Astracadabra v1.8 - for the Pocket PC and Pocket PC phone

Pocket PC Astrology on the Go!

Astrology software for Pocket PCs and Pocket PC phones

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ASTRACADABRA V1.8 User Manual (pdf file)
POCKET PC REQUIREMENTS (pdf file)

FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH SOLAR FIRE

TRANSFER FILES TO AND FROM SOLAR FIRE

With the freedom of the Pocket PC, you can easily enter and display astrology charts anywhere, anytime with Astracadabra.

Astracadabra has the calculation accuracy of the Swiss Ephemeris, the convenience of the full ACS PC Atlas for city or town lookups and the core features of astrology that you have come to expect from a professional astrological software package.

Tools for the Modern, Classical and Vedic Astrologer include ability to:

Import /Export Charts from Solar Fire: Any chart entered into Astracadabra will automatically be available in Solar Fire. You can exchange chart files with Solar Fire on your desktop/laptop computer giving you complete access and synchronisation to all your current chart files.
Create New Charts: You can create your own natal chart and display it in a simple and attractive chart style. You have a choice of 31 house systems and 12 zodiacs.
View Bi-Wheels: Natal charts can also be viewed in a bi-wheel with Transits, Secondary Progressions, Tertiary Progressions, Minor Progressions, Solar Arc, User-defined progressionas or User-defined Directions around the outside or in synastry using two natal charts.
Real-time clock feature shows the current transits ticking over on the single wheel. This feature also works on a bi-wheel with the current transits ticking over on the outer wheel.
Aspect Toolbar allows you to display one or more aspects in the middle of a chart. Great for studying each type of aspect.
Time Stepper allows you to step either a single chart or bi-wheel using increments of second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year.
Adjust Ascendant feature enables you to enter a sign and degree and, optionally, a minute and second of a degree to calculate a birth time.

FEATURES

Highly accurate Swiss Ephemeris is used as the base calculation engine, a 1AD to 5399AD ephemeris. Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta calculated from 1200AD.
Full ACS PC Atlas embedded, with more than 250,000 latitudes, longitudes and time zones.
Calculations: Natal, Transits, Secondary Progressions, Tertiary Progressions, Minor Progressions, Solar Arc and Solar Return, User-defined Progressions and Direction rates.
Charts may be displayed in Round wheel format or in square chart format for Classical western, North Indian, South Indian or East Indian styles.
A list of Solar Eclipses from 1801 - 2100 can be viewed and selected as a chart.
Aspect lines may be selected for either the single or bi-wheel.
Aspect grid for either the single or bi-wheel.
Sorted list of aspects from closest orb to widest orb can be selected for either single wheel or bi-wheel.
List of Declinations sorted numerically from zero to less than 30 degrees regardless of North or South of equator. Easy to see parallels and contra-parallels for single or bi-wheel.
Planet, Point and House Cusp calculations (to minute of arc) are listed separately for a single wheel or bi-wheel.
Save and retrieve charts to Astracadabra chart files.
Automatically convert Astracadabra chart files to any version of Solar Fire for use in Solar Fire on a user's desktop or laptop computer.
Convert any version of Solar Fire to Astracadabra chart files feature so that a user can quickly download latest charts to Astracadabra before going out.
Option to display charts with chart files in Name order, Date order of the order they were added to the chart file.
Chart classification option (Male/Female etc).
Essential Dignities Report showing the various dignities and scores for each planet. There are indicators if a planet is in dignity or debilitated. Also includes options for Triplicities and Terms. Triplicity options include Ptolemy, Lilly, Dorothean. Terms include Ptolemy or Egyptian.
Vedic dasas report displays the Vimshottari dasas down to five levels and displays the Dasa balance and Progressed Dasa Points (PDPs for the Ascendant, Moon and Sun.
Vedic Divisional chart report displays a table of planet sign positions for D3 to D12 and includes an indicator of a planet¹s debilitated sign.
All house systems found on Solar Fire plus the Horizontal house system.
All zodiacs found on Solar Fire.
The list of planet positions shows retrograde and combustion using the orbs from Vedic Astrology. There is also an indicator showing if a planet is running slow or is stationary.
Clock feature allows a single or bi-wheel to display and updates the current transits every 30 seconds. You may watch either a chart or report update every 30 seconds.
Krishnamurti (KP) system: KP Details report displays planet and house cusp longitudes to seconds of arc as well as their Star, Sub and Sub Sub Lords. The report also displays planet and house significators, Ruling Planets (RPs), indicators if an RP is in a Star or Sub of a retrograde planet or if a RP is retrograde itself, except Rahu and Ketu. The Badhaka and Maraka planets are also listed.
For the KP system, an orb between 0 degrees and 5 degrees can be optionally set placing a planet in the next house if a planet is within this orb of the next house cusp and is used in significator calculations.
The KP Horary feature calculates a chart after a number between 1 and 249 has been entered and the corresponding Ascendant determined. This feature is particularly useful where miltiple Horary questions are asked in a short space of time.
The Krishnamurti New zodiac option uses the new Krishnamurti ayanamsa as at 2003. The original Krishnamurti ayanamsa can also be selected.
If you purchase a memory card for your Pocket PC, Astracadabra can be moved to that memory card, freeing up your Pocket PC's RAM.

