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SOLAR FIRE
Solar Fire is an exciting culmination of years of hard work and creativity. This
astrology program for Windows was first produced in 1992 and has been
expanding ever since to become a world leader. Earlier versions brought an
unprecedented level of ease to casting and working with astrological charts.
The current version adds many more calculations, extra convenience
features, more interpretive text, and exciting new kinds of graphic displays.

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THE WORLD LEADING ASTROLOGY

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SOFTWARE PROGRAM FOR PC (WINDOWS)!

INTRODUCTION
SOLAR FIRE contains
something for everyone. For
advanced astrologers and
professionals, it has a great
variety of high-precision
astrological calculations, and
an exceptional degree of user-
customisation. For novices,
its innovative point-and-click
chart interpretations provide
an enjoyable way to learn,
while its many easy to
explore options are an
invitation to experiment with
new techniques.

Why the loyal following?

It all begins with the main screen of Solar Fire. Immediately you feel a certain
calm and order, a restful respite from information overload. And yet,
somehow, it’s all there.

You can immediately see the current state of the program, what charts and
options are currently selected and every one of the huge array of program
functions is accessible from this deceptively simple main screen’s menu bar.
How did such awesome power get packed into so simple and easy an
interface? The secret is consistency, and thoughtful, careful planning.

The data files that Solar Fire uses are simple, straightforward and, most
important, similar to each other. This means that once you learn how to
select an aspect set, for example, selecting any of the myriad of other options
is easy.

Entering the place, zone, latitude and longitude also couldn’t be simpler,
because Solar Fire comes with the built-in ACS International Atlas. Just type
in the data and place and the latitude, longitude and time zone are
automatically looked up for you.

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HOW DID SUCH AWESOME POWER GET

PACKED INTO SO SIMPLE AND EASY AN
INTERFACE? THE SECRET IS
CONSISTENCY, AND THOUGHTFUL,
CAREFUL PLANNING.

FEATURES
Explore the main features of the Solar Fire software by navigating the various
sections below. For a shortcut to a particular feature, please use the buttons
at the top of the page.

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BASIC
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Solar Fire’s capabilities include natal, progression, directed, any planet or

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asteroid return, pre-natal, rising/setting, lunar phase, locality, heliocentric,

composite, harmonic and harmonic arc transform charts and more…

CHART DATA FILES

Once saved, a chart is simple to find
because of a number of thoughtful touches.
You can group charts into any number of
files – files for you, your family, your first-
time clients, your ongoing clients, your
research projects or books. In addition to
the file name, you can write an 80-character
description of what’s in the file; this appears
on the screen to jog your memory each time the file is selected.

Even though a file can contain more than a thousand charts, you can locate a
chart quickly by typing the first few letters of the name, or re-sorting the file
into various alphabetical orders, by date of birth, or by when the chart was
added to the file. And if you don’t remember which file a chart is in, no
problem – Solar Fire will look for the chart in all your files at once. Files are
easily reorganized by moving, copying, deleting and editing charts. Plus, for
every chart you store, you can keep unlimited comments that you can read
and edit whenever the chart is selected.

WHEELS – PLAIN AND FANCY

Solar Fire lets you change the appearance of the charts. You can assign any
colour that your computer screen offers to each individual planet, sign and
aspect type. You can pick unusual fonts for the birth data and ‘Compliments
of’ text, as well as from an exciting new array of wheels, from maximally
readable to maximally colourful and exotic.

In case none of these wheels suit you, Solar Fire has a unique, innovative
Wheel Designer that lets you easily design your own. Let’s face it: most of us
don’t need 200 wheels, we just need a few that we like. Using the Wheel
Designer, you can have the fun of changing the size and number of circles
and charts on each wheel, the line style, cusp style, placement size and type
style and dozens of other attributes. The neatest thing about it is that you can
see the changes take place as you make them. No waiting and no
unpleasant surprises!

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designs available to suit your needs or

design your own page complete with unique wheels, reports and even your
own logo. You can find a page to suit your needs whether you are a horary,
medieval, psychological or esoteric astrologer! Astrological publishing has
never been this easy. Also note our lovely CHART ART displays (include
images)

CHART ART GALORE

Our team of Solar Fire designers and artists has added a range of 110+
Chart Art to create beautiful backdrops for your chart work. See our beautiful
array of designs by Celine Lawrence (designer), Kay Steventon (artist), Hank
Friedman (artist) and Eila Laurikainen (designer) and then choose your
favourites. Since first releasing our Solar Fire Gold we have added new Chart
Art with themes – Love Art for Relationship Astrology Work and Child Art for
children’s charts.

50 Standard Points are available throughout the program. These include

Sun through Pluto, North and South Lunar Nodes (mean or true), Part of
Fortune (fixed or different day/night), Asc, MC, Vertex, and Equatorial Asc
(“East Point”); Earth, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hygeia and Astraea;
8 Uranian planets, Transpluto, Vulcan (D. Baker or L.H. Weston version), and
the Black Moon Lilith (mean position). Also included are points such as Eris,
Sedna, Selena (White Moon), Polar Ascendant and much more.

You can include any or all of these points in the main ring of wheels and in
virtually all other options of Solar Fire, including the astro-location maps and
planetarium view. You can create and save different point sets for different
uses, and in Solar Fire’s lists and tables you can have the points arranged in
the order that you prefer.

30 House Systems include Placidus, Koch, Campanus, Meridian, Morinus,

Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Whole Signs, Alcabitius and Hindu
Bhava. There are also equal houses from the Ascendant; equal with the
Ascendant in the center of the 1st; equal with any planet, the lunar north
Node, the Part of Fortune, the Equatorial Ascendant, 0° Aries or 0° of the Sun
sign on the 1st; and equal with the MC on the 10th or the Vertex on the 7th.
Houses can be calculated for geographic or geocentric latitude. In addition,
Gauquelin sector positions are available in tables and in the chart and
electional searches. Solar Fire v9 sees the addition of Part of Fortune Whole
Sign System.

