Advanced Dial Techniques

 

The Dial can be used to create Ingresses, Planetary Returns and (as we have seen) multiple Equal House Systems. It can be used to make unique dynamic formulas that can be tracked in time. When doing Ingresses and Returns, the action will cause a new chart to be calculated for the Ingress or Return. This new chart will respond to all Dial maneuvers until you hit the Home button, and it will return to the original chart (or in the case of a right click on the Home button, the newly added material is saved to the Retained Charts window on the Main Menu).

 

All actions creating Ingress charts and Returns rely on the Working Data settings. All actions like Returns and Ingress creation will be after the date and time in the Working Data window, unless you add the Shift Key and hold it down with the Control key – these actions start the Returns with the first one before the Working Date information. In addition, the location listed in the WD window will be used in the creation of any Return or Ingress.

 

To create an Ingress, place the Dial Pointer on the cusp or location you want to ingress. Hold down the Control Key on the keyboard while selecting the planet you want to ingress and keeping the left button on the mouse depressed. While the mouse button is depressed drag the planet into the Red Dial Pointer Arrow and release the mouse. The chart will recalculate the next time (after the time and date selected in the Working Data Window) the selected planet comes to the current location of the Dial Pointer. You can use the Working Date as a starting point for creating a series of Ingresses going backward in time by also holding down the Shift key along with the Control key while you drag into the Red Dial Pointer. If you do the same operation again, the chart will recalculate and advance or regress to the next occurrence of the Ingress or return to the current Dial Position.

 

For a Planetary Return, place the Dial Pointer on the planet (or aspect to it) in question, hold the Control Key and drag the planet into the red main Dial Pointer Arrow. When you release the mouse the new Return (or aspect to it) is created. This new Planetary Return will occur after the date and time set in the Working Data Window (unless you add the Shift key and go backwards from the Working Date). This technique is often used for Solar Returns and Lunar Returns. Remember, you can change the natal location, as well as the date, in the Working Data Window for relocating Solar and Lunar returns.

 

Thinking of the structure of the Dial with Cancer at the top and Libra at the first house cusp, you can use the four pointers of the Dial and make any Dial object the cusp of the 1st house by placing the Libra Point on the object and making it the start of the Equal House system. You can use any of the pointers to create multiple house viewpoints. In Uranian Astrology, these are called Auxiliary House structures and can reveal enormous amounts of fine grain material about the horoscope.

 

Finally, using Single Disk layouts with dynamics you can make a formula with moving material and track it over time. Select a dynamic like transits for example and go to a midpoint. For example, select qn /yt, leave the formula on the Dial, go to the Dial Pointer Marquee and left click on the L to the right of the formula listed. This will lock the Dial Pointer (L will become a U) on this formula as you move through time. Note when the transiting Sun comes to the formula as you move through time. This will create the formula qn /yt = qt. You can adjust the time from the time choices in the time pulldown and go back and forth in time until it is exact. Note the time and date and if it is your natal chart, then you will have a nice day when this combination is due.

 

The use of the material with the Symmetry Window and the ideas behind it will make your ability to use astrology very powerful compared to normal or orthodox astrological methods.