Changelog

Until now Astrolium assumed you were reading for someone else. That is no longer the only way in.

Added

• Astrolium Personal, $12 a month. One person, one chart, their own onboarding. It covers the natal chart, transits, Jyotish (Kundli plus Daśā and Gochara), Human Design, numerology, Kabbalah, Planetary Returns and astrocartography. The professional workspace and its client roster continue unchanged on pricing.
• Client Memory and Practice Memory. Sky keeps short facts you have stated outright, per client and across the practice. Astrolium stores them, you can read, edit and delete them, and capture runs on automatic, confirm-each or off.
• Resumable conversations: chat history saves and reopens, kept for six months.

Changed

• Sky says when a tool call failed or needs more input rather than talking around the gap, and refuses bulk or unsupported requests instead of improvising an answer.
• Sky recognises a horary question in chat, stages it and opens the module, but never presses Cast. A later "yes" or "ok" cannot advance the cast, and until a chart exists Sky will not name significators or claim a reading.
• Pro includes 50 AI credits a month; the site had been claiming 100. The $9 AI top-up is a one-time purchase, available on every tier including free, and unused top-up credits carry forward until they are spent.

Fixed

• Timing grammar in horary answers, and a redaction bug that stripped ISO dates and coordinates out of the AI's own context.

What comes next is on the roadmap.

Two modules changed tier this week, and a third arrived. All three are available in the practice workspace and in Astrolium Personal.

Added

• Human Design workspace, with tabs for Overview, Centers, Channels, Activations, Transits, PHS, Cycles, Timing and Pair. Type, strategy, authority, profile and definition on the first tab, the Incarnation Cross with its angle (right angle, juxtaposition, left angle), and an explanation behind every gate and channel.
• Pair chart. Channel contacts sorted as electromagnetic, companionship, dominance or compromise, with contact counts and center definition. There is no compatibility score, and the counts say so: they describe contacts, not relationship quality.
• Human Design reports in Report Studio, a full reading and a pair reading, plus PDF export and a Sky conversation grounded in the chart's own facts.
• Planetary Returns (Pro), Venus first: every occurrence across a year with direct, retrograde and near-miss passes, triple returns handled properly, and a natal biwheel for the pass you select.
• Numerology gained PDF export and Ask AI. Your name is never sent to the model.

Changed

• Human Design dropped from Master to Pro. Numerology is now free on every plan, the free tier included. See pricing.
• Numerology reads Cyrillic names on a dedicated 33-letter table and flags mixed-script input instead of guessing.
• The PHS and Variables tab is written in observational language, with nothing medical or prescriptive.

Fixed

• A crowded Kundli cell let the retrograde mark push its grahas out of place, and Sky could pass an astrocartography line selection the map would not accept.

Two Pro modules, Jyotish Chart and Jyotish Timing, put a sidereal chart on the same footing as the western workspace rather than bolting one on.

Added

• Kundli (D1) in North and South Indian styles, with D9, D10 and D12 vargas and a Compare view that follows a single graha across them.
• Nakshatra and pada for every graha, Graha Drishti, dignity, combustion and vargottama.
• D1 combinations: Raja, Dhana, Gajakesari and Neecha Bhanga among them, each labelled classical, modern or disputed rather than presented as one flat tradition.
• Vimshottari daśā at three levels: Mahādaśā, Antardaśā and Pratyantardaśā.
• Gochara counted from the natal Moon, with a second column showing position from the Lagna, plus Sade Sati and its phases.
• PDF export and an Ask AI that stays inside Jyotish vocabulary. See the Jyotish feature page and pricing.

Changed

• Whole-sign Rāśi houses are the working frame. Bhāva, equal from the Ascendant, sits beside them as a second column, and a graha's sign never changes between the two.
• One ayanāṃśa (Lahiri) and one node convention (mean), both stamped on the chart and in the PDF.
• Facts that depend on an exact birth time, such as vargottama, are withheld rather than printed when the recorded time is not reliable enough.

