Chart Settings

Chart Settings - Wheel

The Chart Settings window consists of several thematic tabs of options for calculating and displaying horoscope charts. The Wheel tab contains settings for customizing the chart wheel.

The Chart Settings - Wheel 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 "Wheel" button at the top of the window, or typing the 'W' key.

Chart Wheel

To display a horoscope wheel on the Chart tableau the Chart Wheel panel checkbox must be checked ON.

Show planet degree
Displays the planet's longitude within a sign as an ordinal number (i.e. 1st, 2nd, ... 30th degree) next to the planet's glyph on the chart wheel. The font size for displaying the planet degree is set on the Chart Settings - Font tab. (Planet glyph info tooltips continue to display longitudes in full).

The rightmost checkbox allows display both Degrees and Minutes near planet glyphs.
Indicate retrograde planets
Posts the symbol _R next to glyphs on the wheel of planets which are in retrograde motion.
Use circular glyph shifting
When the right box is checked, planet glyphs are displayed as if on a ring, and displaced laterally to avoid collisions. If unchecked, collisions of glyphs are avoided by moving glyphs radially away from the center of the wheel as necessary.
"Radial shifting only" (left box) prevents circular glyph shifting, at the expense of glyphs of different chart rings in complex charts possibly overlapping.
Colored planets
When checked, displays the planets using the colors individually set for them on the Chart Settings - Planets tab. When unchecked, displays the planets uniformly in the color specified on the Chart Settings - Color tab for Inner ring planets and for Outer ring planets.
The "Colored planets in Tables" (left box) option allows to paint planet's glyphs in tables with individual color.
The "Paint planet by nearest aspect's color" (right box) option paints planet's glyphs in a chart wheel by color of existing coinside aspect with minimal orb.
Zodiac sectors
When checked, sectors the chart wheel according to the zodiac signs. The color of the sectoring lines is set with the "Planet rings borders" option on the Chart Settings - Color tab.
Emphasized angles
When the right box is checked, cusps of angular houses are highlighted using bold lines.
The "Show angles only" (left box) option removes intermediate house cusp lines from the wheel, and displays only the cusp lines of the angular houses.
Extended house lines
When the right box is checked, the lines of house cusps are extended beyond the zodiac ring. The length of the extension is controlled by the "Outer ring of wheel" slider on the Chart Settings - Size tab.
The "Additional elements" (left box) option decorates the extended cusps of the Ascendant and MC to enhance their visibility.
Cusp numbers
Enumerates the house cusps (in Roman numerals) on the wheel: left checkbox for the outer ring houses of dual charts, right checkbox for single charts and the inner ring houses of dual charts.
House numbers
Enumerates the houses on the wheel (numbers are centered in the house sector): left checkbox for the outer ring houses of dual charts, right checkbox for single charts and the inner ring houses of dual charts.
Cusp degrees
If the "Cusp numbers" option has been selected (see above option), this setting displays the longitude of the cusp (as an ordinal degree) next to the cusp number.
Lunar phases and eclipses
The three checkboxes control the display of information about the last and next New and Full moons (and eclipses, if relevant) on the tableau.
The right box displays glyphs for events proximate in time to the event data on the chart wheel. These glyphs are mouse-sensitive - pause the mouse over them for tooltip info, i.e. date, longitude, etc.
If the left box is checked, only glyphs for the prenatal syzygy are displayed on the wheel.
When the middle box is checked, eclipse details are displayed as text at bottom left of the tableau.
Moon Mansions
When checked ON, displays a ring of Mansions of the Moon on the chart wheel. The drop-down listbox at right allows selection of a system of mansions. Predefined systems include:
28 Tropical - 28 equal mansions segmenting the ecliptic from the vernal equinox of the tropical zodiac,
28 Sidereal - 28 equal mansions segmenting the ecliptic from 0° Aries in the sidereal zodiac,
27 Sidereal - 27 equal mansions segmenting the ecliptic from 0° Aries in the sidereal zodiac.
It is also possible to define other Moon Mansions Systems.
Moon Void
Displays when, and for how long, the Moon is next 'void-of-course', i.e. does not perfect an aspect with any planet before its ingress into the following zodiac sign. The right box when checked displays the arc traveled by the Moon during this period by highlighting a segment of the inner boundary ring of the chart wheel. (This segment has an info tooltip).
"Moon Void, Text" (left box) setting displays the time and duration of the void-of-course period at bottom left of the Chart tableau. If the Moon is void-of-course for the current (core) event data, the text is bold.

