Description
Astro Gold for macOS is the latest in reliable and elegant astrology software for the Mac computer. This new software app has a similar feature set and design to the much loved iOS app of the same name and has been developed by the highly successful creators of the much-loved Solar Fire software for PC.
Along with high precision calculations you can also read professional astrological interpretations. Astro Gold for Mac features Natal, Transit, Solar Return, Lunar Return, Progression and Synastry interpretations.
The app is clean, clear and precise, and uses the latest Swiss Ephemeris and ACS Atlas files. If you love astrology and want a professional-looking astrology app then look no further. If you are a user of the Solar Fire® PC program then you can easily exchange chart files with it as well as with your Astro Gold for iPhone and iPad.
Astro Gold includes Astro Locality Mapping, with zoomable and pannable maps, popup interpretations and even complete relocation reports!
Astro Gold’s maps come in two styles – satellite and map. The choice is yours. You also have a selectable display of country and major city names, and if needed you can use the angular distance measuring tool by using mouse click and drag.
Astrological features include the ability to display MC/IC/Rise/Set and Local Direction lines, using either Zodiacal or In Mundo option. Astro Gold features pop-up interpretations for all line annotations and PDF relocation interpretations report for any user-selected location.
Once you have settled on your map and location then you have a variety of image share options – a nifty selection for today’s social media.
Professional Reports for Astro Gold. Would you like to know more about your own birth chart, written by a professional astrologer and writer?
These are carefully-crafted, beautifully illustrated astrology reports, written by experienced, professional astrologers. They are perfect for any astrology enthusiast wanting to create high-quality astrological reports on their Mac.
Once you have created your report you can read it, email it, message it, copy it, send it, print it or export it as a PDF file to other apps that accept PDF files, such as iBooks or DropBox.
These reports also make wonderful gifts for family, friends and acquaintances!
To learn more about exactly what is included in each report type, in the Astro Gold app:
- Read “About” – obtain a more detailed description of each particular report type by selecting the pro reps button, selecting the report, and then selecting the “About” button at the bottom of the window.
- Create a Sample Report – you can create one or more samples of any report type just by selecting the report and then selecting the “Sample PDF” button. This generates a report based on a randomly named and dated chart, and saves it to your list of saved reports, in exactly the same manner as if you had licensed the report.
Please note that use of these reports requires the Astro Gold v2.4 or higher to be running on your computer. Use Astro Gold / Check for Updates to make sure you are up to date.
Report types that are available include:
- Birth Chart – An illustrated report interpreting your natal chart.
- Birthday – A Solar Return report.
- Child – A birth chart report for a child or youth.
- Adolescent – a report for teenagers
- Family – a birth chart report based on family
- Lunar Return – A monthly report for lunar returns.
- My Pet – A report for your dog, cat or other pet.
- Predictive – Interpretations and timing of transits for the year ahead.
- Relationship – Interpretation of the synastry between two people’s birth charts.
- Vocation – Psychological insights into Vocation
- The Big Three (Sun, Moon and Ascendant)
The reports all have an easy to read introduction and astrological interpretations for each of the sections.
Astro Gold Pro Report Writers allow you to produce as many reports from as many charts as like on each topic purchased.
You can print, save and email each report generated. You can also read more about each of the available Professional Report types, as well as obtaining free samples, within the app.
Astro Gold for Mac features all that you could want when it comes to calculating Charts
- Cast Natal charts, Transit charts, Solar, Lunar, Lunar Phase and any Planet Return charts, Secondary Progressed charts, Solar Arc Directed charts and Relationship or Composite charts, Harmonic, Harmonic Age and Antiscia charts
- Save charts to file and open charts from your Chart files and Edit or Re-open a recently used chart.
- Easily print charts or dials or send images by email
- Display bi-wheels, tri-wheels, quad-wheels or dials, Select 1, 2, 3 or 4 charts at a time for display and Choose an Aspect grid with aspects of longitude and declination or Synastry Grids.
- Interactive interpretations — just a double mouse click gives you interpretations for an individual point, its sign, house, and aspects.
- Easily switch between Wheel, Grid and Dial view
- Chart Explorer – a novel, powerful tool for quickly finding additional information relating to any chart point clicked on a chart wheel or dial
- Drag dial pointer, or just click on any planet in any ring to jump pointer to that position
- Set aspected chart points to display on charts
- Animate or step charts through time
- Run a transits, progressions or directions chart as a real-time Clock
- Uses Swiss Ephemeris for state of the art precision in astronomical calculations – ephemeris range 1200 BC to 2400 AD.
- Uses full ACS Atlas, with 250,000+ locations from around the world, and comprehensive world time zone history
Astro Gold also has 44 available Displayed chart points including:
- Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, North Node, South Node
- Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hygeia, Astraea, Sedna, Eris
- Vulcan, Lilith, Selena, TransPluto, Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollo, Admetos, Vulcanus, Poseidon, The White Moon
- Ascendant, Midheaven, Vertex, East Point, Part of Fortune, CoAscendant, Polar Ascendant
- Aries Point, Libra Point
- Option of Extra display points including Midpoints, Minor Bodies, Lots/Parts, Stars, Fixed positions, Nodes/Apsides
A special feature of Astro Gold includes Interactive interpretations — just a double mouse click gives you interpretations for an individual point, its sign, house, and aspects.
