Contents

General Help

Getting Started

Getting Silly

Putting Astro-Lite in your StartUp folder

Astrological Terms

Doing a horoscope for a friend

Registering Astro-Lite

Printing your horoscope

Using a specific window

Birth Information

Birth Place

Registration Form

Menu Commands

New

Delete

Open

Exit


Printing Your Horoscope

Here's how to print your horoscope:

Highlight the text you wish to print. Press <control><insert> or <control><c>. The highlighted text will be copied to the Windows clipboard.

Open a text editor (Notepad or Write or whatever Windows editor you like.) In the editor, press <shift><insert> or <control><v>. The horoscope text will be copied into the text editor document. Print the document as you ordinarily would with your editor.


File New
Doing a horoscope for a friend (FILE NEW)

It's easy to do a horoscope for a friend:

Just select File New.This will clear out the birth information. Fill in the Birth Information window just like you did in Getting Started.

 Note: When you want to go back to a friend's birth information file later, just use the File Open. command. Select your friend's name from the list, and off you go!


File Open

Each time you show the horoscope screen for a friend, Astro-Lite creates a file containing your friend's birth information. When you select File Open Astro-Lite will show you a list of these friends. Double-click on the name; the horoscope will pop up.


File Delete

Each time you show the horoscope screen for a friend, Astro-Lite creates a file containing your friend's birth information. When you've done horoscopes for too many of your friends, you can delete them from the list by selecting File Delete. Double-click on the name of the person whose file you wish to delete.


Astrological Terms

Transit

Today's position of a planet is compared to the position of a planet on a person's birthday. The planet we are comparing to the birth planet is said to be "in transit."

Aspects

Two planets in transit (see above) are at an angle to each other. This angle is called the aspect. Certain aspects are interesting in astrology and have been given names. The aspects used in Astro-Lite are:

Conjunct

Square

Trine

Sextile

Opposition


Conjunct

When the angle between two planets is one degree or less, the two planets are in conjunct.


Square

When the angle between two planets is 90 degrees (give or take one degree), the planets are said to be square.


Trine

When the angle between two planets is 120 degrees (give or take one degree), the planets are said io be in trine.


Sextile

When the angle between two planets is 60 degrees (give or take one degree), the planets are said to be in sextile.


Opposition

When the angle between two planets is 180 degrees (give or take one degree), the planets are said to be in opposition.


StartUp
Putting Astro-Lite in your StartUp folder

Astro-Lite automatically shows you today's horoscope for the last person who used the application. If you put Astro-Lite in your StartUp folder, each time you start up Windows, your horoscope will pop up.

If you don't have a startup folder defined yet, do this:

1. Minimize Astro-Lite.

2. Click on File Manager and select File New.

3. Select Program Group and OK.

4.Type the word "startup" for both the description and program group name.

Now that you have a startup folder, do this:

5. Drag the Astro-Lite icon into the folder.


Getting Started

Jump right in:

1. Enter your name. Press <tab>.

2. Enter your birth date, something like this: 02/24/54. Astro-Lite will add the slash (/) marks for you. Press <tab>.

Note: The date must be in this century.

3. Enter your birth time. Use military time (01:00 for one AM, 13:00 for one PM.) Astro-Lite will add the colon (:) for you. Press <tab>.

4.Press the "Find Your Birthplace" button. A window with a map on it will appear. Just click on the map, to indicate where you were born.

TIP: You can maximize the application, then maximize the map window. This will give you more accuracy.

5.Close the map window.

6. Push the "Display Your Horoscope" button.

It's that simple.  Now you'll want to add Astro-Lite to your startup folder.


Using the Birth Information Window

1. Enter your name, press <tab>.

2. Enter your birth date, something like this: 02/24/54. Astro-Lite will add the slash (/) marks for you. Press <tab>

 Note: The date must be in this century.

3. Enter your birth time. Use military time:(01:00 for one AM, 13:00 for one PM.) Astro-Lite will add the colon (:) for you. Press <tab>.

4.Press the "Find Your Birthplace" button. A window with a map on it will appear. Just click on the map, to indicate where you were born.

TIP: You can maximize the application, then maximize the map window. This will give you more accuracy.

5.Close the map window.

6. Push the "Display Your Horoscope" button.

See Also: Birth Place


Using the Birth Place Window

There are directions for using the Birth Place window printed right on the screen.

This window records the longitude, latitude, timezone (EST, EDT, etc) of your birth.

If you weren't born in America: If you were born in Canada or Mexico, click on a position above or below the American border that is roughly on a line with your birthplace. Your horoscopes will be slightly less accurate.than those for folks born in the States. If you weren't born in North America, click on the lower-right corner of the screen. We'll use Greenwich Mean time for your birth time and London for your birthplace.


Registering Astro-Lite

Astro-Lite is not disabled in any way, so you don't need to register it to make it work right. Sending the folks at Flat-Broke Software the twenty dollar registration fee assures you that any future upgrade of Astro-Lite is yours for free, and helps pay for the development of this version. If you've had fun with Astro-Lite, we hope you'll register. We're also working on more fun stuff here at Flat-Broke. Your registration will put you on the list of folks to first find out about our new goodies.

Here's how:

1. Select File Register

2. Fill out the form and print it.

3. Mail it in. Pretty simple, huh?

If you don't have a printer, or don't want to use the form, just jot your name and address on any old piece of paper and send it to us at the address on the registration form screen.


Transit

See: Astrological Terms


Exit

Selecting it will close down the application.


Getting Silly

To take a lighter look at a particular horosocope, just select Silly from the Preferences menu. Of course, you must first have a horoscope visible, so see Getting Started. You can flip back and forth between Serious and Silly as often as you like.