Category: Enigma

Version 0.8 of Enigma is available. Enigma now supports a schema for Invisble Luminaries Astrology, Arielle Guttman’s Venus Star Point, Prenatal Astrology (Eg Sneek), a progressive calendar, and a variable start of the zodiac, for applications such as Draconic Astrology.

This is the final version of Enigma in its current form. I intend to rewrite Enigma, making it suitable for both Windows and macOS, and hopefully also for iPad. However, for the time being, version 0.8 will serve you perfectly well.

See the list of all features or visit the Enigma page to download the program.

The already announced release 0.7.2 of Enigma is now available. It contains a fix for a specific rule for DST changes. You can download the latest version at the Enigma page.

Enigma 0.7 contained errors when handling time zones. Most of these errors have been fixed in the new release 0.7.1.

See the Enigma page to download the latest version.

There are still errors but they are pretty rare. I will solve these in an upcoming release 0.7.2.

Version 0.7 of Enigma is now available. This release supports solar returns, the Enneagram, zodiacal divisions such as decans, dodecatemories, and bounds, along with various other improvements.

An updated list of all the new version’s features is available.

Visit the Enigma page to download the program.

Thanks to Cees Jansen, I was informed about some issues with the latest version of Enigma:

• If you modified an orb in the configuration and entered a number with a decimal separator (period or comma), the separator would disappear. For example, an orb of 7.5 would become 75 degrees.
• A celestial body with an orb set to 0 degrees should not receive any aspects, but it did. Enigma only considered the celestial body with the largest orb and applied that universally, which doesn’t work if one of the orbs is set to 0 degrees.
• Vertex, East Point, and Pars Fortunae were not displayed in the chart.

These issues have been fixed in the new version 0.6.2, which you can download via the Enigma page.

In the installer for Enigma 0.6, I had forgotten to include the timezone and coordinates database. As a result, you couldn’t calculate new horoscopes. This has now been fixed. You can find the latest version on the Enigma page.

A new version of Enigma is now available. This version still runs on Windows. The project to make Enigma compatible with multiple platforms will take longer, so I’m releasing a few more Windows versions in the meantime. This version supports all objects from Black Lights Astrology, automatic coordinates and time zones, and more.

An overview of all Enigma’s functionalities is available.

You can find more information on the Enigma page.

There was an error in Enigma 0.5. When creating a project in the Research module with a large control group (approximately 20,000), Enigma would crash. This error has now been fixed in the latest version 0.5.1. You can download this version through the Enigma page.

Enigma now supports primary directions, both according to Placidus and Regiomontanus. This is the last version before I rewrite Enigma into a cross-platform version.

On this site, you will now find an overview of all the functionality of Enigma and the plans for the first cross-platform version.

You will find more information on the Enigma page.

In June, I posted a survey on the Dutch Facebookgroup Astrology Blog. I was curious about favorite environments to run astrology software. 77 people responded and the results were as follows:

• Windows (desktop/laptop): 51%
• Apple MacOs (desktop/laptop): 10%
• Linux (desktop/laptop): 3%
• Apple iOs/iPadOs (smartphone/tablet): 25%
• Android (smartphone/tablet): 11%

For me, this was a surprise. The once all-important Windows is still favored by only half of astrologers. And mobile platforms already account for a third.

Enigma is now only compatible with Windows, and that’s no longer enough. What you need is a cross-platform application, a program that works on desktops running Apple, Linux or Windows as well as Apple and Android mobile devices. I will try to create such a solution and make Enigma cross-platform.

An astrology application that works on all the aforementioned platforms has great advantages. In astrology courses, you can then work with one application that behaves the same on all students’ hardware. And in astrology publications you can use software that everyone can run.

Realizing this will take a lot of time. I don’t want the development of new functionality for Enigma to come to a halt for a long time, so for now I will continue to develop Enigma in the current way, that is, only for Windows. In parallel, I will start converting to another environment that is cross-platform. At the latest by the time Enigma is ready for release 1.0, and the main functionality is built, I will make the switch. I expect it will take a year or two. There is also a chance that I won’t get there and have to start over based on other techniques, but for now I am reasonably hopeful.

It would be nice if other astrological programs also become cross-platform. I am happy to contribute to that: the experiences I will gain will be available to everyone. Enigma is open source, which means that any programmer can see my approach and code, and reuse it in their own software. The only condition is that that software is also open source. In addition, I describe the progress of this process on the website https://radixpro.org . This site is about the technical and programming aspects, and aimed at other programmers of astrology software.