An
AstroMap is a wonderful tool for astrologers and students of
astrology because it shows all places where an astrological
influence exists by drawing lines on a map. One problem with
AstroMaps is that you cannot see exactly how far from the line
the astrological influence extends - until now! Kepler has
overcome this problem with its unique AstroMapping capabilities
that show you how far the astrological influence extends. You
can produce AstroMaps in Kepler with blue-shaded orbs. These
blue-shaded show exactly how far the astrological influence
extends.
Also
available in Kepler are Treasure Maps. Treasure Maps, like
AstroMaps with blue-shaded orbs, show how far an astrological
influence extends, but go yet another step: with a Treasure
Map you can see precisely what areas are highlighted for areas
of interest, such as Love and Romance, or Vocation and Career!
Treasure Maps contain areas that are shaded from pale yellow
to bright red, showing how strong the astrological influences
are. Treasure Maps are not only beautiful; they also provide
you and your clients with the information you want: you can
see what areas are most conducive to the things that interest
you most. Treasure Maps utilize very sophisticated astrological
techniques that provides you with accurate and useful information.
You can also customize the astrological influences that are
analyzed to produce the Treasure Map and other AstroMaps in
Kepler.
The Treasure Map is a very useful and exciting alternative
to the other AstroMap styles. There are 10 different Treasure
Map styles:
* Each of these maps shows all of the astrological
influences that are relevant to that area of life.
~
Love and Romance
~ Vocation and Career
~ Friendship and Family
~ Imagination and Inspiration
~ Excitement and Instability Treasure Map |
~
Education and Communication
~ Culture and Creativity
~ Optimism and Opportunity
~ Responsibility and Focus
~ Detailed Friendship and Family |
OTHER
EXCITING FEATURES OF ASTROMAP: What do we mean by "appropriate
AstroMap style"?
When
selecting any AstroMap, you have options to select any country,
continent, or the entire world. You can zoom in or out, or
scroll, and you can also place a specific town or city in the
center of the map. Amazingly, as you zoom in, Kepler automatically
inserts more towns in your map so that you can see smaller
towns and cities on your map as you zoom in. Kepler can also
automatically add more astrological influences as you zoom
in as well. These "auto-adjusting" features make
it possible for you to obtain the information you want very
quickly and easily.
When
viewing a large area, such as the entire world, it is best
to pick out the most conspicuous areas, those areas that have
conjunctions and oppositions to the Asc and MC.
When
viewing a smaller area, such as a specific country, you are
zooming into a smaller area and can see the other astrological
influences, such as other aspects and midpoints to the Asc
and MC. Kepler automatically selects an appropriate level of
detail of the map for you, and allows you to easily change
it as well, giving you great ease of use as well as flexibility.
In the 1970's, 1980's, and most of the 1990's astrologers
generally produced AstroMaps of the entire world and included
only conjunctions and oppositions
to the Asc and MC, which is equivalent to Kepler's basic AstroMap Style of "No
Orbs, Just Lines" and specific style "1=Basic Map Con/Opp only".
These AstroMaps are excellent for seeing some overall tendencies in the world,
but miss many other important influences, just as if you were to interpret
a birth chart, but only interpret conjunctions and oppositions to the Asc and
MC but not other aspects, such as trines, sextiles, and squares. By selecting
a more specific geographic region, such as a country or state, you can include
these aspects to the Asc. and MC as well as midpoint structures as well if
desired. Many Kepler users have reported that the midpoint structures are very
powerful and important.
Suppose you selected an AstroMap interactively and you are looking at an AstroMap
of Europe with No Orbs, Just Lines, and you would like to see it with orbs.
Select AstroMap; the default values are for the map you are viewing, so you
can select the AstroMap with Blue-Shaded Orbs, and click on the OK button.
By defaulting the AstroMap to your previously selected AstroMap, you can quickly
and easily jump between different AstroMap styles for the same geographic area.
If you are selecting an AstroMap as a batch printout, the previously selected
AstroMaps appear in the lower right corner, and you can click on any previously
selected AstroMap to see the AstroMap selections, and change them or remove
the AstroMap.
Lastly, there is an "Asteroids" check box below the AstroMap Styles
selections. Checking this is a convenient way to change the AstroMap Style
to a similar one that has asteroids (or vice versa, un-check it to select a
similar AstroMap Style that does not have asteroids). This Asteroids check
box is completely optional; you can, of course, change the AstroMap style by
selecting the AstroMap style desired if you prefer. The Asteroids check box
is helpful to some users simply as a way of quickly identifying whether asteroids
have been selected. You can also add the 8 hypothetical Uranian planets.
