Astro Gold iOS 9 User Guide

Tap the Settings tab in the TAB Bar to display the "Settings" screen. Here you can configure AstroGold with your preferred chart points and aspects etc, plus export your charts. Tap on the setting you want to view or change.

 

Displayed Chart Points

Allows selection of which chart points are shown in charts and reports.

Tapping on any point toggles it or off (turns it on if it was previously off, and turns it off if it was previously on). When it's on it has a tick to the right of its name and no tick when it's off, plus it is very faint text when it's off.

Tapping on the Edit button in the top right corner of the "Displayed Points" screen allows you to change the order the points in which points are displayed in aspect grids etc. To change the order just drag the point (by the three gray horizontal bars to the right of the point name) to the position in the list where you want it - tap on the Done button in the Toolbar when you have finished editing.

To exit the "Displayed Points" screen tap on < Settings in the top left corner of the screen.

Points available:

•The Moon

•The Sun

•Vulcan

•Mercury

•Venus

•Mars

•Jupiter

•Saturn

•Uranus

•Neptune

•Pluto

•Chiron

•Vesta

•Pallas

•Juno

•Ceres

•Hygeia

•Astrea

•North Node

•South Node

•Ascendant

•Midheaven

•Vertex

•The Equatorial Ascendent

•Part of Fortune

•Cupido

•Hades

•Zeus

•Kronos

•Apollon

•Admetos

•Vulcanus

•Poseidon

•TransPluto

•Lilith

•The CoAscendant

•The Polar Asc

•Aries Point

•Libra Point

•The White Moon

•Sedna

•Eris

The Lilith available is the Black Moon Lilith, and the White Moon is also know as Selena (see Calculation Methods)

Aspected Chart Points

Allows selection of which chart points have aspect lines shown in the central circle of a wheel, as well as whether or not they appear in aspect reports. Tapping on a point toggles its selection on and off (turns it on if it was previously off, and turns it off if it was previously on). When it's on it has a tick to the right of its name and no tick when it's off, plus it is very faint text when it's off.

Aspects

Allows selection and editing of aspects sets and individual orbs for different aspect types. See here for all the info.

Wheels & Colors

Allows selection of planet colors, sign glyph colors, sign fill colors, aspect colors, uni/bi/triWheel styles, background style, and other display on/off options for: proportional houses, aspect lines, aspect glyphs and shadowed glyphs.

 

Colors

The colors for chart components - planets, signs, sign fills and aspects - all work the same.

To set the color for a component tap on the > on the right of the component. This opens a screen for selecting the color set for the component, with all possible color sets in a list. Simply tap on the color set you want - it will be selected and you'll be returned to the Wheels and Colors screen.

Wheel function/purpose

When you explore the options for wheel styles in the graphic above (UniWheel, BiWheel or TriWheel), you can see AstroGold comes with various different wheel styles for you to choose from in each category.  

If you want to see the retrograde symbol in a single chart wheel then choose UniWheel AstroGoldR.wh1.

Likewise if you also want to see it in BiWheels choose BiWheel AstroGoldR.wh2.

Note: due to limited space available when displaying TriWheels, there is no TriWheel design that displays R (retrograde) symbols.

The wheels are named in a fairly self explanatory way to describe what they are designed for, or to do. Further explanation for some of the UniWheels  ...

DecRuler.wh1:        shows the Decanate rulers

SgnRuler.wh1:        shows the Sign rulers

TermsPtol.wh1:        shows Ptolemaic term rulers

TermsEgyp.wh1:        shows Egyptian term rulers

Add visual depth to your charts by using the UniWwheel styles DecTermsEgyp.wh1 and DecTermsPtol.wh1. These designs include outer rings showing Decan and Terms rulers, using Egyptian and Ptolemaic systems respectively.

 

There are wheel styles for single charts (in the UniWheel Style options) that can display Decanate and Sign rulers for the chart planets, plus the Terms for the chart (see here for info on Terms).

 

Other Options

These are all simple on/off switches for each option. Pressing down on the white circular slider drag it right to turn the option ON (it goes yellow) or left to turn the option OFF (it goes a light gray).

Chart Calculations  

Allows selection of house system, zodiac type, lunar node types, and various items related to chart calculation - see here for more info.

Dynamic Jobs

Allows selection and editing of preset dynamic job types. Note that the default report start date and duration which are set in this option can be overridden in the Reports view for the sake of quick adjustments. Other items that may be set are the transiting points, radix points and aspects included in the report, as well as a few optional extra event types which may be included in the reports. See here for all the info.

Home and Atlas

The location entered here is the one used as the basis (default) for any instant "Here and Now", or "Natal Location" transits charts that are created, as well as the being the default location for various other types of charts.

Usually you want transit type charts to be for your home location, and if so that is what you would enter here.

