromap a new window showing the graphic will open occupying the whole screen for maximum size A dedicated printer button will then let you print a full page also getting maximum size on the paper This printer output is independant of the normal output page Another button lets you close the window again ENTRY LEVEL TUTORIAL Introduction Argus is a computer program for astrologers offering Calculation of all common chart types and a couple of methods and techniques Drawing chartwheels Output aspects Printing tables Handling birthdata collections Handling geographic postions timezones and Daylight saving time Running macros and scripts the user can write his own script With scriptin
20. options Print which will copy the contents to the output window Copy which wil copy the contents to the Windows clipboard ORB Argus is delivered with preset orb rules for each type of chart The orb may be different for different planets and aspects So if you find any aspects missing this may be the reason The rules are set to quite wide orbs though so this should normally not be a problem You can easily lower the upper limit by entering a master orb limit into the orb field found betwen the data input and the database The master orb sets an upper limit for all aspects 40 If you click the More button you will get into the individual orb setup menus A later chapter will cover this in depth For a complete reference to the default orbs Argus is shipped with refer to the appendix COMMAND PANEL The lower part of the control panel holds the commands shown with icons much lilke the Windows desktop The number of possible commands in Argus is virtually unlimited But you will normally use only a selection Argus makes this easy for you by providing the command pane which you can easily customize for your needs Examples of commands are Radix calculation Progressed calculation chartwheels transit overview and aspect tables Radix2 Secondary Solar return Lunar return Composite Relationship chart 1 year 1 month 5 years 60 years 1 years coll 1 months col Compare transits transits progr k ndig progressed hous
21. orbset as the secondary tertiary and minor Just select the Day chart in the use with drop down list and click the P button below The D group will then be empty daychart was the only charttype in that group and can be used for other purposes You can disable the orbsets altogether by checking the disable all checkbox You may for example find that the orbset system is too complex and intransparent or you might want to check if an orbset rule is the reason that some aspect is missing When you have made your changes and you are satisfied you should click the SAVE button in the orb limit dialog to save the new settings to disk If you don t the new settings will be gone next time you start Argus 69 ATLAS HANDLING THE GAZETTEER If you click the globe Icon in the data input pane to the left of the latitude field you will open the Gazetter Atlas Gazetteer Closest Favorites Worldwide Nesher Israel Neshkoro Wisconsin USA Neshoba MisissippiUSA Neshoba County General Ho MisissippiUSA Neshobe Beach vermont USA Neshota Alabama USA Nesika Washington USA Nesika Beach Oregon USA Neskaupstadur Iceland Neskowin Oregon USA Nesle France Neslon Virginia USA 36 34 N 078 42 Nesmith Oregon USA 45 28 N 122746 LI Nesmith South CarolinafUSA 33 40 N 079 31 VY Nesmith Alabama USA 34 11 N 087 07 W Nesna Norway 66 12 N 013 02 E 48 10 N 118 58W 32 46 N 035 03 E a 43 58 N 089713 32 37 N 089 08 32 45 N
22. resulting page layout is shown to reflect your settings Left margin moves the output right The right margin will only clip off output CHARTWHEEL STYLE OPTIONS These options applies to the four inbuilt chartwheel styles Chart style There are three chartwheel styles included 94 FRENCH Orientation As default the ascendant is horizontal pointing left The options are Ascendant left Midheaven UP Radix ascendant left Radix midheaven up Aries right Aries up Aries left Aries down Aspect style aspect lines have four options 95 To symbol To center T To ene E No aspects Bi Wheel aspects The bi wheel may look quite busy if you choose aspects on especially for charts which have wider orbs than just the 1 or 2 used by progressed charts Aspects to angles Even if aspects to angles are quite important you may find that drawing them on the chartwheel looks confusing Glyph size This setting will affect the size of the planet symbols on the chartwheel Positions size This setting will affect the size of the degrees and minutes figures drawn beside each planet and housecusp If Show Positions are not selected see below this setting has no effect Positions Show degrees and minutes Show degrees only No positions 96 HARMONICS Harmonics means that every position in the entire program will be multiplied with the number entered here If the result exceeds 360 degrees
23. 089 06 VY 43 38 N O7 3 13 30 38 N 088 05 46 28 N 122 7 WW 42 30 N 124 25 N 65 10 N 013 43 W 45 06 N 123 59 W 49 46 N 002 55 E Nespelem Nesquehoning Nesquehoning Junction Washington USA Pennsylvania USA Pennsylvania USA 40 52 N 075 49 40 52 N O7 5 45 Ness Minnesota USA 46 59 N 092745 jl The gazetteer has three tabs eWorldwide tab with about a quarter million city names This part is fixed and cannot be edited eFavorites tab where you can insert your own additions and or correctures eThe third tab is the closest cities showing a list of the 60 cities in the atlas which are closest to the current latitude and longitude together with their distance in kilometres It may take a few seconds for this tab to open as it need to scan the whole atlas for nearby cities 70 When you make a search by entering a city name in the latitude field of the data input the favorites is searched first If not found there worldwide list will be searched So if a city is present in both tables you will only get the favorites one This means that if you found a city in the worldwide edited it and then saved it in the favorites tab your next search for this city will find the edited version If for some reason you want to search the worldwide only enter the city name in the longitude field For example if you need a city of which there are several of the same name around the world and the one you may have i
24. 5 03 00 Secondary Solar return Lunar return Composite Relationship Polar Ephemeris synastry template Macro idle 1 Month Ephemeris To output window Compare Astromap Elements clock 5 49 etc XLI idle To get a chart you must first enter the birth data in the data panel in the upper left part of the control panel Locate the fields for name date time zone city latitude and city longitude 17 6p L Edgar Cayce 0 Name Edgar Cayce 1 Date Gi 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun 2 Time EL 115 03 00 3 Zone Q 5 49 W UKY1 LMT 4 City Latitude Q 36 51 N Hopkinsville 5 City Longitude 87 28 W B Sex Notes 0 OK 4 DENE OLAS SLAK SLAK ELAK EL B NH HB n n NM n As you can see the data fields already have data Argus will not allow empty fields The data you see is the start data which always shows up at program start The name in the name field is the name of the license holder your name You can change the rest of the data to match your birthchart and save it so that it comes correctly up each time you start the program Name In the name field enter the name identifying the horoscope For now just leave your own name there Date In the date field enter your birthday month and year separated by spaces e g 9 11 1976 Terminate the entry by clicking the next field or the tiny OK button below the data fields You will then see that Argus has completed your entry r
25. E F 68 10 27 c 7 F B E Aya Harmonic 1 000 Pe m Un See Tra Te Mn SA eS Q 392304 20 4 14 a 33 amp 06 Th or j 21 IC 14 B 51 5 45 Th 04 4 53 Tb R 9 HIS FA HU no 9 DH dd FA HEIN 5 33 5 MC a EN X i Has ASC 20 18 52 M i 38 X Aspects No aspects DE p Direct Converse Time adjustment d 4 S Forecast aspect types Hours 0 00 da A g Vo Update Restore Latitude 4647 N Longitude 92 OF W Q Find city Mark special birthtimes K ndig Bonatti XI XI I I 5Enu0 export EXIT 21 00 2119 21 30 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 y t gt 24 May 1941 21 05 a alal gt p t 9 215020100741 amp jal l A couple of controls and options give you a hands on experience of what happens when you change birthtime progression techniques aspect types etc and shows which aspects appear at what time forwards and backwards fast or slow fine tune manually or sit back and watch the move play one day one month a whole lifetime You can stop start zoom in the timeline to watch the details 54 You can freeze an event time and then adjust the birthtime to see how this will affect the progressions or transits which aspects appear and disappear If you are rectifying charts this is the ultimate tool for experimenting with birthtimes events and techniques For users of Kundig sections or Bonatti sections these
26. Electric Ephemeris Astrological Software ARGUS 4 2 MANUAL 1 Contents a Getting started Es E9 ES Ey Registration Installing interpretations and modules Backing up Control panel Output commands Full screen graphics U Entry level tutorial Es E9 Ex Es Es EL E9 ES ES ES ES EJ Introduction Starting the program Data entry Radix chart Double data Progressed chart Compare charts Aspect graph Synastry Live chart Printing Managing birth data Managing commands Closing Argus pata Entry Data entry Input tabs Entering name Entering date Entering time A Entering timezone 3 Entering birthplace 3 Entering sex 3 Entering notes A setting master orb a Program commands A Command panel 3 Commands create or edit a Plug ins 3 Scripts included Birth Database BH The database Database create new Importing data M Inserting fetching and moving data A Database searching and sorting Live chart BH Live chart The live chartwheel The time navigator Live chart worldmap Live chart options Se D ES Ey Live horary chart Orb limits Ory limits Atlas and timezone tables BH Atlas Programming macros and scripts A Macros 3 Scripts 3 Script editor M Interpretation templates W Setting program preferences Es Es D Es LL D Ex ES ES ES ES LE ES E
27. S ES ES ES ES ES ES ES ED ES ES House system Aspect table style Secondary and tertiary houses method Solar and lunar return method Solar arc houses method Composite method Relationship chart method Day chart method Astromap method Part of fortune method Age point Moon s node Chiron Midpoint options K ndig sections Aspect graph style Glyphs Ephemeris Print page options Chartwheel options Harmonics Siderial options Date input style Interpretation astro comments Ponts Color options System variables Save options a Appendix Keyboard shortcuts Macro keys Default orb limits Character sets REGISTRATION After the installation you need to type in your personal registration information to make the program fully operational Until you do that it will look and act like a demo version The registration info is provided together with the CD ROM on a separate sheet or by email in case of electronic delivery As soon as your registration data is accepted the program is fully functional The program is not copy protected Instead your full name is inserted into the program and will show up on the title bar as well as in the initial birthdata loaded as default The license allows you to install the program on as many machines you need for your personal use You are not allowed to let other people use the program apart from short demonstration sessions or t
28. To switch this on Inthe main menu click Preferences e Click Astrological options e Click Progressed Mooon Table 22 e Click Table on If you want this setting permanent remember to click Preferences Save to disk The aspects use low orb limits 2 degrees which is normal for progressed charts The aspects are internal meaning that they are measured between progressed planets mutually To see cross aspects i e aspects between progressed and radix positions you need the compare output Compare charts COMPARE CHART bi wheel Click the Compare icon after having displayed the progressed chart This will show you a chartwheel with both the radix planets inner circle and the progressed planets outer circle as well as the aspects between progressed and radix Below this you ll find an aspect table giving a list of valid aspects and their actual orbs You can use the compare chart for any non radix chart to compare the two provided that the chart in question has been run first 23 EE PCA Argus 4 20 20 132293 Licensed to Lucy in the sky EEK G3 File Preferences Window Help Bx VY MN ESI V5 M sr ZNZ Radix1 Brigitte Bardot 28 Sep 1934 Radix 2 Andy Warhol 6 Aug 1928 Aspects Radix 2 Radix1 Andy Warhol Brigitte MC c Hl MC DO ASC C ASC o d oxc 4 eod 46 ex 29 SPs 43 SAW 46 d AG Ogg 25 GAG cCc 54 dus 4 28 5 x MC 2 2 3 1 4 1 CAd 4 17 dx 1 5 5 2 7 3 55 5 c ASC 41 W
29. a tab Enter the birth data Now click the right tab this is the current data tab Enter the second date or complete set of data as needed Run the non radix chart or calculation To return to single entry mode just click the single data icon the green one Progressed chart PROGRESSED secondary chart Together with transits secondary progression is the most commonly used forecasting technique The progressed chart is usually set up for one year starting at the birthday but as it moves slowly you can actually use the 1st of january as starting date so that your forecast covers the calendar year To enter the starting date use one of the two methods shown above and enter the date into the date field leaving everything else the same as radix Now on the command pane click the icon for Secondary You will now get a secondary progressed chartwheel a table of positions much like the radix and an aspect table Please note that the planetary positions may be followed by two house numbers the first refers to which house in the radix chart the progressed planet s position would be and the second refers to the position in the progressed houses If there is only one number it means that the planet s house positions is the same in both charts If this sounds strange to you have a look at the compare chart described below which will show it visually You may optionally have 12 months of progressed Moon printed after the position
