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- SPECIFICATIONS FOR HORARY.EXE (SPECS.DOC)
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- CHARTWHEEL SCREEN
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- 1. Display modes supported
- a. Hercules or compatible
- b. CGA
- c. EGA
- d. VGA
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- 2. Features
- a. Planets, both Moon's Nodes, Part of Fortune
- NOTE: if there are more than 5 (4 in CGA) planets or points
- in a house, then the display will not show Uranus,
- Neptune, Pluto or the Nodes in that house.
- b. House cusps (degree and minute symbols used for 6th and 12th
- houses - all other houses are easily read regarding degrees
- and minutes (left to right and/or top to bottom)
- c. Question (up to 12 letters)
- d. Data - Day, month, year, time, time zone, longitude, and
- latitude of birth
- e. Sideral time of question
- f. House system used in calculation ('Pl' for Placidus or 'Re'
- for Regiomontanus or 'Ko' for Koch)
- g. Major planetary aspects (aspects not listed in CGA graphics
- mode include Nodal aspects and Midheaven aspects)
- h. Glyphs used for all planets, signs, aspects and
- retrogradation
- i. Multi-colored display in EGA or VGA modes
- j. Ability to print display screen to printer
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- PROGRAM SPECIFICATIONS AND FEATURES
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- 1. Automatic detection of graphics mode
- 2. Helpful hints for entering your question or event data
- 3. Choice of house system to use in calculations, Placidus or
- Regiomontanus or Koch
- 4. Ability to print text data to screen, printer or disk file
- A. Heading
- a. Question or event
- b. Date and time of question or event
- c. Longitude and latitude used for question or event
- d. G.M.T. of question or event
- e. Local Mean Time of question or event
- f. Sunrise and sunset times
- g. Planetary day ruler and planetary hour ruler
- B. Strictures and/or warnings regarding chart
- a. Ascendant is early or late (0, 1, 2, 27, 28 or 29 degrees
- rising)
- b. Saturn in the 1st house
- c. Saturn in the 7th house
- d. Saturn is ruler of the 7th house
- e. Moon in later degree (27, 28 or 29 degrees of its sign)
- f. Moon in the Via Combusta (15 Libra 00 - 14 Scorpio 59)
- g. Ascendant in the Via Combusta
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- C. Planets' essential dignities (essential dignities
- highlighted in color or marked with an '*'
- a. Sign (includes Part of Fortune)
- b. Exaltation (includes Part of Fortune)
- c. Triplicity (includes Part of Fortune)
- d. Term (includes Part of Fortune)
- e. Face (includes Part of Fortune)
- f. Speed of daily motion (station, fast, average, slow or
- retrograde)
- g. Amount of daily motion (not shown on display to screen)
- h. Oriental or occidental
- D. Calculates strength of Part of Fortune based on Lilly's
- table (shown in column under "Pos to Sun")
- E. Planets that are peregrine
- F. Planets in their detriment
- G. Planets in their fall
- H. List planets in the Via Combusta
- I. List planets that are cazimi (within 17 minutes of the Sun)
- J. List planets that are combust (within 8.5 degrees of the
- Sun, in the same sign - see OPTIONS.DOC and OPTIONS.FIL)
- K. List planets that are under the Sun's beams (more than 8.5
- degrees from the Sun, but less than or equal to 17 degrees
- or within 8.5 degrees of the Sun, but in a different sign)
- L. List planets that are in the same degree as the Nodes,
- listed under "Fateful Degree" (Mean Nodal Position is used
- rather than True Nodal Position - see OPTIONS.DOC)
- M. List planets which are located in their house of joy
- N. List planets which are besieged between Mars and Saturn
- (Mars and Saturn have to be in the same sign)
- O. List planets which are in mutual reception by sign
- P. List planets which are in mutual reception by exaltation
- Q. List the planets, Part of Fortune and Ascendant that are
- conjunct fixed stars (1 degree orb except where noted)
- 1. Algol (5 degree orb - see OPTIONS.DOC)
- 2. Alcyone
- 3. Aldebaran
- 4. Regulus
- 5. Spica
- 6. Unuk
- 7. Antares
- 8. Fomalhaut
- 9. Markab
- 10. Scheat
- R. Display house system used, longitudes of all house cusps
- and all planets (including North Nodes), and the house each
- planet is in (except Nodes).
- S. Display locations for the Parts of Fortune, Illness, Death,
- Marriage, Fatality, Part of Fortune by night and the Point
- of Death.
- T. List the Moon's aspects
- 1. Planets she has already separated from in its own sign
- 2. Planets she is applying to in its own sign
- a. Show VOID-OF-COURSE, if applicable (If the only aspect
- the Moon applies to is with the Part of Fortune, then
- VOID-OF-COURSE will not be displayed
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- U. List all planets' major aspects including the Nodes, the
- Part of Fortune, and the Ascendant as well as if the aspect
- is applying, separating or partile and if the aspect is
- sinister or dexter. List the degrees from partile the aspect
- is:
- 1. Sun - 17 degree orb (moiety = half the orb)
- 2. Mercury - 7 degree orb
- 3. Venus - 8 degree orb
- 4. Mars - 7.5 degree orb
- 5. Jupiter - 12 degree orb
- 6. Saturn - 10 degree orb
- 7. Uranus - Pluto - 6 degree orb
- 8. Moon - 12.5 degree orb
- V. List the planets' strengths based on Lilly's tables
- W. Display a listing by degrees of the locations of each
- planet, the North Node, the Part of Fortune and the
- Ascendant (not shown if listing is sent to screen). This
- method of display was devised by Derek Appleby.
- X. List planets in critical degrees (0.5 degree moiety) (not
- shown in listing to printer - see OPTIONS.DOC)
- Y. List the positions of all the planets, the North Node, the
- Part of Fortune, the Ascendant and the Midheaven and list
- their antiscions and contrantiscions, followed by the
- conjunctions to those antiscions and contrantiscions (1
- degree orb allowed) (not shown in listing to printer - see
- OPTIONS.DOC)
- Z. List all the combinations of midpoints, followed by the
- conjunctions and oppositions to those midpoints (1 degree
- orb allowed) (not shown in listing to printer - see
- OPTIONS.DOC)
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- This program does not calculate or figure collection of light,
- translation of light, refranation, frustration, abscission, etc.
- You will have to do that on your own. Since I've saved you a lot
- of dog-work, you should have plenty of energy to look for those
- things yourself.
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