Heliocentric Charts (and Geocentric charts)
Note that geocentric charts are available/shown by default.
Heliocentric charts will be ready from ver 2.32. Available soon. For Your Charts and Provided Charts, Single and Bi-Wheel. Helio charts are often used in Financial astrology.
How does this work?
When selecting the heliocentric setting (see below – Settings) all saved charts, with some exceptions can be viewed as heliocentric charts.
There are exceptions: see below – Not available/applicable/appropriate:
Creating Charts
No difference. Just create charts as before. Date, time, location etc are saved as usual and the chart is then calculated, when viewed, according to the Geo/Helio setting.
Ingress charts
Viewing a saved geocentric Ingress chart will not show the planetary ingress heliocentrically at 00:00:00 (hours:mins:secs).
To view a planet ingress heliocentrically you must create the chart when the heliocentric setting is selected. See below.
Earth Symbol.
Earth Symbol for Displayed Planets and Points – not available for geo charts.
Earth symbol selection
Example Heliocentric chart – A Graham Bell Transits to Natal, 1875.
AC – A Graham Bell Transits to Natal
Check for accuracy with astro.com of AG Bell, Heliocentric Solar Return, 1875
A Graham Bell Transits to Natal
Example Heliocentric chart – Solar Return of A G Bell.
A G Bell – Solar Return
Check for accuracy with astro.com of AG Bell, Heliocentric Solar Return, 1875
A G Bell – checked for accuracy with Astro.com
Example helio natal chart and How to identify if a chart is Helio – top right of the chart states Heliocentric
Heliocentric natal chart
Settings
Geo/Helio Menu item
Geo/Helio settings with Info icon
Info/Help
Geo Helio Info
Aspect Hit List and Finance View #6 – Heliocentric
BTC Helio Dec 16th 2017
BTC Helio Aspect Hit List
Note lack of Sun in the above screenshot
Notes
Heliocentric charts do not show positions or aspects to/from:
Asc, MC, Vertex, house positions, house spokes, Arabian parts, day/hour lords, sun, moon’s nodes, apogees, solar/lunar eclipse, terms, triplicities, decans, east point, Aries point, Selena
Available – single and bi-wheel:
- Radix/Natal
- Transit
- Secondary Progressions
- Solar Arc
- SR/LR (not precession-corrected)
- Synastry
- Antiscia
- Ingress
- Aspect Hits
- Speculum
Also available/calculated Heliocentric: Declinations (including aspects), Latitude, Right Ascension.
Not available/applicable/appropriate:
- Sidereal
- Zodiac Releasing
- Gauquelin
- Eclipse – eclipse positions and aspects are available/shown but are always geocentric.
Single Tap over planet (note absence of Trip and Terms values)
Single tap Helio
When selecting full landscape ZR or Gauquelin charts
Not Available/Appropriate
Trying to view ZR/Gauquelin chart when heliocentric is selected, after previously viewing a geocentric ZR/Gauquelin chart
Helio View not available
Trying to switch to Heliocentic when the current view is a geocentric ZR/Gauquelin full landscape view.
Helio Selection not available
Selection is disabled.
Heliocentric Sidereal
Helio Sidereal
Heliocentric Planetary Ingress and Lunar Return Charts
Geo Helio Info