Astrolium turns every chart you cast into a shareable link. The client opens it on their phone, sees a live interactive wheel that pans and zooms and updates with today's transits, and never has to dig through a 12 megabyte PDF buried in their inbox. White-label on the Business tier puts your practice on the URL, not ours.
For the underlying chart engine, see the natal chart feature. For the predictive layers that ride on top of the share link, see predictive timing. For the $29 per month Pro plan with basic sharing, or the $99 Business plan with full white-label, see pricing.
Why a link beats a PDF
The PDF wheel is a fossil from a workflow that ended around 2014. It was the only deliverable older software could produce: a print-resolution wheel with the aspects table on page 2 and the planet positions on page 3, mailed as a 12 megabyte attachment. By minute 6 of the next session the client cannot find it; by week 2 they have replaced their phone and lost it for good; by month 6 the transits the chart was printed against are no longer current and the chart is functionally dead.
A link is alive. The client opens it in Gmail, in WhatsApp, in iMessage, on the bus. The wheel renders in 400 ms on mobile. They hover a planet for the read, they tap to toggle aspects, they pinch to zoom into a stellium. When they reopen the link on Tuesday, they see Tuesday's transits on their natal wheel, not the transits from the day the session happened. The deliverable stays useful for as long as you keep the link open.
What white-label actually means
The $99 Business tier is built for practitioners who run their own brand. The share link runs on your subdomain (charts.yourpractice.com via a single CNAME record) with your logo in the header, your accent colour on the chart, and zero Astrolium branding on any surface a client touches. Three places this matters more than you would expect:
- The link preview. When a client pastes the URL into iMessage, the unfurl shows your logo and your tagline. Not ours. The first thing they see is your brand, not "Astrolium chart for Maria Khoury."
- The printable PDF. If the client downloads the chart as a PDF for offline use, the footer says your name, your email, your scheduling link. Not ours.
- The expired-link page. When a link's expiry kicks in, the polite landing page that says "this chart has expired" carries your branding too, including a button that links to your own scheduling page rather than ours.
The CNAME setup takes about 4 minutes. Astrolium issues and renews the SSL certificate; you do nothing on your end after the first record.
The seven controls that actually matter
The share dialog is small. Most practitioners change three of these and leave the rest at their workspace default:
- Layers. Natal only, natal plus transits, full predictive ribbon. Per share, not per workspace.
- Expiry. 7 days for follow-ups, 30 days for active engagements, 365 days for long-term clients. Custom expiry on Business.
- Password. Optional. When the chart is sensitive (composite for a separation reading, return chart for a delicate year), set a short password and tell the client separately.
- White-label. Workspace default on Business, off on Pro. Per-share override if you want to send a particular chart as Astrolium-branded.
- Open notifications. Email or in-app ping the first time the link is opened. Helpful for high-touch clients where you need to know they actually looked.
- Allowed views. Lock the share to natal-only and the client cannot toggle transits on. Most practitioners leave this off; some prefer it for first-session clients who would otherwise drown in layers.
- Revocation. One-click revoke kills any active link. The chart goes dark within 1 second. Useful if a client relationship ends or a sensitive chart was shared by mistake.
Three deliverables this replaces
The link is doing the job of three older deliverables, all of which Astrolium also exports if you still need them:
- The PDF wheel. Still available; the share link has a download-as-PDF button at the bottom. But the link is the deliverable.
- The Word-document write-up. The follow-up email becomes shorter when the chart is interactive. You write the structural reading; the client explores the chart themselves.
- The scheduling-portal embed. The white-label link lives on your own subdomain, so it pastes cleanly into Calendly confirmations, Notion client pages, or whatever scheduling stack you already run.
What this replaces in practice: 30 minutes of post-session PDF formatting per client, multiplied across however many clients you serve in a month. A 200 session year at 30 minutes per export is 100 hours. The link replaces all of them.
Versus what you have now
Solar Fire and Astro Gold: PDF export only. No live updates, no interactive layers, no white-label, no expiry, no revocation. The chart is a snapshot that ages out within weeks.
TimePassages and other consumer apps: No practitioner-side sharing. Clients view their own charts in a consumer app with the consumer-app branding, and there is no way for a practitioner to send a curated deliverable.
Astrolium: Live interactive link, white-label on your domain, expiry and password, instant revocation, open notifications, downloadable PDF if the client still wants one. The same link works for natal, synastry, composite, and the full predictive ribbon.
Where to go from here
The share link is the deliverable surface for everything else Astrolium computes. The natal chart feature is what gets shared by default. The synastry feature renders both house overlays and the composite into a single combined link. The predictive timing ribbon can be exposed or hidden per share. The Saturn return guide is what most practitioners pair with a share link for first-time return clients.
For the comparison with desktop-only exports, see Solar Fire vs Astrolium. For the $29 per month Pro plan with basic sharing, or the $99 Business plan with full white-label, see pricing.
The PDF era ended a decade ago. Most astrology software just has not noticed yet.