Patch Updates for Esoteric Technologies Products

Download our progressive patches for the freshest most up-to-date software.

Our software evolves with your needs.

The patch update files can only be installed if you already have a valid registered copy of the program you wish to update. These are self-extracting, self-installing files; simply download them to any location on your computer, and then execute them. You may wish to keep a copy of the downloaded file so that you can re-update your program should you ever need to reinstall it in the future.

Non-Australian Solar Fire customers should obtain their Solar Fire updates directly from Astrolabe, Inc., Esoteric's exclusive distributor for Solar Fire outside of Australia and New Zealand, at www.alabe.com

Solar Fire
Solar Writer
Solar Writer Interpretation Texts
Solar Maps
JigSaw
Solar Spark
Astracadabra
Imperial Astrologer

Solar Fire Gold

Our latest Solar Fire Gold (v7.0.9), which is free to all existing Gold owners, includes NEW CHART ART for Relationship Astrology Charts. We call this LOVE ART plus other new Chart Art. We have also included 3 new TriWheel styles, the ability to toggle between Geocentric and Heliocentric mode for a chart and CLONE Charts a handy feature when you want to keep a copy of a chart that you are working on always in view.

Solar Fire Gold v7.0.9 - 23rd Jan 2009—Updates Solar Fire Gold only (21.9 MB).
Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v7.0.0 or higher.)
Instructions for Updating new Font Files (PDF)—A new glyph for Eris is included.

Solar Fire Deluxe

Solar Fire Deluxe v6.0.32 - 17th Jul 2007—Updates Solar Fire Deluxe only (4.4MB). Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Deluxe version v6.0.0 or higher.)
Solar Fire Deluxe Atlas Data Update 30th Nov 2006—Updates built-in ACS atlas data and timezone changes for Solar Fire Deluxe (4.0MB). Release Notes.

Solar Fire v5.1

Solar Fire v5.1.4 - 6th May 2004—Updates Solar Fire v5.1.0 or higher only (1.8MB). Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is v5.1.0 or higher. To check your existing version number, look under the Help / About menu item in Solar Fire. If you have v5.0.x then you will need to purchase an upgrade on CD.)

Solar Fire v5.0

Solar Fire v5.0.27 - 11th Dec 2002—Updates all earlier versions of Solar Fire from v5.0 upwards (3.0MB). Release Notes.
Solar Fire v5 Help File 5th May 2000—Updates Solar Fire v5.0 upwards (0.7MB). Release Notes.
Aussie Data Collection Update 8th Mar 2002—Updates Solar Fire v5.0 upwards (0.2MB). Release Notes.

Solar Maps v3

Solar Maps v3.0.14 - 4th Dec 2008—Updates Solar Maps v3.0 upwards (5.5MB).
Release Notes.
Common System Files 11th Jan 2005 - IF Solar Maps fails upon startup after applying the above patch update, it is probably because you have an older version of Windows, and need some additional updated system files, in which case please apply this patch file. Otherwise you don't need this. (1.9MB).

Solar Writer v2

Solar Writer v2.3.0.2 - 22nd Dec 2008—Updates Solar Writer v2.0 upwards (8.4MB). Release Notes. (NB. IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Writer is v2.0.0.0 or higher. To check your existing version number, look under the Help > About menu item in Solar Writer.)

Solar Writer Interpretation Texts

The following updates are for the individual Solar Writer text reports. You can only download these updates if you have already purchased the report. During the installation of one of the updates below, you will be asked for the Username, Serial Number and Password that you used when you first installed the report. WARNING: The text update you download will overwrite the text file that is stored on your computer. If you have made changes to the original text file supplied by us then your changes will be lost if you download and run one of these updates!

Solar Returns - 23 Dec 2008—Updates the Solar Returns interpretation text file (0.7MB).
Zodiac Child - 15 Dec 2008—Updates the Zodiac Child interpretation text file (0.5MB).

JigSaw v2.1

JigSaw v2.1.2 13th Dec 2007—Updates JigSaw v2.1.0 upwards (2.7MB).
Release Notes. (NB. IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of JigSaw is v2.1.0 or higher. To check your existing version number, look under the Help / About menu item in JigSaw. If you have v2.0.x then you will need to purchase an upgrade on CD.) Please note that this update will not run on 64bit versions of Windows.

JigSaw v2.0

JigSaw v2.0.17 20th Sep 2004—Updates JigSaw v2.0 upwards (1.9MB).
Release Notes. Please note that this update will not run on 64bit versions of Windows.

Solar Spark v2

Solar Spark v2.1.8 23rd Jun 2006—Updates Solar Spark v2.1 upwards (1.6MB).
Release Notes.

Astracadabra

Astracadabra v1.8.0 Update Instructions 1st Apr 2008—For Astracadabra v1.1 upwards. Release Notes - MS Word Document (110KB).
Astracadabra v1.8.0 User Manual (PDF) 1st Apr 2008 (0.9MB)

Imperial Astrologer

Imperial Astrologer v1.0.4 14th Aug 2007—For Imperial Astrologer v1.0.0 upwards (7.8MB). Release Notes (1KB). Please note that this update will not run on 64bit versions of Windows.