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If you own Solar Fire 6 and use the built-in atlas, you should get the update for the ACS built in atlas

Owners of the ACS stand alone atlas (an optional product used with other software we sell such as Solar Fire 5, The Astrolabe Report System, Nova chartwheels, etc.) can also update the stand-alone ACS PC Atlas.

(Some users will want and need both of these updates.)

If you own Solar Fire 5.1, the built in atlas for this product will not be updated because 5.1 was discontinued and the file format for the built in atlas has changed.

However, Solar Fire 5.1 owners who have the stand alone atlas can update the stand alone atlas using the link above and then set their Solar Fire preferences to use the stand alone atlas instead of the built-in atlas. To do that, click on Preferences on the main menu of Solar Fire and then Edit Settings. Next, click on the Places tab and choose the ACS Stand Alone under Atlas to Use.

Owners of Solar Fire 5.1 who do not have the stand alone atlas will need to upgrade to Solar Fire 6 to get the updated atlas information.

If you don't have automatic updates to Windows turned on, you may need to download Windows updates as well. Click on Learn More to get a link to those updates.

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PLUTO (and the Astrolaborers) IN THE SPOTLIGHT at NCGR Confererence

(Reprinted courtesy of Tim Bost, FinancialCyclesWeekly.com #0711, email Tim@timbost.com.

For the past several days I've been in Baltimore, Maryland, where I lectured on Friday on "How to Find the Money in Your Horoscope" for a conference sponsored by the National Council for Geocosmic Research.. The event was held at the newly renovated and restored Tremont Grand facility, a building which housed the historic home of Baltimore freemasonry. The meeting rooms were architecturally uplifting and intellectually stimulating environments for the conference sessions--a real treat. The trip to Baltimore also provided an opportunity for a visit to Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, founded in 1692 and right next door to the Masonic hall. It too provided lots of opportunity for historical fascination and creative inspiration. While the conference sessions themselves were primarily about non-financial astrological topics like psychological archetypes, traditional methodologies for planetary interpretation, and ideas for enhancing current practice by professional astrologers, there were also some discussions of trends in economics and geopolitics as well. One of the key factors that came under scrutiny was the upcoming conjunction of Pluto with the Galactic Center, which will take place toward the end of the current decade.

One conference participant, Madalyn Hillis-Dineen, suggested that this configuration will bring about "exposure of despicable levels of corruption in governmental leadership" with an accompanying "financial meltdown."

Veronica Willson of the UK suggested that as this phenomenon helps usher in massive changes, we as human beings will be obliged to change our responses to global situations. "In the Aquarian Age," she said, "we can no longer project the shadow onto the collective; we have to take personal responsibility for what happens in the world."

Baris Ilhan, a conference delegate from Turkey, shared the notion that this passage of Pluto will signal the beginning of a big shift in Islam, with a change toward more acceptance of differences in individual beliefs.

Misty Kuceris hinted that there may be upcoming parallels with the economic situation in 1932, when Ceres transited the Galactic Center.

Using the techniques of symmetric astrology, Gary Christen shared the results of a detailed investigation into previous occurrences of this planetary phenomenon during the past couple of millennia. Noting planetary similarities with the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 and with the period in the 12th century when five different volcanoes erupted, he suggested that the period between 2009 and 2011 will bring major geophysical changes to the planet, followed by a corresponding economic upheaval.

All in all, the astrologers who spoke on the subject seemed to agree that "Pluto going over the Galactic Center is going to change our world," no matter what their differences of opinion about the specific events that may accompany it.

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