AstroTally release notes

v1.0 2/19/2004 (Feb. 19, 2004)

AstroTally is this JavaScript thingamabob I made, which should work in any JavaScript-capable web browser (unless you have pop-up blocking turned on). It basically just takes the data in a chart - planets', houses', and other points' signs, degrees, minutes and house locations - and spits out lots of nice little tables and things.

It also assigns numbers to aspects, which are supposed to represent the aspects' significance; I call these numbers, mystifyingly enough, significance ratings. (Or merely, aspect ratings). Here is a page which explains how the significance ratings are calculated, and contains another JavaScript calculator thingamabob: http://astroblahhh.tripod.com/astrology/significance_rating_table.html

The ultimate purpose of AstroTally is to make it possible to boil down in the most objective manner possible - without reliance on a human being's subjective, intuitive, and possibly rule-bending and/or outright wrong judgments and approximations - just how (for instance) "Jupiterian", "Plutonian", or whatever-ian a chart, or a given factor in a chart, is.

It doesn't quite do that yet, though, since I don't know what the most sensible way to do that would be. For instance, I'm not sure how much weight a sun in Scorpio, sun in the 8th house, or sun ruled by a planet in Scorpio or by a planet strongly aspected by Pluto should have compared to a sun square Pluto with a 77.8 aspect rating (aka a 2 degree orb).

I don't feel like describing in detail everything the program does, and it mostly doesn't really need explanation - but for one of the program's currently functional features, it will print everything you (or rather, I) might possibly want to look at for how Plutonian something is (or, in the jargon of this program, how many Category 8 factors something has), and let you, the user, puzzle over it.

For instance, if you want to look at Category 8 factors for Eleanor Roosevelt's sun, it would tell you:

Beyond that, it would give you all the above Category 8 details for the ruling planets (by sign) of her sun. (As a note, sign rulers in the program are referred to as parents or ancestors; house rulers as landlords). Her sun in Libra is ruled by Venus in Virgo, which is in turn ruled by, and in fact in "mutual reception" with, Mercury in Libra.

The program would tell you that her Venus is square Pluto with a 78.51851851851852 rating, sextile her Scorpio 11th house cusp with a 82.38095238095238 rating, square her Scorpio 12th house cusp with a 25.37037037037038 rating, conjunct Jupiter in the 8th with a 50.666666666666664 rating, and semisquare her 8th house cusp with a 9.44444444444444 rating; and that her Mercury is trine Pluto with a 89.44444444444444 rating, semisquare Mars in Scorpio with a 33.88888888888888 rating, semisextile her Scorpio 11th house cusp with a 26.111111111111107 rating, sextile her Scorpio 12th house cusp with a 18.095238095238095 rating, semiquintile Jupiter in the 8th with a 31.66666666666666 rating, and quintile her 8th house cusp with a 76.66666666666667 rating.

So, though perhaps not all of the preceding facts would (or should) mean anything to you as far as how Plutonian her sun is, the program would present them to you (in, of course, a much more organized format than the paragraph above :-) ), without your having to do all the work of looking for these factors yourself.

There are still a lot of features that could be built into this program, but, I have little clear idea yet of what to implement and how, and don't think I'll be finishing anything in the near future, so I thought I'd best just release it now and let some other folks fool with it.

The default chart data used in the program belongs to Eleanor Roosevelt, born October 11, 1884 at 11:00 AM in New York, New York (74:0W, 40:42N). (Here's a copy-and-pasteable Astrolog command line: -qa October 11 1884 11:00 EST 74:0W 40:42N ) The house cusps used are Placidus.

This program is open source and released under the GNU General Public License.

It can be obtained here: AstroTally, zipped (51 KB)

The individual contents of this file are:

Web link: GNU General Public License.


v1.1 2/24/2004 (Feb. 24, 2004)

The only update is to the AstroTally Form Generator utility, which is now v2.0 and is rather improved.


v1.2 3/8/2004 (March 8, 2004)

The AstroTally program itself is now v1.2. The output is a lot more colorful and pretty to look at now. :-) Although I suppose some of the colors might clash horribly. :-)

It has the nifty new feature of aspect tables with cells of different colors depending on the aspects' ratings, making it easier to tell at a glance which are the most significant aspects.

I also fixed some weird glitch I noticed with the "All Category Factors for All Planets" feature, where the links it would print would sometimes link to the wrong place on the page. And, I made it so the "Category Factor Tables" feature now outputs links.

And, I tweaked the formatting with the data forms a bit, since I noticed on a Windows ME computer the forms looked wrong. I slightly tweaked the AstroTally Form Generator to account for that problem as well, so it is now v3. I would've made it v2.1, since it was such a minor change, but Tripod complained about the file name length.


v1.5 5/12/2004 (May 12, 2004)

The AstroTally program is now v1.5. The program now prints aspect tables organized by rating, and the tables printed using the "Planets' Category Factors", "All Category Factors for Planets" or "All Category Factors for All Planets" buttons are now differently (and hopefully better) formatted.

Also fixed a small bug where the program wouldn't notice that some things that are exactly 180° from each other were in an opposition aspect.


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