Fixed

• The target-year field on the free Varshaphala calculator on this site could not be cleared and retyped, which made the year impossible to change on a phone.

Remedies are deliberately out of scope, and kundli matching, dosha and panchang remain free calculators on this site rather than workspace modules. The rest of the Vedic plan is on the roadmap.

The delivery half of the practice: what the client receives, when they sit down with you, and what they take away afterwards.

Added

• Chart sharing, a frozen package you review before minting: the wheel and its legend, an optional message, up to three curated notes. Password, expiry of 7, 30 or 90 days (30 by default), revocable at any time. It is a reviewed snapshot, not a live feed.
• Session scheduling: two-way Google Calendar sync, cancel and reschedule in the app, and a Zoom meeting created automatically for every confirmed session on your own connected account.
• Kabbalah (Adept). Ten Sephiroth weighted by the condition of the carrier planet, twenty-two paths drawn from natal aspect flow, four tree variants, and a provenance panel that names the lineage as Hermetic Qabalah. Needs a recorded birth time.
• Lifecycle status and a VIP flag on every client in the CRM, plus five intake templates. A returning client's submission merges into the existing record instead of creating a second one.

Changed

• Report Studio gained read-only version history with revision locking, a new ornament system, and chart preferences carried through every topic report.
• One credit buys one AI-written section. Charts and tables cost nothing. See pricing.

Fixed

• The tradition register was ignored: every report came out in Jungian prose regardless of the setting.
• The Annual Forecast dropped the Solar Return's angular-planet records instead of reading them, and kept the first lunations it found rather than ranking them across the year.
• The free antiscia calculator on this site snapped its orb field back to 1° when a sub-degree value was typed.

The largest chart-engine release since launch. Two new modules, one rebuilt on a new map engine, and better mechanics underneath transits and the natal wheel.

Added

• Rectification Wizard (Pro). Correlate dated life events against a candidate birth-time range. The grade follows the scored event evidence, and a candidate drops to Provisional when no dated event clears the strong-correlation threshold. Astrolium never calls a rectified time the true birth time.
• Dials (Pro), an axis-first cosmobiology workspace: a steppable axis readout, orb-sorted results, and natal, solar-arc and transit layers. The Ebertin graphic ephemeris (90° and 45° modulus) sits inside it and in the free ephemeris table.
• Astrocartography (Pro) rebuilt map-first on MapLibre: ranked places, power zones, a relocation inspector, opt-in Astrodynes, saved studies.
• Six curated asteroid points (Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Eros, Psyche), off by default, plus a catalogue search for up to ten numbered bodies.
• Nodal bendings on every natal chart, ungated.
• A life ribbon in Life Cycles (Pro): one 0–100 age scale you click to scroll through Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus returns, the nodal cycle and Chiron.

Changed

• Transits dropped the day-by-day scrubber for a time navigator: a cached year overview plus a focus window of 14 days, 3 months or a year. Activation windows come from the calculated source bounds, never interpolated.
• "Open full chart" turns the compact wheel into a full-viewport workspace with exact degree labels, cusp degrees and a midpoint layer.

Fixed

• Sidereal returns now request and disclose the precession-corrected instant instead of taking the calculation source's default.
• The CSV importer carried DD and XX Rodden codes it cannot store; both now collapse to X, and the AAF path is guarded the same way.

Tiers are on pricing; what is still ahead is on the roadmap.

Astrolium 1.0 is live. After two years of private practitioner builds and a six-month closed beta, the public launch covers the entire core feature set the team uses in its own client work.

Added

• Free tier with 5 client profiles, 6 house systems (whole sign default), Solar Fire .SFCHT import, watermarked PDF export, and full chart calculation
• Pro and Adept tiers with unlimited clients, AI assistance across 5 languages, PDF export with branded headers, and the session prep view
• Master tier with team workspaces, white label PDF templates, batch transit scanner, and public API access
• Swiss Ephemeris under the hood, with median chart calculation at 8 ms warm cache and 42 ms cold
• Public roadmap voting and the founding member intake wizard

For the engineering behind the speed claims, see the ephemeris service post. For tier comparison, see pricing. For the full feature list, see features.

