The Return of Astrolog

After returning to Jakarta from my rural isolation, I finally managed to get Astrolog running under Linux Mint on my 2013 MacBook Pro. Firstly it required the installation of WINE and after that all was well. Figure 1 is a screenshot of the current transits to my natal chart.

Figure 1

Astrolog is a program that I've been using for many years and it was very difficult to conduct any astrological research without it. As can be seen in Figure 1, transiting Venus was nearly conjunct my natal Saturn on the cusp of the fifth house at the time of my successful installation. Doubtless this helped. Now I can resume my investigations and I am looking forward to doing so. It's been too long.

This is only a short post but it's a significant one as it marks my return to serious astrology.

An Absence of Astrolog

After years of running Astrolog under WINE on my Mac laptop, I suddenly find myself without it. The reason is that I installed Chrome OS Flex on the laptop and removed the Macintosh operating system. This OS is still in beta and there are numerous glitches. One of them is an inability to install Linux, after which I could install WINE and then run Astrolog.

On my granddaughter's laptop, I removed the Windows operating system that was capable of running astrolog.exe directly and replace it with Ubuntu. Again, I'm having trouble installing WINE, so the net result is that I can't run Astrolog on either laptop for the moment. I'll have to rely on online programs to keep track of my transits.

However, the Astrolog website links to openastro.org that has an Ubuntu repository that I'm keen to test out. Figure 1 shows a screenshot.

Figure 1

Unfortunately, I get the following error message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

openastro.org : Depends :  imagemagick

E: unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Obviously this is something that I need to keep working on. Another promising link that the Astrolog website provides is to Morinus touted as a "Free Astrological Program Written in Python, Using The Swiss Ephemeris". Mind you, the site hasn't been modified since March 18th of 2017. Figure 2 shows a screenshot.

Figure 2

Again, this will take a little more research as I need to install Python from within Chrome OS Flex. Meanwhile, I always have Astrodienst to fall back on. Figure 3 shows a screenshot of my transits for today.

Figure 3

As can be seen, Venus and Mars are rapidly moving toward another conjunction. This upcoming conjunction of the two planets is the third that will occur within a space of about eight months. The dates of these conjunctions are:

• Tuesday, July 13th 2021
• Saturday, February 12th 2022
• Saturday, March 12th 2022

I wrote about the likely effects of these conjunctions in my previous post titled Mars-Venus Conjunction. 

The site astrowin.org is quite comprehensive and will display transits to a natal chart in two different forms as well as supplying many other features. See Figures 4 and 5.

Figure 4

Figure 5