Video Tutorials
The following tutorials are available in english language and provide you with the most important tipps and tricks:
Video on how to import and organise data for Kairon 4.
Video on how to apply the settings for different types of charts.
Video on how to customise glyphs representing celestial bodies.
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About those Aspects
Now we get to the part of the setup which interests me personally the most… the question of orb of aspect. Again in the ‘Settings’ menu, this time we select ‘Aspect Orb Settings’. There are 26 aspect types listed in Kairon 4 and if you are particularly fussy about which aspects to draw and what…
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Asteroids
Kairon4 enables easy handling of the asteroids offered by astro.com. You can choose from a list of over 11,000 asteroids. Once selected, the associated ephemeris is automatically loaded and installed by the server so that the position of the selected celestial body can be calculated. Add and Activate Use the framed button to open the…
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Back to the Settings Menu
Here we can change everything, and I will perform a few rudimentary changes to make this software more friendly for me. Let us deal with those Arabic Parts first. The ‘Font Style Generator’ is where these can be adjusted. These steps must be done in order to work at all. Clicking the down arrow on…
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Backup
There are basically two ways to back up your data: with the simpler but better way with the more complicated and worse way ad 1) Save via AAF First of all, switch to the data entry dialog and select the category in which the horoscopes are located that you want to back up, for example…
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Basics of data entry
The next logical step is to input basic birth data. I will use Buddy Holly as my example, but this will work for anyone. This chart is September 7, 1936, 3:30 pm (or 15:30 if you prefer) in Lubbock TX 1. Select “Categories” in the top right of the screen. 2. Select “+” at the…
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Colours: The last of the ‘set up’ help files.
We will open this session by selecting “Settings” and “Chart Colors”. First thing to do is draw your attention to the 5 numbers in the upper middle of the screen. 1- gives you monochrome and your chart will be set for the colours you choose for Aries. 2-gives you 2 colours and Aries represents all…
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Custom Symbols
A newly added object is represented by some generic glyph, in this case here it is a capital “A”. You can replace this with any character of any font installed on your computer and set the displayed size exactly. To do this, open the “Settings” dialog and click on “Font Style Generator” to access the…
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Data Import
Kairon 4 is the sequel of Kairon 3.61 which is still available at https://kairon.cc for older Macs. Data entry Data can be entered directly, or imported. Import To import existing data, you need .aaf files. AAF is short for Astrological Exchange Format and is also the one and only file-format of Kairon 3.61. Therefore you…
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Data Structure
Categories In order to organize your data more easily, Kairon4 provides the possibility in the data entry dialog to create any number of categories. With the yellow circled button the categories can be switched on and off, by clicking on the green circled tab they are also visible. Classify into categories First select a horoscope,…
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First settings
The most general settings are set from the menu by that name which appears at the top right of the window. Clicking on that will pop up another window which I have shown below. The ‘Radix’ default can be set here. My own preferences on this pane are not far from the default and are…
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Kairon 4 from the beginning
Whether you are new to Kairon, or you are upgrading from Kairon 3 this should be instructive. To get a basic chart Kairon 4 is set up to give you a chart for the current moment. It sets ‘Radix’ by default which is another word for ‘Chart’. To alter any basic data of the chart,…
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Kairon 4 is out now!
Finally, celebrate with us the release of Kairon 4.0 To celebrate this release, Kairon will be available for €29.99 in Mac-AppStore until XMas, thereafter for €49.99 You can download it from here!
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Midpoint-Trees
Display To display midpoints, choose “Midpoint-Trees” from the View-menu. You get the best display option, if you select “none” from the list menu. Midpoint-Trees are available since Version 4.04. Every object that is selected in Objects dialog at Object Selection: Radix: Inner will be the root of a Midpoint tree as of Version 4.04 Every…
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Selecting Objects in Kairon 4
If you are like me, you will have your own set of ‘pet objects’ which you like to see in a chart, or maybe you have heard about one which you would like to try. Selecting objects in Kairon 4 is very easy. The object selection screen is very large and quite comprehensive. My selections…
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Synastries
To do a synastry you need to first have at least two charts available in you database, it does not matter though, if they are in the same category or in two different ones. In a synastry you have the one chart, which is the base chart, it is displayed “inside”, and the chart that…