ASPECT SUPPORT
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26 predefined aspects for the first 12 harmonics (conjunctions through

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semisextiles, plus septiles, noviles, undeciles and their multiples), and also
parallels and contraparallels are included in Solar Fire. Each predefined
aspect has its own glyph, and can have its own color and line style. You can
also define additional aspects with their own arc widths, orbs, colours, line
styles and alphabetical symbols.

You can set different orbs for natal, transiting and progressed use, and
different orbs for the luminaries vs. other points. You can also create different
orbs for each individual pair of points by choosing Solar Fire’s “planet ratio”
orbs. Other available ways of doing aspects include moieties, unidirectional,
sign-to-sign, and “3-D” (off-the-ecliptic) aspects. You can create and store an
unlimited number of different aspect sets for different purposes.

ENCYCLOPEDIA
We have taken the best of Devores’
Encyclopedia and added our own new
definitions to make up the Solar
Encyclopedia .

Students of astronomical cycles will like the

ingress, lunar-phase, rise/set, and return
charts. Returns can be for any planet or
asteroid, or to any specified point in the zodiac, and you can do a whole
string of returns automatically from one input. You can also find ingresses
and eclipses in the dynamic search option, and can create custom ephemeris
pages for any period in history.

BIRTHDAY POP UP REMINDERS

Every day that you open your Solar Fire your selected reminders will pop-up
so you may never again forget the birthdays of clients, family and friends.

CHART DATA 3000+ Rodden-rated charts in new chart categories including

Adventure, Art & Design, Business, Crime & Infamy, Esoteric, Fashion &
Society, Horse Racing, Literature, Media, Military, Music & Dance, Politics,
Religion, Royalty, Science, Screen & Stage, Sports. PLUS the Australia Data
collection.

ASTRODYNES (also known as Cosmodynes) Many of you have requested

this technique and our team has responded. Astrodynes can be viewed and
printed in the new Report View tabulation list and have also been added as 8
different page objects. These can be added to a page using the Page
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INTERPRETATIONS
You can get pop-up interpretations of individual aspects and other factors by
clicking on planets and other items in the chart wheel or hitlist. You can also
view, edit and print complete multi-page reports through your favourite word
processor. If you wish, you can put your own stamp on the interpretations by
rewriting and adding to the text database itself.

INCLUDED INTERPRETATIONS IN SOLAR FIRE:

Natal (with Vertex), Synastry, Transiting, Progressed, Firdaria, Midpoint,
Sabian Oracle and Sabian Natal.

All written by world-renowned astrologers and experts in their fields such as

Stephanie Johnson, Alice Portman, Julian Venables and Lynda Hill.

The Solar Fire interpretations text is continually updated and improved for
your enjoyment. These reports can be sold or given to your friends, family
and clients however we recommend you edit them first as they have been
written for astrological edification. For fully comprehensive reports for more
general use please see our Solar Writer range which can be used seamlessly
with Solar Fire or on their own.

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DYNAMIC
PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGERS can make sense of mountains of timed hits,
thanks to Solar Fire’s Time Map graphs, graphic ephemeris and its great
sorting capabilities. Besides sorting timed hits in the usual chronological
order, you can sort with the slowest-moving transits first, group natal points to
see how each is affected by transits during the period, or put exact and
leaving hits upfront with the entering hit to see the whole course of each
transit as it starts. You can also sort transits, progressions, directions,
ingresses, stations and eclipses into separate sections. Dynamic lists have
the same advanced options (tertiaries, minors, quotidians, Bija correction,
etc.) as individual charts, and there is a full selection of return charts,
including precession-corrected and converse.

Also note our new calendar complete with short text. (image of Gold
Calendar)
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You can search through your chart files one at a time to discover charts with

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similar features. You can look for planets in the same signs, house, aspects
and/or position. The powerful time search capability enables you to use a
wide range of astrological criteria and chart data criteria. Solar Fire makes it
all so easy and the results are fascinating.

You can search for Chart Shapes, Unaspected planets, Day of Week and
even Midpoints! Some chart shapes also allow selection of which planet is
key (eg. Lead planet in a Locomotive, Handle planet in a Sling or Bucket).
And if that is not enough Solar Fire now allows for full Boolean logic support!

DYNAMIC REPORTS
A welcome addition to Solar Fire is the ability to define your own dynamic
report columns and include AGE! You can now see aspects already in Orb at
the start of each report allowing long term transit hits to be always visible,
even if no E/X/L event occurs during report period. Our Dynamic events have
the highest accuracy possible, including for large time steps. Auto DST
adjustments are now applied to report events and a timezone column added
to show which timezone applies to each event.

CALENDAR
See your personal and/or daily transits and interpretations in our elegantly
designed calendar. You can easily and quickly display any dynamic report in
calendar format, for a day, week or month at a time. You can print your Solar
Calendar or email it to your family, friends or clients. Your interpretations can
be shown as popup hint bubbles, or as a separate report. The Calendar can
also be produced as a PDF file and then easily exported as calendar events
into other calendar programs such as MS Outlook, or any other calendar
applications that are compatible with the iCalendar or vCalendar formats.

FORECASTING
Solar Fire lets you cast all types and variations of forecasting charts and save
them for future use. You can choose from:

l Transiting Charts: Direct or converse, tropical, sidereal or precession-

corrected.
l Progressed Charts: By secondary, tertiary (mean or true), minor or user
rate. MC progressed by solar or Naibod arc in either longitude or right
ascension, or by Q2 (“daily houses”) rate. Progressed day type may be
standard or Bija. Can also be direct or converse, tropical, sidereal or
precession-corrected.
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arcs.
l Return Charts include returns of the Sun, Moon or any planet or
standard asteroid to its natal or any other specified position. Returns can
be tropical, sidereal or precession-corrected; direct or converse; full,
demi, quarti, or any other harmonic; and you can do a whole string of
returns from any starting date. Other types of return include progressed
solar returns and Wynn Key Cycles.
l Lunar-Phase Charts include progressed and transiting lunar phases,
eclipses, phase returns, and Pessin lunar phase families.
l Age-Harmonic Charts create a harmonic chart for a given moment in
someone’s life from the person’s exact age at the time. You can do these
for the person’s age, or age plus one year.

