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Introduction to Timaeus 7
Timaeus is a system tray application that runs in the background and shows the passage of the planetary hours and the current rising sign as tray icons that change over time according to astrological conditions. It is like having an "astrological weather forecast" on a continual basis. Timaeus also alerts you with user defined sounds when the alerts you set are triggered. These alerts can be set for planetary positions at a given degree or for when a given planet crosses the horizon and meridian angles. Typically these are most useful in horary astrology (for the judging of questions). Timaeus is also capable of monitoring natal charts, finding transits and various types of progressions to natal positions and gives interpretations in what could be called an advanced daily horoscope. When you hover the mouse over the icons, a popup hint appears showing the current hour lord, time elapsed and time remaining in minutes, and the ascendant and midheaven degrees. Timaeus not only runs in the background, but you can bring it into the foreground by double clicking (or right clicking for a context menu) which will by default show the sky set for your current location on the Monitor tab. From there you can compare natal to transits, progressions, run the graphic ephemeris, rectify the chart, etc... all of the things that you would do in major astrological programs. More advanced professionals will find this program especially useful for horary and electional astrology. I have adapted the drawing routines from Delphic Oracle 5 to be used in Timaeus and these programs are beginning to merge, the difference being that while Delphic Oracle focuses more on the Hellenistic procedures, Timaeus uses techniques found commonly in medieval astrology.
What's New in this Version
The Modern Wheel Styles are fully customizable allowing you to show bounds, ticks, and even aspect and testimony lines according to the Antiochus Aspect Doctrine, platic aspect lines, etc.Colors can be chosen for any object displayed in the wheel and saved as a Color Theme. User defined glyphs allow you to switch to your favorite glyph for any given celestial object.
The Graphic Ephemeris has the capability to draw in time spans of as little as 1 month up to 10 years. What makes this graph special is that it shows the heliacal phenomena (both heliacal rising and setting and acronycal) as dots on the screen. These dots will show a hint with statistics when your mouse cursor is on top of it.The Graph is also clickable and will show the Autogenerated charts (transits, progressions, etc) you specify so that you can compare the charts for the time you clicked on to the natal in a flash! Once the chart(s) are showing, you can animate them backwards or forwards in time with either the rectification toolbar for single wheels or the transit toolbar for multiple wheels.
New data entry and chart database capabilities in version 5. You can create your own databases and group them together such as horary database with the name horary.zcf for all of your question charts, celebrities.zcf for famous people and so on. This is a good way to keep personal charts private.The chart database is searchable and you can do case sensitive searches or limit your searches to a given database or search all databases at once.
The new data entry window (not shown) allows you to enter notes about the chart, show accuracy of the birth information, etc.
The new autogenerated chart setup allows you to see transits and progressions on the fly with a single click! Simply indicate the order and number by drag and drop from the list of available charts and selected charts. The order in the list indicates the order of drawing (outerwheel to inner wheels). This saves a lot of time compared to other programs which make you set up transits and progressions manually. Simply click on one of the interactive windows such as the Graphic Ephemeris or Transits toolbar to get these positions for the dates that you are interested in!
The new Chart Designer is the most sophisticated in the world allowing you to control the visibility, colors, and dimensions of wheels and glyphs on your screen. Wheel dimensions, glyph colors, glyph characters and glyph visibility all have grouped settings known as Themes that allow you to bring back your themes with a single click!Wheel Categories allow you to quickly redesign your own wheel types and see the results immediately by redrawing the chart type you are working on.
Other Features
- A user defined asteroid database that is capable of calculating sorted asteroid data for all asteroids where Swiss Ephemeris files exist.
- Transit delineations based upon your birth chart with interpretations using both general signification and local determination with over 5,000 delineations of planets as lord of a given house.
- Planetary hour and rising sign glyphs that shows the current hour and rising sign in the system tray. When you hover your mouse over the glyph, the time elapsed, time remaining (in minutes), ascendant and midheaven degrees show in a popup hint. Double clicking on the glyph can be set to show a chart of the current sky positions, celestial statistics, or a schedule of planetary hours.
- Customizable alerts that play a *.wav file you specify to alert you when a planet or degree crosses one of the 4 angles in real time.
- Swiss Ephemeris level accuracy. Timaeus uses the Swiss Ephemeris which is one of the most accurate planetary calculation engines in existence and has a range of 10,110 years (can calculate birth charts between Jan 1, 4713 BCE - Dec 31, 5,399 CE).
- Works with the ACS Atlas plugin with over 260,000 locations & time zones. Users of Timaeus can get a substantial discount on the ACS Atlas.
- Print the planetary hours for the day, if you will be away from your PC.
- Online help files. Timaeus comes with help files for practically every situation you will find yourself in while using it. Just press the <F1> key.
