Lunabar VOC

Lunabar VOC Tables

The traditional definition of “Void of Course” (VOC) is that the Moon is VOC when she makes no further aspects within her current sign. There is also a Hellenistic definition that allows the Moon to be VOC when she is currently making no aspect, even though she may make an aspect later in her current sign. By “aspect”, a Ptolemaic aspect (conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition) is meant. Classical astrologers would only take aspects to the traditional planets into account; modern astrologers may include Uranus, Neptune and Pluto too.

Lunabar is a nice little freeware utility, originally developed by Clysmic software and then developed by a company called Infra Azure Labs. Sadly, neither of these companies seem to have a web presence any more, but fortunately Susan and Paul Hysen, who run the Timelords astrology site, have come to the rescue and you can download Lunabar from their site here.

Lunabar uses the modern planets. The tables here allow for either - so select your VOC table from “Traditional” or “Modern”. In your Lunabar directory (usually C:\Program Files\clySmic\Lunar Almanack) there is a file called “Void of Course.Luna”. Rename the appropriate VOC file that you’ve downloaded here to Void of Course.Luna, and your VOC should now work within Lunabar.

NOTE: I’ve had a few e-mails saying the above instructions are confusing. Partly this is because many later versions of Windows hide “file extensions” so you can’t actually see that there’s a file called Void of Course.Luna in the directory. For a more detailed set of instructions, click here.

Right-click on the file and select “Save As” (or “Save Link As” in some browsers) to download the file.

Traditional VOC tables 2009-2013

Traditional VOC tables 2014-2018

Modern VOC tables 2009-2013

Modern VOC tables 2014-2018

For further details, e-mail me at chris@bristolastrology.net