How to use your Get ready to jump right into the exciting world of Astrology with WinHStar Express V3. Combining the most sophisticated calculation routines with easily grasped, pop-up chart interpretations, you’ll be creating chart wheels and interpreting them right from the start! This booklet highlights many useful Express features and shows how easy it is to use the one-click features from the program’s main screen. An extensive on- screen Help menu accompanies WinHStar Express V3 and is always available by pressing the F1 key. Matrix Software © 2007 Matrix Software, Inc. WinHStar Express Installation To install Matrix WinHStar Express V3, simply insert the CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. The Windows AutoRun feature automatically starts the Setup process. Follow the prompts to complete your installation. If your system does not initiate the setup process you may manually install: Click Start, and select Run. Click Browse and find your CD-ROM drive. Select the setup.exe file and click Open. Click Ok to run the installation. Keyboard Shortcuts Aspect box Ctrl+A Help contents F1 AstroHClock Ctrl+K Single-wheel F2 Browse chart Ctrl+B Bi-wheel F3 Center aspects Ctrl+C Tri-wheel F4 Chart Data Box Ctrl+D Quad-wheel F5 Date change Box Ctrl+T House wheel F6 Heliocentric Ctrl+H Unequal wheel F7 Interpretation Box Ctrl+I European wheel F8 Load Chart Ctrl+L Aries-wheel F9 New Chart Ctrl+N Astrological Symbol Key Ctrl+F2 Create PDF Ctrl+P Reports Ctrl+R Save Charts Ctrl+S Swap Charts Ctrl+W TimeHScan Ctrl+Z 2 Creating New Carts 1 Click the New button to open the Enter Chart Data window. Type in the person’s name and enter their birth date. If you know the birth time, enter that too. If their birth time is unknown, enter 12:00 AM as the birth time. Important note: Click the buttons to access your saved names and places from the Quick List. 2 Birth Place: Type in the birth location like this: Detroit, MI (using comma, then a space, then the state abbreviation or country name). If you have Auto checked, the longitude, latitude, and time zone information will automatically fill in; if not, click the Atlas button to retrieve the birth location values for an accurate chart wheel. 3 Click on the OK button to display the new chart wheel in the main screen. Press F1 to access your WinHStar Express Help File for more in-depth instructions and step-by-step procedures on creating a chart as well as other “How Do I” questions. System Requirements: PC running Windows 98 SE, 2000, NT, XP, or Vista. 128 MB Ram. 120 MB of hard drive space. Printer. 3 Main Menu Descriptions: The main WinHStar Express toolbar appears on the left side of the screen. All program features are accessible from these tool buttons. You can remove the Toolbar (leaving just the wheel) by using the Hide button. Wheel Sizes: Wheels can be based on 1, 2, 3, or 4 charts. Clicking any of the Wheel Size buttons alters the chart input area of the menu to adjust for that sized wheel. For example, click the “ ” button and two chart selection areas open for both charts used in a bi-wheel. Click on the “ ” button and three areas open. The black arrow that points to the right allows you to pick an existing birth chart, input a new chart, or create a transit, progressed, or directed chart. As shown here, the bi-wheel’s top entry area is for the inner “Center” chart wheel. The second area is for the second, outer ring of the bi-wheel (or the middle ring of a tri-wheel). Wheel Styles: The program opens displaying a single wheel using the current day’s chart. This chart can be viewed in four wheel styles by single clicking any of the Wheel Style buttons: House, Unequal, Euro, and Aries. 4 Tools: These powerful chart tools help you explore each wheel. Swap: When working with bi-wheels, tri-wheels, and quad-wheels, this feature exchanges the inner and second wheel positions; the chart displayed in the inner portion of the wheel is moved to the next (outer) ring and the one displayed in the second ring moves to the center of the chart. Cntr (Center Aspects): This feature toggles (on/off) the Aspect lines in the center of the wheel. Helio: The Heliocentric feature switches the selected chart from a geocentric to a heliocentric display. Clock: The AstroHClock displays a chart for the current time. This chart continuously recalculates the displayed wheel at time increments you set (from once every second to every ten minutes). You can watch the planets move through the houses and know just when astrological events occur. Asp (Aspects): This tool provides a variety of Aspect display options, showing aspects in individual