Casting Subsidiary Charts

This chapter describes how to select, enter data for and cast Solar Fire's subsidiary chart types. These types include

•Transit charts

•Progressed charts - secondary, tertiary, minor, user-defined rate

•Directed charts - solar arc, ascendant arc, vertex arc, user-defined arc, van Dam

•Return charts - any planet or asteroid, any harmonic, plus Wynn-Key and progressed solar returns

•Ingress charts - any planet or asteroid

•Harmonic charts - any harmonic or age harmonic

•Arc Transform charts - any pair of chart points

•Antiscia (Solstice) or Contra-Antiscia charts

•Zodiacal Analogue charts

•Relationship charts - with 2 charts

•Composite charts - up to 15 charts

•Coalescent charts - with 2 charts

•Prenatal charts - 19 types

•Rising/Setting charts - rising, setting, culminating or anti-culminating of any planet or asteroid

•Lunar phase and eclipse charts - any of the main transiting phases or progressed phases plus lunar phase return charts

•Locality charts - relocated, Johndro or Geodetic

•Vedic charts – various Vedic divisional charts

Note: A Natal chart is a chart cast at the time of the birth of usually a person or a country. An Event chart is a chart cast at the time that an event occurred (e.g. a marriage between two people). A Radix chart is a chart that is being used as a "base" chart.

"Radix" means base, the core. Natal charts are generally referred to as radix charts, as a natal chart is usually the beginning or "base" of all astrological calculations regarding a person and their life -  after all it signifies the beginning of the person's autonomous life. However a natal chart is not always the "base" of astrological work. For instance you may be working with an event (e.g. a marriage) and calculating transits to that event or a solar return of that event, i.e calculating transits to the marriage chart, or the marriage return chart. In this example Solar Fire would regard the marriage chart or return chart, which is an event/return chart, as the radix chart. If you were calculating transits for a person, however, their natal chart would be the radix chart.

Selecting a Base Chart

Selecting or Entering Event Details

Entering Subsidiary Date, Time and Place Data

Casting a Transiting, Progressed or Directed Chart

Casting a Return, Ingress or Transit Chart

Casting an Harmonic, Transform, Antiscia or Analogue Chart

Casting a Combined Chart

Casting a Prenatal Chart

Casting a Rising/Setting Chart

Casting a Lunar Phase or Eclipse Chart

Casting a Locality or Relocated Chart

Casting a Vedic Chart