Showing midpoints on face of the chart

[Jim Eshelman]

Steve asked a question about showing a particular midpoint on the face of the chart wheel. The same answer applies to adding multiple midpoints as to adding one. I'm moving my explanation here from another thread.

I know of no astrological program that easily distinguishes this [MC/Asc] Midpoint if occupying a Natal Planet, I think it should be

Solar Fire has different Pages that can be called upon for any chart. Just open the chart and click the Pages button.

Steve, if you do this for your chart and click the + next to Cosmobiology, you'll see a page called Midpoint Tree & Modulus Sort Strip that gives much more on the standard chart page, including a list of all midpoint trees. (Do this for your chart and look on the Neptune tree.) If you like it well enough, you can set Solar Fire to always use that as the default page for your charts.

This is, however, just a warm-up to what's possible. You can design your own pages with just the information you want using the page editor.

You can also add the A/M midpoint to any chart, right on the face of the chart, as a User-Defined Point. However, at least in SF8 an earlier (I don't know about SF9), this opens new charts with a much smaller wheel because it inserts a box off to the side showing all user selected points in addition to putting them on the chart. The solution for this is to use the Page Designer utility to edit page uniupd.pag by deleting the side box and expanding the side of the wheel.

To place a midpoint as a User Defined Point, open a chart (any chart), right click on empty space, and select Display User-Defined points. First time you do this, you have to create the definition: Click Create, give it a name like Asc-MC midpoint, click Edit, click the Midpoint bubble at the right, then scroll down the list to Asc/MC and add it to the left. This sets it up permanently. Thereafter, you just have to pop open Display User-Defined points and pick "Asc-MC midpoint. (To get rid of it, switch User Defined Points back to None.)

Here's what your 11th house looks like with that turned on.

Steve 11.png

[Jim Eshelman]

You are limited only by how crowded you want your chart to be. You can make this permanent, btw, by opening Solar Fire freshly, going to Chart Options > Display User Defined Points, then selecting your preferred UDP file. After clicking Select, click Preferences > Save Settings to save that selection as your new default.

Here is an example of my own chart with select midpoints added: A/M, Sun/Moon, and a few all-benefic and all-malefic midpoints. (I think it's a bit much, but it's an example of what you can do.)

JAE UDP midpoints.png

[Jim Eshelman]

I locked this thread temporarily to enforce thread discipline, and have removed or relocated some posts that were off-topic to the Solar Fire Tips sub-forum. (The posts dealt with arguing for particular astrological principles, rather than simply instructing people now to make Solar Fire work.)

As always, please start new threads for new topics, including more than passing digressions that fit better in another part of the forum. "Thread discipline" is important to the forum functioning as a permanent reference library for visitors.