Timaeus 8 Pro Astrology Software
Version:
8.2.1.9
Last Updated:
Mar 6, 2013
File Size:
22 MB
Requirements:
Mac OSX 10.6+ (VMware), Win 8, 7, Vista, Xp (64 bit or 32 bit), 1 GB RAM, 100 MB HD
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Introduction to Timaeus 8 Pro
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 or a planetary hour changes. 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 transiting chart for the moment set for your current location on the Monitor tab. From there you can compare natal to transits, various progression types, run the graphic ephemeris, rectify the chart, animate transits and progressions, print chart wheels and generate Acrobat reports for various chart analyses, etc...
What's New in Timaeus 8 Pro
Includes the new Terran Atlas database with 13 million records of places, latitude, longitude and time zone lookup based upon the Olson time zone database standard for 250 countries. It also comes with about 700 location type definitions similar to Google Maps to differentiate between different location types (such as post offices, hotels, restaurants, parks, mountains, lakes, streams, etc...) There are 3 search modes (Filter, Locate and Browse) to cover different search scenarios.
Includes a new medieval module with various calculations important during the middle ages such as primary directions with options for latitude, zodiacal and mundane directions both direct and converse. Also added tabulated essential dignities of the planets and houses with almuten calulation, and Bonatti's degree attributions (masculine and feminine, degrees of azemena, welled/pitted, bright, dark, smoky, empty, degrees of increasing fortune, etc). Bonatti used these for horary astrology. There is tabulated calculation of the almutem figuris according to Ibn Ezra which allows you to know how lopsided the almutem is or whether it is a borderline case. Also includes the Alfirdaria time lord system using Abu-Mashar as the default setting for nodal sequence.
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. There are now 43 different planets / asteroids / points which can be shown in the chart wheel!
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.
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 chart types. 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 with the ability to automatically scale your fonts. Wheel dimensions for uniwheels, biwheels, triwheels and quadwheels, 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. There's no need for clumsy wheel definitions, simply save a wheel theme on the Themes tab when you have made your settings.
New data entry and chart database capabilities. 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, personal.zcf for charts that are private and so on (this is also 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 data entries can be sorted according to alphabetical order, dates and chart types depending upon the column header you click on. The new data entry window allows you to enter notes about the chart, show accuracy of the birth info, etc.
Newly Added!
- Solar Revolutions based upon a description by Umar Al-Tabari at the request of Benjamin Dykes, PhD. Includes the ability to print, generate Acrobat files and sort listings, etc in the same way as the Alfirdaria method below.
- Al-Firdaria time lord procedure with nocturnal variations for where to place the nodes according to different authors. Includes the ability to sort the firdar according to period type and date, and includes printing with acrobat file generation.
- Primary directions according to the Alchabitius / Placidus semi-arc method. Includes user defined themes to group your direction types into a single theme name you can double click on later to restore all those settings at once. The idea behind this is that each author in history had a prescribed set of planets and points that were directed according to different methods. This simplifies the process of switching between different themes. You can also cross reference a primary direction by clicking on it and it will take the natal chart of the direction and give progressions, transits, etc in a multi-wheel display with a single click! Just define your autogenerated chart settings accordingly and no more messing with dialog windows to check what's happening at the onset of a given direction. Primary directions can be sorted according to any column simply by clicking on the column header, by date, by significator, by promissor, direction type, etc... Also includes printing and acrobat file generation.
- Almuten Figurae (chart ruler) calculation and essential dignities tables for planets and houses with almuten calculation. Also includes the degrees of Bonatti (masculine and feminine, azemena, welled/pitted, bright, dark, smoky, and empty degrees). Also includes printing and acrobat file generation.
- The Terran Atlas database of 13 million records of places with latitude, longitude and time zone information is included. This is the largest atlas availabe in any astrology software in the world. The time zones are based upon the Olson time zone standard.
Other Highlights
- Reports for dates of heliacal rising and setting within 7 days of the birth date, a listing of arabic parts, planetary speed, 12th parts (dwadasamsa, dodekatamoira), monomoiria, Valens eminence indicators and more...
- Includes the ability to print all charts and graphs in the same way Delphic Oracle does and can also generate Acrobat files for charts and data calulations such as primary directions, almutem figuris and essential dignities, degrees, asteroid positions, planetary declinations and parans, etc...
- Includes optional user defined docking for all windows so you can control whether a window docks or floats. When floating, windows remember their size and position on screen even between program restarts.
- Generates HTML reports of your charts with essential dignity tables, lot positions, eminence indicators and more; this is especially helpful when building a website.
- Chart Orientation capability that allows you to display fortune houses with the part of fortune as the ascendant in 3 different modes (0 degrees, 15 degrees or exact degree of fortune sign). The same can be done with whole sign houses from the ascendant.
- Displays chart ascensional times for the zodiac signs according to Hellenistic tradition (Valens) in the center of the chart wheel or as popup hints when hovering the mouse over signs.
- Popup hints that display the planets statistical details such as, exact position to the 100th second of arc, domicile, exaltation, triplicity, bound and decan lords as well as planetary sect, the winds of the planets and their chariots.
- Calculates Derivative Charts such as solar returns (both modern and Hellenistic), lunar returns and planetary returns out to pluto for up to 100 cycles from the search date forward or backward in time. Also calculates the 3rd, 7th and 40th day of the Moon charts according to Hellenistic tradition.
- A user defined asteroid database that is capable of calculating sorted asteroid data for all asteroids where Swiss Ephemeris files exist (there are currently over 200,000 asteroids files in the Swiss Ephemeris database).
- Transit delineations based upon your birth chart with interpretations using local determination with over 5,000 delineations of planets as lord of a given house or in a given house.
- Chart rectification and transit animation toolbars allow you to watch planet positions change over time animating the natal chart or transiting charts by user defined increments.
- 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.
- Online help files. Timaeus comes with help files for practically every situation you will find yourself in while using it.