When this option is selected, the Mundane Aspects of the Moon calendar (see Astrological Tables) for the month of the event data is calculated automatically and saved in the [ZET]\MoonAsp folder, as it is used to calculate the void-of-course period. (See below for setting up the procedure).

NOTE. If you change the type of Zodiac, or aspects' orbs, or select a different orb table, you should delete the contents of the MoonAsp folder before recalculating the calendars.
Moon Void Calculation Setup
Clicking this button displays a dialog for inputting the dates (years) between which the Mundane Aspects of the Moon calendar will be automatically calculated if the event data falls in this range. The Files button opens a Moon Mundane Aspects Files selector dialog - you can use this to delete, etc calendar files. If the chart date (core data) falls outside this range, the calendar is not calculated, and void-of-course information is not displayed.
Hightlight Planets
When this option is selected, then moving a mouse over planet glyphs of coordinate table leads to hightlight corresponding planet in a chart wheel.

Direction of Houses

This panel allows you to select on which side of the chart wheel the 'East Point' is located, and the direction in which houses are numbered round the wheel:

Anticlockwise - locates the East Point of the wheel (normally the Ascendant) conventionally at the left of the wheel, and houses are numbered in an anti-clockwise direction.
Clockwise - locates the East Point of the wheel on the right (as used by some astrologers), and houses are numbered from this point in a clockwise direction.

Uranian Chart

The options on this panel are used in Uranian astrology:

Dial - when checked, substitutes the Uranian 90° harmonic dial for the traditional horoscope wheel.
Pointer - when checked, displays the special pointer (red arrow) for selecting and viewing midpoint pictures. The pointer is rotated by clicking and dragging with the mouse anywhere along its length, or by using the Pointer's Tool (see below).
MP Tree - when the pointer is enabled, this option displays the midpoints trees found by the pointer in its current orientation as a list in the center of the dial. The list can be scrolled using the Up and Down arrow cursor keys or with the mouse by clicking the black arrows at top and bottom right in the list.
Pointer's Tool button - click to open the Pointer control panel. The panel is also opened using the Alt+U hot-key.

Planets buttons advance the pointer clockwise and anticlockwise to the next planet of the currently aspecting ring. The aspecting ring is selected using the Direction of Aspects (Alt+A) window.
Degrees buttons move the pointer in increments of one degree.
Minutes buttons move the pointer by one arc-minute.
"Move Pointer" button is a toggle which, when clicked down, results in the pointer being automatically positioned according to a formula. Formulae are selected from the list at the bottom of the dialog. The value of the formula, and the position of the pointer, is given at right of the button.
Formulae are based on the schema of Uranian astrology, where 'O' represents any planet:
- O+O - sum
- O-O - difference
- O/O - half-sum
- O+O-O - sensitive point
- (O+O)/(O/O) - midpoint of sum and half-sum
- (O/O)/(O/O) - double half-sum.
The numbers under the planet glyphs in the formula selection box refer to the chart ring in which the planet is located (the innermost ring is 1). If a single chart is under consideration, ring numbers are not shown.
To use the schema, you must instantiate each parameter by selecting a planet for it. To select a planet:
1. Click the mouse on a '0' place-holder (or a planet glyph, if the formula was previously instantiated). ZET's Status bar displays the prompt: "Select a planet on the wheel".
2. Indicate the planet from the chart ring you require by clicking its glyph with the mouse. The selected planet is substituted into the formula. If a chart is not single, the planet's ring number is also displayed.
3. Repeat the above steps for all parameters of the formulae.
Formulae are recalculated dynamically when the event data changes.

"Compass"

When the Horizontal system of coordinates is used (see Chart Settings - Zodiac tab), selecting this option converts the chart wheel graphic into a Local Space chart: