You can go to this website, zoom out of the special Google map, zoom in on your location, and then click the relative location, and it will give you the longitude and latitude which you can enter here.

With the “Places” dialog box up, you first enter the longitude and latitude of the location.

I recommend putting those last two in while adding your location to the list, by clicking on the “Place” button. 1pm is 13 hours 0 minutes), Place of Birth, and two very tricky things, coordinates and time zone of your location, if you weren’t born in one of the major cities on their small list.

You will need the following information: Name, Date your charting (for instance birth date), Time (do this in 24 hour time, i.e.

With the program open, click Horoscope then New, or simply hold CTRL and press N, notated CTRL+N.

Repeat this step for the other 3 ephemeris zip files.

Click “Select Folder”, then click “Extract”.

Open the folder “SWEP”, and then the folder “Ephem”. For Traditional Morinus the folder should be called “MorinusWin”.

Click browse and find the folder for your copy of Morinus.

Click the menu option (should be near the top of the window) which says “extract all”.

Open the Ephem1.zip file which you just downloaded.

Download each of the 4 Ephem.zip files available at the bottom of the page linked to here (Ephem1.zip, Ephem2.zip etc.).

In order to make sure that charts for earlier time periods are accurate, please install the swiss ephemeris files into Morinus by following the instructions below: Then cut and paste or drag and drop the shortcut onto your desktop.

Open that folder, find the file morinus.exe and right-click it, choosing “ Create shortcut“.

That is where the program now resides on your computer.

After downloading, then open the zip folder and click “ Extract all files”, choose a place you’ll remember and click “extract”.

Right click it, choose Save As, and save it somewhere you can find it. The download link (MorinusWin.zip) is at the bottom of that page.

Download your copy by following this link.

I’ll cover basic use of the Astrodienst charting in another post. If you are absolutely new to astrology and just need to be able to pull up and print charts in a basic way, then I recommend using the free online chart calculation at (Astrodienst) instead. The program’s most recent update as of this writing was on Oct. This program does it all, and there’s also a Traditional version that’s tailored to the traditional astrologer. When I discovered Morinus a few years ago it was quite a revelation. Would you believe that you can do all of your traditional astrology charting and calculations with a free software program?

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