📄️ Contents
Learn the main Aquila concepts in less than 30 minutes by following this step-by-step guide. For the best experience, work through these topics in order while using the Aquila application.
📄️ The Big Picture
The screenshot below illustrates the main components of Aquila.
📄️ Adding and Editing Locations
When adding or editing a location, Aquila's precision timekeeping system uses the latitude and longitude to do the work for you. Enter the coordinates, and the correct local time zone, along with any historical Daylight Saving Time rules, will be automatically applied for any date, anywhere in the world. This is handled by a professional-grade global time zone atlas built into the application.
📄️ Adding and Editing Natal Records
When adding or editing the location for a natal record, Aquila's precision timekeeping system uses the latitude and longitude to do the work for you. Enter the coordinates, and the correct local time zone, along with any historical Daylight Saving Time rules, will be automatically applied for any date, anywhere in the world. This is handled by a professional-grade global time zone atlas built into the application.
📄️ Creating a Generator Study
You can create a new generator study in two ways:
📄️ Entering Dates and Times
The Date Control
📄️ Selecting Celestial Bodies
Lists of selectable bodies are used to define which bodies will be included in a given study. You can manage the values in these lists as follows:
📄️ Working with Numeric Data Grids
Numeric data grids are used to create and display lists of aspects, hotspots, and arcs needed for different studies. You can manage the values in these data grids as follows:
📄️ Presets Functionality
The presets functionality enables you to save and recall study parameter settings, including ephemerides, celestial body selections, tables of aspects, hotspots, arcs, and filter scripts. The presets menu is opened via the same presets button for all preset types except the body selections. To open the presets menu for body selections, right-click on any body name in the list of bodies.
📄️ Default Settings
Default settings define the initial parameter values used when creating new studies. Aquila maintains two separate sets of default settings: Application Defaults and Workspace Defaults.
📄️ Study Parameters
Robert Gordon is the central character in W.D. Gann's novel 'The Tunnel Thru The Air or Looking Back From 1940.' We're going to create a list of aspects that transiting planets form with the planets in Robert Gordon's birth chart. To proceed we need to define the ephemeris that we want to use and select Robert Gordon's natal record.
📄️ Generating Events
Once all required parameters for a study have been defined, the Run button will become enabled. Click the Run button to start the process of event generation. The results will then appear in the events data grid.
📄️ Saving a Workspace
A workspace contains all your studies, their parameters, and generated events. You can save a workspace in three ways:
📄️ Customizing the Events Data Grid
Changing the Column Visibility and Order
📄️ Generator Study Types
There are 42 generator study types available, each producing a list of specific astrological events. Here's a brief overview of each study:
📄️ Timeline Studies
Timeline studies aggregate events from a selection of generator studies into a single master timeline. The event data is simplified into a clean, two-column view containing only dates and event descriptions.
📄️ Exporting and Documenting Events
Events appearing in the events data grid for both generator and Timeline studies can be exported to CSV file or copied and pasted in various formats.
📄️ Event Filter Basics
The filter script is a powerful tool that lets you sift through astronomical events in real-time, so you only see the ones that matter to you. Consider it a digital sieve, catching the specific events you want while ignoring the others.