charts, or aspects between charts (as exist in a multiple-chart wheel). Aspects can be sorted eight ways: • Planet pairs • Closest Orb • Aspect • Angular Separation • Applying/Separating Aspect • Planets • Aspects • Patterns Clicking an aspect (in the list) temporarily draws thick, bold lines 5 on the chart wheel depicting that aspect. This is a temporary draw to aid in identifying that aspect. Moving an open window or clicking elsewhere removes these lines. Date: The Date feature opens the Date Control dialog, which allows you to change the date and time used for transit, progressed, solar arc, and other secondary charts. You can change the date or time boxes at the top of the window, or by using the blue down arrows. Since you are already on the “Animate” tab, you can also change the date and time in increments with the forward and back buttons. This is also where you create solar and lunar returns, lunations, and angles. To use these features, you must be looking at a transit chart, which you can get by clicking on the bi- wheel button. Returns: This allows you to find the next or last solar or lunar return. Lunations: This allows you to find the next or last full moon, new moon, or lunar and solar eclipses for your current location. Date: This allows you to quickly change the month, day, or year of your chart. Angles: This is a powerful tool that allows you to select a planet and put it on any angle. Because of the rotation of the Earth, every planet hits all the angles once every day. 6 TimeHScan: With the TimeHScan feature, entire search results can be presented onscreen in a graphic time line. Planet aspects appear in the linear graph. Click one to show the date, time, zodiac position, and interpretation for each aspect. Transits- and progressed-to-natal planet house positions appear in the colored bars at the bottom of the scan; these can be clicked to display interpretive text (as well as the transit’s duration). TimeHScan Time Line: Use the moveable time line to quickly and precisely pinpoint aspects every day. TimeHScan List: Click the List button to display the same data in a table format. Click the Print button to print out the complete list of Scan aspects. Data: The Chart Data button consists of 26 screens — 26 different ways to view the chart’s data. The default “Chart Data” view displays the birth data along with the planets’ positions in house and sign and their aspects by closest orb. Among the other Data Views are ones showing Lunar Phase, Aspects Sorts (6), Rulerships, Chart Patterns, Lilly Strengths, Ptolemaic Dignities, and many more. 7 Chart Control: The Chart Control buttons provide a number of chart-related tasks: Print: Creates a PDF of the current chart. Interpret:Opens the Interpretation window. You can choose which planets to look at or print the entire list of interpretations. Reports: If you have Win*Writer Express installed, you can access the Reports from this button. Charts: This opens the Chart Browse dialog screen which lists the saved .qck charts from the selected QuickHFile. Highlight any listed chart to display that chart in the chosen wheel size and wheel style. The 1, 2, 3, 4 buttons refer to the wheel position within a chart wheel (eg: In a quad-wheel, the 1 button = the innermost chart position, the 2 button = the next chart position, moving outwards). Text Interpretations: If you are new to astrology, once you’ve created a chart wheel (or “horoscope” wheel) you will want to know what it means. To start to understand your chart, click on the Interpret button to open the Interpretation dialog screen, which displays text interpretations for each planet-sign position and major aspects in the currently displayed chart wheel. Complete interpretive text is given for natal, transit, synastry, progressed, and directed positions. Use the convenient arrow toggle buttons to quickly advance through each interpretation. Click the Printer button to get a complete PDF report providing either a natal, transit, synastry, progressed, or directed report! Pop-Up Interpretations:: Learning to read a chart has never been easier! Access pop-up interpretations by simply clicking on any planet or house cusp. 8 WinHStar Express Options The Options menu lets you customize your WinHStar Express. By clicking on Options and then on Set Other Options you will be able to customize the following: Aspects: Set orb sizes; Aspects in a set; create new Aspect sets. Atlas Setup: Usually these settings do not need to be changed. If you are having issues with the atlas, make sure you are using Matrix Win-Atlas v2. Logo: Allows you to add your name and address to your charts.