Frequently Asked Questions - JigSaw

8/11/01 How to I check in JigSaw if an eclipse will affect a group of charts?

8/11/01 How do I use JigSaw to find which members of my group are affected by a particular eclipse (or any fixed zodiac position)?

8/11/01 How do I use the JigSaw program to find if charts have a planet or an angle on a particular midpoint via the 8th harmonic?

8/11/01 What does the Harmonic components selection in Jigsaw do?

8/11/01 How do I find the number of 5th harmonic aspects (or any other harmonic for that matter) that a group of charts have when using the JigSaw program?

8/11/01 How to I check in JigSaw if an eclipse will affect a group of charts?

Use the drop down menu in JigSaw under the Research Option and select Add a Point. This will open the Add a Point window which will allow you to add either a midpoint or a particular degree to your entire data set with which you are working. Enter the degree of the eclipse (or fixed point). Now, open the main research scene and select the point you have added along with the natal points with which you wish to work. Select the Phases and Aspect option and tell Jigsaw which aspects you want to use for your search. Display your results as a table. You can then FILTER to create a subset of charts as you may secondly require. This will show you how many members of your group is being affected by the eclipse.

8/11/01 How do I use JigSaw to find which members of my group are affected by a particular eclipse (or any fixed zodiac position)?

Select the Family Search option. In the main screen select "Specified Position" then enter in the degree of the eclipse. Select the harmonic, choose the orb and select the natal points. Jigsaw will now scan the group and find which family or group members are receiving an aspect from the eclipse (or any other fixed position) Jigsaw will firstly, finding what natal point is receiving the aspect and secondly, displaying which family or group member is involved.

8/11/01 How do I use the JigSaw program to find if charts have a planet or an angle on a particular midpoint via the 8th harmonic?

Follow these steps: Select the project that you are working on Go to Research "Add a Point" Select the Jup/Pluto midpoint (or any other you want to look at) Click "OK" Open Research module Select "Harmonic aspect and Phases" In the Harmonic Select section at the lower left part of the screen type in "8" Select the orb that you wish to use in the "Aspect Orb" box Select the Planet or Angle that you wish to check out and by using the Control key also scroll to the end of the list and you will see the Jup/Pluto mid pts. (or any other midpts that you have selected in the "add extra pts" in step 2. Use the control key and select this mid pt (the control key allows for multiple selection of points) Go to table view You will see the numbers of charts that have this planet on that midpoint as well as the type of aspect. If you want to bunch them all together into a separate file then you will need to use the Filtering option (check out manual) and filter them one at a time and then merge the files into one. Depending on exactly what you want to do you may be able to short cut this. So in the tables (or polar graphs or bar graphs) you will get the number of charts but you will need to Filter these in the Table view if you want to know What charts. We are currently working on Jigsaw Version 2 which will make this type of exercise quicker.

8/11/01 What does the Harmonic components selection in Jigsaw do?

Consider that we have a group of 500 actors. We could create a circle label with the 360 degrees of the Zodiac. For each of our actors we could plot the positions of their Moons (or any other point). For each Moon we could place a dot at its place in the 360 dial. After doing this for all 500 of our charts we may notice that there was a wave pattern showing. If there was a wave with four peaks then we are looking at a fourth harmonic - in zodiac position - Implying that the set of actors had a harmonic tendance to have their Moons in one of four particular places in the zodiac which were all in a fourth harmonic relationship. We can also do this diurnal circle. Addey found that his 1095 scientists had a tendency to have Saturn in one of four places in the diurnal circle and that those places were all square to each other. So when you run a group through the Harmonic components in Jigsaw - whether diurnal or zodiacal. You are asking Jigsaw to take every point you have selected. Plot them on a circle (diurnal or zodiacal) examine the harmonics 1 to 60 and tell you the amplitude of every harmonic. ie in the above example the column at the number 4 in the bar graph would be high indicating that that particular wave pattern was strong. So you should look at these bar graphs, looking for height of column and the number of the column. This tells you what harmonic is strong with that point or planet for that group. It does not tell you how many planets are at that point but rather its amplitude. The phase part of the program is for you to then determine WHERE in the zodiac or diurnal circle are the peaks of this particular amplitude occurring.

8/11/01 How do I find the number of 5th harmonic aspects (or any other harmonic for that matter) that a group of charts have when using the JigSaw program?

Select the option Phases and Aspects in the research main menu. You will notice that you will have two division types Phase or Aspect. Click on Aspect. You will notice that towards to lower left there are boxes for you to change the orb you want to use as well as the harmonic that you want to exam. Once you have selected that then select the planets and points that you want to include in your scan. Run the program. You will get a bar graph showing the results for the first two planets that you selected. Scroll down to the bottom of the drop down menu for the points to be displayed and select All Points. This summaries your results. For example for the actors, all 399 of them. I scan them for 5th harmonic aspects using a orb of 3 degrees. I found the following: 206 have conjunctions 145 Quintiles (72 degrees) 90 Bi quintiles (144) 111 Bi quintile (216) 138 quintile (288) Notice it will separate the 72 from the 288. To find which charts have a particular aspect. Like which charts have the 72 degree quintile. Display the info in a table rather then a bar graph then use the filtering tool to select that section of the table. Jigsaw will then place all of those charts into a separate file.

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