- MORINUS VERSION 8.1.0 AVAILABLE AT THE END OF THIS PAGE
This modern version of Morinus has been created starting from the official release 6.2, mainly to fix some errors at charge of the Campanus house system. During the job I noted other small details in my opinion worthy to be retouched, so I decided to go on with the project. A few features are already added, others will be annexed later according to the TODO list.
The versions progression (6.0, 6.1, 6.2, ...) and the sizes of the starting window are voluntarily different from the usual ones to point out the different hand of the author and relieve from responsibility of possible errors the laudable Robert Nagy, that I thank together with Endre Csaba Simon for their suggestions that permitted me to familiarize in a few days with the first steps of the Python language and with the procedure to compile the program to run under Windows.
About features, explanations and other details see the official Morinus sites (links below).
For the developers, in the Res folder the Readme text shows the list of the modified files compared to version 6.2.
V 7.0.0 (Roberto Luporini)
Campanian mundane positions sometimes wrong with planets nearby to the horizon: fixed
Campanian terrestrial charts for planets in said positions: fixed
Campanian PDs for planets in said positions: fixed
Regiomontanian speculum for planets in said positions: fixed
User speculum for planets in said positions: fixed
Wrong text for the fourth item in the Tables menu (Mundane positions): corrected
Acronyms for user promissor and significator: changed
Help: instructions more accurate for celestial and terrestrial PDs in chart
Small changes in the English and Italian languages
V 7.1.0 (Roberto Luporini)
Altitude-Azimuth horizontal coordinates, the last according to the astrological notation (span of 360° starting from the East Point, counterclockwise) added in the Regio/user speculum
Ephemeris in the range 1800-2400 included in the package
Small changes in the English and Italian languages
Appearance2.opt (Speculum) option changed
V 7.1.1 (Roberto Luporini)
Some Italian and English text changed
V 7.2.0 (Roberto Luporini)
Chart for "Here and Now" added in the "Horoscope" menu. The new chart is according to the "Default location" as set in the new options
New fonts for the planetary glyphs (edited by Margherita Fiorello, Italy. Thanks Margherita). If not active, uninstall the previous "Morinus" fonts and reinstall the new ones with the same name. Both of them are available in the "Res" folder
English and Italian keyboard shortcuts reordered
"deflocation" file added in the "Opts" folder
V 7.3.0 (Roberto Luporini)
"Firdaria" added in the "Tables" menu. For nocturnal births see the related setting in "Options". Colors in agreement with the individual ones (ref. tradit. V6.2)
The "Antiscia" table is now modified to show the planetary glyphs always colored according to the individual colors (ref. tradit. V6.2)
Keyboard shortcuts and some text changed in the Spanish version
"firdaria" file added in the "Opts" folder
Thanks to Elias Diaz Molins, Spain, for the great help given in the job
V 7.3.1 (Roberto Luporini)
Colors for the Firdaria table: downgrade from version 8 (Elias D. Molins)
Colors for the Antisce table: in agreement with signs and ASC with option for the personal colors
V 8.0.0 (Elias D. Molins)
Fixed stars: number increased, aspects added, orbs bug fixed
Dodecatemoria imported from the traditional 6.2 version
Dodecatemoria-Fixed stars alternative in the options
Dodecatemoria table added
V 7.4.0 - 801 (Roberto Luporini)
Celestial DP in chart: removed the forced zero value for the solar latitude
Table menu: dodecatemoria position changed
Dodecatemoria: colors according to the radix options
Dodecatemoria: celestial latitude set to zero
Antiscia: colors according to the options
New Spanish help (from V800)
Appearance1.opt file changed. The previous options are not valid anymore
V 7.4.2 - 802 (Roberto Luporini)
Wrong text "Planetary Hour" removed in the Personal Data box
Most of the Hungarian, Russian and French texts updated
Languages pack codes cleaned
V 8.0.3 (Roberto Luporini)
French texts completed (Philippe Epaud)
"Secondary directions" changed with "Secondary progressions" in English, French, Spanish and Italian versions
V 8.0.4 (Roberto Luporini)
Keyboard accelerators updated for all the six languages the program has
"Find time" function renamed in "Find time and place"
V 8.0.5 (Elias D. Molins)
The online atlas included in Morinus was no longer active. Fixed
V 8.1.0 (Roberto Luporini)
Graphical Font by Kenneth Hirst removed. Restored the original ones. Please note the previous Morinus versions are legal on condition to remove the Kenneth Hirst's font and use in the program the original font as attached by Robert Nagy
Swiss Ephemeris from year ZERO till 2400 included in the program. In case of births before than 1583, the Julian calendar must be used
Todo
Age harmonic charts (*)
Triple chart for In Mundo Passages (*)
Celestial PDs in Chart improvement (*)
Evaluation of the seconds in the geographical data (*)
East Point optionally in chart (useful to understand the astronomical scenery) (*)
Option for the MC/IC inversion at very high latitudes when the ecliptic overlaps the horizon
Small refinements of a few texts
Inside help widened
Texts for the other languages updating (if the developers want to)
Help guide for the other languages translation (as above)
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(*) Available in Astrolog32v3
Terrestrial Primary Directions (astronomical) Charts
By selecting Secondary Motion NO, these align themselves with the traditional PDs (tabulated). The positions of the charts In Mundo, emerge from direction arcs (in right ascension), and are the equivalent of forcing on the promissor planets a geometric movement in space, leaving the positions that all the other objects had in the celestial sphere at the moment of birth unaltered. For this reason the correlated (fictitious) astronomical speculum leads to significant changes in the position of the planets in the zodiac even within a few minutes from this moment. Furthermore, it should be noted that the Sun acquires values of celestial latitude which are different from zero.
