WinVega V 9e June 2022
Update of the Transit/Direction list, features easily choosing the current time (NOW), and an alternate Place.
Many bug fixes.
WinVega V.9D Feb. 2022
Fixes for astronomical calculations where some charts gave an error on retrograde or about to go retrograde planets.
Major improvement on the New Transit/Progression/Direction List. It replaces the old Transit List and Progression/Direction List...
The Transit/Progression... now combines search Lists of every sort of Transits, Progressions, Directions. And each of those can be mixed with other transit or progression etc.
This update adds to the minute precision for all hits. It was only to the day previously.
It allows making a chart for any hit with a single clic on its line, which is very useful in actual astrological work.
You can now make such chart in a separate Window, letting WinVega use all its techniques and methods on that chart.
These new lists allow to do Eclipse charts, Lunar and Solar, and Lunation (New and Full moon) charts. These are made as a special type of transit to transit search.
Not only regular transit Lunation and Eclipse charts, but also any Progressed Lunation and Eclipse searches and charts.
Transit and any Return or Ingress chart can be seen in their own separate Window, letting WinVega use all its techniques on that chart.
WinVega V.9c Aug. 2020
Fixed some mixup having several charts with some using siddhantic (SSS) method, along with charts using astronomical charts (drik).
Sometimes charts with different ayanamsa were mixed too, this is fixed.
We added Vimsottari interpretations from Parasara.
At this point Mahadasa (1st level) interpretations are given, complete with important notes and clues Parasara gives about how to interpret Vimsottari Dasas.
Nakshatra interpretations are given, culled from various sources, including the Shakti of the Nakshatra and most deities associated with Nakshatras.
Several bug fixes throughout.
WinVega V.9b Aug. 2020
Several bug fixes.
Vimshopak Bala (Strength)
Vimshopaka Bala were available previously in the DasaVarga mode, with 10 Vargas selected. There are strength used to determine what importance a certain varga has in relation to other vargas, to determine how important it is in the greater scheme.
In Parasara tradition there are 3 more counts used in Vimshopak. We just added the 6 vargas and 7 vargas count, named Shadvarga and Saptavarga, to the Dasavarga already there. We will add the 16 vargas mode later.
Each strength detail is tabulated on the table visible on the western round wheels, according to the 10 vargas count. But a total for the Shad and Sapta varga is now given, called 6V (Shadvarga) and 7V (Saptavarga), which is tabulated properly according to each varga points in its Shad or Sapta varga count, along the 10V (Dasavarga).
Retrograde Planets
These were not shown on charts on the hindu module. This has been corrected, they are now shown for all vargas, this was an important point. It is displayed with a R letter on all charts. This is calculated from the Rasi only.
Transits
The transit window has an added Now button to allow for the current transits to be done easily. For quick and easy transit calculations, allows us to quickly insert the current date and time. This is available while asking for Transits both at the main wheel and in the Hindu Module.
Dasa Interpretations
Interpretations for Nakshatra Mahadasa are now available from the hindu module. Right clic on a Dasa list and clic on the last line Dasa Interpretations, a text window will display them. This was translated in french (or shown in english) according to a comparison of both english translations currently available, by Ranjan Santhanam and Girish Chand Sharma. We added notes where they differ in some important passages.
Yoga Interpretations
WinVega adds in v.9 about 300 to 350 yoga interpretations both in english and french, mostly from Parasara, bringing the number of yogas to about 800 total.
Previously WinVega had about 500 yogas from Parasara, Saravali, Jataka Parijata, Brihat Jataka, Phala Deepika etc, also in english and french.
The new Yogas are the complete Parasara chapters on house meanings, so 144 rulers of each 12 houses in the 12 houses.
The other new chapter is the complete Parasara 12th chapter on the effect of each house. There are 20 to 35 yogas per house approx. in this chapter.