OPTIONS

User selection of aspects and orbs from a pre-defined list of aspects
True/Mean Node selection
Part of Fortune Day/Night or fixed formula
Parallax Moon option
Geocentric latitude option
Planet glyphs selection (eg. Uranus, Pluto, Capricorn)
Select a glyph or two-letter name for planets.
Default Home selection (default place in Solar Fire terms)
Chart angle progression type (5 options) as well as progression day type (2 options)
User selection of a fixed list of Planets and Points Sun to Pluto, North/South Nodes, Chiron, 4 Asteroids, 8 Hypothetical Planets, Black Moon, Part of Fortune, Asc, MC, Dsc, Ic, Vertex/Anti-Vertex, Equatorial Asc/Dsc, Munkasey's CoAscendant and Polar Ascendant
User-defined Offset and Precession rates when specifying an ayanamsa
Displayed degrees on a round or square chart may be rounded or truncated
Planets and Signs on a chart may be in colour or black and white
Enter up to ten User-defined Progression or Direction rates
Change the allotted years to the Vimshottari dasa system and/or change the order of the planets

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Astracadabra Author Neville Lang has been a keen student of astrology since 1970. Most of those years were devoted to studying the various techniques of western astrology such as Traditional, Psychological, Cosmobiology and Medieval. In recent years he has focused on the study of Vedic astrology techniques and specialised in this field of astrology. In parallel to his time in astrology, he has also spent more than 30 years in the computer industry in various capacities, and since 1986 ran his own commercial software business. In December 2007, Neville became half owner of Esoteric Technologies.

COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS

Take this information to your computer salesperson:

You need a A Pocket PC or Pocket PC phone with:

Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional or Classic (not Standard)
OR Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, or Windows
Mobile 2003, for Pocket PC or Phone Edition (not the Smartphone version)
OR Pocket PC 2002 operating system
AND A minimum of 64 MB of RAM
AND A touch-sensitive rectangular (portrait) screen, not the square or landscape screens.

You also need a Desktop or Laptop PC with a version of Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Please note that Astracadabra CANNOT be installed onto:

A Smartphone (a phone with SOME Pocket PC functionality), typically
one that does not have a touch-sensitive screen
A Pocket PC or Pocket PC phone with a SQUARE screen (240x240
pixels or 480x480 pixels) or a Landscape screen (320x240 pixels).
A Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Mobile 5.0 device that has a security configuration of
"Locked" or "Third-Party Signed". Some telephone companies may set Pocket PC
phones in one of these two security modes. Our experience so far
suggests that no telephone company has used these security settings yet.

If your Pocket PC or Pocket PC phone has Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Mobile 5.0 as its operating system AND you have Windows XP on your desktop or laptop PC then make sure your Windows XP has been updated to Service Pack 2.

Purchase Astracadabra v1.8

Full Program Cost: AUD$150 plus postage and handling. US Cost: US$110 plus postage and handling.

If you wish to purchase Astracadabra on-line you can do so here.

Please note that you have a now have choice of purchasing Astracadabra v1.8 either on a CD or downloading it from it from our website.