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Astro Gold MacOS is a high quality modern astrology software package for Apple computers.Astro Gold is exceptionally easy to use astrology software designed from the ground for up for Apple Macintosh computers. There is a focus on a simple yet intuitive interface providing access to all the basic astrology functionality you would expect from a modern astrology software package. Plus there are additional high-end features that will also suit intermediate and professional astrologers. The result is a reliable and elegant solution for all astrologers. And looking into the future we will continue to add features for the beginner, intermediate and professional astrologer. Astro Gold uses the Swiss Ephemeris for state of the art precision in astronomical calculations and the very popular ACS Atlas. The chart file format is also fully compatible with our AstroGold program for Apple and Samsung devices, and the Solar Fire and Astro Spark programs for Windows based PCs. |
Getting started
Getting started with Astro Gold is very easy, see Quick Start for how to cast and view a chart in a matter of moments.
Key Astro Gold features
Astro Gold can cast the charts you'll commonly need - you can cast new Mundane and Natal charts. And from those subsidiary charts - any Event (transits), Planet Return or Ingress, Lunar Phase Return (plus mundane lunar phase), Secondary/Tertiary (mean & true)/Minor Progressed, Solar Arc Directed, Composite and Relationship charts, Harmonic & Antiscia charts and Relocated charts.
▪You can save charts to file and open charts from file, including instantly re-opening a recently used chart or a chart previously designated as a favorite. Any chart you have created can also subsequently be edited.
▪Charts can be displayed in a single Wheel, biWheel, triWheel or quadriWheel - for simultaneously seeing a return, progressions and transits to a natal chart for example, or for seeing the synastry between two natal charts.
▪Charts can also be displayed in a Dial for single charts, biDial for two charts, triDial for three charts or a quadriDial for four charts for similar purposes.
▪Every chart has an associated grid in which its aspects and declinations are displayed, or for a pair of charts their inter-aspects are displayed. You can switch between the (bi/tri/quadri)Wheel and the Grid with one mouse click. The wheels and grids are crisp with high resolution.
▪The Chart Explorer shows a variety of detailed information about any point in a chart that you click on, including transits to it for the current year.
You can view a basic chart listing that shows for each chart point it's longitude, declination and house, and you can sort the list using any of these. A chart aspects listing can also be viewed, sortable by chart point or orb. You can also view an Essential Dignities listing sortable by chart point or score.
Dynamic event listings (transits etc) are possible, with many customizable options including which transiting and radix (usually natal) planets to use, which aspects to use and what orb for those aspects to apply if any, planetary stations, house ingresses, sign ingresses, eclipses, and of course the time span. You can generate as many unique Dynamic Listings as you want, for the same and/or different charts, with them all open on the screen at once, or all minimized, or some open and some minimized. This way you can easily compare a great deal of information at a glance.
You can search for a variety of transiting events (aspects/retrograde-direct/sign and house ingresses/zodiac position/returns/new or full moons/solar and lunar eclipses) - either to static (natal, fixed harmonic etc) chart points and cusps, or to other transiting points and cusps.
The Time Graph is a way to view Dynamic transits, progressions, solar arc directions in a different way than a plain tabular listing. It displays the period involved for each dynamic event in a plotted Calendar type of format, visually displaying dynamic events as lines beginning and ending on the relevant calendar dates. This makes it totally easy to see at a glance when any dynamic event (transit etc) starts, peaks and ends. You can also export the generated information to a calendar source or app, or to an iCalendar file.
Astro Sheets combine the above charts and listings into unique pages of information containing a mixture of wheels, tabulations and other informational objects. Look here for specialist information such as planetary nodes, midpoints, fixed stars etc (see Specific Features below).
You can generate a Graphic Ephemeris for a fully visual grasp of transiting planet movement and aspects or transits to a radix (natal or subsidiary) chart, plus Full and New moons, using a range of modulus angles and planet selections.
Create Astro Locality maps to see how moving to other places may influence you.
You can edit and print any chart, and transfer any chart to Astro Gold iOS (for apple devices) or to Solar Fire or Astro Spark on Windows computers.
You can design your own chart wheels in the following ways: types of rings that are in a chart wheel (Cusp Annotation, Zodiac rings, Chart Points, House Cusp Lines, House Numbering, Aspectarian) and in which order they appear in it; visual appearance of each ring (inner and outer radius of each ring, tick line widths and lengths, positions of items within each ring, various other ring-specific options).
Astro Gold is also very flexible thanks to it's highly configurable nature (wheel/sign/point/aspect colors etc).
You can view interpretation reports for natal and progressed charts, transits and the synastry between two people.
Professional reports are optional add-on report types that go beyond the standard interpretations, being generated as graphically illustrated PDF files. These need a license for each report type (which can be easily purchased from within Astro Gold). Once you have a license for a report type you can generate unlimited reports for that report type. Report types include: Birth Chart, Child, Adolescent, The Big Three (Asc, Sun & Moon), Family, Relationship, Predictive, Vocation, Birthday (Solar Return), Lunar Return, My Pet.
