Kepler's Main Menu: If this was the actual Kepler program, you could select "Encyclopedia" to look up an astrological topic or term, or select "Avalon College" for a self-guided astrology course. "AstroSearch" brings you to the research part of Kepler, and "ArtGallery" is a fun place to browse through graphics and optionally print them. Select "Help" for the on-line manual. "Customize" and "Edit" are used to set default values and make other custom changes. The heart of the Kepler program for many people is calculating charts and producing interpretations; click on the "Main Data Entry Screen" image to do this.

Main Data Entry Screen: On this screen you enter the person's name, date, time, and place of birth. After entering the birth data, or reading it from disk, you can click on the "Settings" button to make other menus visible. This menus can be set invisible or visisble. Click on the "Get first" button if you want to select the first person on the list that has an arrow on both sides.

The "Get Group" button is used to quickly read in a group of charts. Suppose, for example, that you are interested in viewing the chart wheels of a group of people, such as alcoholics, earthquakes, famous people like authors, singers, politicians, etc. and don't want to enter their names one at a time.

You can have as many chart entries as desired. A progressed chart, return chart, etc. is an entry just like a natal chart, so you can select these charts just as easily as natal charts.

Selecting Chart Wheels: Select chart wheels in Kepler is very easy and simple. Different astrologers have different preferences in a chart wheel. As you select the basic wheel style that you want (for example, "Small Wheel, Big aspect grid", Kepler shows that actual chart wheel style selected on the preview screen (shown right). There are many other details of the chart wheel that you can control which are not shown on this screen display. You can also select BiWheels and TriWheels (if you are new to astrology you may not know what these are, but they are useful to astrologers).

After selecting the chart wheel style that you want to use, you can also set the screen to be viewed in landscape or portrait format by clicking on the portrait or landscape button. Set your favorite chart wheel style in a snap.