MORE
COLORFUL AND USEFUL ASTROMAPS:
Blue-Shaded
Orb AstroMap: AstroMaps
for the 21st Century! AstroMaps are wonderful. You can
see lines going through the maps that show where a particular
planetary planet influence is very strong for you. However,
it is not possible to see exactly how far the influence
extends
away from the line, so you cannot determine exactly what
areas are affected by the lines. Now the Kepler program
allows you to print AstroMaps with a blue-shaded area surrounding
the aspect line so you can see what area the influence
extends
too. You can change the orb, if desired, as well. These
new AstroMaps with blue-shaded orbs make all other AstroMaps
obsolete. The AstroMap below shows an AstroMap for Mother
Teresa in Europe.
Treasure
Maps:
You can also print an AstroMap that focuses on certain areas
of life. There are 10 Treasure Maps that you can print from Kepler.
Click here to view a complete list.
The Love and Romance Treasure Map, for example, shows areas of the world where
love and romance are more likely to be drawn to you. The most powerful areas
are shaded in red, and less powerful areas are shaded in yellow. Treasure Maps
allow you to provide the information that your customers really want to know
about. The Treasure Map, like the Profile Time Line discussed above, is calculated
based on the strength that you give each aspect, and also the orb of the aspect
in that location. For example, you can give 10 points to Venus conjunct the
relocated Ascendant, and 8 points to Venus sextile the relocated Ascendant
if you like. Many of our customers have found that including midpoints in their
AstroMaps improves their accuracy. Earlier versions of Kepler allowed you to
include aspects and midpoints in an AstroMap, but did not allow you to produce
AstroMaps with shaded regions. You can also change which aspects are included
in an AstroMap and the orbs used. By the way, if these technicalities make
your head spin in confusion, don't worry, you don't have to get involved in
these technical details if you don't want to.
Map Guides: Kepler
has the ability to print a listing of what the lines in an
AstroMap mean. You can give this to your customers (and study
it yourself as well, of course) to learn what all those lines
and colored areas on your map mean!
Astrolocality
Report: This
feature is very handy, unique and an awesome feature of
Kepler. While an AstroMap is viewed on the screen, you
can click on any point on the map. The interpretation for
that specific point is then displayed on the screen. The
Astrolocality report is an astrological analysis of what
you are likely to experience in the cities and towns that
you selected is given. The astrological influences that
are strongest begin with three asterisks (***) and appear
at the beginning of the report. Next are the influences
with one asterisk (*), which are strong but not as important
as the astrological influences that have three asterisks.
The astrological influences with no asterisks are at the
end of report and are weakest, but they are also significant
in your life.
The
AstroLocality Report uses astrological methods developed through
the latter half of the 20th century, and refined through extensive
research, some of which is described in the book "AstroLocality
Magic".
Technical Features
of AstroMaps: There
are 2 ways that astrologers calculate AstroMaps: in longitude
and in mundo. A discussion of these technicalities would
be quite lengthy, so weI won't get into it now, but suffice
it to say that astrologers typically make calculations
in longitude; that is how birth charts and the vast majority
of astrological analyses are done. However, some astrologers
prefer to calculate AstroMaps using in mundo positions.
In Kepler Version 4.6 you can easily select either in mundo
or longitude positions for traditional AstroMaps. For AstroMaps
with blue-shaded orbs and Treasure Maps you must use longitude.
In Kepler we made it much easier to switch between in mundo
positions and longitude positions. If using in mundo positions,
you can also include aspects and midpoint structures. An
AstroMap with in mundo aspects is very interesting; the
planetary aspect lines criss-cross each other in the map
rather than being mostly parallel.
Distance Between
any point on the Map: If
you left click on the AstroMap, an ellipse will be drawn
and the size of the ellipse will be shown in the upper
right corner of the screen. This ellipse allows you to
see how many miles and kilometers nearby areas are from
any point. If you left click again, a line will be drawn
between the previously selected point and the new point,
and the distance between two points is given. This feature
is very handy when you are planning to travel and want
to know the distance between cities in each specific georaphic
areas.
Other AstroMap
Styles: You
can also produce Geodetic
Reference and Geodetic
Planet AstroMaps, Zodiac
Sign AstroMaps, and Local
Space and Horizon AstroMaps with
the Kepler program.