You can view any forecasting chart either by itself or in a multi-ringed wheel
along with the natal and other charts. You can also cast forecasting charts
with extra points and view them using Solar Fire’s extra-points wheel rings
and tables.

l Animated Charts let you put natal and forecasting charts on the same
multi-wheel, and then click forward or back in time to watch the changes
in the transiting, progressed and/or directed (and even profected) planets
and aspects. Solar Fire’s aspect highlighting feature makes the changes
even more dramatic, thickening an aspect line as the aspect builds in
intensity, and then changing it to a broken line as soon as the aspect
separates. Not only can you animate chart wheels, you can also animate
aspectarians and even whole pages in order to watch their tables of
dignities, arabic parts, rays and a lot more change through time. You can
also animate dials, get point-and-click interpretations, and print out any
chart that you see on the screen. This simple and direct way of looking at
charts could well become your favourite way to forecast!
l A Real-Time Chart shows you a wheel or page with constantly updating
current planetary positions. To get it, you simply put the animated chart
on automatic update. (This is in addition to the constantly updating
planet, MC and Asc positions that you can have always visible on Solar
Fire’s Main Screen.)

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progressed positions), arc directions (solar, Ascendent, Vertex or user-

defined whole, double, half or reverse arcs), sign and house ingresses,
stations and eclipses. You can also include parallels of declination or latitude,
primary directions (Van Dam Primary Mundane / Primary Zodiacal options,
Placidus or Regiomontanus methods for computing directions, New rate
keys, Classical or Modern definitions of Converse), annual profections, and
void-of-course Moon times. You can do any individually, mix them in one
timed list, or merge hit lists to gain even further flexibility.

As points, you can include both moving and natal asteroids, hypothetical
planets, midpoints, and even the moving Asc, MC, Vertex and Equatorial
Ascendant. Plus, as natal points you can include intermediate house cusps,
Arabic parts, and any fixed points that you specify. You can use different
point sets for transits, progressions/directions, and the natal chart, and can
use different aspects and orbs for transits vs. progressions/directions.

Other choices include natal or relocated; geo or helio; tropical, sidereal or

precession-corrected; regular or converse; and timing to either the day or the
minute. Once you set up all your selections for a given purpose, you can
name and save them for future use.

Once a hit list is calculated, Solar Fire’s sorting capabilities help you to make
sense of it. For more information about a hit, you can click on it to see other
instances of the transit, a paragraph of interpretation, or a full chart wheel for
the moment.

DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION REPORTS

In addition, for the entire period covered by the hit list, you can view and print
a multi-page transiting and/or progressed interpretation report. You can also
copy just the hits themselves to a word processor or spreadsheet, where you
can edit them, manipulate them in tables, etc.

These reports aren’t intended for batch processing and commercial

applications, but they’re great for getting your interpretive juices flowing,
promoting your services, and giving to a client as an extra along with your
consultation. And for beginners, they’re an easy and pleasant way to learn
astrology.

“Time Maps” show the whole hitlist in graphic form. Using a horizontal bar to
indicate the duration of each event, these graphs make it easy to visualize
how the transits, progressions, directions, and other events overlap in time.

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they vividly depict planetary stations and complexes or “knots” of aspects.

You can do graphic ephemerides with or without a natal chart, and you can
view them not only in longitude (in 360-, 30-, 45-degree or any other
modulus) but also in latitude and declination.

In Solar Fire you can move the cursor to see the exact date and zodiacal
degree of any point on the graph. Even better, you are free to scroll these
graphs forward and back in time as much as you wish without needing to
return to the selection screen.

Custom Ephemeris Tables use state-of-the-art accuracy and go way

beyond what you can get in books! Over any timespan and in whatever time
zone and time intervals you choose, you can generate your choice of
longitude, latitude, right ascension, declination, and daily motion not only for
planets, but also for the MC, Asc, Part of Fortune, midpoints, regular and
extra asteroids, stars and hypothetical points. You can do these in geo or
helio coordinates; in the tropical, draconic or any sidereal zodiac. Your
printouts can also include the sidereal time and day of the week, and they
can be precise to either minutes or seconds of arc. You can also generate
ephemerides in decimal-degree format for export to spreadsheets and other
applications.

Life-Event lists attached to the natal chart make it easy to store and organize
a person’s whole life history and add to it whenever you wish. Just click on
the main screen’s Chart Preview window to enter the dates and times of
these events. From then on, they stand ready for instant recall as transiting,
progressed or directed charts. Life-event lists also enable you to jump to the
time of these events instantly in the animated chart view.

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RELATIONSHIP
Solar Fire contains all of the features that
you would like for your relationship
astrology work – Synastry Grids and
Interpretations, Composite Charts, and
more.

RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLORS will be

fascinated by what the multi-person
composite charts (of up to 15 people) and
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Synastry interpretations report.

ASHTKOOT COMPATIBILITY SYSTEM

The Ashtkoot Compatibility System is a system that has its roots in India and
is primarily used in Vedic astrology. “Ashtkoot” simply means “8 factor”. The
scoring within this system is based on the position of the sidereal Moon
(Lahiri) of the two people and the 8 factors are scored on the integration of
these two Moon positions.

The implementation of this system in Solar Fire allows a user to select two
charts from either the chart files or ones that have been entered and if a
zodiac used in those charts is one other than the Lahiri zodiac then Solar Fire
automatically converts the Moon position to the Lahiri (sidereal) position
internally to calculate the score.

Using colours of a traffic light as indicators, you can easily evaluate the
results, with red serving as a warning for the long term viability of the
relationship, orange signifying the need to further analysis of the two
individual charts while the green light indicates a high degree of compatibility
for the relationship.

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MEDIEVAL OR TRADITIONAL
Traditional astrologers will enjoy the growing body of features included to
enable you to explore the ancient world of astrology.