Conversely, by selecting Secondary Motion YES (in other words considering them as Primary Progressions), the positions In Mundo reflect a true, concrete astronomical scenario, which evolves in time and not in space. For the sole purpose of the earthly positions, these could be considered as “Directions in Mundo with perfectly calculated secondary Motion”. The correlated astronomical speculum shows true planetary parameters, with planetary positions which, in their (secondary) orbital movements, change imperceptibly in relation to those at birth (and with a solar celestial latitude which remains decidedly at zero).
Celestial Primary Directions (pseudo astronomical) Charts
By selecting Secondary Motion NO, all of the planets (and the whole domification as a whole) are “frozen” in the sky as they are seen from the place of birth at the moment we are born. In this way, a Radix In Mundo, is consecrated, jointly with the correspondent Radix in the Signs, which can profitably be used for all technical and predictive analysis. The rest of the celestial sphere continues to move according to its apparent daily rotation, but for the family of “frozen” objects, it is as if the Earth had stopped. For this reason, their mundane position (XMP) in the astronomical speculum does not change with the passage of time. In other words, the zodiac signs which move in daily motion “sweep” the Radix in Mundo which remains immobile, and in this way describe, in the span of 400 minutes from birth, the totality of the “Primary directions in Zodiac” from 0 to 100 years.
Conversley, by selecting Secondary motion YES, all of the planets (and the whole domification as a whole) are “almost frozen” in the sky as they are seen from the place of birth when we are born: but they are allowed the small movement linked to orbital motions (secondary motions). In this way, strictly speaking, the Radix in Mundo is no longer such, seeing the mundane positions (XMP) change slightly with the passage of time (and in this sense, the star that is most affected is the Moon, which can increase its XMP by a few degrees for maximum direction / progression arcs, i.e. 90-100°, always corresponding to 90-100 years of life.
Relationships between Terrestrial PDs and Celestial PDs
If we select Secondary motion NO for the Terrestrial PD Charts, from a temporal point of view they align themselves very well with the Celestial PD Charts, based on the pseudo-astronomical method. If instead we select Secondary motion YES for the Terrestrial PD Charts, there is a slight phase displacement compared to said Celestial PD Charts. Taking the Sun as a measuring instrument, this phase displacement has a ZERO value at the moment of birth, slowly increasing its value until it reaches 4.2 months approximately at age 90. To be exact, in the Celestial PDs the Sun is always ahead of the Terrestrial ones. In the astrological analogy and insofar as it is said, when something is marked by the Sun in the Heaven, correspondences on Earth are appreciated with some delay. Not so for events involving all other astronomical objects, having celestial latitude generally different from zero, for which the configurations On Earth can anticipate, or delay, compared to those In Heaven, even for a few years.
