Astrology Software Review: ZET8
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I’ve never heard of this Russian program before, so I thought I’d try it out.
ZET8 comes in three versions: Lite, which is freeware, and Pro and Geo, which are both paid-for.
I’ve only tried the Lite version, and I’m quite impressed with it. It has several features disabled – you can’t print, transit forecasts are limited to three days, there is no astrolocality module; there seems to be no way to save charts, or any way to progress a chart.
However, it’s still packed with useful features: natal charts; synastry; composite; star charts and other astronomical features; a fun little I Ching oracle; the ability to use ephemerides (such as the Swiss Ephemerides) that can be downloaded from the web; a library of interpretation texts; Arabic parts; graphic ephemerides, and so on.
I have a beef with the interface – it is most unintuitive and it was quite some time before I worked out how to enter data. Also, the program I downloaded seemed to be missing its initialisation file, so that everything was displayed in Russian! Fortunately, I was able to download an initialisation file from an earlier version, which seemed to solve that problem.
Additionally, some features – the interpretations library, for example – have to be downloaded separately from the main program, which is a bit annoying.
I wouldn’t say it’s for complete beginners. Yes, you can set up a birth-chart with it, but there are dozens of freeware programs out there that can do that; fully utilising the program really needs some expert knowledge. I’d give it four stars out of five.
Download it from www.zaytsev.com
I like the way you can drag the wheel round and change the time, while all the aspects come in and out of orb. Its very pretty, but its also a good way of election checking. I think it also shows a little graph of the aspect orb over a period of time.. when its exact etc. Neither of these features are super well documented, which is a shame. Hope I’m not talking b******s as I havnt got the prog here at work!
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