Functionality Enigma 0.5

Radix

  • Calculation of horoscopes based on the Swiss Ephemeris.
  • Supports calculations for a period of 30,000 years.
  • 24 house systems.
  • Tropical and sidereal zodiac (40 ayanamsas).
  • All relevant celestial bodies and points, totaling 48.
  • Vertex, east point, Zero Aries as a point, and the Pars (with and without sect).
  • Support for major and minor aspects, 22 in total.
  • High-quality horoscope drawing (no ‘staircase effect’ in slanted lines and circles), the drawing is infinitely scalable.
  • Option to omit houses and angles in the drawing (useful if the time is unknown).
  • Overview of all relevant astronomical positions (longitude, latitude, right ascension, declination, azimuth, altitude, and distance, including the speed of daily motion).
  • Storage of horoscopes in a database with the ability to search the database by (part of) the name.
  • Aspect analysis including orb and percentage of exactness.
  • Calculation of harmonics for any desired harmonic number from 2 to 100,000.
  • Fractional harmonics: harmonics for numbers with a fraction, for example, the harmonic for 3.333.
  • Midpoints. A list of all midpoints and occupied midpoints, the latter for circles of 360, 90, or 45 degrees.
  • A declination diagram as proposed by Kt Boehrer.
  • A declination strip for a quick overview of all declinations.
  • An overview of occupied parallels and contraparallels, with the current orb and an indication of the exactness of the orb.
  • An overview of the longitude equivalents according to Kt Boehrer.
  • Declination midpoints with specification of the orb and the exactness of the orb.
  • Importing data. If you have a database in PlanetDance, you can import these horoscopes.

Progressive

  • Primary directions for a period of arbitrary length from birth. Enigma supports directions according to Placidus and Regiomontanus, both mundane and zodiacal, and with five different time keys. The positions are provided in the form of a list with exact dates on which these positions are exact. Currently, it only concerns conjunctions and oppositions, and converse directions are not yet possible.
  • OOB calendar: an overview of all Out of Bound positions formed with secondary directions and the dates on which these positions are exact.
  • Transits, secondary directions, and symbolic directions. You can specify and store events (with date) for a horoscope in the database. For a specific event, you can calculate the positions as transits, secondary directions, or symbolic directions. For transits and secondary directions, you see, besides the longitude, also the latitude, right ascension, and declination. Enigma also shows the aspects formed with the radix.

Research

  • Enigma has a separate module for astrological research. You can import data files and define projects here. You can perform 9 different tests on the data: counting positions in signs, in houses, aspects, unaspected planets, occupied midpoints, harmonic conjunctions, parallels, midpoints in declinations, and OOB positions.
  • Enigma also generates control groups. The data is shuffled to allow a good comparison with the test data. This way, you mitigate the effects of astronomical and demographic artifacts.

Configuration

  • In Enigma, you can establish how you want to work with a radix in a configuration. There is also a configuration for progressive astrology.
  • In the configuration for the radix, you find settings for the house system to use, zodiac/ayanamsha, geocentric or topocentric positions (with parallax correction), usual position or oblique longitude (School of Ram) celestial bodies, orb (per planet and per aspect), aspects you want to include, and the color you want to use for aspects in the horoscope drawing.
  • The configuration for progressions is used to adjust the orb (separately for transits, secondary directions, and symbolic directions). You indicate which celestial bodies you want to include. For symbolic directions, you also choose a time key (one degree per year, the actual speed of the Sun, or the average speed of the Sun). For primary directions, you separately determine which celestial bodies/points you want to use as significator and/or promissor. You can choose from the methods of Placidus and Regiomontanus, Mundane and zodiacal directions, and 5 time keys (Naibod, Ptolemaeus, Placidus, Brahe, and van Dam).

Documentation

  • Enigma has an extensive user manual. You will also find a help function with explanations on each screen.

Plans for release 1.0

Enigma 0.5 is still in beta. I hope to add the following functionality to release 1.0 and partly in 1.1:

  • Support for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, and Android. MacOS and iOS likely in 1.1).
  • In addition to English, also support for Dutch, both in the program, the help texts, and the user manual.
  • Use of a place name database so you don’t have to look up the coordinates yourself.
  • Adding a database with time changes.
  • Drawing for a double horoscope (bi-wheel) allowing you to compare the radix with progressive positions.
  • Support for synastry.
  • Topocentric directions.
  • Directions according to Wim van Dam.
  • More aspects for primary directions.
  • Support for converse directions.
  • Corrections according to Cemal Cicek.
  • A module for the calculation of cycles, comparable to the current program Enigma Cycles.
  • A module with calculators: astronomical calculations and heliacal positions