Advanced Vedic Astrology Programs

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Dear Lalit and Group, An indepth review of Jyotish softwares available today Regards, aavesh Advanced Vedic Astrology ProgramsEvery professional-level Vedic program offers North and South Indian charts, several standard ayanamsas and a user-defined ayanamsa, animated transits, rectification tool(s), a time-change atlas, multiple dasha systems, the ability to import files from the Quick*Charts format, Classical Vedic interpretations (e.g. of natal planet positions), an astro-clock (i.e. a chart that shows the positions at the present moments and automatically updates when the positions change), varga (divisional) charts, research tools, tables and graphs including ashtakavarga, kutams, nakshatras, shri pati house cusps, aspects, panchang, upagrahas, and shad bala; and the ability to design your own screens and pages, and to select the default house system, present location, True or Mean node setting, and a customer's logo.1. Parashara's Light (by Geovision Software).Parashara's

Light combines beautiful graphics with exceptional ease of use. Its unparalleled Page Designer allows you to precisely control the size and placement of charts, tables, and graphs, and to make as many custom designed pages as you want. The software also allows you to create your own sets of pages to be printed at the push of a button.Parashara's Light has many unique features including the only Vedic transit and dasha listing that can include entry into signs, nakshatras, navamsas, specific degrees, and kakshas, as well as whole sign and degree transits, sade sati, and dasas up to five levels. The program can also prepare a monthly calendar showing these events, and is the only Vedic program to offer a graphic ephemeris too.The software has a wonderful and easy to use Muhurta (electional) screen, complete with a simple indicator of general auspiciousness (of the date and time) that anyone can understand, plus a fine time-shifting tool, as well as rasi and

navamsa charts, and detailed tables of planetary information (including avastas, kakshas, and ashtakavarga), five levels of three dasa systems, and the results of the present tarabala, chandrabala, tithi, karana, and nakshatra.The program has a wonderfully formatted Kaksha report, the ability to graph distributions on groups of charts for signs, nakshatras, dignities, shad bala, aspects, and conjunctions for each planet and the ascendant, and a point calculator (e.g. sun - moon). It searches from 1001 yogas for the ones that apply to the chart, and then interprets (and shows the formula for) each yoga. Its auspiciousness graph is an excellent display of each planet's strengths by shad bala, vimsopaka, dignity, number of good vargas, shastiamsha, and two systems of avasthas.2. Shri Jyoti Star (by ShriSource).Shri Jyoti Star excels in the great range of calculations and tables that it offers, including many

compatibility features (e.g. Kuta and Yoni for all planets, cross-chart tables of relationships, aspects, lords, ashtakavarga, etc. and the ability to show two different people's charts, graphs, and tables on the same page), and a wealth of graphs and tables for individual charts (such as astronomical, arabic parts, panchang, avasthas, argala, udayas, rashmis, latitude, house strengths, and many more) .The Time Shift tool is exceptional in its usefulness in rectification. While viewing any screen(s) of charts, graphs, and tables, you can easily shift the birth date forward or backwards in time by any increment, and see all of the charts, graphs, and tables change accordingly. Shri Jyoti Star also offers a unique Circle Chart display, where you can view two charts concentrically, seeing house boundaries and cusps (bhava madhyas) and sign boundaries, and watch planets transit around a chart.Another priceless feature is its Yogas and Time Search tool. With

incredible ease, you can search for when, in the past or the future, any planets were in specific signs, degrees, or degree ranges (e.g. a Moon at 4 to 6 degrees Aries). You can also search a chart file to see which charts have any individual classical yoga or combination of yogas. Finally, you can construct your own combinations of factors, complete with And/Or logic, and search your chart file to see who has them. For example, you could look for who has the ascendant hemmed in by malefics while in a particular nakshatra and while the lord of the ascendant is in the navamsha of a great enemy (or, of course, any simpler search.) Shri Jyoti Star's searches are lightning fast, simple to do, and completely accurate. After a search is done, you can click on any of the names listed (of people who met the search requirements) and instantly view their charts.The newest features include a neat instant prashna where you can ask a question and get an answer, group muhurta,