30. access Auto backup Argus will automatically make a weekly and monthly backup of you personal files in the folders backup weekly and backup monthly Control panel When Argus starts this is what you will see EE PCA Argus 4 20 20 132293 Licensed to Lucy in the sky H3 File Preferences Window Help Edgar Cayce 0 Name Edgar Cayce 18 03 1877 AD 15 03 00 5 49 1 Date fa 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun 2Tire i amp so 4 3 Zone Q 4 City Latitude 36 51 N Hopkinsville 5 City Longitude 6 Sex Notes 0 OPEN close Radix2 Secondary Solar return Lunarreturn Composite Relationship Compare Elements etc 1 month 5 years 1mo o Live chart Astromap clock transits Polar 1 Month Ephemeris Ephemeris Transit template The title bar at the very top shows version number and user name your name Next comes the program menu showing the permanent program functions such as macro and script handling backup preferences window management help and program close At the very bottom of the window you find the status bar showing status for Macro and Script XLI progress and in the middle you may click to swap the control and 10 output windows The rest of the area is divided in three 1 The data input panel upper left 2 The database for birth data upper right 3 The command pane with icons lower part The control panel with these three panels is what you ll be using all the time to handle birth data and activate the
31. an handle Anyway you need to calculate these chart first The Radix template needs the calculated radix positions The Progressed template needs calculated progressed positions The Transit template needs a previous run of the transit aspect graph 1 year transits or 1 Month transits The synastry template needs that you have run radixpositions with data for person 1 and radix2 postions with data for person 2 Insertion of your own texts To insert your own text in theory you may use Windows notepad or another external text editor program You will probably find it more straightforward to use the inbuld script editor Click the icon for the template you want to edit using the right mouse button In the resulting command manager window click the button EDIT MODULE This will open the script editor showing the files of that template 81 Files C arqus4 T READ tet C SargusdATRAATT1 TXT E C argusd T RXATT 2 TXT C argusdiTRXATT3 TXT C arqus4 T RTT 4 TXT C argus4 T RTT 5 TXT C argus4 T RXATTE TXT C arqus4 TRXATT 7 TXT C argusdATREATTS TXT C argusdATRAATTT1O TXT C argusdATRENTTT1 TXT C SarausdATRAATT 12 TXT M The illustration shows a list of the radix files Each file holds a series of interpretation statements Apart from the transit template they could have been kept in just one file but for practical reasons they are spread Click one of the files eg TT8 TXT and the panel will be showing the paragraph
32. anus 13 0 Neptune 1 Midp 0 Pluto 1 Chiron 1 orb combine Minimum Ses 1 3sep 1 qqx 1 SSX 1 109 Character sets Argus is using two dedicated character sets PCA ANSI for symbols and tables and PCA OEM for output of legacy XLI scripts written for the DOS PCA program These character sets are not by default installed permanently in the windows system but they are loaded temporarily as long as Argus runs If you need them for use in other programs e g WORD you mus either have Argus running or you may install them manually using windows Control Panel The font files are named pca ansi ttf and pca oem ttf and they are placed in the Argus4 folder PCA ANSI character set 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 32 amp COR E GH ge 00 ae of 48 0123 45 67 89 5 lt gt 64 A BC D EF G HIJ K L M 0 8 P QA RS T UVW XYZ 96 abc de fg h ij k 1 m n o 112p qr s tu vw x yz 128 OCs LCAS H YO HR E 144 amp I 95 mm MLO MXF P 160 rr OH AX LA Ku L QAO 176 m HE a m m mM NM BN 192 A AG EE E E i i 2088 060 x UU Y P B 224 444 i i i i 2406 666 o y p y 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 PCA OEM character set 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 110 32 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 64 A B C D 48 0 J K L M N oO F G H I 80 P Q R S TU V W X Y Z E A i f g h
33. ata then click the right tab and enter the starting date Click the 5 year progression command icon The result looks something like the above The color shades will show when each aspect moves inside the 1 orb limit pale and when it culminates full color Aspects are from progressed angles and planets to radix angles and planets x aspects as well as aspects between progressed points mutually i aspects 25 Synastry SYNASTRY To compare two radix charts and look for aspects between them you must first prepare the two sets of data You use any of the two methods for data entry as usual then click the Synastry icon This will output a compare chart with the inter aspects You would normally like to have a chartwheel and positions for both persons charts as well In that case you should Select the single data entry icon Enter the data for person 1 Click the Radix icon Enter the data for person 2 Click the Radix2 icon Click the compare chart icon 26 LIVE CHART This is a double chartwheel with radix in the inner circle and a selection of forecast factors in the outer Two sliders at the bottom of the window lets you move the point in time which will make the chartwheel planets houses and aspects move accordingly EE Chart Movie Forecast factors Forecast MCASC Intem House progression L VW Normal Naibod 24 May 1941 AD z Transit Converse xam 210500 el E Rss 6 00 W auto off Solar arc 68 10 27 B
34. ce one or more of the numbers in your entry by or meaning unchanged increment or decrement for that number 38 ENTERING BIRTHPLACE Latitude Longitude Even if you may enter latitude and longitude manually you will normally prefer to pick it from the inbuilt gazetteer Just enter the city name in either the latitude or the longitude field If found the timezone latitude and longitude fields will all be filled in at the same time together with city and country name 5333 N Hamburg 959E Germany 4bi4b If the city name name is found in more than one place the atlas is opened and you will get a list where you can pick the right version then click OK In case there are more than one city of the same name in the same country it may be hard to judge just from the longitudes and latitudes shown which one is correct In many cases however it will be the uppermost identical citynames are ordered by size of population if known If the city is not found the atlas is still opened If not needed you just close it and enter latitude and longitude manually In that case it is your own responsibility that the timezone area or timezone in the zone field is still correct When entering latitude or longitude manually you enter degrees then minutes and finally a N or S Latitude or E or W longitude separated by spaces You may replace one of the numbers with a comma or meaning unchanged increment or decrement
35. chartwheel size will also affect the screen output 92 Printer page setup Header line lectric Eph No header ectric Ephemeris Argus IDEEN ENS Margins Top Margin a Left Margin po Right Margin f Bottom Margin ryo Wheel size TT M Chartwheel centered on page Footer Line No footer M Job date HELP X cancel ok Print page options The header and footer line lets you insert some fixed text on top and bottom of each printed page This could for example be your company name and phone number You can also have a page number top right and or a jobdate bottom right on each page Both these options are recommended The right margin setting has a limited effect Jobdate and pagenumbers will be placed accordingly and interpretation texts which are word wrapped will have their lines broken at the right margin Graphics and tables must be kept unbroken so they will display beyond the right margin setting To get slightly more space for output you can remove the header and or footer line altogether by checking the no header no footer checkboxes In this case jobdate pagenumbers are not printed and the gain in space is only about 1 line 93 for each Chartwheel centered on page means that the chartwheel or other graph will be placed exactly between the left and the right margin on the printed pages If this box is unchecked the chartwheel will be left adjusted A small model of the
36. ck the aspect types you need In Argus each chart type has assigned a set of orbs For example if you output a progressed chart you would not expect to see aspects more than 2 degreees orb If you output a Radix chart you would need wider orbs typically 5 10 degrees When you first install Argus the orbs are preset for the different chart types Some chart types do share orbsets so secondary tertiary and minor is one group composite and relationship is another group solar and lunar returns a third etc This adds up to 8 sets of orb Radix Radix2 transit Secondary Tertiary Minor Solar arc Solar return Lunar return Composite Relationship Day chart Horary chart clock Transit and progression graphs OrOOd072 Please note that the horary chart aspects only apply to the aspects drawn on the clock chartwheel It is not possible to get an aspect table from the clock chart If you want a horary chart aspect table using the clock orbset you must temporarily switch on the horary orbset set H assigning set H to all see later and then calculate a horary chart using Radix2 The horary orbset is also available in the live chart An orb set could look like this Configure orbset Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Chiron horoo S00 40 00 _5 00 8 00 _5 00 8 00 _5 00 P 6 00 0 00 PE _ 5 00 Midpnt Orb combine Applying Separating C Maximum
37. copy paste print etc In the output window if you select a graphic like eg the chartwheel it will get handles in the corners which you can drag with the mouse to resize the graphic EDIT MODE If you toggle on the E editor button you can also type in text or edit the contents using the keyboard PRINT To print the content of the output window click the print button fal SAVE To save the contents of the output window click the button with the disk symbol C LOAD To load contents into the output window from disk must be RTF format click the button with the folder symbol SELECT ALL To select all contents click this button CUT To cut the selected conents to the clipboard click the button with the scissors symbol e PAST To insert the contents of the clipboard into the output window click the button with the clipboard symbol TIP If you select some graphics e g a chartwheel and hold the CTRL button on the keyboard while clicking the Copy button the graphic will be saved to disk in a file called picture emf in the argus folder metafile format The emf format can sometimes be handy for import into other graphics programs E EDIT MODE With the E button you can toggle the edit mode on off In edit mode you may place the cursor somewhere in the output window and add or delete text You can have several output windows at the same time Click WINDOW in the menu line Click ADD NEW The
38. d geo longitude in the date input without a direction letter E or W Argus will place a default letter which could be either E or W according to this setting Select W if the majority of your charts are W else choose E East is default West is default INTERPRETATIONS ASTRO COMMENTS In written interpretation each paragraph has a leading line telling which astrological factors are causing the following text to be printed This is interesting for readers who know about astrological terms but can be annoying if they don t So you can select either depending on who you are targeting when printing out interpretations Astro comments ON Astro comments OFF FONTS This option will open a windows font dialog where you can choose font name style and size for your outputs Please note though that position and aspect tables etc which need tabulation and astrological symbols always use the special PCA font PCA ANSI TTF installed with Argus but it will still use the size and style chosen Please note that some interpretations have their own font settings which will override your program options The Argus font is only active as long as Argus is open If you copy and paste output from Argus to e g Word it may look fine showing astrological symbols correctly 98 but as soon as you close Argus Word will not be able to show the symbols anymore because the Argus font is now unmounted If you want to use the Argus symbols in o