Other features include:
- Chart Explorer – a novel, powerful tool for quickly finding additional information relating to any chart point clicked on a chart wheel or dial
- Set Aspected chart points to display on charts
- Drag dial pointer, or just click on any planet in any ring to jump pointer to that position
- Animate or step charts through time
- Run a transits, progressions or directions chart as a real-time Clock
- Choice of house systems: Campanus, Koch, Meridian, Morinus, Placidus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Equal, Zero Aries, Solar Sign, Whole Sign, Bhava, Alcabitius, PF on 1st, Ascendat on 1st, Vertex on 7th, + Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, EastPoint, Part of Fortune, Ascendant and Node on 1st, Vertex on 7th, MC on 10th
- Zodiac type (Tropical, Draconic or 8 different sidereal zodiacs including Fagan-Allen, Lahiri, DeLuce, Raman, UshaShashi, Krishnamurti, Djwhal Khul, SVP 0 deg 0′)
- A wide range of AstroSheet options presenting arrangements of charts, grids and listing of various types of astrological information such as: Syzygys & eclipses, Lunar phases, Sun sign wheels, Midpoints, Essential dignities, House dignities, Planetary sect, Dignities/horary, Dignities/sects, Nearest lunar aspects, Firdaria, Profections, Life time arcs, Lunar mansions, Zodiacal releasings, Fixed stars, Arabic parts, Balance of elements, modes, polarities, Asteroids, Minor planets, Planetary nodes and apsides.
- Uses Swiss Ephemeris for state of the art precision in astronomical calculations – ephemeris range 1200 BC to 2400 AD.
Astro Gold also helps you gain insights into your astrology with a range of Reports
You can read your Basic chart details report or move on to additional report information including:
- Attractive hi-res wheels, dials and grids
- Single Chart Wheels and Dials
- Bi-Wheels and Dials
- Tri-wheels and Dials
- Aspect grid with aspects of longitude and declination
- Synastry grids
- Basic chart details report
- Essential dignities report
- Chart aspects report (sorted by planet or by orb)
- Interpretations reports
- Dynamic listings with many customisable options, including
- time span
- transiting, progressed and directed planet/s and radix planet/s
- aspects
- enter/leave orb events
- planetary stations
- house ingresses
- sign ingresses
- Graphic ephemeris with many customisable options, including
- degree span (harmonic 1 to 12)
- time span
- transiting, progressed or directed planet/s
- sign ingresses
- display radix planet/s and aspects
- display lunation points
You can choose your own Settings
If you want to change the Settings in Astro Gold simply Click on the Preferences button and change them starting with your Aspect set with editable aspect orbs, including different applying/separating orbs.
- Displayed chart points (44 points available)
- Aspected chart points
- Aspect set with editable aspect orbs, including different applying/separating orbs
- Wheel display options
- planet colors
- sign colors
- aspect colours
- wheel and dial styles (many supplied styles to choose from and edit or create from Wheel Editor)
- dial degrees (22.5/30/45/60/90/120/180/360) and maximum orb
- dark/light background
- auto-selcted chart background color to reflect chart type (natal, transits, progressions, directions)
- proportional houses on or off
- aspect lines & glyphs on or off
- stationary options
- thicker/thinner lines for orb size
- Wheel editor to create your own wheels
- Chart calculation options
- zodiac type (tropical, draconic or 8 different sidereal zodiacs including Fagan-Allen, Lahiri, DeLuce, Raman, UshaShashi, Krishnamurti and Djwhal Khul, SVP 00)
- house system (25+ systems available including House Systems – Campanus, Koch, Meridian, Morinus, Placidus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Equal, Zero Aries, Solar Sign, Whole Sign, Bhava, Alcabitius, PF on 1st, Ascendat on 1st, Vertex on 7th, + Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, EastPoint, Part of Fortune, Ascendant and Node on 1st, Vertex on 7th, MC on 10th)
- lunar node type
- part of fortune type
- lunar parallax correction
- black moon type
- dignity term type
- dignity triplicity type
- dignity MR type
- firdaria type
- angle progressions type
- Your home location (for transits charts)
- Your home location (for transits charts)
Atlas
- Uses full ACS Atlas, with 250,000+ locations from around the world, and comprehensive world timezone history
- Set your home location (for transits charts)
Calculations
- Uses Swiss Ephemeris for state of the art precision in astronomical calculations – ephemeris range 10,000 BCE to 10,000 CE.
Online Users Manual
- Astro Gold has an Online Users Manual (i) on your main screen, which is regularly updated as well as an active group Astro Gold Astrologers Forum on FaceBook and a Page which contains regular updates.
Requirements
- Astro Gold is a 64-bit Universal App which is optimized for and runs natively on both Intel and M1 Apple Silicon chip computers
- Screen size 1024×768 or higher
- Astro Gold version 5.6.3 will run on any Mac running MacOS 10.11 or higher
- Astro Gold version 5.6.4 and higher will run on any Mac running MacOS 10.13 or higher.
Astro Gold Price: Only AUD$350 (or local currency equivalent)
- Once you have purchased Astro Gold, you may then also like to purchase one or more Professional Reports
- Astro Gold Pro Report Writers allow you to produce as many reports from as many charts as you like on each topic purchased
