Astro Gold macOS 6 User Guide

The "Charts" menu is where you can access all basic chart functionality. You can create/open up to four charts to work with at any one time, swapping their display positions in wheels, dials and grids as needed.

You can:

•create new natal and event charts

•save charts

•create subsidiary charts for natal and event charts

•open and edit saved charts

•print charts and reports

•copy chart images for pasting directly into other documents

•save charts as graphic files

•remove a currently selected chart (as long as it isn't the only selected chart)

For all the details on creating and using charts see Creating, Saving, Opening and Editing charts.

Favorite charts

At any time you can designate any chart you've previously saved and are working with to be a favorite chart.

Say you regularly like to work with three charts - your natal chart at the center of a triWheel, your current progressed chart in the middle wheel, and the current transits in the outer wheel. After you have created and saved these three charts, you can then designate each to be a 'favorite' chart.

Then whenever you start a new Astro Gold session, for each chart position you can quickly go to its "Favorites" menu option and select the relevant chart for that position from the charts listed there.

NOTE:  This sub-menu for each chart (shown above for Chart 2) is also accessible in the "Selection Charts Pane" via each chart's "Select" button. For details see the next topic Creating, Saving, Opening and Editing charts.

TIP:        Another way to designate a chart to be a favorite is to click on the star in the chart's details area in the "Selected Charts" pane. After you click on the star it becomes a gold color to show it's selected as a favorite chart. If you click on it again it loses its status as a 'favorite chart'.

Working charts

Similar to creating a collection of favorite charts for ready access, you can also create a collection (up to 20) of working charts. A collection of working charts might be comprised of charts that are both favorites and not favorites, or none that are favorites. What it is designed for is more of temporary set of charts you want to be on hand for a specific project or other purpose. Then when that purpose is fulfilled you'd clear the working charts collection.

•You can access the working collection of charts from the Charts menu, then selecting a chart position, then its Working menu option, finally selecting from the collection the chart you want to be in that position.

•You can also select Add to Working to add the chart currently displayed in the outermost wheel in the Viewing Area to the collection.

•You can also clear the entire collection of Working charts by clicking on the Clear Working menu option.

 

 

>> Other ways you can access and use the collection of Working Charts:

•In the Selected Charts pane, for any chart position clicking on the Select button, then on the Working menu option. This opens the working charts the same as pictured above, and you can do the same as described above.

•In the Open Charts dialog, you can select more than one chart by holding down the Command button while clicking on the charts you want to open; or clicking on a chart, then holding down the Shift key and clicking on a different chart.

•If you have between two and four charts selected when you then click on the Select button, a dropdown menu opens with two options:

a) Open # Charts   (where # is the number of charts you selected)

b) Add # Charts to Working Charts   (where # is the number of charts you selected)
 
If you select to "Open # Charts" they will replace all the chart(s) already in the "Selected Charts" pane, opening sequentially as they appear in the list and populating the chart positions from Chart 1 downwards, in the same order as opened.

If you select "Add # Charts to Working Charts" the selected charts will be added to the collection (up to 20).          

•If you have more than four charts selected when you then click on the Select button, a dropdown menu opens with the single option, shown below. It functions just the same as described directly above.

- Add # Charts to Working Charts   (where # is the number of charts you selected)

 

 

•In the (extended) Event Search dialog (opened from the Toolbar), when calculating an event that has been found, in the dropdown menu that opens when you click the Calculate button there is the option to add the event chart to the collection of Working charts.

 

Remove chart

If you are working with more than one chart a handy feature is the ability to remove one of the charts from the Selected Charts pane. This is especially so if the chart was in one of the middle rings, as previously the only way to remove it was to move all the charts in more outer rings in a ring, one at a time (by reselecting them all), then reduce the number of selected charts by one.

You can do this from the "Charts" menu by selecting the sub-menu for the chart you want to remove, then selecting the Remove option on the sub-menu.