FAQ
Our Calendar's Goals
- Accurate (exact to the minute) timing of aspects in any time zone - anywhere on earth. We do this by utilizing Google's, Apple's or whoever is hosting the calendar's time zone features.
- Getting the data into a place you can use it daily like in your personal calendar app.
- It's focused more for people who generally have an idea of what the transits mean.
The personal calendars contain very brief descriptions. While not wrong - they are not really complete. We hope that users use the calendar more for exact timing and planning rather than for the actual descriptions.
For great descriptions, we have a report that people love. It's a transit report that has best and worst ways to handle it. It's more meant for the larger transits like Mars through Pluto.
Here's an example:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJRRQPLuFVxzQaSS7sMYrYP0nhS-8d3r/view?usp=sharing
The way I (Nancy) learned astrology was I had a teacher, a bunch of books, and the ephemeris. I would calculate my transits and then watch what happened when they occurred. That's another idea behind our calendar. But watching your world at exact times you can learn to pinpoint the energies for future timing.
This video explains more about the calendar.
https://youtu.be/Y_VqzxVqO44?si=wAujEfLYVfICPZ_B
Here's an example personal calendar with the newer descriptions:
Importing Notes
First create a new empty calendar. Then make sure to import whatever you are importing into that calendar.
The import process may also give you an option to create a new calendar while importing. This works too. It doesn't matter which way you do it - as long as you keep each calendar's data in its own calendar.
Here's a short video showing creating a new calendar on an iPad. Watch the bottom left corner for the clicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8ok9EZ5K0
Here's the Google instructions page:
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37095?hl=en
You can import to as many calendars as you like. You can edit the calendars because they are yours. If you make a mistakes, you can just re-import them into a new calendar.
Once you get a few different calendars set up you can watch this video on how to see them all at once (it's for Android but similar to iPhone):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_VqzxVqO44
For our complete instructions see:
More Questions Answered
> When I subscribe to the calendar on my desktop browser, it will not show up in my Android device.
We (Shawn and I) have both encountered this problem before on our Androids.
The only solution I've found is to install a second calendar app on the android from a different vendor. I normally use the Google calendar app, so I installed the Samsung calendar app, connected it to Google, and the giant 2025+ transit calendar appears.
The Samsung Calendar app that worked for me is available for free at the Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.calendar&pcampaignid=web_share
It's probably because the calendar is so big? Not sure.
I've tried everything else imaginable short of uninstalling and reinstalling the Google calendar app itself. Using a second calendar app is the only thing that has worked for me.
> When I create a new calendar and import the basic.ics file to it, after 60 seconds Google says "Oops, the file could not be imported."
This could be due to the large number of entries in the file. This is why we suggest subscribing to the calendars on a desktop, then using the same Google account on your phone to see the various subcribed-to calendars.
Weird or Duplicate Entries
The easiest thing to do is keep all your calendar data in separate calendars. Then you can just delete them if they become a problems.
If you find your Android Calendar app has duplicate entries, or other weird problems, you can reset it by unlinking from the main Transit Calendar. This might include "unsubscribing".
Then clear the calendar data cache:
Go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications
Press the menu button and choose "filter"
Select "ALL"
Go to "Calendar Storage" click on it. This should delete all the calendar data on your device.
Press "Clear data"
Now relink to the Transit Calendar, or let it/help it Resync or Refresh.
See this page for more info: support.google.com/calendar
calculation etc.
The data for this calendar is calculated with Solar Fire. The data is hosted by Google.
Interpretations are 'out-of-the-box' from Solar Fire. Only spelling and grammar have been changed. We didn't want to get into deciding what the transits mean. That's up to you!
Interpretations are provided as a hint, not absolute predictions. If you don't agree with the interpretations, you can import the calendar into your own and change the interpretations there.
