Wheel Styles and Page Layouts
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Solar Fire comes with many pre-designed wheel styles and pages, and as well you can also create your own. See the following topics for general information regarding wheels and pages, and accessing and designing them.
From the View menu - using the Page Topic Index
Changing Page properties and settings on the fly
Below are some of the specialized pre-designed wheels and pages that are supplied with Solar Fire.
•Decanate and Face rulers wheel
Solar Fire comes with a wheel, the decanate ruler wheel, that you can use to display the decanate and face rulers.
>> To display the decanate/face ruler wheel
1.When you have a Uniwheel chart displayed on the “View Chart” window...
a)Click on the Wheel Style button
b)Select the "DecRuler.wh1" wheel style from the list. This wheel uses the Modern rulerships and so will display the Decanate rulers for the chart.
c)Click on the Select button. This will take you back to the "View Chart" window.
2.If you now wish to display the Face rulers (still from the “View Chart” window)...
a)Click on the Reports button
b)Click on the Rulerships report.
c)In the "Rulerships" dropdown box, select Traditional rulerships
d)Click on the Quit button.
3.Finally now back in the “View Chart” window...
a)Click on the ReDraw button to update the wheel and it will now display the Face rulers around the wheel.
➢ To return to the "Decanate" rulers, repeat step (2) and simply reselect the Modern rulers, then repeat step (3).
•Term rulers wheel
There are two types of Term rulers: Ptolemy and Egyptian. To select the appropriate wheel style to display these rulers ...
1.In the "View Chart" window click on the Wheel Style button.
2.Select either TermRulers_Ptolemy.wh1 or TermRulers_Egyptian.wh1
3.Click on the Select button. This will take you back to the "View Chart" window.
•Nakshatra wheel
For Vedic astrology users, you can select a wheel style that displays the Nakshatras around the wheel. This wheel style is usually used when a Vedic zodiac has been selected, like Lahiri.
1.In the "View Chart" window click on the Wheel Style button.
2.Select Nakshatras.wh1.
3.Click on the Select button. This will take you back to the "View Chart" window.
•BiWheel with houses in both wheels
Solar Fire comes with a BiWheel that displays separate houses in both the inner and outer wheel. This wheel style might be useful for those times when you want to see the current transiting houses (and planets) on the outer wheel of a natal chart. To see this wheel style on the “View Chart” screen
1.In the "View Chart" window click on the Wheel Style button.
2.Select BiBothHouses.wh2.
3.Click on the Select button. This will take you back to the "View Chart" window.
•Composite sun house Chart Art page (for all composite sun houses)
Twelve Chart Art pages are available for displaying the house location of the composite Sun. For example, if a couple’s composite Sun is located in the 4th house then...
1.On the "View Chart" window, click the Pages button
2.Expand the "Chart Art" category by clicking on the plus sign to the left of it
3.Click on Solar Fire Wheel with Art [art_composite4.pag].
•Animating progressions and transits page
A page layout is available that may assist users animating a natal chart, secondary progression chart and transit chart all at the same time.
>> To animate the progressed chart, and the progressions and transits to the natal chart, all on the same page
1.From the Main Screen create or open a chart and have it highlighted on the “Calculated Charts” list.
2.Calculate the current transits chart for the location you want and it will be added to the “Calculated Charts” list.
3.On the Dynamic menu click on Animate Page.
4.Expand the “Multiple Charts” category by clicking on the plus sign to the left of it.
5.Double-click on the Transits and Progressed Page [tranprog.pag]. This action will open a window allowing you to assign the charts.
6.Assign the Natal chart as Chart 1 (Natal base chart, Fixed Base Chart)
7.Assign the Transit chart as Chart 2 (Event base chart, Transits)
8.Assign the Progressed chart as Chart 3 (Natal base chart, Secondary Progressions)
9.Click on the OK button
10. As you step the charts through time, you will see the relevant movements of planets and aspects in three of the four wheels (not the natal chart).
For assistance assigning charts in the (Animate) Transits and Progressed Page dialog see Selecting Alternative Chart Types
•Single and BiWheel with Dasas
A major dasa cycle runs for 120 years and it is further sub-divided into sub-dasas also known as bhuktis. If you open a natal chart and use a Vedic zodiac, like Lahiri, you can display the dasa periods for that natal chart. There are three pages you can use to display Dasas for a chart.
[A] (for a Uniwheel e.g. a single chart)
1.On the "View Chart" window click on the Pages button.
2.Expand the "Vedic" category by clicking on the plus sign to the left of it.
3.Click on UniWheel with Dasas [uni_dasas.pag]
4.Click the OK button
[B] (for a BiWheel e.g. for a natal chart and transits)
1.Highlight two charts on the “Calculated Charts” list, e.g. one a natal chart and the other a transits chart
2.Click on the View menu
3.Click on BiWheel
4.In the "View Chart" window click on the Pages button
5.Expand the "Vedic" category by clicking on the plus sign to the left of it
6.Click on BiWheel with Dasas [bi_dasas.pag]
7.Click the OK button
[C] (for a BiWheel e.g. for a natal chart and transits - dasas > 120 yrs)
For example, if you are a mundane astrologer wanting to use an older country’s chart, like the USA chart, with the current transits displayed around the outside then you can.
1.Highlight two charts on the “Calculated Charts” list, e.g. one the USA chart and the other a Transits chart
2.Click on the View menu
3.Click on BiWheel
4.In the "View Chart" window click on the Pages button
5.Expand the "Vedic" category by clicking on the plus sign to the left of it
6.Click on BiWheel with Dasas (> 120 years) [bi_dasas2.pag]
7.Click the OK button
•TriWheels showing inter-chart aspects
Three triwheels with names all starting with "TriAspects..." show the aspects between two of the charts in the triwheel. Each triwheel shows the aspects for a different combination of two charts (i.e chart 1 to chart 2, chart 2 to chart 3, chart 1 to chart 3). It is recommended to use an Aspects file that uses tight orbs, and an Aspected Points file that only includes a small number of essential points, otherwise the number of aspect lines on the screen can often be an impenetrable mass that is difficult to read clearly.