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© 2007 Matrix Software, Inc.

How to use your

Get ready to jump right into the exciting world of Astrology with . 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 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 and is always available by pressing the F1 key.

HWin Star Express V3

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Aspect box Ctrl+A Help contents F1HAstro Clock 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+WHTime Scan Ctrl+Z

HWin Star Express Installation

To install , 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.

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Creating New Carts

Important note:

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HPress F1 to access your Win Star 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.

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.

Click the buttons to access your saved names and places from the Quick List.

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.

Click on the OK button to display the new chart wheel in the main screen.

System Requirements: PC running Windows 98 SE, 2000, NT, XP, or Vista. 128 MB Ram. 120 MB of hard drive space. Printer.

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Main Menu Descriptions:

The main 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.

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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 feature switches the selected chart from a geocentric to a heliocentric display.

Clock: The 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

Heliocentric

HAstro Clock

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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 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 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.

Date Control

“Animate”

Returns:

Lunations:

Date:

Angles:

This allows you to find the next or last solar or lunar return.

This allows you to find the next or last full moon, new moon, or lunar and solar eclipses for your current location.

This allows you to quickly change the month, day, or year of your chart.

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.

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HTime Scan: With the 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;

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Use the moveable time line to quickly and precisely pinpoint aspects every day.

Click the button to display the same data in a table format. Click the button to print out the complete list of Scan aspects.

The 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

are ones showing Lunar Phase, Aspects Sorts (6), Rulerships, Chart Patterns, Lilly Strengths, Ptolemaic Dignities, and many more.

HTime Scan

these can be clicked to display interpretive text (as well as the transit’s duration)

HTime Scan Time Line:

HTime Scan List:

List

Print

Data:

Chart Data

Data Views

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Chart Control:

The Chart Control buttons provide a number of chart-related tasks:

Creates a PDF of the current chart.

Opens the Interpretation window. You can choose which planets to look at or print the entire list of interpretations.

If you have Win*Writer Express installed, you can access the Reports from this button.

This opens the Chart Browse dialog screen which lists the saved .qck Hcharts from the selected Quick File. 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 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

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.

Print:

Interpret:

Reports:

Charts:

Interpret

Printer

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HWin Star Express Options

The Options menu lets you customize your . By clicking on Options

and then on Set Other Options you will be able to customize the following:

Set orb sizes; Aspects in a set; create new Aspect sets.

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.

Allows you to add your name and address to your charts.

Select the House System and Zodiac System.

Arrange the format used for data input when creating new charts.

Set any location as the “Current Place,” such as where you live.

Select the colors used for Planets, Signs, Aspects, Houses.

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Aspects:

Atlas Setup:

Logo:

Calculation:

Input Options:

Current Place:

Colors:

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How do I use the Extras menu?

The Extras menu provides interesting information for several astrological techniques.

PDF Chart Wheels

Around the Wheel

Midpoints

Planetary Hours

Arabic Parts

Daily Angle Transits

Life Time Arcs

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HPress F1 or click on the Help button to access your Win Star Express Help File for more details on how to Use the Extras Menu.

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PDF Charts:

Win*Star

Around the Wheel:

Around the Chart Wheel

Midpoints:

Midpoint

Planetary Hours:

Planetary Hours

This allows you to choose from the many chart forms available. When you click OK, creates a PDF file of the current chart displayed. All PDF files are saved by default in the folder C:\Program Files\Matrix\PDF.

This allows you to see when a planet will make a conjunction to another planet or house cusp as it moves

. It also displays the dates the selected planet will be on the four angles of the chart, as well as the next time it will be conjunct with another planet or house.

This gives you the list for the current chart. You can sort the midpoints by planet or position on the wheel. You can choose to view the midpoints for your single wheel, bi-wheel, tri-wheel, or quad-wheel. You can save the midpoint list to a PDF by clicking on the printer icon.

This shows you a list of the for any given day. The allows you to change your current location. The will allow you to have multiple planetary hours windows open, each numbered sequentially. You can choose to print this list or save it to a text file.

Arabic Parts:

Arabic Parts

Daily Angle Transits:

Life Time Arcs:

This shows you a list of the with the zodiacal position, the formula, the house number, and significant chart aspects. You can click on a Part to see a location marker on the chart. Click the printer icon to get a PDF file.

This graph shows the rising and setting of the sun, moon, and planets. You can click the line marking the path of a Planet at any point to see the time; there are interpretations for the rising and setting times. You can also see a list of the transit times.

This shows a list of logarithmically determined dates from conception to the default age of 99 years. It is based on New Vision Astrology, an astrology method developed in 1972 by A. T. Mann. You can print the list by clicking the printer icon or save the list to a file by clicking the disk icon.

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© 2007 Matrix Software, Inc.

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