This button is for saving the data you've entered to disk but without any of the above calculations being performed. In other words it does exactly what it says. It is for those times when you want to just change the name on a chart- or enter birth data just to get it into your system for later use, etc. If this is checked, then no chart will appear, no planetary positions calculate, nothing at all will appear. It will simply save the name and any birth data youÕve entered for this chart, but it wonÕt calculate anything at all.
LetÕs say you want to enter and calculate a number of charts. You could enter them one after another, and check this option on each one. This way they would get into the system quickly. Then, you could go to the ÒResave/calculate many chartsÓ feature under the Tools menu, sort the list of charts by ÒRecent ones to topÓ, hilite these oneÕs youÕve just entered, then select the things you want, like Full Charts and Readings perhaps, and let it do them all at once so that you can walk away or do something else while it calculates and saves all these charts. This is what I do when I want to enter a bunch of charts. Why wait in-between while it calculates and saves?
Readings
the readings (check this option) because storing the readings list adds quite a bit of additional disk space requirements for the chart.
For students or beginners it is recommended that you DO save the readings so that you can study the effects of placements in the chart more fully.
If you ever want to see or print the readings for this chart then you SHOULD check ÒReadingsÓ. If you do not, then you wonÕt be able to print the readings for this chart, or view them onscreen. You can ÒEditÓ and ÒRe-SaveÓ the chart later and at that time check this to get the readings. A chart is not only ÒsavableÓ once. You can edit and save the chart over and over- either changing the birth data or not. So, you can come back later and save any of these options that you may not have saved previously.
Links
This causes very small records to be saved which link readings to charts. These link records are the heart of the "Who also has this reading" feature. This feature shows you who else has the same readings as the chart you are studying. It is recommended that you check this option for charts of people you know as it is one of the best or key features in Goravani Jyotish.
Do not save Links for charts of persons you do not know at all, or insignificant horary charts. This is because, if the links to such charts appear on the "Who" window, they will tell you
nothing- will be meaningless in other words. This feature will make sense to you once you start to use the ÒWho...Ó window. This is a very important learning feature- one which sets this program apart from others.
If you donÕt understand it at this time, just take our word for it and do this: When saving charts for people you know even a little bit- check this feature ÒLinksÓ. Later youÕll be glad you did.
However, if you are in a hurry at the time of entering and saving a chart, and you donÕt want to wait for it to find the readings, and you are therefore not saving the readings, then donÕt check this either because this will cause the software to calculate the readings even if you did not elect to save them.
This feature relies on the readings list. If you check this feature but do not check the readings, then you will notice that the readings are found (calculated) anyway, even though they are not going to be saved as per your request.
Attributes
Essential and Advanced attributes are really for research only. They are the heart of the research feature. If you are never going to do research, then DO NOT check these options. Essential attributes are CALCULATED if you check any of these: Readings, Links or Index. However, they are only SAVED TO DISK if you check "Essential" or "Advanced". So, do not check these unless you are doing research WITH THIS CHART, otherwise you are wasting your disk space. There is one other feature, besides research, which requires the ÒEssentialÓ attributes to be
checked. This is the ÒAspectsÓ window and report. The aspects features require that you save ÒEssentialÓ attributes at this time. My personal recommendation is that you NOT save attributes unless doing research. You can do without the aspects window and report because you MUST memorize the aspects in Jyotish is you are ever to be any good at Jyotish at all. A person who does not quickly memorize the aspects of the planets is not at all serious.
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Here are the aspects of the planets for you to read and memorize right now if you have not already done so:
1. All planets aspect the 7th from themselves in the chart. 2. Jupiter additionally aspects 5 and 9 from itself.
3. Saturn additionally aspects 3 and 10 from itself. 4. Mars additionally aspects 4 and 8 from itself. 5. The nodes donÕt aspect.
ThatÕs it for aspects. ItÕs too simple to mess around with.
Index
This causes an alphabetical list of every word in the charts readings to be created.
For example, if you wanted to know what the readings had to say about someone's career, or fame, or family, or love, or wealth, or money, or finances, you could instantly know the answer, if you had saved the index here.
However, do NOT casually use this feature as it is the biggest disk space hog of all the features. Use this only if you are serious about looking things up in their readings. Later, when you are done with a chart for which you saved this index, it would be a good idea to archive the chart. When you archive it, it will delete the index previously created. You will still have the chart data handy in the archive, but the disk space used by the index will be freed up for future use. By the way, archiving a chart deletes everything large associated with saving a chart- including the charts, the readings list, the index, everything. So, archiving charts you donÕt need hanging around in the active charts file is a good idea for those with limited disk space.