39. double data icon opens a third data set which may be used for horary and which is fetched from the computer s internal clock and updated every second The Zone Latitude and Longitude is fetched from a separate set of default data which you would typically have saved with your current place of living To enter your current residence coordinates as horary default eClick the clock symbol to the right of the double data icon eEnter the latitude longitude and zone or find your city in the atlas eClick one of the data entry fields with the right mouse button eSelect Save as default eClick OK to Save current clock data as default ENTERING NAME The name may be up to 255 characters The input field is a combo box having a small arrow to the right Argus keeps a history list of the data for the last 24 radix 34 calculations So to get back data you just used click the list and pick the data from the history The history is not saved when you quit Argus ENTERING DATE Enter Day month and year as numbers separated by spaces or slashes Do not use strokes minus plusses or commas they have a special meaning The month can alternatively be entered using a three letter abbreviation Examples 46 2004 12 aug 1958 7 9 2000 Tip The last line using a slash as separator is handy if you use the numeric keypad on the right side of your keyboard because you have a slash key right there above the 8 key so that you do not need to m
40. e A 31 H oP MC 23 AAO 29 QAN 45 A MC 8 ex c 2 BAd 11 amp PMC 6 amp ASC 6 26 14 SxO 31 MC SO 57 ASC sox 51 C PMC sow 43 C ASC So 15 SPQ Gee 37 ere or FH ENTWTWMWTABAMWHA UM M BR BR ND D BB ND OM ONU Macro idle XLI idle compare chart ASPECT GRAPH Even if the secondary progressed chart can be used for a complete year forecast it is basically just a moment in time To see how aspects develop as time moves try the 5 year progression 5 year Progressions Progression method Naibod Kylie Minogue 28 May 1968 AD Tue 11 00 00 10 00 E auto off 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 MC o Sr eee CE joco NC o Sp aes eee me MC x br eee re a es asc Der ee MEME jus Ios asc Op oes oe ASC AG r puer Em p DEDE o ASC o tr eee ee ee por a ren ASC o Hp cn TOO p ee ASC X Yr eee p m TRO jos ASC x p un Re peer eee Eee 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 X MC r TTE M MAP ENT po ee ee 9 o ASC r poe TRU MONS l ccoun 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 On r o UE IMEEM one x me cm Ox Yr o js oe O p eo t nec Ces eee E ORr A en um c PRE n So Sr eee porc cud EEE Se Ur co c ORAN f not already done enter radix data and run radix first Then enter the starting date for the progressions Or alternatively click the double chart data entry click the left tab and enter the radix d
41. e chartwheel However as the map does not wrap around at the edges it can not move its edges 180 E W and 90 N S inside the viewed area You need to zoom in appropriately first to make this work For the same reason the arrow buttons have no effect when the map is zoomed out LIVE CHART OPTIONS FORECAST FACTORS A large number of forecast factors can be switched on or off e g secondary and tertiary progressions transits and solar arc and you can select single planets and points of selected methods for example just looking at the movements of secondary Moon and Transit Saturn Forecast factors Ocpopogdu5 yvouone Secondary JV vivivivi T T T T T T Transit PPP DT Wi lv iv iv oo MES EPP eee Minor BEEBE BEBE SEES BEES EEE ee MC ASC Intem r Choosing planets These factors are selected individually by ticking the checkboxes In the above example you have fast secondary and slow moving transits included 3 21 23 12 5 29 20 26 24 2 28 59D cu FAUNE na I ceo e b ab p 31 IL 24 g 03 IL 59 TI 59 X 40 t 05 t 38 t 57 Tp 22 d 32 Tp 51 39 M 51 Y M Normal Converse Inter aspects 39 RADIX FACTORS The radix panel has a couple of checkboxes to the right of the planetary positions to select which planets you want included in the inner chartwheel radix You will normally prefer to include all except maybe the part of fortune and Moon s node
42. e points in that group for example secondary Sun to secondary Moon will be shown If this box is unticked only aspects between radix and the moving points will be included 61 It would make sense to tick the secondary progressions intern box because these aspects are personal and relevant whereas transits aspecting other transits are collective applying to all people and less interesting in case of a personal forecast Direct and converse Some astrologers work with converse secondary progressions meaning one day before birth equals one year after birth If you choose converse the progressed points will move backwards when you move forwards in time To distinguish them from the direct they are drawn in a paled color You can have either or both direct and converse Inter aspects Quite commonly astrologers use aspects between transits and progressed planets for example transit Saturn conjuncting your progressed Sun The checkbox inter aspects will allow you to see all aspects between the different groups This is not the same as the intern described above Inter aspects show aspects between eg progressed and transits or even progressed and converse progressed but not between progressed and progressed If you have more than transits and secondary progressions for example tertiary or solar arc ticking this box will make little sense apart from the fact that you will get all too many aspects to consider Progression me
43. ead of F25 Especially near country borders you must be careful to select the correct zone When you are happy with your choice click OK and the new city is inserted When you look up a city in the atlas you will see the zone area appear in the zone entry field The area is shown as a code of 1 3 letters followed by 0 3 digits 3 Zone Q 7 00 WUCAT DST ar The UCA is the timezone area in this case it is in California You can enter the UCA into the zone field and when clicking OK it will translate into hours minutes direction and timezone area as shown DST means that daylight saving time is observed on the date in the date input field Having the gazetteer split in worldwide and favorites assures that even if you receive an update with correctures for the wordwide gazetteer your favorites part will stay unchanged To delete a city from your favorites just select it and click the delete button then click OK when asked to confirm The backup function in Argus will also let you back up your favorites 12 MACROS Macros are groups of commands put together in a single string The commands can for example be any of the command items on the command pane it can be elementary commands data manipulations Executing a macro lets you do complex user defined jobs with a single command This is very handy for example if you need to Do repetetive keypresses Do a certain calculation on a long list of data in the database
44. ed top right on the graph window A world map will appear as background and you may click and see how the chartwheel would change if calculated for this geographic position Start the movie To make the chart move by itself click and drag an imaginary point placed on the timescale above the knob where you see the numbers showing the years When you release the mouse button the chartwheel starts moving A long drag makes it move fast a short drag makes it move slowly To stop the movement just click anywhere on the timescale without dragging There are plenty of options and controls you can operate in the live chart move radix and progressions individually set bookmarks choose any combination of forecast points and aspects or groups of aspects and different special techniques you can switch on More details later Printing Printer output works from the output window which can be seen as a document Just click the printer icon on the toolbar at the left side of the output window A printer dialog box appears letting you choose printer and other printing options Please note that the complete document is printed you cannot choose pages To avoid unneeded printing you should prepare the output window first to make sure that it holds only the contents to be printed You may remove unneeded parts by selecting them and press DELETE on the keyboard But generally it would be good practice to use the sponge icon on the tool bar to wh
45. eless 1 Month Astromap Elements etc sections table chart Ephemeris ONE ME Radix Transit synastry rogressec Live chart clock template template template The items can be of different kind and complexity On initial setup they are organised into groups each group having a separate icon Basic items which replace the old PCA Argus functions formerly found on the top menu line Macro items which combine some of the basic functions For example a calculation aspect list and chartwheel in one go and hopefully only one page of printout Special macros expanding the list of basic functions for example graphic transits 41 for three years Small scripts showing for example declinations heliocentric positions latitude etc or provide access to more settings than available in the ordinary preference menu On top of this you can buy add on modules and interpretations which can be installed whereafter they will appear as yet new icons on the command pane When Argus is first installed you will find a couple of commands that most users would expect A much larger list is kept available and at any time you can just right click an empty space on the command pane which will open the command item manager showing the complete list To add new items from the list to your command panel or to remove others from the panel is as easy as checking and unchecking the checkboxes in the list When you close the command manager window
46. elling how much the orb changes per day radix year secondary etc in degrees and minutes SECONDARY AND TERTIARY HOUSES 85 Secondary houses method The secondary progressions are defined as one day equals one year If that formula is used for both planets and houses the latter would move about 361 degrees a year or 1 degree per day of age If you select true motion for this preference you will get exactly that Most astrologers prefer to have the houses move 1 degree a year of age on average which is 1 360 of this To gear the motion down this ratio different theories are available each giving slightly different results Each method has its devotees The problem is that these methods can differ by several years in a prediction Naibod is the most commonly used Naibod RAMC moves 360 365 24 of true motion per year Kundig RAMC moves Sun key degrees per year The Sun key is the RA equivalent of 1 degree of ecliptical Sun movement at birth AR Solar arc RAMC moves same arc as RA secondary Sun Ecliptic Solar arc Ecliptic MC moves same arc as ecliptic SUN 1 degree year MC moves one ecliptic degree per year No motion Houses do not move True motion ARMC moves 360 366 24 365 24 degrees per mean solar year Tertiary houses method The tertiary progression has the same options as secondary SOLAR AND LUNAR RETURN METHOD Solar Lunar return method Tropical return The chart is calculated for the time when the Sun reach
47. encrypted that is you cannot edit them in e g Notepad the same way as you can with ordinary non encrypted scripts The script editor gives you limited access also to these encrypted files letting you change the contents on a paragraph per paragraph basis You may edit the heading and text part but not the coding which will stay hidden You can tell that a file is encrypted by its extension SCM Non encrypted files can also have their coding part edited but the chain of paragraphs will remain unchanged Starting the script editor Click FILE Click EDIT MODULE T1 Headings C arqus4 template TAXO tet C argus4 template T RAT T 1 TXT C argus4 template T RAT T2 TXT C arqus4 templateST RXATT 3 TXT Code lines C argus4 template T RTT 4 TXT C argus4 template T RXATTE TXT C argus4 template T RXATTE TXT C argus4 template TRXATT 7 TXT C argus4 template TRXATTE TXT C argus4 template T RXATTS TXT C argus4 template T RXATTIO TXT C argus4 templateATRXATT11 TXT Astro comments C araus4 temolate T RXATT12 TXT Sections File branch list A script is composed of one or more files Each file is composed of one or more paragraphs Each paragraph is divided in ea code part ean optional headline astro comment ea text part The code part holds the XLI script codes which determines what is going to happen and if the content if any of the text part is going to be output In the edtior window click FILE You
48. eplacing the month number with month name and added an AD as opposed to BC before Christ and the weekday Time In this field you enter the time of birth typing hour minutes and seconds if needed separated by spaces As with the date terminate the data entry by clicking another field or clicking the OK button Zone This is the time zone of the birthplace which will automatically be filled in if you find the city in the inbuilt atlas So just leave this field for now City Latitude Enter a city name for the birthplace or the nearest city if you are born in the countryside preferrably within 10 km Now click OK If the city is found in the atlas you will see that the fields for latitude longitude and zone are all filled in as well In case the city is not found or if more than one city of that name is found the atlas will open up letting you select the correct one and click OK If you cannot find your birthplace or a nearby city in the atlas you may enter latitude longitude and timezone manually if you know these Enter degrees and minutes separated by spaces or in case of the timezone hours and minutes and finally aN S E or W appropriately Then click OK Save as start data f you have inserted your own data as proposed you can now save it as start data default data so that they will always show up when the program starts To do this just click any of the data fields with the RIGHT mouse button producing a pop up men