i.e. find the best nakshatra for a person, couple or group to initiate an activity, brilliantly executed aspect lines between points in both rasi and varga charts (a first!) and between any two charts with the ability to set orbs, five tables of Arabic Parts, the ability to analyze a rasi chart for a person's inner harmony/tension and compatibility with family members, a Levacy-style South Indian chart, and Arudha Padas in all charts.Shri Jyoti Star offers superb accuracy, many Hart and Iyer options, simple drag-and-drop chart positioning on both the screen and printed page forms, a rich panchang report, a simple chart relocation tool, the largest number of dasa methods, and much more.3. Jyotish Studio (a.k.a. Goravani's Jyotish, by Dancing Moon Inc.)The Jyotish Studio has an immense reference section with a Vedic tutorial with several lessons, an extensive glossary of Jyotish terminology, valuable tables (e.g. exact

degree of exaltation, nakshatras, friendships, etc.), and the full text of both the Bhagavad Gita and David Frawley's Astrology of the Seers –a fine Vedic astrology book. It also has an incredible list of karakas, i.e. the planets, houses, or signs that signify specific objects, people, etc. (e.g. Epistles and the 3rd house, or Esophagus and the Moon).The predictive features of the Jyotish Studio are diverse and powerful. The Panchang function can show either detailed information on specific day, complete with the results for an individual chart, or a listing of any duration of all of the relevant factors like the tithi, karana, yoga, nakshatra, paksha, etc. The transit hit list function allows you to see when planets form exact tajika aspects; sign, nakshatra, navamsha, and antardasa ingresses; conjunct equal, placidus, and shri pati house cusps, and conjunct upagraha, the yogi point, and the part of fortune. The excellently designed tarabala calendar shows a

monthly calendar with detailed information for each day on the tithi, nakshatra, moon sign, tara bala from the moon and ascendant, chandra bala from the moon and the ascendant, and the bright/dark quality of the moon. It also shows changes, to four levels, of the dasa, and planetary station dates.The Jyotish Studio offers a fine array of truly lovely Vedic charts, some with carefully designed beautiful backgrounds making them suitable for wall hanging. It also has the largest collection of famous peoples' charts (for a Vedic program). You can view and print very useful sorted listings (with many choices of sorts) of the charts in the database, a compact listing of everyone's data and planetary placements, and even compare any chart for similarities with all of the other charts in the database.The program is packed with a huge variety of nice touches. For example, you can easily rotate any chart to show any sign as lagna. One powerful table shows both the

exact degrees for planets in each of the vargas, and a well-thought-out table showing the conjunctions of planets in divisional charts with rasi points. You can also create a listing of planetary stationary times, tertiary progressed stations, kakshas, and custom designed listings of exactly the information you want output, from a huge list of attributes. Jyotish Studio has more unique features than can possibly covered in a brief overview.4. Käla (by Jyotish Academy International)Käla is the newest professional-level Vedic program to be released. As such, it is being enhanced at a rapid rate and many new features – including a Muhurta screen – are likely to be added by the time you read this. Käla has a 10,800 year ephemeris range, a very simple to learn user interface, the ability to open any number of additional charts and tables at once, and classical text delineations for marriage and sexuality, mental illness,

transits, illness and accidents, and dasas.Käla is most immediately noteworthy because of the quality of its modern interpretations. Its core yoga delineations are impressively thorough and very well written, and its in-depth analysis of planets in combustion, debilitation, and the nodes, as well as the ruler of each house, are excellent. Käla also offers very comprehensive information on Vedic compatibility factors.One of the most valuable features of Käla is its carefully designed screens for specific functions. Its Compatibility screen shows a biwheel or composite chart, kuta analysis for all of the planets, tajika aspects between the charts, and more. The Transit screen also shows an animated biwheel, with aspect lines drawn in (if they're in the same navamsa portion), as well as valuable (animated) tables.Käla's Varshaphala screen is also carefully designed for greatest applicability and includes Mudda, Patyayini, and 1 year Vimshottari dasa

listings, sahams, three types of Varshaphal strengths, and much more. The Prashna screen allows you to select the Prashna and the Arudha, offering several prashna techniques and the pertinent yogas (from 12 classical Vedic texts). By Hank Friedman. Hank Friedman With Best Wishes, aavesh

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