The reports clients pay $150 to $500 for are the deliverable, not the chart on screen. Astrolium ships 12 PDF layout presets for the 5 chart types and a drag-section editor that takes the same on-screen wheel, the same aspect table, and the same interpretation prose to a 24-page natal PDF in 4 seconds. Pro removes the watermark; Business white-labels the cover, header, footer, and share URL with practitioner branding.
The free chart generator casts a natal that drops straight into the PDF pipeline. The CRM module is the surface the PDF gets delivered from; every client's profile carries a one-click "send PDF" button. For the $29 per month Pro plan, see pricing.
What a client-ready PDF actually needs
The PDF is the part of the practice the client keeps. They open the chart-on-screen once during the session and never come back. They open the PDF six months later when something the practitioner said clicks. The report has to read at 2 a.m. in their kitchen, without the practitioner there to explain it. That changes the design constraints.
Solar Fire's report designer treats the PDF like a printout of the on-screen view. The result is a 40-page document with a tiny wheel, a 12-column aspect grid, and a typography choice from a 2003 Windows application. Pretty is not the point; readable at 2 a.m. is. The 12 Astrolium presets are designed against that constraint, not the on-screen view.
The 12 presets and what's in them
Natal — 24 pages
Cover page with name, date, and the wheel rendered at 80% page width. One-page summary: Sun, Moon, Rising, dominant planet, chart shape, sect. One wheel page at full size. Twelve house pages, one per house, with the planets in that house, the ruler, the cusp degree and sign, and 3-4 paragraphs of interpretation in the school setting. One aspect-table page with the 5x5 grid, orb tightness, applying/separating mark. One life-cycle timeline page: profections through age 96, Saturn returns, ZR major periods. One lots page: Spirit, Fortune, Eros, Necessity, Daimon, Courage, Victory. One fixed-stars page if Brady or Robson is enabled. Two-page interpretation summary at the end.
Transit-year — 12 pages
Cover with year and natal preview. Year overview: the 3 most-perfecting outer-planet aspects across the 12 months, ranked by orb tightness. Retrograde calendar: every station for Mercury through Pluto across the 365 days, with dates and degrees. Monthly perfection list: every major-aspect perfection by month, sortable by planet or by date. Twelve monthly transit wheels at half-page size, each showing the wheel for the first of the month with the active transits drawn in.
Synastry — 18 pages
Cover with both names. Two natal preview pages (one per partner). One inter-aspect grid page with the 5x7 cross-chart contacts, sorted by orb × weight. Two overlay pages, one for A in B's houses, one for B in A's houses, side by side. One composite wheel page. One composite-timing page with the composite's profected year and current transits to the composite Ascendant. Eight interpretation pages: 3 for the inter-aspects (luminaries, personal planets, outers), 2 for the overlays (asymmetries first), 3 for the composite (year-lord, transits, ZR sub-period).
Solar return — 16 pages
Cover with year. Return wheel page. Twelve house pages for the return year, each carrying the return planets in that house plus the natal planets that fall into the return house. Return Ascendant ruler page. Two interpretation pages: the year's defining transit, the year's defining ZR sub-period.
Composite — 14 pages
Cover with both names and a small natal preview each. Composite wheel page. Twelve house pages of the composite's own architecture, read as the relationship's chart. One interpretation summary.
Custom layout — drag editor
Open the editor, the 12 presets show as starting points. Drag sections in, drag sections out, reorder. Save the new layout as a personal preset. The editor is a UI, not a markup language; practitioners we've watched build a custom report in 15 minutes on the first try.
What this replaces
A practitioner doing 12 clients a month at $200 each spends roughly 90 minutes per client on deliverable layout. That's 18 hours of Canva work per month, taken out of the time that pays. The math:
- Solar Fire .RTF export to Microsoft Word: 15 minutes.
- Word to Canva copy-paste and re-format: 25 minutes.
- Canva layout with the wheel image embedded and the aspect table screenshot: 35 minutes.