Three predictive techniques shipped together for the first time, plus a unified timing dashboard. This is the release that closes out the original Q2 predictive bundle on the public roadmap.

Added

• Annual profections calculator with time-lord highlighting on the wheel
• Zodiacal Releasing for Spirit and Fortune, with peak / loosing-of-the-bond marking
• Lord-of-the-year transit tracker — auto-watches transits to the profected lord and surfaces the next 12 months on a single forecast strip

Improved

• Wheel renderer: cusp lines now respect the chosen house system in the legend so exports match what you see
• PDF export size dropped roughly 40% with subset font embedding

Fixed

• Decennial bound calculations were off by 6 months in the 4th decennial across the Egyptian terms — thanks to @luke-h and @marina_v for the catch
• Timezone DST edge case for Brazil pre-2019 charts

See the predictive timing feature page for what these unlock together. The full Q3 plan is on the roadmap.

Synastry has been a placeholder feature for too long. This release ships it fully, with the four pieces practitioners actually use: the bi-wheel, the inter-aspect grid, the composite, and a grade analysis that respects more than one tradition.

Added

• Bi-wheel synastry view with inner / outer toggle
• Inter-aspect grid (10 × 10) with per-aspect-type orb sliders so you can tune for the kind of reading you're doing
• Composite chart with both the Davison and midpoint methods
• Synastry grade analysis weighted in two ways — Hellenistic and modern — side by side, so the disagreements are visible

Improved

• Reading mode hides the chrome with a single keystroke (R) — useful for video sessions
• Client roster gets per-chart notes plus a session log so you can scroll back through what you've already said to a returning client

See the synastry feature for the long form writeup and the practice case study for how returning client notes change the second and third session.

Return work is the heart of practical predictive astrology. This release ships the three return types most practitioners actually use, each with the timing details that matter for client work.

Added

• Solar return chart with relocated chart toggle so you can compare home and travel returns side by side
• Lunar return plus a lunar phase tracker for the four cardinal phases of the month
• Saturn return calculator with the full three-pass detail — going in, exact, going out — which is what clients actually feel

Improved

• Aspect lines: opacity now ramps with applying vs. separating so the wheel reads at a glance
• Print stylesheet: A4 and Letter both honored, with a 14 mm margin on the binding edge for stapled handouts

For the Saturn return technique in depth, see the Saturn return calculator. For where this fits in the broader predictive stack, see predictive timing and the public roadmap.

The Astrolium chart wheel ships in three calibrated aesthetic directions starting today. Each was designed for screen and for print, with type set on a real grid and no glow effects. Switching between them is one click in the workspace settings.

Added

• Archival — warm paper, ink-on-paper feel, restrained palette. The default for practitioners who hand clients printed chart wheels.
• Celestial — near-white background, deep violet and gold accents. Reads cleanly on screen during video sessions.
• Ecliptic — cream background with teal, coral, and violet accents. Richer; designed for the front of a PDF report rather than the working chart.

Improved

• All three themes now respect a dedicated print mode that strips backgrounds for clean A4 and Letter output. The print mode is what the Saturn return PDF and the synastry deliverable both use.

For where this fits in the broader product, see the features index and the practice case study where Marina describes hand-delivering the printed wheel during first sessions.

Astrolium's Adept tier earns its price starting this release. The three features that make daily client work possible — a real client roster, reusable interpretation snippets, and a session prep view — are all live.

Added

• Client roster with a chart per client, including birth data and a notes field that follows the chart everywhere it appears
• Reusable interpretation snippets, organized by topic (planets, houses, aspects, time-lord work) so you build a personal library over time
• Session prep view — a pre-call checklist of what's active in the chart, drawn from profections, returns, and any transits within ±2° to natal placements

For the broader case for Adept-tier features, see the 200 clients case study where Marina describes how the session prep brief saves 15 minutes mid-session. For pricing, see the pricing page; the Adept tier is currently $29 per month.