 

>> Entering the Home address

1.You can do this in one of two different ways.

a.Directly:        manually entering in the "Currently Selected Location" section data (or using the associated look-up methods for doing so).

b.Indirectly:   using one of the alternative "auto selection" methods to fill in the "Currently Selected Location" section data

2.Directly entering the Home address by either:

a.Typing in the Place, Country or US State, Latitude and Longitude textbox manually

    -OR-

b.For the Place, and Country or US State fields, tap on the to the right of either textbox. This will dropdown a list of Towns/Cities or Countries, respectively, to choose from.

    -OR-

c.Tap the icon to the left of the "Place" field. This will open the Google Maps screen where you can select Place, Country/State, Latitude and Longitude visually (see Google Maps for how to use this functionality).

3.Indirectly entering the Home address:

a.Selecting either the current "Natal" or "Home" location, from the respective sections

b.In the Favorites section selecting a "Favorite" location  

c.In the "Recently Used" section selecting the location of one of the Recently Used charts

d.In the "Personal Atlas" section selecting a location saved in your personal Atlas: tap on the > icon to open the Atlas, then tap on a location in the list

e.When you have finished entering or selecting a location to use for the subsidiary chart, tap on < Cast Transits at the top left of the screen

>> Viewing and Deleting Places in the Personal Atlas

•Also in the "Home & Atlas" screen (see above) you can access places in the Personal Atlas. In the "Personal Atlas" section tapping on the > to the right of the number of entries opens the "Personal Atlas" screen.

•Tapping on the Info icon to the right of a place will display the "Place Details". If that's all you want to do in Personal Places tap on < Home at the top left of the screen.

•In the "Personal Atlas" screen tapping on the Edit button in the top right corner will allow you to delete the currently selected place by tapping on the Delete button that appears next to each place. To not delete any places, or when you're finished doing so, tap on < Home at the top left of the screen.

 

   

Export Chart Files

Creates and sends an email with any selected chart file attached, for use or storage on another computer. To select a chart file tap on it until it becomes ticked, to un-select one tap on it till it becomes un-ticked. You can select as many chart files to email as you want. When you have selected the chart file(s) you want to send click on the Send button in the Toolbar. The chart file(s) is(are) then attached to an email which you can subsequently add your own text to etc, and then send to whatever email address(es) you wish. When you have you will be returned to this screen.

To exit from this screen click the Done button in the Toolbar.

iCloud Drive:

Chart files can now optionally be stored on the internet in iCloud Drive. All your devices can access the same chart files which are automatically kept in synch, and remain there even if you delete Astro Gold off your phone or tablet.

1)You must have iCloud enabled for the device(s) on which you want to use this feature, following each app's prompts to switch to iCloud Drive. In particular note that you must sign on to the "iCloud Drive" with the identical Apple ID on each device you want to use this feature.

2)The first device on which you enable this feature will be the one whose chart files are moved onto iCloud. When you enable this feature on any other devices later on, they will lose access to their own local chart files, and instead link to the chart files moved across to the cloud from the first device that was enabled to store its files on iCloud Drive.

3)You are able to switch back to storing chart files locally whenever you wish, using this setting. If you choose to do this then Astro Gold will have the option of restoring all its original chart files so they can be accessed locally as they were originally, or instead creating a local copy of all the chart files on iCloud Drive at that point in time, that are then accessed (and added to etc) locally from that point onwards. A copy of these chart files will still remain on iCloud Drive though, but Astro Gold will no longer be connected to them.

 

<< To enable chart files to be stored on the internet in iCloud Drive

•Tap on iCloud Drive Disabled, then tap on Switch to iCloud

 

<< To enable chart files to be stored locally on the device

•Tap on iCloud Drive Enabled, then tap on Switch to Local

<< How many charts can be stored on the iCloud Drive?

You can store up to 5GB of data for free on your iCloud Drive. This includes all of your files, not just Astro Gold. You may need to pay for extra storage. However please note that each Astro Gold chart takes up only about 200 bytes of stores, even a chart file with 1000 charts would only take about 0.2MB of storage. Hence in practical terms any extra storage space requirement is more likely to be prompted by your other file types.

iCloud Drive Enabled/Disabled

This allows you to switch between storing your Astro Gold chart files locally on your device, or on iCloud Drive (which means they will be stored on the internet instead).

Dark Mode Automatic/On/Off

AstroGold supports Dark Mode on versions of iOS 13+. Tapping on this setting opens this screen:

 
There are three options:

1)Automatic:        when this is set Astro Gold will adopt the same dark mode setting as that in the device's general settings.

2)Off:                regardless of what dark mode setting is in the device's general settings, Astro Gold will always function with dark mode turned off.

3)On:                regardless of what dark mode setting is in the device's general settings, Astro Gold will always function with dark mode turned on.

Gold Level

This shows the Astro gold level you have available - tapping on it will display a message with that information.