49. es its exact birth position in the tropical zodiac Siderial return The chart is calculated for the time when the Sun reaches its exact birth position in the siderial zodiac 86 SOLAR ARC HOUSES METHOD Solar arc houses In the solar arc chart all planets are moved the same arc as the secondary progressed Sun There are two ways to move the houses True houses The midheaven is moved the same arc as the Sun Then the rest of the houses are calculated to fit this midheaven as in a table of houses Equal speed houses All houses are moved equal speed to the Sun COMPOSITE METHOD Composite method A composite chart made up of midpoints between the same bodies in two different birthcharts The houses can be calculated in two ways Robert Hand Robert Hand once suggested that only the midheaven should be calculated as a midpoint The other houses are then calculated to fit this midheaven as in a table of houses Hand did actually abandon this idea again at a later point All houses midpoints All houses are calculated as midpoints between the same house in the two birthcharts This may produce cusps in mixed order A midpoint between A and B is calculated to be placed midways on the shortest of the two arcs between A and B If A and B are close to opposite each other on the circle only small differences will make either arc the shortest flipping the midpoint 180 degrees RELATIONSHIP CHART METHOD Relationship method The relat
50. ess chartwheel Double chartwheel Houseless double chartwheel Clock chartwheel Aspect grid 5 year progressions graph 60 years progressions graph 1 year transits graph 1 month transits graph 1 year collective transits graph 1 month collective transits graph Internal aspects 101 OA M OM N ON XK XP C Q Yn Zn Cross chart aspects Midpoints planetary order Midpoints zodiacal order Midpoint tree planetary order Midpoint tree zodiacal order K ndig rectification sections Progressed table 60 years Enter macro Quit Argus Command icon assignable keyboard shortcuts Command icon assignable keyboard shortcuts The last two is a whole series of keyboard shortcuts which you can assign to each of the command icons available This is done by right clicking the icon and then clicking the EDIT button In the command icon editor window you will find a field showing the current keyboard shortcut with a dropdown list to choose from EE Create or edit command item Name auxpos type xLI M odule interpretation shortcut Entry file li areen ico More MACRO KEYS In macros with a few exceptions mentioned below you can use all the above keyboard shortcuts Additionaly you can use some special keys 102 7xxx Set harmonic number Replace xxx with the harmonic number you wish terminated by fullstop as shown To enter a fractional harmonic use a comma not a fullstop as decimal separator e g
51. f scripts XLI Normal script files TXT Interprerations SCM Encrypted scrambled scripts Encrypted files can only be partially edited and only with the inbuilt module editor 44 and will run only if the user is authorized Authorization means that the encryptions is made to match the individual Argus user number or it may be done by including special code in the encrypted file to ask the user for a password Scripts included Argus can be expanded with scripts i e functionality which is not hard programmed into Argus itself Scripts are text files placed in the Argus folder which may be activated from Argus either from an icon created to point to them or by opening them clicking File gt Run XLI Module The following scripts are included in the standard Argus 4 2 distribution ASTROMAP This is identical to AstroCartoGraphy or Astrogeography a world map with lines drawn showing where in the world you would have had a given planet angular i e on the ASC MC IC or DESC if you were born at the same GMT time but at another place The idea is that you may experience the potentials of these planets strongly if you travel or move to these places or if you otherwise occupy yourself with them As with many other astrological techniques the astromap may be calculated in differing ways Ecliptical or True positions This can be changed under Preferences AUXPOS When a chart is calculated either a radix or another type of cha
52. field select XLI module or DOS emulated if the script is a PCA for DOS script oLeave the shortcut blank oln the entry file field click the folder icon to open a file browse window oLocate and doubleclick the scriptfile oln the icons list pick an icon of your choice oclick OK n the commands manager window click OK Now you will see that a new icon has appeared on your command pane which you just need to click to execute the script Some scripts especially interpretations consists of more than one file which are interpreted one after each other In that case you will need to identify the start file Hopefully the author has been clever enough with his file naming so it is evident which file is the first 76 Script editor With the inbuilt script editor in Argus you may edit existing scripts but it is not fit for creating new scripts Its foremost purpose is eEditing the four intepretation templates included in the standard Argus installation Radix Progressed Transit and Synastry These are bare structures with coding and headlines but without any text which the user is supposed to insert him herself eTo change wordings or add or replace words or sentences eTo experiment with small code snippets in the two user scripts TTUS XLI and TTUZ XLI included with Argus and which may be called using the keypressings XS and XZ Editing ready made interpretations The interpretations you may buy for Argus will normally be
53. g the program can be expanded limitless Scripts can be special calculation tasks database handling or it can be chart interpretation Starting the program When the program is installed you will find the Argus icon on your computers desktop gE Double click this icon to start Argus When the program is started you will see the control panel The top line is the title bar where you will find the version number etc and information about the license If it tells Unregistered you will need to enter your license codes which came with the program The next line is the menu where you ll find administation tools and preferences together with help and registration options Below the menu upper left is the data entry panel upper right the database and below these two is an icon area much like the windows desktop You use these icons to activate the different astrological charts and functions EE PCA Argus 4 20 20 132293 Licensed to Lucy in the sky 13 File Preferences Window Help L 0 Name 1 Date 2 Time 3 Zone 4 City Latitude 5 City Longitude 6 Sex Notes 0 a ap a Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun 150300 5 49 W UIKY1 LMT 3B 51 N Hopkinsville leri 87 29 Ww Male 4 TUTS Radix2 1 month transits Radix template Data entry Transit template pca famous 0 Edgar Cayce new open crose I 18 03 1877 AD 1
54. he chosen input tab to male 6E Set the sex for the chosen input tab to male 6C Set the sex for the chosen input tab to male 7 See above 8 See above Show the command panel Show the output window 104 DEFAULT ORB LIMITS R Radix Radix2 Transit Sun 10 Node 5 Cnj 8dec 3 Moon 10 PtFt 5 Opp 8qui 3 Mercury 8 MC 5 Sqr 8tre 3 Venus 8 ASC 5 Tri 8biq 3 Mars 8 11 0 Sxt 8sep 3 Jupiter 8 12 0 Ssq 3 2sep 3 Saturn 8 2 0 Ses 3 3sep 3 Uranus 8 3 0 qqx 3 Neptune 8 Midp 1 ssx 3 Pluto 8 Chiron 8 orb combine Minimum P Secondary Tertiary Minor Sun 2 Node 2 Cnj 2dec 2 Moon 2PtFt 2 Opp 2 qui 2 Mercury 2 MC 2 Sqr 2tre 2 Venus 2ASC 2 Tri 2biq 2 Mars 211 0 Sxt 2sep 2 Jupiter 212 0 Ssq 2 2sep 2 Saturn 22 0 Ses 2 3sep 2 Uranus 23 0 qqx 2 Neptune 2 Midp 2 ssx 2 Pluto Chiron 2 2 orb combine Minimum 105 S Solar arc Sun 2 Node 2 Cnj 2dec 2 Moon 2PtFt 2 Opp2qui 2 Mercury 2 MC 2 oqr 2tre 2 Venus 2ASC 2 Tri 2biq 2 Mars 211 0 Sxt 2sep 2 Jupiter 212 0 Ssq 2 2sep 2 Saturn 22 0 Ses 2 3sep 2 Uranus 23 0 qqx 2 Neptune 2 Midp 2 ssx 2 Pluto 2 Chiron 2 orb combine Minimum T Solar Return Lunar Return Sun 5 Node 5 Cnj 5dec 3 Moon 5PtFt 5 Opp5qui 3 Mercury 5 MC 5 Sqr 5tre 3 Venus 5 ASC 5 Tri 5biq 3 Mars 5 11 0 Sxt 5sep 3 Jupiter 5 12 0 Ssq 3 2sep 3 Saturn 52 0 Ses 3 3sep 3 Uranus 53 0 qqx 3 Neptune 5 Midp 5 ssx 3 Pluto 5 Chiron 5 orb combine Minimum C Composite Relationship sun 8 Node 5 Cnj 8 dec 3 106
55. he like and definitely not on two machines at the same time If for some reason you need to have the user name changed you will need new registration info This will normally be free of charge but we will need your user number and a signed letter telling that your former registration is destroyed and out of use PCA Info sheet PCA Argus 4 20 Revision 20 Copyright 2010 ELECTRIC EPHEMERIS Authorisation Licenced to Luna Luckystar Serial no f34031 OO User number 2258 5 Features available a Control code 641578 Copy to clipboard HELP Test Cancel OK INSTALLATION OF ADD ON MODULES AND INTERPRETATIONS An Argus CD ROM will normally hold both the program and all available modules and interpretations but you can only use those for which you have a password So you use the same CD ROM for installation of Argus itself and for later installation of add ons To install a module from the CDROM Start Argus Insert the Argus CDROM into the CDROM drive f the Argus Installation program starts close it n Argus right click an empty area on the command panel Click INSTALL n the file menu locate the module on your CDROM Double click the module Close the edit or create command item dialog A new command icon should now have appeared on your command panel The module is now installed and can be activated by clicking its command icon You may be asked for a password the first time you
56. ick the file you want to import elf you already have a file of this name e g PCA NFI a file conflict manager opens up elf you already have entered data in the local file of that name enter a new name in the rename to field of the file conflict manager window and click the OK button eTo see the contents click the OPEN button below the database window and select the imported file 49 Append If you want the contents of a remote file appended to an existing one for example if you have entered some names into the default PCA namefile and want the contents of a remote PCA namefile appended eOpen the remote file as shown above eSelect all names or the ones you want to import eRight click the database and select COPY eClick the tab of the local file you want to import into eRight click the database window and select PASTE eClick the tab of the remote file eClick the CLOSE button below the database to close the remote file DOS PCA and AAF file import e f you want a separate file with the imported data create one clicking the NEW button below the database enter a name and click OK e f you want to append the data to an existing file open it or select the tab if it is already open eclick the OPEN button below the database ein the File windows Filetype field at the bottom select Import DOS PCA file dat or import AAF format aaf as appropriate ein the same file window locate the drive and folder holding the file you w
57. ilities In that case you will need to write your own script BIRTH DATABASE The upper right part of the control panel is the database where you keep your birthdata collections You will find tools for saving fetching and organising your data 47 pea famous 360 Lemmy 24 12 1945 AD 8 30 00 0 00ES5 361 Hayley Mills 1804 1946 AD 23 4000 1 00E5 362 Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2504 1946 AD 22 3000 5 00E4 363 Peter Sutcliffe 2 06 1946 AD 20 30 00 1 00ES5 364 Bon Scott 9 07 1946 AD 23 2000 1 00E5 365 George VV Bush 607 1946 AD 7 2600 4 00 W4 366 Linda Rondstadt 15 07 1946 AD 17 3900 7 00 W3 367 Bill Clinton 19 08 1946 AD 8 51 00 6 00 W3 368 Liz Greene 4 09 1946 AD 13 0000 4 00 W4 369 Peter Green 29 10 1946 AD 21 5900 0 00ES5 370 Marina Warner 9 11 1946 AD 19 0000 0 00E5 371 Gianne Versace 2 12 1946 AD 6 45 00 1 00E3 372 Patti Smith 30 12 1946 AD 6 01 00 6 O0 W4 v NEW OPEN CLOSE SORT LIST Atthe top you ll find one or more tabs showing the open files When first installed Argus will show two tabs one file for your own data labeled PCA and another labeled FAMOUS You can easily create more files tabs with different groups of birthdata friends clients events countries horary questions etc If yo have more than one file open as shown Argus will keep track between sessions and reopen them next time you start Argus DATABASE CREATE NEW To create a new file click the NEW button placed just below the database You m
58. in one go 60 If for example you want to check Jupiter ot Pluto eCheck Jupiter eReclick and hold down the mouse button on the Jupiter box eKeep the mouse button down and drag the mouse cursor to the Pluto box eRelease the mouse button eNow all boxes on this path will get checked The same thing works to uncheck Remove the Jupiter check reclick Jupiter and drag the cursor to Pluto then release the mouse button This will remove all checks You may even check or uncheck a whole block or all planets in this way Try for instance to mark progressed Sun upper left Then click and hold down the mouse button while dragging the cursor to the Solar Arc part of fortune lower right and release the mouse button there Just to show the principle Checking all factors produce a mess of aspects and make little sense Quick selection works only for planets Moon s node and part of fortune nor for the angles RADIX ASPECTS Aspects Radix ts The radix left panel offers options for the radix aspekts i e internal aspects between the factors in the inner chart eNormal radix aspects orbset eHorary orbset with lesser orb when aspect is separating e1 degree eAspects off If you use the live chart for horary you will probably prefer either the horary orbset or 1 degree See orb limits Other options Intern Apart from planets and angles you ll find a column with the cryptic name intern This means that aspects between th
