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This window is for finding when the planets will enter the Signs and Nakshatras. Therefore, it is a type of dynamic ephemeris. It can also be thought of as a transit finder. This is a part of the process of picking auspicious times to begin important activities.

GJ has a file within it's database of the dates and times that the planets enter the various Signs of the Zodiac, as well as the 27 fixed stars of Vedic Astrology. This is called the "Entries/Exits" file, as it stores the "Entries" of the Planets into the important zones of the Vedic Astrological Zodiac. This window is a control panel for accessing this file of stored "Entries".

This window is essentially a "Search" mechanism which displays the search results and allows a few manipulations such as sorting and printing. The principle flow is to pick a search date range, ie, a "from and to" date range, and a selection of planets and signs or nakshatras you are interested in, then perform the search, see the results, and either print them or discard them.

For example- the following questions could be answered by this window: 1. When will Mercury change Nakshatras (Stars) in the next few months? 2. When will the planets change signs in the next few months?

3. When will the Moon enter it's exaltation star in the coming year? 4. When will Saturn transit into Aries?

These kinds of questions are "Movement" or "Entries" of the planets into Stars and Signs, and hence, can be answered by this window.

The pink checkmarks select all the items in their area- and the pink circles do the opposite- unselect all the checkboxes in their areas.

You select planets you are interested in by placing an X in their corresponding checkboxes. This indicates that you wish to know about that planet.

You then select either Signs or Stars or both to find out when the X'd or selected Planets will enter the selected Signs and Stars. So, you MUST select at least one Planet and then one Sign OR one Star. You can select ALL the planets if you wish, as well as all the Signs and Stars. It will not allow you to proceed without selecting some planet and at least one Sign or Star.

It is entirely possible to get no results. For example: If you select Saturn alone, and a date range spanning only one month, and all the Signs, you still may receive no entries as Saturn may not move into a new sign that Month as it's orbit keeps in each Sign for roughly 2.5 years.

This feature is shipped with a limited date range of capability but you can expand itÕs capabilities if you wish using one of the buttons on the window. The included data spans from 1960 to 2060, a 100 year period (except Moon-see below). This storage added 5 megabytes to the shipping datafile.

Entries/Exits Feature ₁₆₃ movements in and out of Signs and Nakshatras is included only for the limited range from 1995 to 2004. This is because, if the Moon's changes were included for the same 100 year period as the others, it would add another 20 megabytes of data to the datafile, which is unacceptable at this time for me to add to the standard shipping datafile. You can add this however (see below).

There are menus called "From" and "To" acting as labels for the two date range fields. These menus are handy in that they insert relevent dates into the From and To fields for you. Pull down these menus and see for yourself! They are handy. You may possibly never manually enter a date in the fields since these menus provide most of the common choices for you already.

The date fields are, like other date fields in GJ, very smart and automated. They will type the current month and year for you given just a number for the day. These fields are somewhat special in that they are also time fields. They show and accept both the date and time. You do not have to enter the time, but it is functioning as part of the Search, and will therefore limit searches

accordingly.

All times are displayed in military time.

After selecting the Planets, Signs or Stars you are interested in, as well as setting the Date Range (from and to), you then MUST click one of the two buttons:

Search - Replace or Search - Add To

These two buttons are the "GO" agents on this window- they make it "GO".

When you click one of these buttons, the Search is carried out according to your settings that you selected. If you don't click one of these buttons, nothing will ever happen here. Once you click one of these two buttons, the Search occurs and the results list is loaded with the corresponding results of your Search.

The buttons above the Results List are SORT OPTIONS. If you want to sort the Results List, you MUST click these buttons. There is no other way to sort the Results List. The buttons toggle the Ascending/Descending modes- in other words, if you click a button- it sorts the list. Click it again and it will sort in the reversed order. For example, if it sorts A to Z the first time, another click will result in a Z to A sort. Each column has a Column Heading tag which looks like a button because IT IS A BUTTON! So click them! (to sort the list).

Once you have sorted the list the way you want it, you can manipulate it further with the buttons at the bottom of the window.

Clear List: Removes all lines in the list. This does not delete data off your drive- it just clears the visual list. Don't worry, I don't give you the ability at any point to erase the files that drive this window. You cannot erase the data.

Reverse Hilite: If you hilite a line and click this- that line will unhilite and ALL OTHERS will hilite. This is "reversing" your hilite selection. So, if you want just a few lines out of a big list, hilite those lines, then click Reverse Selection, then "Remove Lines", which will remove all the hilited lines, which are all the ones you DIDN'T WANT. Did that make sense? (You'll get used to it if you play with it, I promise!)

Remove Lines: This removes the hilited lines from the list. This is like "Clear List" but works only on the Hilited Lines.

Entries/Exits Feature

Print Hilited: Creates a printout using only the hilited lines. The printouts created by these two print buttons are simple- much like the list itself.

Export Entries/Exits Data or Rebuild Internal Database