Solar Fire traditionalists have a choice between a round chart wheel or a

traditional square one. A round wheel can display the Decans while
Traditional Square Charts are included in a dozen pages designed
specifically for Classical Astrology.

Traditional House Systems include Whole Signs, Alcabitius, Regiomontanus

and other appropriate houses.

Traditional Aspect Types include moieties and sign-to-sign aspects. In Solar

Fire you can choose to use a Traditional Square Chart with Traditional
Planets only and Sign-to-Sign Ptolemaic Aspects.

Traditional Tables include complete Essential Dignity scores; the almuten

(Ibn Ezra) and Essential Dignity (Ptolemy and Dorothean/Egyptian) total for
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planetary sect; tables of aspects to the Moon, fixed stars or Arabic parts;
horary considerations; the chart’s planetary hour, day, and year; planetary
hours for the entire day; and nearest lunar phases or eclipses. In addition,
flexible lists of planets, stars and Arabic parts can include your choice of
columns for house rulership, dispositor, dispositor’s house, antiscion, contra-
antiscion, tropical and sidereal Arabic Lunar Mansion, Planetary Sect and
other relevant information.

The unique Dignities Editor enables you to explore the world of Classical
Astrology with pre-designed almutens and dignities or by designing your own.
You can produce your own set of ancient calculations from a simple Essential
Dignities score to a more complicated Chart Almuten.

Traditional Planet Sets and Rulerships are available, plus unlimited user-
definable Arabic parts (which include the traditional Part of Fortune and other
Parts that differ for day and night births). With the Arabic Parts Editor you to
modify more than 100 pre-defined parts and also create new ones, each with
its own name and abbreviation. The factors in the A+B-C formulas can be
planets, house cusps, rulers, dispositors, other Parts, the prenatal lunation or
any specified degree in the zodiac — and the formulas can differ for day and
night births. You can create and store different sets of Arabic parts for
different uses.

The Rulership Editor enables you to modify the included Modern, Traditional,
Esoteric and Hierarchical rulership schemes or create new ones.

There are also Fixed Stars, including a set of the 31 stars described by
Ptolemy. Likewise, the Fixed Star Editor lets you add traditional star
meanings to those already in the program. A horary page with full Lilly-style
dignities, almutens of houses, planetary hours, and the day or night Part of
Fortune is also available.

Traditional Predictive Techniques include Firdaria (Schoener and nodal

variation types), annual profections, Directions by Egyptian or Ptolemaic
terms, and Primary Directions (Ptolemy degree-for-a-year, Naibod, and natal
solar rates as well as modern Van Dam primaries). You will also find Firdaria
interpretations. These can be produced for current period, the current,
previous and last or for a lifetime.

Chart and Electional Searches will find charts and time periods that have any
of 7 horary considerations — Sun above the horizon, Asc near a sign
boundary, and Moon void (by standard or Lilly method), waxing, fast or in the
Via Combusta. These search features can also find charts where a given
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finding charts where a planet, point or cusp (or its ruler, almuten, etc.) is a
given planet, or is in a given sign or house, or is in a given aspect to any
other point or specified degree.

Solar Fire also contains a Temperament tabulation. This Temperament

tabulation can be done for any chart and contains the four temperaments
weighted according to Lilly – Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic.

Solar Fire contains Traditional Wheel Designs. Now you can view Face
rulers, Terms rulers, Egyptian rulers and Nakshatras on your Solar Fire Chart
wheel! To display the decanate ruler wheel, on the “View Chart” screen you
can simply select the DecRuler.wh1 wheel style from the “Wheel Style”
button. Now you can choose either of the following:

l Face rulers
l Ptolemy Term rulers
l Egyptian rulers
l Nakshatras

Those who love Hellenistic Astrology will be delighted with the ability to
calculate Zodiacal Releasing, an ancient timing technique that is derived from
the work of the 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens. Thanks to Astrologer
Chris Brennan Solar Fire now calculates this important Time Lord system.

Primary Directions

l Primary Mundane / Primary Zodiacal options

l Placidus or Regiomontanus methods for computing directions
l New rate keys
l Classical or Modern definitions of Converse

Expert astrologers can now enjoy our revised and expanded range of Primary
Directions reports available through the Dynamic Reports feature.

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ESOTERIC
ESOTERIC ASTROLOGERS can work with esoteric and hierarchical ruler-
ships, ray interpretations, and the esoterically important hypothetical planet
Vulcan. Solar Fire includes both the Douglas Baker and LH Weston
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on geocentric charts. You can also explore other esoterically important

planetary bodies including Sigma, Morya, Pan, Isis, Hermes, Osiris, Midas
and Lion.

You can display graphs of ray distributions of the planetary placements by

sign using either weighted or unweighted planets. You can also display
planet and sign colors based on the esoteric ray through the signs and
planets.

Solar Fire enables you to select esoteric aspects such as the Quintile,
Septile, Novile and more.

You can calculate 18 kinds of prenatal charts, including E H Bailey and

Charles Jayne-type charts for conception and quickening.

You may also enjoy displaying your birth charts using the beautiful designs of
Esoteric Astrologer the late Eila Laurikainen and other artists.

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COSMOBIOLOGY
COSMOBIOLOGISTS AND URANIANS will love the Cosmobiology Dials in
Solar Fire complete with pointers and the ability to do transits to midpoints
and watch the mid-points transiting.

Midpoints: There are midpoint trees and lists of midpoint axis structures;
midpoint lists sorted by planet, modulus or mode; and Munkasey Midpoint
Weighting Analysis tables that show which midpoints are the most active.
You can also include selected midpoints in the extra-points ring of wheels
and dials. You can also find Midpoint Interpretations written by UK Astrologer
Julian Venables.

For forecasting with midpoints, Solar Fire’s dynamic hitlists, time map graphs
and Ebertin-style graphic ephemerides can include not only natal but also
transiting, progressed and directed midpoints. In addition, you can generate
table-style ephemerides that show the positions of transiting midpoints at
regular intervals.