59. ion printout and to the CORREX optional add on Straight K ndig K ndig Bonatti GRAPHIC ASPECTS OPTIONS Graphic aspects The aspect graphs showing how transits and progressions develop over time have two display options Shades ES Bar graphs ilies GLYPHS Symbols for Uranus and Pluto are different in some countries so here is some choices Uranus Glyph Aerial Uranus HH German Uranus Pluto Glyph English Pluto Y 9 Danish Pluto German Pluto Y EFEMERIS OPTIONS The ephemeris option lets you choose between speed and accuracy The choice also depends on whether you have the full ephemeris tables installed or just the basic calculation Moshier In summary you should always use Swiss ephemeris unless you have only the basic swiss installation and you have a problem with speed and accuracy is not high priority Use Swiss Ephemeris with full tables Extremely accurate down to 1 100 of a second of arc Very fast faster than the EE Uses 35 Mbytes of disk space so you will prefer a CD rom for installation rather than a download with basic tables only Very accurate down to 1 second of arc Slower 3 5 time slower than the EE Use EE Ephemeris Quite fast Accurate only to minutes of arc and only 1850 2040 Outside this accuracy is rather one degree PRINT PAGE OPTIONS Printed pages have a couple of options such as margin settings etc Only one option the
60. ionship chart is a chart calculated for the midpoint in time and place of two birthcharts The question is how to find the midpoint in place i e the half way 87 between the two birthplaces Long Lat midpoints The longitude used is the average between the two longitudes and the latitude used is the average between the two latitudes Divide great circle great circle it drawn betwen the two birthplaces The midpoint of the shortest of the two arcs is used as birthplace DAY CHART METHOD Day chart method Traditional Planets are transits Houses are moving 360 degrees a year at equal RAMC speed Kundig Planets are transits Houses are moving at equal RAMC speed so that they match up with the secondary progressed houses each mean solar year So the speed of these houses will be slightly dependant on the choice of method for secondary progressed houses Astromap method Astromap AstroCartoGraphy Astrogeograpy will typically have two options eEcliptic positions eTrue positions Ecliptic positions mean that the curves show where in the world a planet is straight on an angular house cusp as it would if you were doing an ordinary birth chart True positions mean that the curves show where in the world a planet is placed exactly on the horizon or the meridian in astronomical sens i e it takes into consideration that planets are not positioned straight on the ecliptic but often several degrees off ecliptic latitude
61. ipe the output window to prevent obsolete output to pile up Printing the database also works through the output window e g when you click the button PRINT in the database the output will be sent to the output window Now you can choose print as usual to send it to the printer The Full screen window for graphics chartwheels astromap aspect grid etc has its own printer icon and will print independantly from the normal output window 28 Program specific print options like margins wheel size footer and header can be set from the main menu Click Preferences Click Print page options When you are satisfied with your settings click OK If you wish to save the new settings permanently click Preferences then Save to disk Managing birth data Working with birthcharts you would like to build up a collection of birthdata which you can access at any time The real way to learn astrology is to practice being able to pick up and compare examples at any time Try enter some birthdata Fill out in full so that the persons gender is correct and maybe add a few facts or comments in the notes area at the bottom of the data input When ready click the OK button ie Save data To save your data in the database just click the append button which will insert the data at the end of the namefile Fill in a few more preferrably friends and family who you know well d Fetch data To fetch data from the database first c
62. ish to import eDouble click the file to import e The data will be appended to the current database Argus datafiles have the extension nfi DOS PCA datafiles have the extension dat AAF datafiles have the extension aaf FETCHING AND SAVING DATA When you have entered data into the data entry panel you may save it permanently in the database by clicking one of the two save buttons identified with 50 a These buttons are placed between the data entry panel and the database i T SAVE The topmost save button will put the new data immidiately after the currently selected line in the database If no line is selected the data will be put just after line 1 The remaining data will be moved one position down 4 APPEND The second save button will append the new data at the end of the data file To fetch data from the database select the line you want and click this button If no line or more than one line is selected this button will be grayed x x OVERWRITE The overwrite button is used mostly for correcting data you have already fetched Say for instance that you have added some notes or changed the birthtime Now you want these corrections saved into the database line from where it was fetched If not already selected select the line holding the name then click the overwrite button The program will ask you to confirm the overwrite DELETE To remove unwanted entries in the database you se
63. it will start over from 0 Harmonics is a way of understanding aspects which is described in the book of John Addey Harmonics in astrology Even if it makes little sense in terms of harmonic theory you can enter fractional and negative harmonics SIDERIAL OPTIONS The Zodiac preference adds or subtracts the same arc The Ayanamsha to from all positions The arc entered is for the 1st of jan 1900 For other years this arc will be corrected by the precession which is about 50 of arc per year This is called the siderial zodiac which stays fixed in relation to the fixed stars There are different opinions what the Ayanamsha should be i e where in the sky to place zero Aries You will find a couple of preset values used by different schools but if you cannot find the one you are looking for you can enter it yourself by choosing USER Select TROPICAL to make the program produce ordinary western style astrology 0 00 User 22 27 Lahiri 22 21 K S Krishnamuti 21 01 Sepharial 19 10 Shil Ponde 00 00 Tropical DATE INPUT STYLE Date Style Amr MMDDYYYY In USA dates are entered month days an year Select this option to make the date entry accept data in this order When pressing OK in the 97 data input however your input will translate into the euro style EUR DDMMYYYY Choose this date input style if you prefer to enter dates in the european style day month year order East or West If you enter zone an
64. k so much as long as you always remember to run the radix first before attempting to do any transits progressions etc You may however get more control The saved radix data will normally be hidden but if you click the double data icon you will see two tabs above the data entry fields 4 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan al 0 Name Bob Dylan progressed If you click the eft tab you will see the radix data belonging to most recently calculated radix chart which Argus will use as basis for progressions transits 33 synastry or whatever If you click the right tab you will see the current data which you should use for other calculations When you run a radix calculation it will be using the current tab If you clicked the left tab the radix will be using this data if you clicked the right tab the radix will be calculated from the right set of data which at the same time are copied to the left tab making this show the most recently calculated radix When you run a derived calculation one which demands two sets of data Radix data and e g a starting data or a person no 2 it will be using both sets of data meaning that the left tab is used for radix which if needed will be calculated in the background first and the right tab will be used as the secondary set of data To return to the single entry mode without tabs just click the single data symbol d A click on the clock symbol to the right of the
65. ke the current data default right click one of the data fields and choose save as default You cannot change the default name this will always be your license name You will possibly only need to use this function once and for all If you later in the session wish to reload the default data click the small house icon placed left of the date field Entering data into each field is quite straightforward and it is not especially pedantic To enter the edit field 32 Click the field with the mouse or Press the number button for the said field 0 6 While editing a field you will see the small green indicator to the right of the field change to red When you have finished your entry it still need to be entered and validated This is done in one of these ways Click one of the other fields Press the up or down arrow to edit next or previous field Click the OK button below the fields Click the small read indicator to the right of the field Press the ENTER key on the keyboard Input tabs When you start Argus you will see one set of data entry fields which are used for all chart types and data entry tasks You enter a set of data run a radix chart and if you then need a progressed chart or some transits you enter the starting time in the same fields Argus will remember the calculated radix chart which will be used as basis even if you overtype the input with another date and time Working this way you don t need to thin
66. l insert the default data as when Argus starts Default data ENTERING TIME Enter hours minutes and seconds of birthtime separated by spaces You do not need to enter seconds or minute and seconds if they are 0 Argus does not understand am or pm you should enter in 24 hour clock format eg 12 42 6 51 4 23 59 59 As with date input you can increment or decrement hours by clicking the up and down arrow and the same with minutes or seconds by holding down SHIFT or CTRL while clicking Also as with date input you may replace one or more of the numbers in your entry by or meaning unchanged increment or decrement for that number To the left of the time intput field you will see clock icon Clicking this will insert the 36 computer clock time and date into the input This is useful for example if you need horary a current transit or progression TIP If you click the clock icon with the right mouse button not only the current date and time but also the latitude and longitude saved as horary default So to do a horary chart just right click the clock icon and then run a radix or open the live chart Entering an MC or ASC In case you want to know the time when MC or ASC is at a certain positions you can type in the position in the time field and have Argus calculate the time You may for instance have a chartwheel with no time information or you may wish to know when a certain planet will be on the horizon
67. lect the line s to remove then click the delete button marked with a rubbish bin The program will ask you to confirm the deletion You may select and delete more than one line at a time To select more than one line hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard while clicking the lines in question If 51 the lines you want to delete are placed contiguously you may select the first one then old down the SHIFT key on the keyboard and then click the last line in the succession This is the standard windows way of multiselecting To select the complete database the easiest way is to right click right mouse button the database panel and from the pop up menu select the select all option copy cut Select All Deselect all This pop up menu can also be used for copying and pasting single or multiple lines around the database or between database tabs You may also just use the usual windows keyboard shortcuts CTRL X cut CTRL C copy and CTRL V paste If you do large scale reorganising you may want to back up your files first to avoid accidental data loss Using the cut function the data will then exist only in the clipboard from where it could easily be lost You could also avoid using cut and just use copy and paste and then when you are sure that all data is placed safely elsewhere delete the source placement SEARCHING AND SORTING THE DATABASE SEARCH Using the search button below the database window you may search a
68. lick the data you want then click the fetch data key or press the ENTER key on the keyboard An even faster way is to doubleclick the data you want 29 FETCH SAVE SAVE 2 Overwrite DELETE In the database pane you will see two tabs Argus comes with a collection of data for known people but placed in a separate file so that they will not mix up with your own Just click the second tab marked famous to see the list You can rearrange cut and paste blocks of data search sort and print out the databases later chapter will cover this in detail Managing commands When you first install Argus the command pane will show icons for the mostly used commands in Argus But there are many more commands available You can add and remove command icons and rearrange them so that the program shows exactly the commands you need Commands manager Ba Radh Addnew Add CI Biorythm dc Dt use pum Met Polar Ephemeris Met 1 Month Ephemeris Md Live chart Dit radix m ae Edit module aspects Dit bi wheel li secondary To see the complete list of commands just right click right mouse button any free area on the command pane which will open the commands manager To the left in 30 this window you will see a scrollable list of commands with tick boxes showing which commands are shown on the command pane Just tick and untick to fit your preferences then click OK Now back on the comma
