Dynamic Listings are reports of dynamic events occurring for a chart over a period of time, e.g. transits, progressions etc. You can access Dynamic Listings from the View Menu, or via the Dynamic icon on the Toolbar (if you need it Screen Areas shows where the Toolbar is).
An example of a Dynamic Listing is shown below.
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Astro Gold ships with eight kinds of Dynamic Jobs.
A Dynamic Job contains all the instructions, settings and parameters for what dynamic events to generate in a Dynamic Listing:
•Transits of Outer Planets
•Transits of Inner Planets
•Lunar Transits
•Transits/Progressions 1 Yr
•Transits/Progressions/Directions 1 Yr
•Major Lifetime Transits
•Mundane Transits of Outers 1 Yr
•Transits to Radix and Progressions to Progressions
However you can create your own Dynamic Jobs as well, see Preferences - Dynamic Listings.
These Dynamic Listings are only ever for Chart 1 regardless of whether one or more charts are selected.
Once the report is generated Dynamic Listings can be viewed in one of two display formats.
a)Standard Listing format
Just referred to as "Listing", this is the default format (shown above). It lists each event down the page, with the data (e.g. event date and planetary positions) for each event in columns extending across the page.
The number of events generated is determined by the Entering/Leaving setting.
To see the report in this format click on the Listing button 
under the calendar icon.
b)Time Graph format
Each event is also listed down the page, and the data is also listed in columns. However a group of the column headings are actually points in the calendar over the time period used, and the peak (and optionally also duration) of each event is displayed in these columns, forming a plotted calendar of events. This allows you to see at a glance the timing of all events as a whole. The number of events generated is always the same.
To see the report in this format click on the Time Graph button 
next to the Listing button.
With either format, by default blank section divider lines are automatically added (with sections automatically determined from the current sort order e.g. sorting by planet creates a section for each planet, sorting by date creates a section for each day, calendar month, year or decade depending on the duration of the report.
You can however control whether section breaks - blank (divider) lines - are included or not via the Sort menu.
Multiple simultaneous Listings
You can generate multiple Dynamic Listings (for the same or different charts) and have them all in separate windows on the screen at the same time. To do this you must lock each listing window you want to retain before generating any new listings.
If you have generated a Dynamic Listing and don't lock it's window before generating a new Dynamic Listing, all the information of the initial listing will be overwritten by the information of the new Dynamic Listing (i.e. the new listing will simply re-use the initial listing's window).
>> To generate a Dynamic Listing
1.If you have previously generated a Dynamic Listing then decide if you want to retain it, and if you do make sure you lock its window before proceeding. See Dynamic Event Information for how to lock a listing window.
2.Click on the Dynamic icon in the Toolbar (at the top of the screen) - or in the View menu select Dynamic Listings - to display the "Dynamic Listing" screen.
3.Click in the dropdown box across the very top of the screen to select the kind of Dynamic Job you want to use to generate the report with.
4.Click on the Location icon
near the top right of the window above the "PDF" icon, if you want to change the location for the dynamic events. Once changed click the Apply button.
TIP: If regardless of location you want times for the listing to be in universal timezone (UT) simply check the UT checkbox in the bottom right hand corner.
5.Fill in the Starting date or click on the Calendar icon 
and select a date.
TIP: you can click on "Now" or "Radix" above the selected date field ... to immediately select the current date, or the date of chart (who the dynamic events are being generated for)
6.Set the duration of time for the listing - by clicking in the unit of time dropdown box to select between Days, Months or Years, and entering the number of time units to use in the textbox labeled For to the left of that, to define the actual period to generate dynamic events for.
You can enter a date before 0 AD, i.e. a BC or BC date, from the calendar, or by putting a "–" sign before the year in the "Starting" textbox, to indicate the number of years before 0 AD the Start date is. Remember that there is no actual year 0 in the BE/AD system. So -14 years (an astronomical expression) does not equate to the year 14 BC (a Julian Calendar expression), it equates to 15 BC.
7.Click the Run button. The report is generated.
Listing display format
When the display format is "Listing" the Dynamic list has the following columns ('radix' means the Base Chart, usually a natal or event chart) :
•House the Dynamic Point is in (H1)
•Dynamic Point (P1)
•Aspect (Asp)
•Radix Point (P2)
•House the Radix Point is in (H)
•Event stage - entering, exact or leaving (Evt)
•Event Method e.g. transit to radix, secondary progressed to radix, solar arc to radix (Metho)
•Date
•Time
•Age - as at the event date/time, the lapsed time since the radix chart date/time
•Point 1 zodiac position (Pos1)
•Point 1 movement direction - retrograde or direct (R)
•Point 2 zodiac position (Pos2)
•Point 2 movement direction - retrograde or direct (RD)
>> Showing more or less dynamic events in the list
1.Click on the Entering/Leaving icon ( 
) to see when the event (e.g. the transit) enters into orb of exact aspect with the radix planet, and also leaves orb of exact aspect with the radix planet. It goes dark ( 
) when switched on. Click on it again to switch it off. When switched off aspects of the dynamic point to the radix point (hits) are shown only if they are exact.
2.To delete an event or a blank line from the list click on the event or line, then press the delete key on the keyboard. Deleted rows are restored whenever the Listing is re-sorted or re-run.