Arc Directions: In directed charts, hitlists, time maps and graphic

ephemerides, you can do solar arc and other directions by forward or reverse
whole, half or double arcs. In addition, you can use solar-arc-directed graphic
ephemerides to create Cosmobiology “life diagrams.”
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create sort strips in any modulus (for example 360-, 30-, 45- 72- and 90-
degree) and arrange strips for different moduli on the same page.

Planetary Pictures: Solar Fire’s Arabic Parts Editor enables you to create
unlimited Uranian A+B-C combinations to appear as sensitive points in
wheels and tables.

Sorted Difference Listings of all pairs of points in a chart are a simple and
elegant way to see both midpoint axes and planetary pictures. They sort the
near and far arcs between every planetary pair in order of arc size. Pairs with
nearly the same arc are on the same midpoint axis — which means that they
form a planetary picture.

OTHER COSMO FEATURES INCLUDE:

l Antiscia and Contra-antiscia charts and tables
l 8 Uranian Planets plus the Aries Point.
l Ebertin-Style Medical Degree Meanings available by clicking on any
degree in the chart wheel or by selecting Degrees in the natal
interpretation report.

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FIXED STARS
Watch the celestial sphere appear before your very eyes. Solar Fire’s
Planetarium is a unique method to rediscover the ancient realm of the Fixed
Stars.

290 Major Stars are included, with coordinates, magnitude, spectral class,
and in many cases keywords and interpretations. The Fixed Stars Editor
enables you to enter data for additional stars or deep-space objects, sort
them in various ways, print out star tables, find their positions in eras remote
from our own, and create special sets of stars for different uses. You could
even use the Fixed Stars Editor to enter the day-by-day positions of a comet
(which you could then display in the Planetarium View, with or without the
planets of a natal chart).

The Planetarium View enables you to view the starry sphere either by itself or
with a chart’s planets overlaid. This shows the true spatial relation of stars to
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class, and in many cases, its meaning. Also shown are the star’s
rise/set/culminate/anticulminate times for the date and place of the birth
chart. These can provide a clue as to whether the star is making parans with
other bodies in the chart.

Star Aspect and Paran Lists are available in the main body of the program.
These show either aspects or parans between stars and the other points in a
chart.

Star Interpretations are available for 50 of the most prominent stars, you can
point and click in the planetarium to see a carefully thought-out modern
interpretation by star expert Bernadette Brady. Brief traditional designations
are also given for the set of 31 stars mentioned by Ptolemy.

Stars in Chart Wheels and Pages: Special extra-points rings enable you to
embellish chart wheels with whatever stars you wish, and next to the chart
wheels you can place flexible extra-points lists that give a key to the stars’
abbreviations and show their coordinates and other data that you think is
relevant.

Ephemeris Tables of Stars. You can use Solar Fire’s Ephemeris Generator to
list the changing longitudes, latitudes, right ascensions and declinations of
stars over long periods of time. (You can also adjust star positions for
precession and proper motion by entering a new date in the Fixed Stars
Editor.)

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ASTEROIDS
Solar Fire now has 92 minor planet glyphs for display on your Chart.

There are glyphs for the asteroids:- Abundantia, Aditi, Adonis, Adorea,
America, Amor, Amphitrite, Amun, Anubis, Apollo, Arachne, Asbolus, Aten,
Atlantis, Atropos, Bacchus, Circe, Cupido, Damocles, Demeter, Diana, Eros,
Europa, Fama, Flora, Fortuna, Frigga, Gaea, Ganesa, Ganymede,
Gilgamesh, Gratia, Harmonia, Hathor, Hebe, Hekate, Hephaistos, Heracles,
Herculina, Hidalgo, Hopi , Horus, Icarus, Imhotep, Iris, Isis, Jubilatrix,
Kassandra, Kleopatra, Klotho, Lachesis, Lilith, Medea, Midas, Moira, Neith,
Nemesis, Nephthys, Orpheus, Osiris, Panacea, Pandora, Parvati,
Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Psyche, Ptah, Pythia, Sappho, Sekhmet,
Seraphina, Siva, Toro, Tyche, Urania; glyphs for the Centaurs – Chariklo,
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and Varuna.

Over the years, many of you have asked if you could add asteroids, fixed
stars, Arabic parts, midpoints and various other points onto the main wheel of
Solar Fire, instead of using the Extra Ring. In response to these requests, a
new feature allows for up to 50 user-defined points to appear on the main
wheel along with Sun, Moon, Mercury, and so on.

Oh, and in addition to the Asteroid Glyphs, there is now a glyph for the
Galactic Center and the Super Galactic Center!

Solar Fire traditionally includes Ceres, Pallas, Juno Vesta, Hygeia, Astraea
and Chiron (for those who call Chiron an Asteroid, although it is officially
defined as a Centaur) in the standard point set. Positions, from the Swiss
Ephemeris, extend from 5401 BC to 5399 AD and have a likely accuracy to a
few arc minutes in 3000 BC. These bodies have their own glyphs, and you
can include them in virtually every part of the program, including the regular
wheel rings and tables, dynamic hitlists, astro-mapping and planetarium
views, and the new chart and electional searches.

Asteroid interpretations include both natal and transiting sign and house
interps for all 7 bodies, plus natal, transiting and synastry aspect interps for
Chiron.

1,081 Extra Asteroids and minor planets are also supplied with Solar Fire.
Besides bodies in the asteroid belt, these include the Centaurs and newly
discovered transneptunian objects like Quaoar and Sedna. Positions are from
the Swiss Ephemeris and extend from 1500 to 2100 AD. You can add
ephemerides for more centuries and more asteroids from any source that is
in Swiss Ephemeris or pre-2003 Pottenger format.

Anyone who owns Solar Fire Gold Version and loves asteroids will enjoy our
Asteroid Add-on. It features 10,000+ Asteroid Ephemerides plus 29 pre-
selected Asteroid Topic Groups all for use in Solar Fire Gold. For further
information click here.

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RELOCATION
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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. View
the interpretations on the screen or print out a relocation report. This software
is ideal for your own personal use, for mundane work and for enhancing your
client work.