69. m so having created a useful macro it will be forgotten next time you start the program or type in another macro Luckily you have alternative places to type in macros When you have managed to create and test a macro which you intend to save for future use you could either write it down or reopen the macrobox This will show the last macro you used with 74 the text selected Copy this to the windows clipboard by typing CTRL C on the keyboard holding down the CTRL key while pressing key C Now click FILE on the main menu then macro definitions This will open a macro definition window with room for 12 macros The macros you define here can be executed at any time just pressing the corresponding F Key the top row keys on your keyboard Select a spare line place the cursor in it and paste the macro from the clipboard by holding down the CTRL key on the keyboard then press key V Now click the SAVE button and then OK Now press the F key on the keyboard which you have chosen for your macro and it will execute also in future use of Argus Command items An even better way to store your macros is to create command items These have icons and names so they will be easy to locate with no need to memorize F key numbers To create a command item macro Right click a free area on the command pane n the command manager window click ADD NEW n the create or edit command item window enter a name to identify the
70. mbo box click the dropdown list arrow to show the chart types Select Radix You should now se the R button marked as Radix will normally belong to the R group This will also enable the CONFIGURE button Click the CONFIGURE button Set the orbs for planets aspects and orb combine method f you want separate orbs for applying and separating first enter the applying orbs then tick the use separate checkbox and the separating button then enter the orb limits you need for separating aspects When satisfied click OK Please note that changing the orbs for Radix you also change orbs for any other chart type in that group There are two chart types in the R group Radix and Radix2 transit Orb Limit Master orb DD MM Orbset Use with COCoCCCCCC Configure RTPSHDCG None Disable all HELP Save X Cancel 1171s XI XI XI ADRKXLDLOGSR 68 There is one of the chart types in the orbset use with drop down list which is called all and which is by default deactivated If you select it you will set the None button will get marked If you change that to one of the other orbsets e g H it will override the chart type filter temporarily and use the H orbset for any chart type If you later set it back to None the individual chart type orbsets will reappe ar If you wish you can reassign individual chart types for example make the day chart which is normally the D group use the same
71. moved forwards and backwards with the mouse or started so that they move automatically at any rate so you can sit back and watch the aspects come and go 20 45 21 00 21 15 21 30 TT 2141 2124 May 1941 21 05 alal e Manual move To move the slider you pull it by clicking the knob holding down the left mouse button and drag the slider right of left A time scale above the slider shows where you are in time which is also shown more exactly with date and time in the display field below the slider The time shown is according to the local time zone Zoom A Al In the picture above the time span is one hour With the zoom in and zoom out buttons you can expand the the time window to cover 1 6 or 24 hours 30 or 360 days 10 or 60 years The blue arrows right or left of the zoom buttons are used to page forward or backwards In the above example clicking the right arrow will change the timespan to be 6 50 to 7 50 with the knob pointing at 7 20 Mixed use of the slider the zoom buttons and the page buttons lets you navigate to any time you want Automatic move To make the chart move by itself click somewhere on the time scale hold the left mouse button down and drag left for backwards or right for forward movement then release the mouse button and the chart will start moving A long drag will produce a fast movie speed and a short drag will make it move slowly You need to drag in the upper part of the timescale where the fig
72. n the favorites happens to be the wrong one Inserting a new city To insert a new city click the globe icon next to the latitude field in the data input panel This will open the atlas with the mid tab open favorites showing the cities you inserted yourself Assume that you found a city on Google Earth called Dirinon with latitude and longitude shown as 48 24 N and 4 16 W Now click the insert button at the bottom of the atlas window A dialog box comes up The city latitude and longitude shown are the same as those entered in the the data input panel If you did not already enter the latitude and longitude for Dirinon you can do it here By doing this you will see the city and zone fields temporarily disappear and an OK button shows up When done click this OK button Now you can insert the city name in this case Dirinon EE Insert City City Dirinon Latitude 4824N Longitude 416W Zone F25 France Daoulas 4 km v Cancel OK The zone field shows the city in the main atlas which is closest to the position entered together with its area code and how far away it is In most cases this will 71 be the zone you need especially when the distance as in this case is small just 4 km You may click the button in the right side of the zone field which will produce a list of other zones in the vicinity In this case the next close zone is represented by the city Douarnenez 34 km away where the area code is F24 inst
73. n to calculate radix then click the radix template icon Look up Jupiter in Scorpio in the list of chart factors and check that the phrase A strong and demanding teacher is shown under the headline You may edit the interpretation template adding and removing text from time to time as you get new ideas If you have a textbook you may copy the text into the 83 template You may use windows cut copy and paste keyboard shortcuts CTRL X CTRL C and CTRL V to move text from other files and programs into the text panel 84 PROGRAM PREFERENCES HOUSE SYSTEM House system Astrologers use different house systems even if noone yet has come to any conclusion which one is correct Placidus is by far the most used closely followed by Equal and Koch Most systems fail beyond the polar circles where only equal porphyry and Alcabitius are useable The program will warn you if you try using an invalid system beyond the polar circles and then switch to equal Placidus Koch Equal Regiomontanus Campanus Topocentric Natural degree Porphyry Alcabitius ASPECT TABLE STYLE Aspect table style Layout of aspects With orbs only With this option aspect printouts shows symbols for the aspecting planets and for the aspect Then it shows the actual orb in degrees and minutes and a or telling if the aspect is applying or separating With orbs and orbspeeds This option shows the same as the above but with additional orbspeed t
74. nd pane you can rearrange the command items placing them in logical groups and order You can click and drag items around and you will notice that they snap into place in an invisible grid keeping order and avoiding overlaps It is possible to add ccmmands to the list install commercial add ons for example interpretations create new commands yourself combining other commands or writing small pieces or user defined stuff You will find more details in the main manual Closing Argus To terminate the program do either of the following Press Q on the keyboard On the main menu click File gt Quit PCA Click the cross in the top right corner of the Argus window 31 PROGRAM DETAILS DATA ENTRY The birthdata is input into the fields of the data input pane upper left 4 iL Edgar Cayce 0 Name Edgar Cayce 1 Date Gi 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun 2 Time FC 115 03 00 3 Zone Q 5 49 Ww UKY1 LMT 4 City Latitude Q 36 51 N Hopkinsville 5 City Longitude 87 28 W B Sex DENE OLAS OLAS ELAK ELAK EL e n 8 HM n m NU Notes 0 OK Input panel When the program opens the data fields are initially filled in with the default data All fields except the name field must alway hold valid data they cannot be empty The default data is the data you will use the most Because the program always loads with your name in the name field you will probably like to fill in your own birthdata and save them as default To ma
75. ob Dylan Harmonic 1 0000 se F Sec Tra Ter Min SA X 9 20 4 1 14 2 22 33 Ss 7 06 Th 15 37 Y 14 31 I 2r 11 B 29 b1 5 25 45 Th 4 0a 4 32 Th 24 53 Th R 18 ja 1 F k q 10 33 5 MC 17 50 2 Ph B N SA MC 24 49 7 ASC 20 18 P B i X B ASC 18 39 x Aspects No aspects D X 3 Direct Converse Time adjustment Hours 0 00 Update Restore Latitude 46 47 N Longitude 92 07 W Q Find city Mark special birthtimes K ndig Bonatti 31 I 81 5 03 I 59 I 59 X 40 t 05 5 38 5 57 Th 22 amp Bde GCE FA HE NO DDHKEN EAM Forecast aspect types Vo export EXIT Forecast 20 45 21 00 21 15 21 30 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 nt Ane e A e A a E e e b t 9 24 May 1941 21 05 aj alal t 9 2150200074 al al To activate the live chart enter the birthdata of the person into the input data panel then click the LiveChart icon and the above window will open You will see the radix chart of the person inside the zodiac an outside you will see the fast moving secondary progressed planets green and the slow transits blue 27 Moving the chart Now try moving the forecast slider placed bottom right by clicking the knob with the left mouse button holding it down and dragging the knob right of left You will then see the progressions and transits move and form aspects on the fly Click the globe icon plac
76. ove your hand to the space bar If the year is between 1901 and 1999 you may omit the two first digits e g 18 4 55 will be translated to 18 apr 1955 LA 18 Apr 1955 AD Mon zn The AD abbreviation means Anno Domini i e after the birth of Christ Dates before Christ are labeled BC To enter data from the first century after Christ insert zeroes e g 3 11 0012 will be translated to 3 nov 0012 Dates are Gregorian calendar back until 15 oct 1582 Before this date Argus will interpret the input as Julian calendar If you have a date given in julian new style after 15 oct 1582 you may still enter it as given but then you should terminate the input with the letters JC This will make Argus translate the date into gregorian style e g 12 7 1722 JC will translate into 23 Jul 1722 35 To increment or decrement by one day without retyping click the small up or down arrow in the right side of the date field You can also increment month or year by clicking the arrow while holding down the SHIFT or the CTRL key on the keyboard When typing in dates you can replace either day month or year with a comma a or a Comma means unchanged means increment and means decrement Examples initial value 6 feb 1918 type in 1950 result 6 feb 1950 type in 20 2005 result 20 feb 2005 type in result 7 mar 1918 type in t result 6 mar 1917 f To the left of the date field you will find a small house icon Clicking this wil
77. piece of text in the open database window Place the cursor in the start of the database then enter the search text i the text entry field under the database window and click the SEARCH button To FIND NEXT you may either Click the Search button once more Press F3 on the keyboard Press the ENTER key on the keyboard if the search text field is still active The search will always be forward downwards not case sensitive and it will only search the name fields not birthdates notes etc SORT 52 This button opens a choice menu letting you sort by name age or birthday The sort applies only to the currently selected file tab The sort is non reversible you cannot revert to the unsorted order LIST The list button will show the contents of the selected database tab in the the output window From there you may edit and print it If you click the LIST button with the right mouse button the output will include notes if any 53 LIVE CHART Horoscope movie With this module you can see how radix progressions and transits develop over time The live chart runs in a separate window not in the usual Argus output window EE Chart Movie Radix Forecast factors Forecast o MCASC Intem House progression EL Secondary FN NN M Normal Naibod Date 24 May 1941 AD Transit E ry T YJ Converse 4 Tertiary J T T T Inter aspects ge Time 21 05 00 Minor r BE E years months days Zone B O0 W auto off Solar arc E a
78. placed but not your personal data unless you have a recent backup To make it easy to backup your birthdata collections and program settings there is a function in Argus to do this On the menu click FILE Click BACKUP Click SAVE DATA Tick the files you want to backup Click a target email file or floppy diskette Click OK Eg backup Blx backup data to v geo mygeo t t v pca cfg v pca ini v uninstall ini C file C floppy diskette 4 to email v famous nfi v kendte nfi v movielog nfi v pca nfi Select All Deselect all E Cancel OK There are four types of files you may wish to backup nfi files which hold birthdata collections pca cfg and ini files which hold your personal program settings pca ini which holds your command icons smygeo txt which holds your personal additions to the gazetteer If you save to a local file you will still have a problem if you harddisk cra shes If you have a network you may choose to save the file on a remote computer for greater safety Saving to floppydisk needs a floppy disk drive A and a formatted floppy disk If you have a CDROM recorder with direct acess you may save it to a CDR or CDRW Another interesting target is saving it to email which means that your email program will open a new mail with the files attached You can then send the files to someone who may keep the files for you or to another computer of yours which has email
