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
Imperial Astrologer

Solar Fire Gold

Solar Fire Gold v8.0.7 - 13 Jan 2012 - Updates Solar Fire Gold v8.0 only (1.6 MB).
Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v8.0 or higher.)
Solar Fire Gold v7.3.1 - 15th Apr 2010—Updates Solar Fire Gold v7.3.0 only (2.2 MB).
Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v7.3.0 or higher. For previous versions of Solar Fire Gold v7.1 and 7.2 please contact your local agent)
Solar Fire Gold v7.0.10 - 29th Jul 2009—Updates Solar Fire Gold v7.0.x only (21.4 MB).
Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Fire is the Gold version, v7.0.0 up to v7.0.9.
Instructions for Updating new Font Files (PDF)—A new glyph for Eris is included.
Solar Fire Gold v7/8 ACS Atlas files - 21st Jul 2011 - Updates Solar Fire Gold v7 and v8 ACS Atlas files only..

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 v2.3.0.5 - 1st July 2010—Updates Solar Writer v2.0 upwards (8.4MB).
Release Notes. (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 v2.3.0.5Atlas - 29th June 2011 - Updates Solar Writer v2.3.0.5 upwards.

Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of Solar Writer

is v2.3.0.5 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 - 5 May 2011—Updates the Zodiac Child interpretation text file (0.5MB).
Kindred Spirits - 4 Dec 2009—Updates the Kindred Spirit interpretation text file (0.7MB).
Modern - 23 May 2011—Updates the Modern interpretation text file (0.7MB).
Synastry (Norwegian) - 12 May 2010—Updates the Synastry (Norwegian) interpretation text file (0.4MB).
Synastry- 5 May 2011 - Updates the Synastry (English) interpretation text file (0.4MB)

JigSaw v2.2

JigSaw v2.2.1 11th June 2010—Updates JigSaw v2.1.0 upwards (0.7MB).
Release Notes. (IMPORTANT: This update will only install if your current version of JigSaw is v2.1.0 or higher. If you have JigSaw v2.0.x then you will need to purchase an upgrade on CD.)

Solar Spark v2

Solar Spark v2.1.8 23rd Jun 2006—Updates Solar Spark v2.1 upwards (1.6MB). Do not update v2.2 released on CD on September 23 2009
Release Notes.

Imperial Astrologer

Imperial Astrologer v1.0.8 31/08/11—For Imperial Astrologer v1.0.0 upwards (7.8MB).
Release Notes (1KB).