Because I've had several requests from astrologers, I looked into the issue of running
AstroDatabank on Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs. I found a couple of different solutions,
which you can read on my software weblog page: /softstar.htm
I tested one method on a PC running Windows 7 Professional. I installed the free XP Mode
(available from Microsoft), and then installed AstroDatabank within the XP Mode, and it worked
like a charm. This is the easiest method of getting AstroDatabank to work on a Windows 7 PC.
If you are planning to upgrade to Windows 7, and want to run AstroDatabank, be sure to get the
Professional or Ultimate edition, which are required in order to install XP Mode.
Kepler 7.0 with Windows Vista And Windows 7
I just discovered that for versions of Kepler 7.0 shipped before the release of Windows Vista, if
installed on PCs running Windows Vista or Windows 7, the Avalon School astrology lessons, the
Help System, and the AstroEncyclopedia do not work.
Fortunately, you can purchase an update CD from Cosmic Patterns for $26 (including U.S.
shipping) that fixes these issues and includes all of the updates to Kepler, too.
Planetary Aspects and Transits - A new astrology program
Planetary Aspects and Transits, aka PAT, is available from Hermetic Systems
http://www.planetary-aspects.com/pat/pat.htm for $29.45, and runs on Windows PCs. It was primarily
designed to help astrologers explore world transits, i.e. patterns between transiting planets. As
such, it doesn't employ an atlas or use location coordinates (except for time zones) and doesn't
calculate angles, houses, or Moon positions. It offers both Tropical and Sidereal Zodiacs, and the
ability to choose aspect orbs and to select the color of aspect lines.
PAT's author, Peter Meyer, created PAT to find and depict the patterns mentioned in Richard
Tarnas's landmark book "Cosmos and Psyche". Like Dr. Tarnas, PAT constructs charts using
conjunctions, oppositions, trines, squares, sextiles, semisextiles, and quincunxes.
You can enter the date and time (to the nearest half hour) for a transit chart, and optionally for
two natal charts. PAT can display a chart wheel, or an aspect grid (and list how many of each type
of aspects there are in the chart and any midpoints & aspect patterns that exist).
PAT can also display a text listing of the start and end dates of each
aspect (for transit and transit-to-natal charts), and a listing of the aspects by orb for natal charts.
While viewing a table of the transit-to-natal aspects, if you click on an aspect, PAT displays a
graph of the aspect's formation over time (both before and after the transit date).
For two charts (either transit-to-natal or the two natal charts), PAT depicts both sets of planets
within one circle, highlighting one of the sets of planets in inverse (white background), and
drawing aspect lines between the planets from each chart.
You can animate the transit chart, or transits around a natal chart, and watch the aspects form and
subside. More importantly, you can quickly search for when specific patterns will occur, including
grand trines, kites, mystical rectangles, T-squares, grand crosses, yods, yod kites, and trapezia.
Planetary Aspects and Transits is an inexpensive astrology program that is well designed for those
who want to explore what patterns between the planets will form over time.
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