79. program functions PROGRAM OUTPUT When anything is output such as a chartwheel a calculation or whatever the program window switches to output mode EE PCA Argus 4 20 20 132293 Licensed to Lucy in the sky T3 File Preferences Window Help Radix1 Edgar Cayce MC 14 295 Date 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun ASC 20 51 Time 15 03 00 Plac Zone 5 49 W UKY1 LMT 11 19 10 Latitude 3B 51 N 12 21 49 Longitude 67 29 W 2 13 56 City Hopkinsville 3 11 48 RES Macro idle E idle DSK J G GC SD EN 2 AA EH QO Jm gc c co A e Ip zh ro g 4 rm aon In this mode the panels are replaced by the output editor To switch between the two modes do one of following Press the SPACEBAR on the keyboard 12 Click the centre area of the status line In the output mode you can also press the ESC or the ENTER key to get the panels back Clear icon To clear the window click the sponge button to the left or type CTRL DELETE on the keyboard You can also delete part of the output by selecting it with the mouse and press the DELETE key on the keyboard If you click the X in the upper right corner you ll whipe the output window and at the same time switch to the control panel In this case make sure you click the LOWER X belonging to the output window the upper X will close the whole program The output window has a set of output relevant buttons on a panel on the left side to clear
80. pt language To create an XLI based command item you need an XLI script file Some script files are already present in your basic Argus installation Other scriptfiles may be purchased add ons or downloaded freebies DOS emulated XLI module is also an XLI script but Argus will do its best to interpret it the same way as the old DOS ancestor version of Argus did DOS programs use the OEM character set so Argus has a special font installed pca oem ttf which emulates the DOS character set Use this option only if you wish to run old DOS PCA modules or interpretations The shortcut field can be left blank or assigned a keyboard shortcut Argus has reserved a pool of two letter keyboard shortcuts for command items starting with Y or Z If you click the dropdown list arrow you will see which of these shortcuts are free for use Once assigned to an item that shortcut will be removed from the list A shortcut means that you can activate this command by typing the two letters or by inserting those two letters in a macro If the type of the command see above is macro shortcuts will let you embed macros in macros in macros Macro or Entry file The name of this field depends on your choice of type Macro or XLI Script Macros are entered as a line of characters See the section on macros Entry files Enter a filename or better click the file browser icon to the right of the entry field to browser for a script file There are three types o
81. re version i there is a demand Even if you do not use or believe in any of these methods the option will let you check if you rectify charts the traditional hard way whether your results seem to coincide with any of these points or not Live horary chart If you open the live chart after setting the input data to the date of today it will assume a horary is needed eAll forecast factors are unchecked eAll radix factors are checked eRadix aspects are set to orbset H Now you may change the radix navigator time and follow the chart movements Of course you are still free to change all checkboxes and other setting just the start condition is special When the live chart is started as horary in this way the settings are not memorized 65 ORB LIMIT SETTINGS Orb Limit Master orb DD MM Orbset Use with HBOFK COCCCCCCOCEe Configure RTPSHOCG None Disable all HELP Save X Cancel Orb limit setup 1 1 18 lt 1 lt 1 I XI AODRKbLOGSA i B E E B B M on o D o qoc y Gs 5 This is the orb limit setup box At the top you can set the master orb which is actually the same as you can set in the main panels To the right you can put checkmarks for those types of aspects you will need Whatever other rules may say no orb above the master orb and no unchecked aspect type will appear anywhere apart from the live chart which has its own aspect type selection To the right you may che
82. ron from the program output Please note that there is a limited time span 600 AD to 4000 AD Before that a close encounter with Saturn disturbed the orbit of Chiron so that calculation makes no sense Exclude Chiron Include Chiron MIDPOINT OPTIONS Midpoint sort The output of the midpoints in zodiacal order is only really zodiacal with the 360 degrees sort option The other options will reorder the midpoints into a 180 90 45 or 22 5 degree circle In the output however the positions shown are still the original ones only the order is changed Midpoint aspects Midpoint aspects also called midpoint trees can include just conjunctions oppositions i e that a planet is on the midpoint axis This is the 180 setting 90 will include also squares i e that a planet squares the midpoint axis 45 includes also semi and sesquisquares Obviously setting it to 45 will produce larger trees than 180 Midpoint aspects style The midpoint aspects midpoint trees can be output with or without aspect type and orb If you use 90 or 45 degrees you may need the information telling if the planet is on the midpoint axis or in square or 45 135 degrees You may also like to know how close the aspect is Short style 90 With aspect type and orb KUNDIG SECTIONS Kundig Sections Kundig sections can be supplied with Bonatti sections so that they are considered equal and mixed up in the ouput This applies both to the K ndig sect
83. rt this function will show additional information about the planetary positions Speed latitude right ascension declination and heliocentric positions Two blocks are written one for radix the other for any non radix chart you may have calculated after the radix If radix is the latest chart you have calculated the two blocks will be identical BIO 45 The biorythm module draws the three curves Physical red curve period 23 days psychological green curve 28 days and intellectual blue curve 33 days all starting simultaneously at birth and continue all life To see the curves for a certain month you must first have calculated the radix chart then you enter a date in the month you want finally clicking the BIO icon ELMS Triplicities and quadruplicities are calculated with this module from the latest chart calculated There is a separate calculation for signs and for houses For each element is shown a rating figure showing the strength of this element using a point system Sun Moon 3 points Mer Saturn 2 points Ura Pluto 1 point MC 2 points ASC 3 points MC and ASC of course gets no points in the house calculation EPHGEN This module prints a one month ephemeris for the 10 planets and the Moon s node The positions are calculated at noon in the local timezone that is the zone entered in the zone field in the data entry panel EPHGENX This module prints an ephemeris the same way as EPHGEN but for
84. rt for a whole paragraph but seven of these are also selectable for single words by inserting special characters in the text part namely the characters 184 191 If you see such characters in a module text they will look somewhat like 9 147274 You may also sometimes find one or more of the first lines in the text part which actually are stuff needed by the code part typically string definitions So you should be aware that such lines are code sensitive and should be left as they are If you see the codes CARY or STDEF in the code part these definitely expect some string definitions in the text part You may also sometimes find templates in the text which consist of one or more or Q signs These should also be kept as they are They are meant to be replaced by numbers or strings defined in the code part when the text is output Interpretation templates 80 Four templates are part of the Argus 4 2 installation With these the user can fill in his own text Radix Progressed Transit Synastry These four interpretations have an icon each on the command panel If you do not want to use them you can hide these icons by clicking the command panel with the right mouse button and in the resulting command manager you can uncheck them from the list If you click one of these icons you will get a printout with a long series of headlines according to the chart factors in the latest calculated chart which the interpretation c
85. s To create a new macro command you only need to open the command manager click the add new button and fill in the macro line to execute select an icon give it a name and then close To create a script from scratch will need an external text editor eg Windows notepad and knowledge about the Argus script language XLI Having the file ready it can then be included in the command selection much the same way as the macro Luckily you do not need to be a programmer or even care about macro writing to add more commands to Argus There is a growing number of installable modules available some are for free download others can be purchased EDIT OR CREATE COMMANDS To edit a command right click its item on the command pane to open the command item manager with that item selected then click the EDIT button EE Create or edit command item Name secondary type Macro v shortcut macro ico iss BS oem ico Bj testico xli areen ico Cancel OK amp More The name field lets you enter a unique name to identify the item This is also the name you will see below the icon on the command pane 43 The type field has a pulldown list to select between Macro XLI module interpretation DOS emulated XLI module Macro is a series of commands which can be held in one line For a list of macro commands see the appendix XLI module interpretation is an Argus script file Argus scripts use the XLI programming scri
86. s It is not recommended to write thousands of pages to the output window which could clutter up your system In case just press the ESC key to stop the process before it run out of hands Data entry It is possible to enter for example a date using a macro If you press the key 1 on the keyboard the focus will change to the date input waiting for you to enter a date If used in a macro the macro will expect data to follow terminated by a fullstop The fullstop the the macro equivalent of clicking the OK button Try entering this macro 1 12 5 1967 After execution you will see that the date in the date input will have changed to the 12 th of may 1967 It gets more interesting however if you take advantage of the fact that date input accepts or for no change increment or decrement Combining this with a repetition counter you could for example create a macro calculating 12 years of progression after each other Try this macro don t miss the fullstop at the end neither the one after the 1 PC12 You should get 12 sets of secondary progressed positions one for each year Taking this idea a bit further we could create a macro which for any radix chart will do a similar set of progressions but always start on the first of january and also expand it with drawing the chartwheel after the positions 111 PVC12 Function keys F1 F12 Even if it is handy to enter macros using the macro entry box you have no way of saving the
87. s of that file Sections Jupiter in Aries Jupiter in T aurus Jupiter in Gemini Jupiter in Cancer Jupiter in Leo Jupiter in Virgo Jupiter in Libra SOON ho D Jupiter in Saqittarius In TT8 TXT you will find Jupiter in signs and houses Click for example Jupiter in Scorpio Now the contents of this paragraph will be shown in the editing fields to the right 82 Code lines 6 PSI 8 Astro comments Jupiter in Scorpio E dit text Seve your changes EXT As you can se there are three editing panels The code panel Normallly you should leave this panel as it is It shows the XLI script codes which checks if Jupiter is in Scorpio 6 PSI planet in sign finds the sign of planet no 6 Jupiter and checks if this number is 8 Scorpio The Headline Astro comment panel This is the headline shown in the interpretation It should match and explan what is going on in the code part in a way which is easily understood by the reader You would normally not need to edit this field either The Edit Text panel This is the field where you enter your own interpretation Type for instance A strong and demanding teacher You may then click some of the other paragraphs and insert your interpretation proposals When your are done with this file TT8 TXT click the button SAVE CHANGES and close the module editor Now try inserting data for a chart having Jupiter in Scorpio click the Radix ico