Ayanamsa
There is an ayanamsa selection menu in the lower left corner of the window should you want to change the ayanamsa you are going to save the chart with. The ayanamsa is the difference between the tropical (Western Astrology) positions of the planets and their placement under the fixed
(sidereal/Vedic) zodiac. There is a difference of opinion regarding this amount, and hence there are choices. They are all around 21-23 degrees at this time in history.
The ayanamsa selected here is the one that will be used to calculate this chart. If you want to later see the chart using a different ayanamsa you must Edit and Save the chart again selecting the different ayanamsa. In other words, you cannot change a chartÕs ayanamsa except by editing and re-saving the chart.
In this way, you can different charts stored in your database with different ayanamsas.
Once I personally was testing different ayanamsas and the two different dasha year lengths. So I duplicated my own chart two times, appending initials to the end of my last name to indicate which ayanamsa I had used. I then simply switched back and forth between these two versions of my chart, also sometimes switching the dasha year length, which you can do right on the screen rather instantly.
15. AT LAST. Once you have checked the things you want on the Save What window. You click Save and everything is calculated and saved to disk. After it does this, you can move on to
onscreen viewing, or printing of the many things GJ offers for a chart.
Atlas Details
Generally, the atlas is a non-issue because for most cities, after you TAB from the Country field, will just fill in properly and thatÕs it. ThereÕs nothing to think about. So if youÕre just reading through here, you may want to skip to the next part, although understand the atlas more deeply is also a very good idea. Read this section if youÕre having trouble using the atlas feature. There is a good chance your trouble is caused simply by a lack of the knowledge contained in this section.
However, there are many details to using the atlas which will help you to get much more out of it in the odd cases, or when youÕre not sure of spellings, and so on. LetÕs take a look at those issues now.
Background: I used to Òlink toÓ the ACS atlas as some other programs probably still do. This was OK on the PC, but did not exist on the Mac. Also, on the PC, the ÒlinkingÓ software introduced itÕs own set of problems, and the fact that the atlas function was outside my program, in itÕs own other program, made it very hard for me to access it as often as IÕd like, say for example when doing a loop into the future finding transits against a chart. So, I decided to Òmove the atlas into my programÓ, which the company ACS allows for through a different licensing scheme. Great. So I did it. On the downside, it made my datafile 30 MB larger, oh well, itÕs worth it. Another
downside: Other programs can no longer link to the atlas we give you, because itÕs inside our program. This I think is not that major. Sorry if it is to you in your particular case. Anyway, now that itÕs inside, thereÕs some features and aspects of using it which may at times require deeper understanding.
It may not appear at first that you can ÒsearchÓ the atlas, but that is NOT true. You CAN search through the atlas and find the city youÕre looking for, or find a nearby city. You can also add cities to this atlas (and link them to the time change table of a different, already entered, nearby city). First, letÕs cover some important basics: Since there are a quarter million entries already to search through, itÕs important that you type a number of letters to begin the city name. For example, although itÕs true that typing only letter ÒDÓ in the city field, nothing in the state field, and ÒUSAÓ in the country field, will get you a list of ALL CITIES in the US that BEGIN with letter ÒDÓ, itÕs not a very useful thing to do I feel. You will get a list appearing before you that looks something like this:
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And sure enough, thereÕs alot of D cities there- 5,633 of them- and it will take a minute to appear on an average computer. Not bad actually. Still, this is not the way to go.
Rather, type at least a couple letters of the city name, or the whole thing is best IF the spelling is staightforward. Typing a few letters will narrow the search. For example, if I type ÒSanÓ in city, and ÒCAÓ in state, then ÒUSAÓ in country, I will get all the ÒSan...Ó cities in California- not such a big list, and perhaps useful- San Jose, San Bernadino, San Ramon, San Francisco- and so on. But if I type ÒSan FrÓ then IÕll just get a few- San Francisco being one of them. ThatÕs much more helpful. But better yet, if I type the whole name ÒSan FranciscoÓ and enter the state and country correctly, the I wonÕt have to deal with the above pictured window AT ALL- the data will just come in automatically because the atlas was able to perform an EXACT MATCH and so proceded to fill in the fields.
Notice the key point: IÕm getting ÒSan FranciscoÓ cities (that start with that name) from ALL OVER THE WORLD because I did NOT specify the country. This may or may not be useful to you.