Version 2.3.1 corrects the mathematics behind several kinds of chart. If you use Caelara for client work, this one matters. CORRECTED HOUSE CALCULATIONS Four house systems were computing their intermediate cusps incorrectly: Regiomontanus, Campanus, Koch and Morinus. The Ascendant, Midheaven and their opposites were always right — which is why this was easy to miss — but the other eight cusps could be several degrees out, far enough to place a planet in the wrong house. Regiomontanus is Caelara's traditional default, so most charts the app has drawn were affected. Above about 52° north the error was severe enough to put house cusps out of order. All eight systems now agree with the Swiss Ephemeris to within a thousandth of a degree. Your saved charts are recalculated automatically the first time you open this version. CORRECTED DAVISON CHARTS A Davison is cast for the midpoint in time and place between two people. When the two were more than 180 degrees of longitude apart, the midpoint was being calculated on the opposite side of the world — a New York and Tokyo couple got a chart cast in Turkey rather than the mid-Pacific. BIRTH TIMES IN THE RIGHT TIMEZONE Birth times were displayed in the timezone of the computer reading them rather than the timezone of the birth. A New York birth could read several hours out, on screen, in chart headers and in printed reports. CHART RECORDS FOLLOW THEIR BIRTH DATA Correcting somebody's birth date now recalculates their chart. Previously the new date was saved and the old chart kept, so a client card could show the Moon sign of a chart that no longer existed. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE • Emailing a report from a client record works, and tells you what it did. Where no mail account is configured it opens the message in your mail app with the PDF ready to attach, rather than reporting a failure. • Backups now include your settings, so restoring no longer quietly resets your house system. They no longer include unrelated configuration files that happened to sit in the same folder. • A client with no birthplace says so, instead of showing an Ascendant calculated for a point in the Atlantic. • Practice Analytics reports your practice — clients, readings delivered, charts in your library, reminders due — rather than only fees. Financial figures appear when there are some. • Profections no longer depend on the reader's timezone for deciding which side of a birthday a date falls on. • The lunar nodes now follow the tradition. Lilly gives them no aspects — his doctrine is entirely about a planet being joined with the Head or the Tail — so a conjunction to either node is reported and nothing else. The Head and the Tail are named separately, because they are contrary: what the Head increases, the Tail spoils. Before this, a square to the axis was listed twice, once to each end, as though it were two testimonies rather than one. A trine to the Head was listed again as a sextile to the Tail — the same geometry under two names. And the opposition between the nodes themselves, which is true of every chart ever cast, was being reported as an aspect; being exact at 0.00 degrees, it was named as the tightest aspect in yours. WHAT WAS ALREADY CORRECT Placidus, Equal, Porphyry, Whole Sign and Alcabitius were verified and unchanged. So were secondary progressions, solar arc directions, solar and lunar returns, harmonics, draconic charts and composite charts.

Charts now cast at the right moment. This release fixes four separate timing errors, the largest of which affected US births between 1946 and 1966 — the timezone database follows Chicago's rules for the whole Central zone, and Texas didn't observe daylight time in those years. (A big thank you to the person who let me know. You know who you are.) There's now a per-chart Daylight Time control for the cases where your atlas disagrees with the software. You can save charts. Every saved chart keeps its full record — positions, houses, cusps, aspects, dignities, sect — so the Chart Library can be searched by placement. "Capricorn rising and Mars in a fire sign" finds what you'd expect, across your own charts and your clients'. Bring your existing charts with you. Caelara now imports a whole folder of .SFcht files at once, keeping place names, birth-time accuracy ratings and source notes intact. Files it can't read completely are skipped and named rather than imported as guesses. Thirteen historical charts are now included — Kepler, Brahe, Lilly, Culpeper, Cardano, Evangeline Adams and others — each one citing where its birth record came from, including the ones where the record is thin. Your work can leave the app. Settings now has Backup — one folder holding your clients, their charts, your saved charts and folders, appointments and reports. It's plain files you can open and copy anywhere, and Restore puts it all back. Every sky event now reads as itself — each ingress, aspect, eclipse, lunation, station and void-of-course Moon interpreted for that placement, with the void's last aspect named. Found a bug, or want something Caelara doesn't do yet? Write to me at ken@4phases.com. I read every message.

Bigger, clearer type throughout. Caelara is a dense reference tool, and much of it was set smaller than macOS treats as body text. Every size has been raised — nothing in the app is below 11pt now — so tables, dignities and readings are easier on the eyes without losing any detail. Add-on Report Packs. Four themed packs extend Caelara beyond the included reports: Relationship (Synastry, Composite, Davison), Predictive (Solar Arc, Harmonic), Mapping (Astrocartography) and Spiritual (Draconic). An All-Access pack unlocks all four and saves about 37%. Traditional means traditional. Transit forecasts set to traditional planets only no longer include Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. This affected every transit-derived report; if you work traditionally, your forecasts are now genuinely seven-planet.

