The First Astrology Software Company, with Michael Erlewine

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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In episode 408 astrologer Michael Erlewine joins the podcast to talk about the history of founding the first company that produced astrology software for the personal computer, called Matrix Software. Michael founded Matrix and began producing astrology software in 1977, and it helped to usher in the era of computerized astrology. During the course of […]

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast.
0:03.7	In this episode, I'm going to be talking with Michael Erlie Wein about the early history
0:07.9	of Astrology Software programs, Michael's the founder of Matrix Software, which is one
0:13.0	of the first companies to produce Astrology Software in the world, and it was one of the
0:18.2	most popular Astrology programs for the first several decades.
0:22.1	So hi, Michael.
0:23.1	Thanks for joining me today.
0:24.1	It wasn't one of the first, it was the first.
0:28.5	The first Astrology Software company in the world.
0:31.0	Yeah, there was no other that I'm aware of.
0:33.8	Okay.
0:34.8	Well, so let's talk about that.
0:38.6	Maybe let's start with that time frame and then work our way backwards.
0:42.6	If it was the first software company, roughly, when did you start the company?
0:47.6	I'd just say the name Matrix, yeah, became the company name, but it became the name
0:57.1	that I use.
0:58.1	I wasn't using the term Matrix in its mathematical sense, defining a mathematical thing, but
1:06.7	in its Greek origin, which went, which meant womb, that one, which things are born, and
1:14.8	I was aware that I was birthing a new Astrology, not just a computerized astrology, but I have
1:23.6	many other things we could talk about that I birth that came directly out of my effort.
1:30.5	Right.
1:31.5	It wasn't concerned to me until sometime later that Matrix became the name of a company
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