Creative programming gives Solar Maps ultra-clear graphic displays and

easy Windows operation putting the fun and ease back into following yourself
around the world.

OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE:

ASTRO-LINES: You can select any combination of the following lines to be
displayed on any map: planet on MC; planet on IC; planet rising or on Asc;
planet setting or on Dsc; paran lines for any one planet in combination with all
others; planet directions; local horizon; local houses; ecliptic; zodiacal signs;
total solar eclipse line; partial solar eclipse lines. As well as aspect lines or
midpoint lines. All planet line types may also be used for any selected fixed
stars.

INTERPRETATIONS: These easy-to-read interpretations may be viewed as

a report by clicking on a location! You click on the interpretations mouse
mode button and then point to a symbol plotted over or around the map and
click. Voila! An interpretations report appears.

This includes interpretations for planet on MC/IC/Asc/Dsc; planets in paran

and planet direction lines. You can read individual interpretations by double
clicking on a line of any data-listing report. All of the supplied text is editable
with an included utility program.

MAPS: A selection of pre-defined standard maps is supplied. You can create

and save as many new maps as you wish for any region of the world. You
can select and adjust the required map region by zooming and panning, as
well as marking city and country names. Map land and sea colors are fully
customizable. 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.

TRACKING: This new feature allows you to study geographical hot spots.

YOU NOW HAVE THE ABILITY TO:

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hurricane tracking web site)

l Import a collection of earthquakes into a collection file (from the NEIC
web site)
l Manually enter new hurricane tracks or earthquake events
l Manually enter tracks other than for hurricanes (eg. balloon trip, ship’s
course, bird migration path, etc.)
l Manually enter events other than earthquakes (eg. volcanic eruptions,
natural disasters, accidents, political summits, etc.)

The program comes with a database installed of Atlantic hurricanes from

1851 to 2002.

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 astro-lines for any chart.

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.

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. 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:
planets which are near angles; conjunction with planet direction lines; paran
lines around the latitude of relocation.

ZODIAC TYPES: Celestial zodiac (for normal charts); geodetic zodiac (for
mundane charts) with user-definable starting longitude.

HOUSE SYSTEMS: Campanus, Koch, Meridian, Morinus, Placidus,

Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric.

CHART POINTS: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Moon’s Nodes (mean or true), Chiron, Vesta, Pallas,
Juno, Ceres, Hygeia, Astraea, Vulcan, Transpluto, Transneptunians, Black
Moon Lilith (mean position).

Charts may be calculated for any date from 5401 BCE to 5399 CE. All
planetary positions are calculated using the Swiss Ephemeris, which is at
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above points for display on maps or in chartwheels. You may customize the
colors used for each chart point.

GEODETIC (MUNDANE) CHARTS: Several mundane astrologers of note,

such as Sepharial and Johndro, have developed a different astro-locality
mapping technique, which uses a symbolic projection of the zodiacal signs
onto bands of longitude around the Earth. Typically the 0† Aries point is
projected onto the Greenwich meridian (0° of longitude), and the sign
divisions fall every 30† around the equator. This projection method is often
used in the astrology of national and international politics and events, using
charts of nations and cities and is available in Solar Maps.

TRANSITS, PROGRESSIONS & SOLAR ARC DIRECTIONS: In addition to

viewing the planetary lines of a natal chart over a map, you can view the
planetary lines of progressions or transits or solar arc directions to that natal
chart. As these charts vary with time (ie. they are dynamic), it is possible to
use this technique as a predictive tool, by looking at how planetary lines
change over a period of time. This fascinating technique is a feature of Solar
Maps.

LOCAL SPACE ASTROLOGY: Local Space Astrology uses a measurement

system based on the local horizon and meridian, and was pioneered by
Michael Erlewine. Whilst the positions of the planets, as measured in right
ascension and declination, or celestial latitude and longitude, remain almost
constant regardless of the observerís location, measurements of the planetsí
azimuth and altitude changes dramatically according to where on Earth they
are observed from. The azimuths of the planets can be plotted, viewed and
printed as a local horizon chart in Solar Maps. The same technique can also
be used on maps of large areas.

ANIMATION: You can step or run a chart through time while your astro-
mapping lines are displayed on any map of the world. You can animate any
type of chart, either natal or subsidiary (transits to natal, secondary
progressed, tertiary progressed and solar arc directed).

YOU CAN ALSO USE THIS ANIMATION FEATURE TO:

l View the general movement of transiting planets and astro-lines through
time to familiarise yourself with the typical speeds and patterns of
movement of the planets and astro-lines.
l View the movement of transiting planets and astro-lines through a
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l View the movement of a person’s subsidiary chart planets and astro-

lines through a particular period of time to determine when certain
astrological events occur in relation to the natal chart.
l View the movement of the day/night boundary during the course of the
day to determine the times of sunrise and sunset at various locations.
l Make adjustments to (ie. rectify) a natal chart, by stepping the chart
through times close to the probable birth time, and noting when various
astro-line contacts occur on the map.

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VEDIC
VEDIC ASTROLOGERS can enjoy the North Indian and South Indian square
charts, dasas, bhuktis, Whole Sign and Hindu Bhava Houses (Sri Pati),
Lahiri, Krishnamurti and other ayanamsas. It is also possible to cast various
Vedic divisional charts and to view the Nakshatras (Vedic lunar divisions) in
the Solar Fire tabulations which shows the Nakshatras for the current chart
according to the default sidereal zodiac. The names and types of the
mansions are given, as well as a few keywords describing the attributes of
each mansion.

DASAS FOR NATAL CHARTS

Solar Fire can now be displayed showing the Dasas for a natal chart. A major
dasa cycle runs for 120 years and it is further sub-divided into sub-dasas also
known as bhuktis. If you open a natal chart and use a Vedic zodiac, like
Lahiri, you can now display the dasa periods for that natal chart.

ASHTKOOT COMPATIBILITY SYSTEM

With the Ashtkoot Compatibility System you can compare two people’s charts
and determine their compatibility levels.

