Astro.com is a sorrowful application as based on Walter Pullen's astrolog program. The same program can be used otherwise with the -F switch that turns it into a powerful tool that shows the real position of the planets. There are not many astrologers on the planet and those who are already do not use any program, do they need one, being astrologers? The ones I know developed their own programs, mostly Debian distro. These programs show the real position of the planets. I have found that even Solar Fire, obsolete by 1982? has a planetarium albeit primitive. SKYGLOBE is recommended for incipient astrologers. What is more dangerous than programs are the so called even Vedic ??? ephemeris that have nothing to do with the sky. I have posted the correct ephemeris for free on this tribe, why not take a look? All programs, even shitty astro.ch by Alois Treindl, the corrupt scientist, are NASA based. If I post NASA I do not offend Treindl, I put his false ego on guard against scientific truth to which he swore being a scientist. The devil even personal feeds upon emanations from supersition, will crush your marriage and 7th hoiuse because you do not want to know the real western horizon. He has been doing it for aeons, and you are nothing uncrushable, really. He crushed Newton, Nostradamus and Galileo, who had at least bits of true mind. It will be easy to crush you, unless, ...

The first program I used was solarfire. But it is a total rip off, imo. I bought it at around $300 4 years ago!
It depends on how complicated you operate.
I don't really go too much in depth into astrology.
The most technical I get is transits and synastry between charts.
So solarfire was a bit over the top for me. as I was not really using it to its full potential.

Later I came across a free program called astrology for windows. It was a nice simple program that somehow replaced solarfire. I found that its transit and synastry calculator to be more user friendly than solarfire's. barebones, but more effective in the end for simple users such as myself.

Well i don't use it anymore because now I am on a mac and its not available for mac.

Here are a few astrology programs, free ones first, then some others:
zanestein.com/AstrologyFA...freesoftware

The ones I use the most:
Astrolog, Riyal (free)
SolarFire Gold, Winstar Pro (purchased)

I really like SolarFire Gold, but then I do a lot of astrological research and it has a lot to offer from that perspective. It also has some very fancy looking charts, great for the cover page if you are printing a report for a client.
Winstar Pro has some very clean-looking charts, without the bells and whistles, and some people prefer that look for the charts they give clients.

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