Introducing Rumen Kolev's Placidus, Porphyrius Magus and Babylonia
Comparative Primary Directions
Drawing on Dr. Kolev's extensive scholarship, Placidus calculates virtually all types of primaries so you can see which systems yield the most accurate event timing. It produces lifetime lists of primaries including one that gives side-by-side comparison of the hit dates produced by 8 different keys (time-arc conversions), including Ptolemy, Cardan, Naibod, Placidus, Kepler, Kuendig, Van Dam, Sun's travel on birthdate, and user-defined. Direction types include Placidean, Regiomontanian and Topocentric, done both zodiacally and in mundo, direct and converse. You can see contacts to angles and cusps, planet-to-planet, and planet-to-itself, by conjunction or aspect, or by in mundo or rapt parallel. Promissors and significators include 170 fixed stars. So that you can integrate them with primaries, there are also the usual natal charts, transits, secondaries, solar arcs, and symbolic directions as well as solar and lunar returns, which you can display in 1- to 4- ringed static or animated wheels.
Additional goodies include speculums--Placidus (classic or under the pole), Regio, Campanus and Topocentric, plus one for Alcabitius house cusps--and a 360-division Gauquelin Chart (a.k.a. Placidus mundoscope) that makes it easy to see in mundo aspects and parans.
Plus, there's an impressive celestial sphere that shows in mundo relationships in the chart and how they change when points are directed. Selecting from its more than 100 menu choices you can also use it to explore fixed stars, great circles, coordinate systems and houses. Windows 98 through 7.
Placidus 6 (Primary Directions), $320
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Comparative Hellenistic, Arabic and Medieval Techniques
Porphyrius Magus uses special symbols and color-coding to show the traditional cosmic state of each point in a natal or animated chart wheel. Menus let you choose points, calculation methods and many other informative windows. These include an All Almutens Wizard that lets you experiment with different ways of calculating the almuten, and a Porphyry Almuten Wizard that lets you determine how a Porphyry almuten is calculated. There’s also a table showing the results of calculating the hyleg, alcocoden and almuten according to 10 different sources, and a Heliacal Phase window that graphs the phases of all the visible planets with regard to the Sun as of the chart date. Windows 98 through 7.
Porphyrius Magus 1 (Hellenistic, Arabic & Medieval), $160
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Seeing the Heavens as the Babylonians Did
Babylonia enables you get into the mindset of a Babylonian astrologer by tracking the diurnal and heliacal cycles of the planets in any epoch. It includes a static or animated “3D” view of planets and stars as seen from any specified location, rise/set tables and bar graphs showing the daily cycles of the visible planets, and tables and circular diagrams showing the stages in each planet’s heliacal cycle. Dates of heliacal risings are computed accurately using the body’s declination and the observer’s latitude. Babylonia also converts dates to and from the Babylonian (and Jewish) calendar, and it includes data for all 32 extant Babylonian horoscopes collected by Francesca Rochberg. As a bonus, it offers special fast primary directions that Rumen Kolev has used with slower directions to pinpoint events exactly. Windows 98 to XP and 32-bit Vista, Babylonia does not work with 64-Bit Vista or Windows 7.
Babylonia 1.5 (Babylonian Astrology), $120
Please note... you will install Placidus from the CD that we ship you. Once installed, your computer will generate a serial number.
For a password to unlock the program, you will contact the author, Rumen Kolev, at rumen_k_kolev@yahoo.com.
For more info or to order by phone, call:
1-800-THE-NOVA (1-800-843-6682)