WHEELS
Included is Vedic Wheel styles including Nakshatra Simple and Nakshatra
With Signs.

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FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY
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Astrology has been used for many purposes over the centuries, but it is not
commonly known to assist with financial forecasts and decisions. The
astrological tools employed are taken from the same common toolset used
with natal and electional astrology, but the interpretation of the astrological
data is applied to financial realities and concerns.

Based on empirical evidence gathered over a long period of time, financial

astrology has been used, amongst other things, to predict major events in
financial markets, to choose stocks, to time trades in financial instruments,
and to analyse industry performance and movements in a stock market.

The Company (Incorporation) chart is the fundamental indicator of the

business – it’s overall characteristics, it’s strengths and weaknesses, it’s
interests and its type of modus operandi. The First Trade chart may have
varying significance, but it will certainly reflect how the company’s stock
traded on that day, and to some extent may portray the stock’s trading nature
and characteristics from that point onwards.

Esoteric Technologies in no way advocates that Solar Fire takes the place of
financial advisors however if you are a trained ASIC trader or a student you
may like to explore the tools within our software.

Solar Fire’s Calendar can be useful for following planetary daily aspects and
exact times of culmination (Intraday Traders). The Real Time Clock can be
used to watch planets rise, culminate and set as you trade (Intraday Traders).
While you may choose to use the Moon and Lunar Phases which many
consider important in financial astrology. Overall, studies and statistics show
that the waxing phase of the cycle is more bullish compared to the bearish
waning phase – however each stock has an inherent natal lunar cycle.

In the Lunar Phases page you can view similar lunar phase data on a chart
Report Tabulation. Additionally you can cast all kinds of lunar phase and
return charts for a company.

WD Gann was a finance trader who developed the technical financial

analysis tools known as Gann angles, Square of 9, Hexagon, Circle of 360.
One of his techniques utilized Planetary Returns which you can easily cast in
our software.

It may be useful to keep an eye on the declinations of the transiting planets.

You can view a Declination Strip object and Tabulations on a Reports page,
or use the Graphic Ephemeris with Declination as the coordinate you are
interested in using on the graph.
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Solar Fire also provides the ability to change from Geocentric to Heliocentric
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charts and graphs. You can do this by a simple toggle change on the toolbar.
You can also generate your own geocentric or heliocentric Ephemeris, then
export the ephemeris as an Excel file.

You can view Eclipses and the various Saros cycles and can switch on
eclipses for any Dynamic Report, include eclipse points in an Extra Ring
Points file for use around a Natal or Event Chart, or in a User Defined Points
file for use alongside the normal Displayed Points in a chart. You can also
view eclipse data in a chart’s Report Tabulations in the “Phases/Eclipses”
tabulation.

Financial astrologers now have the ability to import .csv financial data into
Solar Fire and display this on the Graphic Ephemeris. Once you have
purchased Solar Fire you will find more detailed help available from within
Solar Fire. Note: this can be used for a range of numerical analysis not just
financial data (some users have mapped their weight over time, or their
children’s height).

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INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
l Solar Fire v9 will run on all current Microsoft-supported versions of
Windows including Windows 8, 10 and 11 (except as noted below).
Older versions of Windows are NOT recommended.
l Windows 8 RT and Windows 10S do NOT run Solar Fire V9. (see
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… But other Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows 8 versions work
perfectly well!

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and not third party applications like Solar Fire . Most computers are
equipped with Windows 10 Home or Pro version so this shouldn’t be an
issue for most people. On the off chance that your computer uses
Windows 10S, you will need to upgrade to Windows 10 Home or Pro
versions (around $50) in order to run Solar Fire.
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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
l PC computer with Pentium processor (or better)
l About 70MB of free disk space
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DEMONSTRATION
The Solar Fire Gold demonstration program is a downloadable file of about
91MB.

MAIN DEMO VERSION LIMITATIONS

l Casting new charts is limited to dates in year range 1930 to 1939 only
l New charts cannot be saved for future re-use
l Ephemeris range is limited to 1800CE to 2400CE (full version has range
5400BCE to 5400CE)
l Clifford chart database is omitted (full version has 500+ celebrity charts)
l Includes only a small subset of asteroids (full version has more than
1000 asteroids)
l The “Solar Live” feature is unavailable (full version has live feed of useful
web links)
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USER GUIDE
View the User Guide for Solar Fire 9 as a PDF document, and download a
copy so that you can get all the help you need even when offline. The
document is searchable and will easily provide the information you require to
get the most out of Solar Fire 9.

Solar Fire PDF User Guide

Please see also our comprehensive Solar Fire Online User Guide and
Solar Maps Help!

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BACKUP UTILITY
Download our backup utility to get the most out of Solar Fire.

AstroBackup3

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FAQS
To view our frequently asked questions for Solar Fire, and also for our other
products, please see our dedicated FAQ page located within our support
documentation. This content can be accessed by using the button below, or
using the menu at the very top of the page.

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and the MS Windows operating system and are not directly compatible with
the Mac operating system.

We do not officially support Solar Fire on Mac. However, Apple Mac

Computers can run Windows programs if you have:

l The Windows operating system (OS) – where you own the license
(product) key.
l A dual boot system or emulation (virtualisation) software installed.

The main software packages of this type for the Mac are:

l Boot Camp (a dual boot system)

l Parallels Desktop for the Mac (virtualisation software)
l Virtual Box (virtualisation software)

These software packages are first installed on a Mac where they enable the
isolation of the Windows environment from the Mac OS X environment. This
allows both Operating Systems to run on the computer without interfering
with each other. It also means viruses can’t jump from one OS environment
to the other OS environment.

All of these options also require that you have Windows installation
media and a license (product) key that you are not currently using
somewhere else. As Solar Fire will work on any Windows version from
Windows 7 onwards you can use an old version of Windows to install on a
Mac e.g. a Windows disk that went with an old unused computer will probably
work.

