Primary Direction Explorer 0.6.2

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Found this site
http://philipeau.free.fr/logiciels.htm

Free astrology programs for Windows, MAC, Linux, Android
Western, Indian, Chinese astrology
Some material outdated but one interesting program
- Primary Direction Explorer 0.6.2 Alpha version- by Dimitry V. Leonov
You also need to download separate Atlas for each country and extract it in the Atlas Folder
http://pdexplorer.sourceforge.net/atlas/00_install.html

Would like to hear feedback from people who use it.
Blessings!

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At that time I studied the program and had an email exchange with the author. It would be difficult to go into details, which I do not remember exactly, but as far as I have verified the primary directions of the PDE are not the traditional ones.

Roberto

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Appreciate your feedback robhywolf !
Which one do you use?
Using also the equidistant position and Latitude of the PD?
Just curious of the evaluation people have on PD programs.
Will re-read a few posts on PD here.

Thank you,
Ouranos
Blessings!

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ouranos

martin gansten wrote a book on primary directions... he also wrote another book giving examples on the use of primary directions - more elaborate then the first one he wrote on primary directions... he uses morinus and explains the options he likes to work with... morinus is a free program too! are you familiar with it or martins work?? check all that out.. cheers james

https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/

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Thank you James,
Yes I do have the excellent book by Martin.
And I use his settings for Morinus.
To which I have added a search for Parallels. Not sure if Martin can comment on the accuracy of Parallels in Morinus (in Mundo?) or if their use is relevant enough.

Long story short I have 2 issues
1) Long time ago, I had a friend astrologer who rectified my chart with PD using Placidus semi-arc method.. To which later, Robert Hand dismissed as being incorrect. My chart was off by less than 2 minutes. I rectified it by 20 seconds using midpoints in a tight orb of 5 minutes.
2) Is there a way in Morinus to get a Primary Direction 'equidistant from the Angles' ?
Example: In same sign Mars 2 degrees - MC 5 degrees - Saturn 28 degrees
When the PD MC reaches 15 degrees, he is at the midpoint of Ma/Sa 'equidistant from the Progressed PD MC.'

Looking for Lights in the tunnel!

As always, I am very grateful for comments and feedback.

Ouranos
Blessings!

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Thanks, James and Ouranos, for plugging my books. ;)
Ouranos wrote:Not sure if Martin can comment on the accuracy of Parallels in Morinus (in Mundo?) or if their use is relevant enough.
I don't use parallels myself, but there are two basic kinds. The so-called zodiacal or declination parallels are calculated on the same principle as traditional antiscia, but using the actual body of the planet rather than its ecliptical projection. As far as I know/recall, Morinus calculates these correctly, at least up to a point: the parallel calculated is still a point on the ecliptic (the apparent path of the sun), which means that Placidus and his faithful disciples would only use it for directions of the sun. Directions of the moon they would calculate using the apparent path of the moon. I don't know of any software that includes those arcane Placidean calculations, but with the aid of an ephemeris, a scientific calculator and a bit of patience, they can be done by hand.

The mundane parallels invented by Placidus are actually easier to grasp, and yes, Morinus calculates them correctly. They are just based on proportional distances from the horizon or meridian.
Is there a way in Morinus to get a Primary Direction 'equidistant from the Angles' ?
Example: In same sign Mars 2 degrees - MC 5 degrees - Saturn 28 degrees
When the PD MC reaches 15 degrees, he is at the midpoint of Ma/Sa 'equidistant from the Progressed PD MC.'
That is what Placidus calls a rapt parallel, and yes, Morinus does them as well.
https://astrology.martingansten.com/

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Thank you Martin,
I have Morinus v 8.1
From your book, you say you use the key of Ptolemy.
Does it mean, I would need to switch to Naibod key to get the in mundo parallels? In the PD settings, I can choose the Parallel and underneath the Rapt Parallell is greyed out.??? Or is it OK to stick to the Ptolemy key?

Otherwise, I have found this link (Margherita Fiorello) for calculating manually the rapt parallel
https://heavenastrolabe.wordpress.com/2 ... do-method/

Thank you,
Ouranos
Blessings!

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Rapt parallels are strictly an in mundo technique, so in the Primary Directions dialogue box in Morinus you need to check either Mundane or Both in the left-hand panel. That should fix the grey-out.

The key doesn't affect the calculation of the arc, just the final step of converting the arc to time. Of course, if you want to follow Placidus strictly, you should use his key (in Morinus, it is found under Dynamic > True Solar Equatorial Arc). Personally, though, I haven't found it to work.
https://astrology.martingansten.com/

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Martin,

Concerning Morinus (I use version 6.20 with your settings, as indicated in Annual Techniques), I have a question concerning the primary directions of the hylegiacal significators to the antiscia of planets (by conjonction or opposition): should we use them in Mundo (M in Morinus) or in Zodiaco (Z)? My reasoning tells me it should be in zodiaco (no latitude, since antiscia has no latitude), but I can be wrong...

Thank you and best regards,
François
Regards,
François CARRIÈRE

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I don't use antiscia myself, so my take would be theoretcal as well, but I'd tend to agree with you that these are relationships between points in the ecliptic and should therefore be used without latitude.

Since you mention my recommended settings, I should probably state that a number of cases I have come across since the publication of Annual Predictive Techniques have made me slightly reconsider the use of the moon as a significator. At the time of writing, my overall experience seemed to support always directing the moon with latitude, even to promissors in the ecliptic (such as aspect points) and through the terms, but now I'm inclined to make those directions without latitude (while still correcting the moon's position for parallax). I still find conjunctions and oppositions with latitude (what I call 'co-rising' directions) to work very well, though. As a friend pointed out to me after the publication of the book, those are also the only types of direction with latitude that you find, for instance, in William Lilly.
https://astrology.martingansten.com/