Chart Settings - Miscellanea

The Chart Settings window consists of several thematic tabs of options for calculating and displaying horoscope charts. The Miscellanea tab contains new additional options and settings.

The Chart Settings - Miscellanea tab is opened by first:

• selecting "Settings" | "Chart Settings" from the main menu, or
• clicking the  "Options" Toolbar button and selecting "Chart Settings..." from the menu, or
• right-clicking in the Chart tableau and selecting "Chart Settings..." from the popup menu, or
• double-clicking in an empty region of the Chart tableau.

Then by clicking the  "Misc." button at the top of the window, or typing the 'M' key.

The settings are contained on two sub-tabs, selected by clicking the vertical tabs at left of the window.

The "Stationary planet velocity fraction" entryfield allows setting a threshold velocity below which a planet will be treated as stationary. Stationary planets are displayed in the planets list with a superscript ^s adjacent the glyph. The threshold is defined as a decimal fraction of the planet's average speed. By default it is 0.1 (10%), but you can input any other value.

In considering how the mutual aspects in a dual chart develop over time, some techniques require that one set of planets be treated as fixed (in time) and the other set as mobile.


• Fixed outer wheel - immobilizes the outer wheel, for example, during rectification of a natal chart, so that the sensitivity of the initial (core natal) data can be investigated,
• Fixed inner wheel - immobilizes the inner wheel, for example, when investigating transiting planets in the outer (background data) wheel.

Checkmark the box to display a second belt of zodiac signs in the chart wheel in addition to the main zodiac belt, e.g. Sidereal in addition to Tropical, or Tropical in addition to Sidereal. Also 10- or 8-signs Zodiac, tropical or sidereal.

10-signs Zodiac contains: Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.

8-signs Zodiac contains: Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius.

For the "Alphabet" belt used [ZET]\LANGUAGE\English\Alphabet.txt file. If you wish you can modify it to display any set of characters.

The position of a planet in the second zodiac is displayed in parentheses in the chart wheel info tooltip, and on the status line, whenever the mouse pointer is paused over the planet glyph.

When the geographical latitude of the event data is north of 67 degrees or south of -67 degrees, some houses systems (e.g. Placidus) do not work properly. In such cases, if this option is checkmarked, ZET will switch automatically to using the house system you selected from the drop-down listbox, e.g. 'Equal by MC'.

This facility, activated by setting the checkbox, allows you to specify separate subsets of the planets for each ring of complex charts. The filter is particularly relevant to astro*carto*graphy, and allows for example the Cyclo*carto*graphy technique of David Meadows to be realized, i.e. combining natal ACG lines with a display of lines for the progressed planets Sun thru Mars, and the transiting planets Jupiter...Pluto.

Each column of the filter table (2...7) corresponds to a ring of the complex chart. Click the mouse in a cell to switch the filter flag. Activated planets are indicated by the vertical bar (|) symbol.

This option displays lines, which connects planet's glyph with appropriate planet's marker at a chart.

These options allow the use of index marks on the inside of the planet ring(s) of the chart wheel to indicate the exact position of planets. This may be found useful with dual/complex charts where one of the Use circular glyph shifting options has been set (see Wheel tab). The options are:


• No index marks,
• Circle index marks,
• Line index marks.
  
  The Length of Marker slider allows you to adjust the length of the marker, if you have selected the "Line" option above.
  
  The colors of the index marks can be set individually for the core and background planet data sets on the Color tab.

Choose one kind of house almutens calculation:
• Almuten is a ruler of Sign on a cusp of this House.
• Almuten by Alcabitius.

See Chart Settings, Data, Almuten of house.

Choose one kind of the "Via Combusta" description:
• 15 Libra - 15 Scorpio.
• 25 Libra - 6 Scorpio.
• +-10 from Antares.

The Degree Overview window is opened by selecting the menu item from the popup menus of planet glyphs and cusp numbers on the chart wheel. It can also be opened by pausing the mouse pointer over the outer rim of the chart wheel, and clicking the mouse when the pointer icon changes to a page icon.
 
• Graphic pane - adds a sub-pane in the window with a graphic representation of the zodiac degree and the objects located in the degree. (NOTE: when unchecked, and the "Degree of House" option is checked, the resulting window comprises the titlebar only),
• Zodiac degree - displays interpretation text for the degree, drawn from the Sabian Symbols theme of the Operational bookshelf of the Library. If the theme is not selected on the Operational bookshelf, no text is displayed.
• Degree of House - not used in the English version due to non-availability of appropriate interpretation texts.
• Auto-closing window - when checked ON, the Degree Overview window closes when the mouse button press which invoked it is released.

  The Degree Overview window can display activated Arabic Parts, all items from the Catalog of Asteroids (if the "Current Date" regime setting is selected), and stars (according to the specified star filter).

(This option enabled only fo Geo version)

The "Mundane aspects" based on a function to compute the house position of a given body, i.e. in which house it is (so called "Mundane Zodiac", in which all houses are stretched or shortened to a size of 30 degrees.). E.g. the mundane aspect between the planet in 15th degree of 1st house and the palnet in 15th degree of 3rd house - is always sextil, independently of distance between these planets in normal ecliptic Zodiac.

If consider the mundane aspects in a dual chart, then e.g. conjunction takes a place not with visual imposition of two planets, but when they located in the same degree of same house. E.g. natal Saturn in 19th degree of 8th natal house, transiting Mercury in 19th degree of 8th transit house. This is a mundane conjunction in spite of the fact than the natal Saturn and transit Mercury are located in other signs.



The "Mundane astects" option works only for following house systems: Placidus, Koch (not for high latitudes), Regiomontanus, Campanus, Equal by Asc, Vehlow). Switching on of this option indicates by appropriate inscription in left top screen corner (systems).

The value of house position of planets is possible to display in coordinate table, if in additional data (chart settings, data) to switch on the "Mundane position" option (as for inner, as for outher rings). The value of house position is between 1.0 and 12.999999, indicating in which house a planet is and how far from its cusp it is.

The mundane position differ from "House Degree", which displays in additional data separatelly.

Note: some program's functions not consider the "Mundane aspects" option or not compatible with it, so be carefull with using it.

There is an option of displaying "Doriphoros" and "Auriga" planets on a chart, and possibility to setup any set of planets, recognised as Doriphoros and Auriga (also used in astro-formulae calculation).

Doriphoros (doryphory) the planet rises directly before Sun. Auriga: the planet sets directly before Sun.

To select a planet click it's glyph by mouse. Selected one is black, unselected is gray.

This function is not availabel in Lite version.

The "Local Space Map" function as a variant of the Local Space Astrology for nearest surroundings, e.g. apartment, city, and so on. The function bases at the image of an apartment's draft (or city map). See Local Space Map of Astrocartography chapter.

The "Local Space Map" flag switches on displaying of the appropriate map.

In the "Image file" field it need to specify the path to the image-file of chart.

The "Consider Magnetic Declination" option should checked on if you use the magnetic compass for orientation.

The compass points in the directions of the horizontal component of the magnetic field where the compass is located, and not to any single point. Knowing the magnetic declination angle between true north and the horizontal trace of the magnetic field for your location allows you to correct your compass for the magnetic field in your area. A mile or two away the magnetic declination may be considerably different, requiring a different correction.

To get a value of magnetic declination click the "Calculate" button and follow NGDC on-line magnetic declination calculator where you can enter your location (or zip code for the USA). Remember: east declination is positive, west negative.