BOOT CAMP
Boot Camp was first included with the Mac OS in August 2006. Our USA
agent Astrolabe Inc. have been successful using Solar Fire running on
Windows on a MacBook notebook by using Boot Camp. Usually Windows
runs fast on a Mac this way.

BOOT CAMP REQUIREMENTS

OS version 10.5 and 10.6

Apple lists the following requirements for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow
Leopard (Please check with Apple for Boot Camp Requirements if you have a
later version of macOS)
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l A Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation disc or
Mac OS X Disc 1 included with Macs that have Leopard or Snow
Leopard preinstalled; this disc is needed for installation of Windows
drivers for Mac hardware
l 10 GB free hard disk space (16 GB is recommended for Windows 7)
l A full version of one of the following OSs:
l Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate (32-
bit and 64-bit editions)
l Windows 8 or 8.1
l Windows 10
l Windows 11

OS version 10.7 and 10.8

Apple lists the following requirements for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

l An optical drive
l Blank CD/USB media for installation of Windows drivers for Mac
hardware
l 16 GB free hard disk space for 32-bit versions of Windows, 20 GB for 64-
bit versions of Windows

There are instructions for using the Boot Camp Assistant in the Macintosh
help;

l Search for “Boot Camp” in the Help, or …

l Look here.

OVERVIEW
Using the Boot Camp Assistant application is generally a straightforward
process. The Boot Camp Assistant guides you through the process of
creating a new partition on a hard disk in your Mac. A partition is simply an
area of the hard disk that is separated off from the rest of the disk. A hard
disk can be divided up like this into many partitions, and each partition acts
like it is a separate disk in its own right (even though they all are on the one
physical disk).
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program takes over, formatting the new partition you have made and
installing the Windows OS.

Finally you need to install the necessary Windows device drivers from the
Mac OS disc. Depending on your the version of OS X Windows drivers
should be able to be found in a folder called “Boot Camp”, and under that a
folder called “Drivers”. Additionally when Windows is running you can go into
the Device Manager and check which drivers are needed – devices they are
needed for will be shown as not working properly.

After you have installed Windows you have two operating systems installed
and able to function on your Mac – the original Mac OS X that came with your
computer, and MS Windows which you have just installed. You choose which
you are going to use when you start the computer – by continuously holding
down the “Option” key on the keyboard (or the “Alt” key on a non-Mac
keyboard) when the computer is starting up. This brings up the boot manager
(a small menu) where you can choose which OS you want to be used for that
session.

So, once the new partition is made, and Windows and the necessary
Windows device drivers are installed on it, and you are familiar with how to
start your Mac with the Mac OS X running, or start it with Windows running,
then you can install Windows programs on your Mac, e.g. Solar Fire.

And if you later change your mind about having Windows on your Mac it
doesn’t take long to take it off again.

BOOT CAMP ISSUES

1. With Boot Camp, you need a full version of Windows XP, Vista or
Windows 7. If you have an upgrade version you can’t eject the CD while
Windows is installing to insert the older Windows CD (that is being upgraded)
when it asks you to. However, if you have an external CD drive you can insert
both CD’s at the same time and it will work. Put the older Windows disk in the
external CD drive and just press the ENTER key when the Windows install
asks you to insert the old CD.

2. Boot Camp will make a Windows partition and format it for you, but the
Windows installation program will want to format it again. You need to let it do
this or it won’t install properly.

3. If you don’t plan to use Windows on your Mac much (i.e. infrequently in
small sessions) then when Windows formats the partition let Windows make
it the default – a small sized FAT32 format partition – this can be handy as
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But if you plan to use Windows a lot it probably makes more sense to instruct
the Windows installation program to make it bigger than the default size and
to format it as a NTFS partition.

4. You will probably want a mouse with two buttons on it.

The current Mac mouse allows you to effectively “right-click” by first holding
down the “Ctrl” key on the Mac keyboard, then clicking the mouse button.
Here is a link to information about the “right-click” feature:
https://www.macinstruct.com/node/66. This works unless you need to
control-click and drag all at the same time. In those situations you can plug in
a PC USB mouse (and often these also have a mouse wheel which is very
handy).

On the Windows keyboard there is a “Delete” key and a “Backspace” key.

The Windows “Delete” key deletes the character to the immediate right of the
cursor, but the “Delete” key on the Mac keyboard deletes the character to the
left of the cursor (acting like the Windows “Backspace” key).

One option is to get a keyboard hot key program and reprogram the right
hand “Command” key to be a Windows “Delete” key. Here’s free software
called Keytweak that can be used for that:
https://www.brothersoft.com/keytweak-70740.html. If you use this
program then click on button #62 and change it to ‘Del’. A final note:
the “Command” key acts the same as the “Windows” key does in Windows.

VIRTUALISATION PACKAGES
Both Parallels and Virtual Box are virtualisation software packages that let
you run MS Windows inside of a window on the Mac desktop. And generally
MS Windows runs reasonably close to normal speed using this method.

A way of describing how this works is, in simple terms, that when either
package is installed it allows you to set up a “PC Virtual Machine” on the
Mac – which means it tricks the Mac computer into acting like a PC; you
could say that you are virtually creating a PC computer – i.e. using software
to simulate an actual hardware PC, hence it’s called a “virtual machine”.

This method is different to Boot Camp. Boot Camp uses a portion of the hard
disk and formats it physically so that you can natively install Windows onto
the disk; it’s like dividing the computer in half -, one half to run the Mac OS
and the other half to run the Windows OS. Whereas (again in simplistic
terms) Parallels and Virtual Box basically just create a super large file on the
Mac (formatted) disk and then put Windows in that file. When the file is
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(Please check the Virtual Box site if you have a later version of Windows than
7 to make sure it will work on your system).

INSTALLING SOLAR FIRE ON A VIRTUAL

MACHINE
Once you have installed either Parallels or Virtual Box, then start it up from
it’s program icon, and then get Windows running (use it’s help system to
learn how to do that if it isn’t obvious to you). Once Windows is running you
can then install Solar Fire on your Mac.

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