Astro Clock Overview

Screen At A Glance

Legend

1. Tools bar: People, Timing and Places
2. More: the other tools
3. Realtime or Manual
4. Date, time and location
5. Refresh and Copy AI prompt
6. Orb choice in Current aspects: Lilly, Morin or Modern
7. More in Current aspects: the full aspect window
8. Save chart
9. A collapsible tile (House cusps)

Astro Clock does three jobs in one place:

• follow the current chart in Realtime
• hold the chart at a fixed moment in Manual mode
• hand that chart to the other Astro Clock tools

Below the top bar the workspace is made of tiles: the Chart itself, Moon, Current aspects and Planets, which always stay open, and collapsible tiles such as Solar conditions, Saved charts, Influence and afflictions, Receptions, Dispositors, House cusps, Cusp aspects, Directional, Sect and Degree hits. Fixed stars, Arabic lots, Almuten and Asteroids sit together under Chart details at the bottom. Click a collapsible tile's title to fold it away; Astro Clock remembers which tiles you closed on this device.

The Tools Bar

The tools are grouped along the top of Astro Clock:

• People: Synastry and Trait profile
• Timing: Transits and Election
• Places: Astrocartography, Mundane and Weather
• More: Chinese astrology, Forensic and Birth-time check (formerly Birth Time Certification)

Each tool opens in its own window with a single close button; press Escape to close it too. If a tool opens from Realtime, Astro Clock pauses the live chart while the window is open and resumes when you close it.

Realtime And Manual Modes

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1. Realtime or Manual
2. Date
3. Time
4. Location, with the time zone it resolves to
5. Refresh
6. Apply (Manual mode)
7. Copy AI prompt

Realtime

Use Realtime to follow the chart for the current moment and place.

• The chart updates by itself while Realtime is on.
• Refresh asks for the current Astro Clock data again without changing mode.

Manual

Use Manual to hold Astro Clock on a fixed chart.

• Enter a date, time and location.
• Click Apply to move the workspace to that moment.
• The chart stays there until you change it or go back to Realtime.

Loading a saved chart also switches Astro Clock to Manual, using the saved chart's date, time and place.

Saved Charts

Legend

1. Saved charts (click to collapse)
2. Refresh and Search
3. Name, place, date and time
4. Planetary hour, Moon sign and sect
5. Row actions
6. Load and Delete…

Saved charts are not screenshots. Each one stores the chart's moment, place and time zone, a short summary, and the chart data the other Astro Clock tools need.

How To Save A Chart

• Click Save chart above the chart wheel.
• Vox Stella saves the chart on screen and puts it first in Saved charts.

What You Can Do In Saved Charts

• Refresh reloads the list.
• Load (from the row's action menu) puts that chart in Astro Clock and switches to Manual.
• Delete… asks you to confirm, then removes the saved chart.
• Search switches the tile to search mode, where you can search by label or place, by a planet's sign and house such as Sun Leo H10, or by an aspect such as Moon trine Venus.

Use the Saved Charts Guide for the full storage, search and reuse workflow.

Why Saved Charts Matter

Saved charts connect the main Astro Clock view to the deeper tools.

• They let you come back to a chart without building it again.
• Some tools need saved charts.
• Other tools work without one but can use one when it is there.

How Saved Charts Feed Other Astro Clock Tools

Synastry

Synastry compares two saved charts.

• Choose one as Chart A and one as Chart B.
• The report compares those saved charts directly.

Legend

1. Chart A
2. Chart B
3. Engine tabs: Memo, Life Themes, Union Dynamics, Work Alliance
4. Include and Orbs
5. Overall compatibility
6. Relationship signature
7. Ease, Bond and Growth
8. What holds it together
9. What creates strain
10. Close button (or press Escape)

Transits

Transits can take the birth chart in two ways:

• Enter birth data: type the birth date, time and place
• Saved chart: use a chart you saved in Astro Clock

Legend

1. Chart source
2. Choose saved chart
3. Refresh and Clear
4. House system
5. Transit date (optional)
6. Transit time (optional)
7. Residence for returns (optional)
8. Close button (or press Escape)

The scan, the predictor and the exact-time check all use the birth chart you choose.

Astrocartography, Mundane And Weather

The Places tools share one window with three tabs: Astrocartography, Mundane and Weather. Each tab has a setup column on the left, results in the middle and, when you select a place or result, a side inspector on the right.

• Astrocartography works from a saved chart. If you have none yet, the window offers Save current chart.
• Map lines can show the natal map or add a transit overlay on top of it.
• Mundane scans ingress, lunation, eclipse and event charts for a country or place. See the Mundane Guide.
• Weather scans a place or region for astrological weather signatures. It is not a weather forecast. See the Weather Guide.

Legend

1. Astrocartography, Mundane and Weather tabs
2. Birth chart
3. Map lines: Natal or Transit
4. Inspect city
5. Place finder goal
6. Map, Intersections, Local space and Report
7. Map layers
8. Map, with zoom
9. Side inspector for the inspected place
10. Add to compare
11. Summary

The usual flow is:

1. choose a saved birth chart
2. choose a Place finder goal if you want ranked cities
3. look at the map, inspect a city or rank candidate cities
4. inspect a city for the deeper reading
5. move through Intersections, Local space and Report

Use the Astrocartography Guide for the map workflow and the Place Finder Guide for goals, atlas search and ranked candidates.

Election

Election doesn't always need a saved chart, but one changes what it can do.

• Without a saved chart, scans use the conditions of each candidate time.
• With a saved chart, supported purposes add natal context. Battle uses a limited contact overlay and return-window annotations; it does not judge natal promise, annual revolutions or directions.
• Two-person marriage elections use two saved charts.

Trait Profile

Trait profile opens on the chart in Astro Clock (Current), or you can switch its Chart source to Saved chart and pick one. Use the Trait Profile Guide for its tabs and filters.

Forensic

Forensic (under More) reads the Current chart or a saved chart you choose in its Chart list. Use the Forensic Guide for its sections, local space, brief and export.

Other Astro Clock Entry Points

Current Aspects

The Current aspects tile shows the aspects in force in the chart on screen.

• Choose the orbs: Lilly (the default), Morin or Modern.
• Filter by Any, Applying or Separating.
• Turn on Morin mode for Morin's latitude-corrected aspects.
• Click More for the full window with the aspect grid, antiscia, parallels and cusp aspects. See the Current Aspects Guide.

Copy AI Prompt

Copy AI prompt in the top bar copies one of three prompts built from the chart on screen:

• Natal chart prompt
• Case prompt
• Asset first-trade prompt

Load a saved chart first if the prompt should describe that chart.

Practical Workflow

1. Start in Realtime to look at the current chart.
2. Switch to Manual when you want to hold a fixed moment, then click Apply.
3. Click Save chart when you want to keep a chart.
4. Load a saved chart before opening a tool that should read that exact chart.
5. Use the Tools bar for synastry, transits, elections, places and the other tools.

Notes

• Saved charts are stored locally for this app installation.
• Loading a saved chart is the quickest way to make an earlier chart the active one.
• Synastry needs two saved charts, and Astrocartography needs a saved birth chart.
• Transits can work from typed birth data or a saved chart.
• Election can run without a saved chart; supported purposes use one when it is there.