1.Clicking in any column header sorts the listing with that data in ascending order (all except the Time and Point movement columns).
2.Clicking on the Sort icon in the Dynamic Listing screen enables you to select a sort option from a list that drops down - see below.
3.If you don't want the report divided into different sections with blank (divider) lines then make sure Omit Breaks is ticked.
 Dynamic Listing - sort icon and its dropdown list of sorting options |
>> To see an Interpretation for an event
➢ Double-click on the event. A window pops up with the interpretation in it.
When the display format is "Time Graph" the report has the following columns ('radix' means the Base Chart, usually a natal or event chart) :
•Dynamic Point (P1)
•Aspect (Asp)
•Radix Point (P2)
•Event Method e.g. transit to radix, secondary progressed to radix, solar arc to radix (Metho)
•Calendar Point columns.
The Calendar Point column headers are either a series of contiguous days, months, quarters or years, or a mix of these, depending on how long the report period spans.
Each event, regardless of whether Entering/Leaving is on or off, is listed only once down the page, on the left. To the right of the event, if Entering/Leaving is on, the entering, exact and leaving moments are marked in the column where those occur, all connected by a line (example as below). If Entering/Leaving is off, only the exact event is marked in the column where it occurs. If there are several exact events occurring for an event within the report duration, these exact events are all connected with a line running through them (not shown).
>> Showing more or less dynamic events in the list
1.Click on the Entering/Leaving icon ( ) to see when the event (e.g. the transit) enters into orb of exact aspect with the radix planet, and also leaves orb of exact aspect with the radix planet. The icon goes dark ( ) when switched on. Click on it again to switch it off. When switched off aspects of the dynamic point to the radix point (hits) are shown only if they are exact.
2.To delete an event or a blank line from the list click on the event or line, then press the delete key on the keyboard. Deleted rows are restored whenever the Time Graph is re-sorted or re-run.
>> Showing on dates on the TimeGraph
•Click on the Dates icon ( 
) to see the date when the event (e.g. a transiting point aspecting a radix point) starts ("E" for enters into orb), becomes exact ("X"), and ends ("L" for leaves orb).
•An orb is the amount (in degrees, minutes and optionally seconds) of longitude, separately before and also after an exact aspect between two points, in which the aspect is considered "active". For example there can be 1° (in longitude) of orb before an aspect becomes exact i.e. meaning the aspect becomes active 1° before actually becoming exact (0°); and 1° (in longitude) of orb after an aspect becomes exact, meaning the aspect remains active 1° after actually becoming exact.
•The icon goes dark ( 
) when switched on. Click on it again to switch it off.
•You can see at the bottom of the screen the date an event starts or ends by hovering the mouse crosshair cursor over the "E" or "L" of the event span icon (E--X--L).
•When the Dates icon is switched off you can still see when events happen using the same method - by hovering the mouse crosshair cursor anywhere over the Time Graph, and as you do so it displays the date for the position where the cursor is, at the bottom of the screen.
>> Ways to sort the report
•Clicking on the Sort icon 
in the Dynamic Listing screen enables you to select a sort option from a list that drops down. EXL, Point 1, Point 2, Aspect or Method - and in Ascending or Descending (based on event start and finish dates).
>> Resizing the TimeGraph window
•Hover the mouse over the edge of the window until it turns into a single or double-pointed arrow. Then holding the mouse button down drag the window edge to the position where you want it to be, then release the mouse button.
>> To prevent a Dynamic Listing window from changing - locking it
After clicking the "Run" button to generate the dynamic events for the timespan selected, you can lock the Dynamic Listing results, so that the information stays in the Dynamic Listing window unchanged.
This mainly applies if you select another chart in the Chart 1 position in the "Selection Panel" (either via the "Select..." button, or by swapping chart positions). If your dynamic listing is locked it will not change, and you can generate new different dynamic listings in separate windows for whatever chart is in position 1 without losing a Dynamic Listing you previously generated.
This way you can have as many unique Dynamic Listings as you want, all in their own separate window.
1) Click on the lock icon 
in the top right of the Dynamic Listing window, which will lock the listing information and the lock icon will become dark 
.
2) To unlock it click on the icon again - it will go back to looking like . The listing information will be cleared, and will be ready to run for whatever chart is in position 1 in the Selection Panel, so if that has been changed while the listing was locked that will also change accordingly on the listing window.
If you lock each Dynamic Listing window that you create, each one will remain unchanged. You can minimize these windows if you wish, and continue working with other charts without losing the event information you previously generated in each locked Dynamic Listing window - regardless of whether it relates to the same or different chart(s) altogether.
If you close a locked listing window any information it contained will be lost, and you would need to set up a new Dynamic Listing from scratch - re-enter all the listing criteria, and run the dynamic job again.
While a Dynamic Listing window is locked, on that particular listing window you can still:
•switch between "Listing" format and "Time Graph" format
• toggle "E/L" on or off
•toggle "Dates" on or off
•change the report "Sort Order"
•export the listing to a PDF file
>> To print the list, export the list as a PDF file, or send it to a Calendar
1) Click on the Share icon
to the right of the "Run" button
2)if you choose Print, it will print in landscape.
3)To save as a PDF file, select PDF and then give the new PDF file a name, a tag if wanted, and select which folder you want to put it in, then click Save.
4) To send to a Calendar click on Calendar (see Calendar Export for more info).
