solar maps

Esoteric Technologies' Solar Maps v. 3 for Microsoft Windows combines simple yet elegant programming with cutting edge astrological techniques . The result is the easiest and most useful astrological mapping program on the market. Find the best locales for work, love, or the perfect vacation and use the mundane features to know "where" significant events are likely to occur.

"Solar Maps is the best all-around mapping program I have used, especially for the beauty of the maps, the zoom features to create maps, the fact that you have included Nodes, asteroids,Chiron, and even geodetics!" -- Ariel Guttman, co-author with Jim Lewis of The Astro*Carto*Graphy Book of Maps

"Solar Maps is the finest program on the market for locational astrology. It allows the astrologer to use the best of the known techniques plus its features also offer the ability to access new and highly practical information." -- Steve Cozzi, author of Planets in Locality

What's New in Solar Maps Version 3?

New and improved maps. Zoom in to much greater precision of coastlines and lakes.

Embedded ACS Atlas offering latitudes, longitudes and time zone information for more than 250,000 places in the world.

Step any chart (natal, transits, progressed) through time while your astro-mapping lines are displayed on any map of the world.

Midpoint Astro-mapping Lines

Planet Aspects Astro-mapping Lines

Parans have been extended to allow paran lines for more than one planet

Solar Arc directions have been added to Subsidary charts

Sec.Progs + Transits now available on same chart display (as in cyclo*carto*graphy)

Hurricane and Earthquake Tracking with sample data included and ability to import more from the web.

Now you can retain the natal local space line directions when you relocate the chart

New copy options to save image as BMP/GIF to clipboard/file or email attachment

Solar Maps provides tools for astro-locality mapping, relocational astrology and local space astrology.
Everything is accessible through clear and simple Windows screens and menus.

Manual and Help
Illustrated, indexed and cross-referenced manual of more than 160 pages, including introduction to astro-mapping techniques.
Context sensitive on-line help contains entire manual text.
Help menu options to direct user to website and patch updates download page
Help menu items to register, obtain technical support, and submit suggestions by email

Zodiac Types
Celestial zodiac (for normal charts)
Geodetic zodiacs (for mundane charts) with user-definable starting longitude and direction

House Systems
Campanus, Koch, Meridian, Morinus, Placidus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Equal

Atlas
Contains the full ACS International and American atlas, with coordinates and timezones of over 250,000 places around the world.

Charts
Some sample charts of famous people are supplied
Existing charts may be imported from Solar Fire, Nova, Blue*Star, Kepler 2.7 or QuickCharts files
New charts may be cast for dates ranging from 5400BC to 5400D, and overlaid on maps
Charts may be progressed (by secondary or tertiary rates) or directed by Solar Arc, and overlaid on natal chart angles
Transiting Charts may be calculated and overlaid on natal chart angles
An AstroClock option allows the display of a chart which is automatically updated at regular intervals
Charts may be stepped or animated with user selectable time intervals (for both natal, transiting, progressed or directed charts).
Charts may be viewed as overlays on any map, in a normal chart wheel, or in a local horizon wheel.
Day/Night shading option allows you to see the Sun’s shadow across the earth, either for any natal chart, or moving in real time with the AstroClock.
Charts may be relocated by selecting a city from the database, or just by pointing and clicking on the map.
Planets or Midpoints on MC
Planets or Midpoints on IC
Planets or Midpoints rising or on Asc
Planets or Midpoints setting or on Dsc
Aspects to Planets on MC, IC, Asc, Dsc lines
Paran lines for any one planet in combination with all others or for all planet combinations at once.
Planet directions (either natal or relocated)
Local horizon
Local houses
Ecliptic
Zodiacal signs
Total solar eclipse line
Partial solar eclipse lines

Eclipses
You can select any solar eclipse (partial or total) from 1801AD to 2200AD, and display its path across the earth on any map.
Eclipse paths may be overlaid on top of astrolines for any chart.
Multiple eclipse paths may be plotted simultaneously.

Stars
You can select up to 36 stars to be displayed along with, or instead of, planets
A supplied fixed star editor allows you to enter data for any celestial objects of your choice

Maps
More than 100 pre-defined standard maps are supplied
You can create and save as many new maps as you wish for any region of the world.
Maps may be stored in a hierarchical list organized by region.
You can select and adjust the required map region by zooming and panning (limit of zooming in any map is down to a map width of about 12’ of longitude – typically 30kms)
Map land and sea colors are fully customisable
You can select and adjust which city and country names are plotted on maps
Click and point to measure distances or angles on any map
You can view the world map in rectangular or Mercator view, or as a sphere or spheroid.
Maps (and overlaid charts) may be printed on color or monochrome printers.
Maps (and overlaid charts) may be copied to the clipboard or saved as graphic files (BMP, GIF) or as an attachment to an email.

Reports
For any chart, the following data listings may be viewed:
Parans interspersed with city names for the current map region
Parans interspersed with city names near the latitude of the chart location
Cities conjunct or opposite planet lines for the current chart
Listing of planet azimuths and aspects of azimuth sorted by orb

A one to three page formatted printable report of interpretive text may also be generated for the relocation of any chart to any location on earth. This includes the following sections:

Interpretations
May be viewed by pointing to a symbol plotted over or around the map and double-clicking, or by double-clicking on a line of any data-listing report. The following categories of interpretation are included.

Tracking
Storm tracks, hurricane tracks, earthquakes and similar types of data may be plotted onto any of the maps. Pre-supplied data consists of
Selected major earthquakes – historical and contemporary
User may edit, add or import further such data directly from various websites, or create entirely new tracking datasets of their own. Multiple tracks or events may be plotted simultaneously.

Solar Maps may be called directly from a menu option within Solar Fire v5, in order to display a chart calculated in Solar Fire.
Solar Maps is compatible with Solar Fire chart files of any version.

Graham Dawson, holds a BSc in Physics and Meteorology and a PhD in Coastal Oceanography. He has been employed as a technical software consultant to companies in the UK and Australia. He has a strong interest in Ageless Wisdom teachings, including esoteric psychology and astrology. Graham is the designer and developer of Solar Fire and Solar Spark and co-author of JigSaw.

Stephanie Johnson holds a BA in Journalism and has been a freelance journalist reporting on women’s issues, the environment, politics and the arts, in Australia, USA and UK. She is also a consulting astrologer. Stephanie wrote the natal interpretations which are included in Solar Fire and Solar Maps.

System Requirements: A personal computer (PC) with a Pentium or higher processor with a minimum of 32MB of memory (RAM); A graphics adaptor and monitor supporting SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution modes, and displaying 256 or more colors. (Hi-Color recommended.); A hard disk drive with at least 70Mb of free disk space for a full installation.; Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP or higher. Windows must be installed and running on your computer prior to the installation of Solar Maps.