Chart Now — cast a chart for this moment, where you are, in one click. From the dashboard or the Now button beside any chart form. Set your location once in Settings and Caelara remembers it. The tradition, where you read charts. Tap any planet on the wheel to see what the masters said about it in that sign, with a link straight into the full delineation. The Essential and Accidental Dignity tables now explain themselves: tap a dignity to read what it means, or tap a planet's row to see every condition affecting it — no longer capped at the first three. Regiomontanus is now the default house system, the one William Lilly used throughout Christian Astrology. Change it any time in Settings or per chart. Clearer sourcing. Traditional maxims are now credited "after" their source, reflecting that they follow the sense of Lilly, Ptolemy, Bonatti and others rather than quoting them word for word.

Refreshed App Store presentation: updated subtitle and category placement to more accurately reflect Caelara Studio as a traditional-astrology Mac workspace. No functional changes to the app.

Caelara Studio 2.0 is the biggest update since launch. REPORTS REWRITTEN Every chart reading now flows in a warmer, plainer-English voice — like a letter from a trusted astrologer, not a textbook. The Report Engine was developed from my years of experience casting and reading charts. I really wanted to capture how I would deliver an in-person reading. It's all Traditional astrology under the hood; kitchen-table prose on the surface. ONE UNIFIED REPORT SHEET Every "Generate Report" button across the app now opens the same clean sheet — audience picker, AI toggle, advanced options all in one place. AI IS NOW OPT-IN Generate any report without ever touching Anthropic's Claude API. Turn on the AI toggle per-generation only when you want Claude to write the prose. Default is fast, free, and 100% on your Mac. The seven traditional reports (Birth, Transit, Solar Return, Lunar Return, Progressions, Profections, Horary) remain included. BETTER ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES PANEL Now shows each planet's exact degree-minute position alongside its dignity — plus reference rows for the Ascendant, Midheaven, and North Node. IN-APP HELP 13 topics covering every part of Caelara, plus a "Send Feedback to Ken" button (⌘? to open). THANK YOU If you bought Caelara before 2.0, you'll see a thank-you gift offer on the Dashboard. Drop me a note, and I'll send you something on the house. — Ken

This update reshapes the printed and on-screen experience, sharpens the math behind solar and lunar returns, and rewrites every long-form report as a personal letter from the astrologer to the client. PRECISE SOLAR AND LUNAR RETURN MOMENTS • Solar and lunar return charts are now cast for the true return instant (sub-minute precision) instead of a noon approximation. The Ascendant, Midheaven, and house cusps are now correct for the actual moment the Sun (or Moon) returned to its natal position — a 12-hour wobble that could shift the rising sign by tens of degrees. • New Cycle picker on Solar Return, Lunar Return, Progressions, and Profections options: Current, Next, or Custom. EVENT FORECAST ON EVERY TIMING CHART • Solar Return and Lunar Return now scan the full return cycle and list every significant transit-to-return aspect with entering, exact, and separating dates. • Progressions scan the next 1, 3, 5, or 10 years (your choice) and list every progressed-to-natal aspect event in life time. • Transit aspect dates now correctly use the transit chart's selected moment as the anchor. ON-SCREEN HIGHLIGHTS WINDOWS • New buttons on transit, progressions, solar return, and lunar return charts open a dedicated window with the full filterable event listing — no need to print to see what's active or coming up. • Each window has Print, Save PDF, and Share, plus filter chips for planet preset (Traditional, Modern, All), per-transit-planet, and per-aspect. • New Synastry Cross-Aspects window for synastry, composite, and Davison charts with the same filtering and print options. PER-CHART-TYPE PRINT, SAVE, AND SHARE • Every chart wheel now has Print, Save PDF, and Share buttons. Each chart type prints what's relevant to it — natal gets dignity tables, transits get a bi-wheel, horary gets the Considerations Before Judgment, returns get the return-moment header. • Print mode uses bold near-black glyphs and a white background so signs, planets, and house numbers stay legible on paper. • Horary Reading window now has Print, Save PDF, and Share for the entire reading (chart, dignities, aspect grid, written judgment). REPORTS REWRITTEN AS PERSONAL LETTERS • Every long-form report — Natal Reading, Transit Forecast, Eclipse Forecast, Horary Reading, Solar Return, Lunar Return, Progressions, Profections, Synastry, Composite, Davison — now opens with "Dear [name]," frames the period in plain English, and closes with a warm sign-off. • Horary readings now lead with the chart's answer in plain language, then walk through each traditional factor translated into what it means for the specific question. • Transit forecast prose is no longer templated. A Mars retrograde triple-hit reads as three distinct paragraphs — the first arrival, the retrograde revisit, and the direct settle — with rotating sentence structures. UNI/BI WHEEL TOGGLE FIX • Toggling Uni-wheel on a transit or progressions chart now actually switches the display. • On progressions, the Uni-wheel view now shows the progressed positions instead of the natal alone. HOUSEKEEPING • Solar and lunar return date and time now appear in the chart-header sidebar. • The South Node is no longer listed as a separate transit target — it's definitionally opposite the North Node, so every node contact was being reported twice. Reports now use only the North Node.