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Swisseph routine to calculate VoC. Pardon me for being lazy for not copypastaing the functions from chronoslnx that it's using in here
from chronoslnxlib.core import *
def predict_voc(cur_date):
cycles = date_to_moon_cycles(cur_date)
moon_pos = swisseph.calc_ut(datetime_to_julian(cur_date), swisseph.MOON)[0]
closest_sign = (( moon_pos // 30 ) + 1) * 30
lower_sign = ( moon_pos // 30 ) * 30
#print(moon_pos, closest_sign)
lower_cycles = cycles+(angle_sub(lower_sign, moon_pos)/360)
cycles += (closest_sign - moon_pos) / 360
diff = float('inf')
#print(cycles)
while abs(diff) >= 1E-8:
closest_sign_estimate = swisseph.calc_ut(moon_cycles_to_jul(cycles), swisseph.MOON)[0]
#print(moon_pos, closest_sign_estimate, cycles)
diff = angle_sub(closest_sign, closest_sign_estimate)
cycles += (diff / 360)
#
diff = float('inf')
while abs(diff) >= 1E-8:
closest_sign_estimate2 = swisseph.calc_ut(moon_cycles_to_jul(lower_cycles), swisseph.MOON)[0]
diff = angle_sub(lower_sign, closest_sign_estimate2)
lower_cycles += (diff / 360)
voc_cycles = cycles
#voc_cycles -= (1 / 36000)
has_aspects = False
#
other_planets = [swisseph.SUN, swisseph.MERCURY, swisseph.VENUS,
swisseph.MARS, swisseph.JUPITER, swisseph.SATURN,
swisseph.NEPTUNE, swisseph.PLUTO]
#
while (not has_aspects) and (voc_cycles > lower_cycles):
voc_cycles -= (1 / 36000)
julified = moon_cycles_to_jul(voc_cycles)
#print(revjul_to_datetime(swisseph.revjul(julified)))
moon_pos = swisseph.calc_ut(julified, swisseph.MOON)[0]
#
for i,planet in enumerate(other_planets):
other_angle = swisseph.calc_ut(julified, planet)[0]
for angle in (0, 60, 90, 120, 180):
#print(moon_pos, angle, swisseph.get_planet_name(planet), other_angle)
angle_gap = abs(angle_sub(moon_pos, other_angle))
#print("angle gap:", angle_gap)
#print("how far:", angle_sub(angle, angle_gap))
if abs(angle_sub(angle, angle_gap)) <= 5E-3:
print("Found start of VOC with", i, "@", angle, angle_gap)
has_aspects = True
break
#print("---")
#
#print(lower_sign, moon_pos, closest_sign)
#print( (not has_aspects), (voc_cycles > lower_cycles) )
else:
if not has_aspects:
print("Couldn't find VOC")
return revjul_to_datetime(swisseph.revjul(moon_cycles_to_jul(voc_cycles))), moon_pos, \
revjul_to_datetime(swisseph.revjul(moon_cycles_to_jul(cycles))), closest_sign_estimate, closest_sign_estimate2
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