From an analogical point of view, a natal theme therefore emerges in mundo (on Earth) which always remains constant in time – in the same way as the corresponding, usual natal theme (radix) in the zodiac (in the Heaven). This new chart allows for a pseudo-astronomical graphic evaluation which is completely coherent in comparison with the planetary positions which, in time, change in accordance with the various astrological techniques, for example in transits and directions. In particular, in the Primary Directions Charts – PDs – the radix chart constitutes a genuine global significator compared to the globality of the promissors which move in the celestial and earthly charts over time. The phrase Primary Directions – PDs – traditionally associated with a geometrical movement in space, imposed on planets to cover an equatorial arc on the celestial sphere, can be more accurately substituted with that of Primary Progressions – PPs – that is a movement in time, as it is finally possible to evaluate astronomically in real time that which was only approximately the corresponding movement of direction. All the astrological interpretive judgments, therefore acquire an elegant double vision: the microcosm of Man face to face with his (or her) personal planetary macrocosm, in the Heaven and on Earth.
NB. In order to achieve a coherent comparison of the PDs and the Radix in the double charts, the house system must be set up identically, both in the Options\House System menu and in the Options\Primary directions menu. The double setting is due to the fact that, in principle, it might be considered appropriate in the case of the PDs to operate a different system of houses from the one which has been used for the birth theme. When using as preference a different system of houses from one of those traditionally allowed by the PDs (Placidus, Regiomontanus, Campanus), the program has to manage two different house systems. The problem could be avoided by using a universal algorithm which is valid for every type of house system (see for example the Riyal program - Read the documentation\III- RUNNING THE PROGRAM\PRIMARY DIRECTIONS - by Juan Antonio Revilla, in which this algorithm was used for the first time in order to calculate the PDs in Mundo), but at the moment it is not the intention to implement this method in Morinus.
Save As Text (PDs) should be used in English (this is not a bug but a minor inconvenience)
Ayanamsa: in Comparison charts only one ayanamsa is used (e.g. Radix for 1980 and Transit for e.g. 2015)
Ayanamsa: Exact Transits are not precession corrected
In Horoscope\Find time and Place, sometimes a chart is found only if "Retrograde" is unchecked and "Approximation" is used
It's not sure whether Secondary Progressions with the "Apparent Solar Time"-setting is correct or not
Rise/Set times wrong
Lords of the Day\Hour sometimes wrong as for the previous point
Problems with data in Tables\Speeds (maybe only with the Moon) if "Topocentric" is checked in Options/AppearanceI (it seems that it's a bug in the Swiss Ephemeris)
Terrestrial PDs in chart: if the option "Sec. Motion" is NOT selected, the LOF position is wrong
Click on the right small arrow (as usually MorinusWinEng for the Windows executable, Morinus for the Python source). The version is the last one
Another download is available, Hors.zip, containing several horoscopes of famous people. Source: Astrodatabank from Astodienst. For its use unzip and replace it in the main folder where Morinus is located.
Download the Windows package MORINUSWINENGxxx e unzip it in any location in your PC. Open the folder that appeares and identify the file morinus.exe (the one with the icon) to launch the program. For a faster use we suggest to create a connection to it, to locate in a more convenient area (for example on the desktop).
NOTES
Under Windows 7/10 the program can not be executed from the folders Program Files and Program Files (x86). After a change in the options, trying to save them an error message may appear (Error with the options file). Any other path is well.
As soon as a program becomes popular, on the web a lot of sites offer tools to remove it from the PC in perfect way. MORINUS HAS NOT INSTALLER AND DOES NOT MODIFY THE WINDOWS REGISTER. ANY OFFER FOR UNINSTALLERS THAT MAKE EXPLICIT REFERENCE TO THE PROGRAM DECLARING TO BE ABLE TO REMOVE IT, IS A DECEPTION POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. If Morinus is not desired any more, simply delete its folder and empty the basket. In such a way no trace will remain on your computer. For a free, powerful and reliable tool able to remove programs, we suggest the IObit Uninstaller. The download HERE.
Starting from the version 7.2.0, new graphical fonts, freely downloaded from internet and modified by Margherita Fiorello, were inserted in the program. But in such fonts the planetary glyphs were copyrighted. The author, Kenneth Hirst, has kindly contacted us with the request to remove them. To Kenneth our most sincere apologies and the gratitude for not doubting of our good faith. In the version 8.1.0 the original font were therefore restored. Anyone wishing to purchase a license for the proprietary version of this captivating font, can contact Kenneth on his site: Special Morinus Font
IMPORTANT NOTICE
With the current version (8.1.0) Morinus7 and Morinus V8 are terminated. The project, which was to be developed in a shared way starting from version 8.0.0., was interrupted following the decision by Elias Diaz Molins (Spain) not to proceed furter.
Version 8.1.0 available below, at the end of this page.
It is also available on the SourgeForge page that was supposed to host the new releases:
Modified: 05 September 2020
Roberto Luporini