FWIW, I've never found transiting midpoints worth tracking systematically. Of course you want to check this yourself, but I thought I'd mention that. In my experience, one can occasionally get interesting hits from time to time, but not reliably. One that I relied on more until the 1990s (when Pluto and Neptune moved out of close sextile to each other) is that, while transiting trines and sextiles seem worthless to me (or so weak they aren't worth noting), I kept seeing Neptune and Pluto transiting trines and sextiles seeming important! I eventually realized that this was an illusion: What looked like Neptune or Pluto trines or sextiles to natal planets was really the
Neptune/Pluto midpoint exactly conjoining or squaring the planet.
But one can, for example, plot the Mars/Saturn midpoint looking for damaging events or the Venus/Jupiter midpoint and look for positive events, and one will keep being disappointed. - In the old days we'd draw these by hand on the 45° graphic ephemeris, and one secondary source eventually came up with an annual graphic ephemeris that had these preprinted for convenience, but it didn't produce any better results.
SteveS wrote: Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:37 am
...I see no simple way to easily track transiting midpoints to natal positions with Solar Fire. I can take the Janus Program and
quickly see where a transiting midpoint partile 0, 90, 180 the personal points of a natal, but I would prefer to work exclusively with Solar Fire. Do you see a
simple way we can calculate the zodiac degree of a transiting midpoint with Solar Fire?
I thought I had answered this a week or so ago, but I can't find it now. The simple answer (for the question exactly as you asked it) is yes: For a simple way "to calculate the zodiac degree of a transiting midpoint with Solar Fire," just set up a chart for the current date and look at the midpoint report. That's the easiest.
Another way to show specific midpoints for any chart you're in, add them to a user-defined point list. Under
Chart Options | Display User-Defined Points, create a new UDF file - maybe call it "My Midpoints," or whatever. Open the new file to edit it. On the far right, click the bubble next to
Midpoint. Take the midpoints you want and use the "< Add" button to put them on the left side (or just double-click them to move them over). Save the file. (This is a one-time process unless you want to edit the list in the future.)
Then, inside a displayed chart (off in the white space at the side, not on the face of the chart itself), right-click, pick
Display User-Defined Points, and pick your point file. (You can leave it on, or turn it off later by repeating this step and picking
None.
, thanks. This immediately tells me there is a midpoint on that particular natal planet highlighted in red, for a specific event. But, my mind does not have enough experience with the way SF lists the Midpoint Listing for