88. t of the aspects you need You may tune the orb rules to your specific needs See Orb Limits Back to the command panel When you are done with the output or maybe sent it to the printer you will want the command panel back to do the next steps Just press the space bar on the keyboard or click the center part of the status panel at the bottom of the Argus window showing To command panel Double data A couple of calculations will need two sets of data for example transits progressions solar returns and synastry 1 Birth data 2 A start date event date or another persons birthdata Entry of a second set of data Method 1 As you can see Argus seem to have only one place to enter data which is used for both sets To enter the two sets of data needed Enter the birth data Run the radix chart by clicking the Radix icon or pressing R on the keyboard Argus will now remember this as radix Now enter the second date or a complete set of data as needed Run the non radix chart or calculation Entry of a second set of data Method 2 You may prefer to have both sets of data entered and ready before use and you may not need to have the radix chart output In that case you may prefer method 2 6b C Edaar Cayce Edgar Cayce zl 0 Name Edgar Cayce vir 21 Click the orange green double data icon at the top of the input pane This will produce two tabs above the data entry fields Click the left tab this is the radix dat
89. taken over from the main Argus program preference settings Progressed point In the progressed charts the part of fortune can be redefined to show age point instead either the Huber school age point or the Logarithmic age point according to A T Mann Aya Harmonic 0 00 1 0000 Harmonics or siderial positions These main Argus preferences are shown in the two display fields in the radix left panel Using harmonics you will be able to see septiles noviles or other even more special aspects Choosing siderial will not change which aspects appear when but it will happen in displaced signs and rulership will change 63 Time adjustment Hours 0 00 Update Restore Latitude 78345 Longitude 2533E Q Find city Adjusted time In the radix panel left you will find a display field showing how much the birth time has been changed using the slider control When the live chart window opens this value is zero When moving the radix slider you will see the change of birthtime measured in hours and minutes If you use the module for rectification and you think you have found a good fit this field will show how far you have moved from the original time Latitude and Longitude If you have opened the world map these two fields will show the latitude and longitude you have clicked Update button Update will export the new if changed birthtime back to the main Argus so that when you close the module you will see the changed data
90. techniques are integrated bookmarking all K ndig or Bonatti sections over a 24 hour period The globe icon will place a world map as background which can be zoomed and navigated you can click around and see how the chart will change with changed locations In the following the tem progression means both secondary tertiary and minor as well as solar arc THE LIVE CHARTWHEEL The live chartwheel shows the usual zodiac with radix planets and houses inside and all forecast factors outside As the chart moves the aspect lines will appear and disappear as the orb goes inside or outside one degree To get a smooth an clean movement you computer should preferrably work at 2 GHz or more When you resize the live chart window the chartwheel will also resize You get the best view if you can make it as large as possible within the screen size and resolution available Even if you can work with an old VGA 640 x 480 pixel screen the resulting chartwheel will be only half this size to allow for the controls and other display so you should have at least XGA 600x800 You may however click full screen the icon upper left leaving only the time navigator panels and giving more room the chartwheel The different types of progressions and transits have separate colors so that you can distinguish a mixed planet set LIVE CHART TIME NAVIGATOR 55 Birthtime and event time are contolled individually with two slider controls These can be
91. the macro will stop when it reaches a blank name or the end of file Cn Repeat macro n times n should be replaced by a number Please note the terminating fullstop For example RC8 will ouput 8 identical sets of radix positions 103 Not very interesting But try this one 1 Pc12 This will output 12 progressed charts with incrementing years You can have only one loop in the same macro Parenthesis will switch on and off output So for example the macro RV will calculate and output radix positions and draw a chartwheel while R V will calculate the radix positions without outputting them and then draw the chartwheel So the opening bracket means no output from now on and the closing bracket means back to normal ouput mode Mini script After the the remaining part of the macro string will be interpreted as an XLI script To accept a text part in the macro which is limited to a single line text lines should be bracketed Example 2 PHS NUMS MOON IS IN HOUSE Fullstop Clears the output window lt Select radixdata Next chart calculated will use the radix data left data input tab gt Select currentdata Next chart calculated will use the current data rightt data input tab Fetch next data in namefile Codes working differently in macros 6M Set the sex for the chosen input tab to male 6F Set the sex for the chosen input tab to male 6N Set the sex for the chosen input tab to male 6H Set the sex for t
92. the recently found dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt Eris Sedna Haumea Ixion MakeMake Orcus and Quaoar EPHGENY This module also prints an ephemeris but for the asteroids Ceres Pallas Juno Vesta and Pholus Further for the hypothetical planet Transpluto according to Landscheidt and two versions of the black Moon Lilith which in fact is th Moon s 46 apogee POLEPH This is a graphical ephemeris showing the planetary movements for one month as curved lines The curves are polar meaning that the time scale goes from the center and outwards while the zodiacal positions are shown in the circles around the centre Conjunctions therefore will be at the places where two curves cross Just enter a date in the month you need and click the Poleph icon STATMENU This statistical module will search the currently open database and find all persons having a given combination of e g planets in sign house or aspect You may enter two conditions and combine them to be either OR or both AND Click for instance Sun in Taurus AND Moon trine Saturn In the lower part of the dialog box you have options for having all the chartwheels shown or just names and data Another option is to have a file written STATS NFI which you then can open in Argus database This can be a simple method to quickly find the persons in the database having a certain combination but for more serious research you will soon need more complex lookup fac
93. ther programs also when Argus is not running you must install them using windows control panel The Argus font is placed in the Argus4 folder Actually there are two fonts PCA ANSI TTF with the symbols and PCA OEM TTF which is the DOS emulating font used to run old PCA scripts To install the Argus fonts n Windows click START Click SETTINGS Click CONTROL PANEL n the control panel click FONTS n the font window click FILE Click INSTALL NEW FONT n the file window locate and doubleclick the Argus4 folder C ARGUS4 n the list of fonts you will find the fonts PCA ANSI and PCA OEM Select PCA ANSI and PCA OEM if you so wish Click OK The fonts are now installed and can be used even when Argus is not running If you have Windows 7 installing the font is easier e n Argus click FILE e Click RUN XLI MODULE e In the file menus File type field select All e Click the file PCA ANSI TTF using the right mouse button e Choose INSTALL e Click OK e The symbol font is now permanently installed The contents of these fonts are listed in the appendix COLOR OPTIONS This option will open a colour table where you can choose individual colors for each symbol for chartwheel lines houses etc You can not choose color for text 99 background which will always be black on white but you can choose a color for the text At the top of the list you can choose the background color for the control panel
94. thod For secondary and tertiary progressions a selection of methods exist how to move the progressed houses In the live chart this applies only to the midheaven and ascendant because the other houses are not shown This will let you experiment to see which method works best As with the other options you can operate them while the chart is moving and see the immidiate effect of the different choices Progression method only affect sedondary tertiary and minor midheaven and ascendant Forecast aspect types lv g gw FE vor fi Fa lv oO Be be lv A EE EE M 62 Types of aspects There are 13 different aspect types you can switch on or off The first columnt is the traditional ones next column is the less used and the third column are the more exotic like decile tridecile and bi quintile Sec Tra Ter Min SA O 9 06 amp C 27 38 331 M 5 22 en c 21 31 5 M e 6 48 Tp 23 03 I M g 15 3 Y Po 1269 0 Iv 3 14 28 IT d 559 M 27 105 4 29 40 3 M Hi 29 51 n 20 0515 M Y 25 44 Ib Hi 26 38 5 M Y 404 amp v 24 57 M R M A 24 54 Th R e 2224 M 18154 NA 28 321p R M MC 23 32 Y o 25 Y n ASC 29 a4 Y MC 1139 e i adi id Direct Converse Planetary positions There are two panels showing the exact positions one for radix and one for the forecast factors The latter is tabbed so you can only see one set at at time Adopted options The options below cannot be set directly on the livechart pane but are
95. u In the pop up choose save as default Radix chart Now you are ready to output your birth chart Click the icon labeled Radix on the lower part of the command panel Now the panels are replaced by the output window The output shows a chartwheel a table with the planetary positions and another table listing the aspects EE PCA Argus 4 20 20 132293 Licensed to Lucy in the sky ES File Preferences Window Help DAA e el Radix1 Edgar Cayce 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun 15 03 00 Radix1 Edgar Cayce Date 18 Mar 1877 AD Sun Time 15 03 00 Zone 5 49 W UKY1 LMT Latitude 36 51 N Longitude 67 29 W City Hopkinsville ba OH e OK LUCR COR m wm o doo lo zh D TO a o q Aspects Radix1 Radix1 Edgar Cayce ony Ox Cx Ccxe CAJ Cx 5 vog Sx 39 Sx 28 eked 31 ees 30 exe 0 dx 5 36 GAY 1 cxn 29 7 go sen 2 55 30 FX MC 5 x MC 1 40 54 Q x MC Ho ASC 0 25 13 ka Y D ASC 2 5 36 d MC A x MC 4 35 34 JAY 19 HO 16 yog ORO u0onu D ND ON NN D BR _ Macroidle jQmmandF XLI idle radix The number shown after the planetary position is the house number which the planet occupies For example Mars in the seventh house will look like this 20 d 4 52 IR 7 In the aspect table the numbers after each aspect the actual orb degrees and minutes followed by a applying aspect or a separating aspect The orb limits are set high so you should see mos
96. ures are shown To stop the movement click on the timescale or the slider knob without dragging or by starting operating the slider knob manually It is possible to operate the zoom and page buttons even while the chart is moving automatically This also applies to the other option buttons and boxes aspects progression methods choice of planets etc 56 Bookmarks The arrow keys left of the date display are bookmark controls The meaning of these are left to right jump to previous bookmark remove bookmark s insert new bookmark jump to next bookmark The bookmarks are shown on the timeline as a tiny red dot When the slider points exactly on a bookmark the date display field will get a green background Some of the bookmark controls may be greyed disabled from logical reasons Next Previous is active only if there are any bookmarks to jump to and Remove bookmark is only active if there are any bookmarks to remove If you click Remove bookmark when the slider does not point to a specific one you are prompted asking if you want to remove all bookmarks Bookmarks are very useful in the radix navigator to mark possible birthtimes In the forecast navigator the bookmarks are useful for marking specific events Bookmark memory The live chart keeps a collection of birthdates time it has seen before together with bookmarks and planet selection If you open the livechart with a birthtime known to the live chart
97. ust give the file a name so that it can be saved to disk Create new set of birthdata Type in a name use letters numbers no spaces e e_ When you have typed in a name click OK A new tab will be created and the database window will be blank ready to receive data To open an existing database file click the OPEN button under the database and from the file window appearing pick the appropriate file 48 IMPORTING DATA You may import data from either Another version of Argus 3 or 4 placed on your computer or external drive or USB stick A DOS version of PCA An AAF file an open format used for astrological data exchange ARGUS 3 or 4 files Open You may just click the OPEN button and from the resulting filemenu navigate to the drive folder where the file is placed This method has two drawbacks 1 The basic default datafile is called PCA If opening a remote file you may get two PCA tabs 2 Having remote files open means that two Argus versions may share the file which may confuse you Remote files will not be backed up and if you reorganize the remote folder you may get a broken link 3 If the remote file is placed on a USB stick unplugging the stick will produce a broken link and the file will disappear from your database Restore using the backup facility eFrom the main menu click FILE eClick BACKUP eClick RESTORE DATA eFrom the file menu select drive and folder of the remote file eDouble cl

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