Version 8 had given us 30 to 50 yogas on the nature of the mind, intelligence, sexual tendencies and psychological problems, these are now also translated into english as they were in french in v.8. These are from various authors and classics.
WinVega has more Yogas translated in french than any software I know. Some 800 yogas are both in english and french. Even in English few software have as many Yogas calculated and translated among the main big software packages.
Panchanga
WinVega now calculates and interprets the Panchanga (5 limb Hindu calendar). It is not widely known in the west, but this Panchanga contains important astrological teachings, and can help predict important aspects of karma and the conditions of life, so we gives them here, which is rare in astrology software. Westerners know that the Nakshatra is important, which is actually part of the Panchanga, which also has 4 other parts. (Actually there are more parts, like the Jupiter 60 year cycle etc)
We were already giving the vara (year), masa (month, dina (day), hora (hour) of birth already in the Shad Bala calculations.
The HIndu module was already giving the Nakshatra (moon and all planets)
In the Hindu module, on upper left, we now add:
Nakshatra interpretations, also
Tithi (lunar phase),
Yoga (27 yogas)
Karana (half Tithi)
Which completes the Panchanga interpretations.
Naksahtra, Tithi, Yoga and Karana texts are available in the Yoga menu and in the Hindu Module.
Return calculation and Entry Chart
V.9 adds solar, lunar returns, chart ingres (sankranti) and various ingres to any entry into a sign, or a nakshatra. These were already there for conventional calculations, they are now done on Siddhantic chart, if the chart used as base is Siddhantic.
These are available from the Return Menu (Prediction Menu).
This Return Menu allows one to calculate any Return chart (Tajika chakra). New is the possibility to display such return or Sankranti on its own window. This gives it all the features available for all birth chart, like any Dasa, the Panchanga, any Return to it, or any Transit or Progression/Direction to it, any Yogas or interpretations etc.
Note that compressed Vimsottari Dasa for one year only can be done on return charts, for instance for one year only. Choose a year length of 3.043 days either in sidereal or tropical mode.
Make sure when you revert to regular Dasa calculations, to reset the year length at 365 days (or 354 days) etc when doing regular dasa after that.
Calculations
New Ephemeris
V.9 now has a new ephemeris from 200 BCE to 2200 AD, for conventional calculations (this is what most astrologers know and use). This ephemeris is more precise than the older one from v.8 and before, which could only calculate from 1500 AD to 2100 AD. Now charts for antiquity are possible.
Siddhantic charts are available from 1000 BCE till about 3000 AD so they have extended range. These charts are holding true to the ancient Siddhantic-Puranic philosophical model, which modern astrologers know nothing about. Yet all Puranas and Siddhantas repeatedly refer to such methods as the only methods to use for astrology and religious purposes (even though they knew and could calculate astronomical charts too).
Siddhantic charts formulas are not discussed at large. There is a tradition that only Bramacharya could be given the calculations. However there is the exemple of Vinay Jha who distributes his software with these formulas, so the end result is the same. Those calculations are available to modern people. We used a set of algorythm from a modern mathematician, Balachandra Rao, and worked with the root text. Now Vinay Jha has programmed a slightly different set of calculations on his Kundalee his software, available also on Jagannatha Hora, by PVN Rao. These set of positions can be loaded into WinVega for comparison. See the Surya Siddhanta page.
Generally Siddhantic chart differ from Lahiri sidereal charts by a few degrees, from 1 to 3, up to half a sign on occasions for Mercury and Venus. They give the Sphuta Grahas (True Planets) for astrological use. Physical astronomy is to be used to get the Ascendant, eclipses, declinations and so forth. Siddhantic charts do not use an ayanamsa for planets as the ayanamsa is only used for the ascendant and midheaven.
Traditional Ascendant
In India the ascendant was calculated through from oblique ascensions of the signs, starting from sunrise. This method is also available in WinVega. It is more involved than the trigonometric method in the west, and gives slitghly different result.