- Canva to PDF and proof: 15 minutes.
- Per client total: 90 minutes. Per month at 12 clients: 18 hours.
Astrolium's 4-second export drops that 18 hours to roughly 2 hours of layout-editor work to set up a personal preset once, then 4 seconds per client for the rest of the year. At $14.50 per month on the founding-member rate, the math pays for itself in client 1 of month 1.
The AI-prose integration
Each preset has an interpretation toggle. Off, the report ships the chart, the tables, and the structural data (house positions, aspects, lots, fixed stars, life-cycle timeline) without prose. The practitioner writes the interpretation by hand into the editable preset, or hands the PDF to the client raw as a working document.
On, the AI assistant writes the interpretation grounded in your Knowledge Base and the school setting the chart carries. Hellenistic charts ship Hellenistic prose (sect-aware, time-lord aware, classical-ruler aware). Modern charts ship modern prose. The prose follows your own rules and notes and cites the specific natal positions and aspects it reads from, so you can see which line came from which chart fact. Most practitioners on Pro keep the toggle on; because the prose already follows their method, it goes into the PDF with a sentence or two of adjustment, not a rewrite.
The interpretation is not a generic text dump. It's anchored to the chart wheel and respects the reading order the wheel implies (luminaries first, sect first, then personals, then outers, then aspects). Greene's psychological synthesis framing is the default register for Modern; Hand's structural framing for Hellenistic; the school setting drives the voice.
The rendering pipeline, briefly
The PDF renders server-side from the same React + SVG engine that draws the on-screen wheel. That matters in three ways. First, the chart wheel on page 3 of the PDF is pixel-identical to the wheel the practitioner read from during the session, down to the aspect line weights and orb-tightness coloring. Second, the 4-second generation time covers font subsetting, SVG-to-PDF rasterization of the wheel at 300 DPI, and the layout pass for 24 pages, all in one server roundtrip. Third, the PDF is reproducible: re-running the export with the same chart, same preset, and same language produces a byte-identical PDF, which matters when a client asks for a second copy 18 months later. The on-screen wheel and the printed wheel never disagree.
Languages and the terminology lock
The report ships in 9 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European separately), French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, and Dutch. Same chart, switch language on the export panel, the report re-renders. Body copy translates; the chart is the same chart.
Domain terms do not auto-translate. Whole Sign stays Whole Sign in Spanish. Zodiacal Releasing stays Zodiacal Releasing in German. Hellenistic stays Hellenistic in Polish. The terminology lock is the result of a beta-tester complaint: machine-translating "Whole Sign" into Spanish gave "Signo Entero," which is neither the term Spanish-language Hellenistic practitioners use ("Signos Enteros" is the convention) nor the term clients recognize from any modern reference. Locking the technical vocabulary in English across all 9 languages preserves the reading the practitioner gave, and clients can look the term up.
Pricing and tiering
The PDF export is on every plan:
- Lite (free) — 5 PDFs per month, the 12 presets, English only, "Made with Astrolium" footer. Enough to evaluate the deliverable on your active roster.
- Pro ($29 per month, $14.50 founding-member) — unlimited PDFs, 12 presets + custom editor, 9 languages, watermark removed. The day-to-day plan for a working practice.
- Business ($99 per month) — everything in Pro plus full white-label branding on cover/header/footer/share URL, expiring shareable links, password protection on links, 2-seat shared roster.
The $29 per month Pro plan covers the deliverable pipeline a 12-client-a-month practice runs. See pricing for the full breakdown, or the CRM feature for the surface every PDF gets delivered from.
Continue exploring
- Chart generator — the free natal calculator that feeds the PDF pipeline
- Synastry calculator — the free synastry preview that exports the 18-page report
- CRM module — the client profile every PDF gets delivered from
- Natal chart feature — the wheel the PDF renders from
- AI assistant — the interpretation engine the PDF prose runs through
- How to read a natal chart — the reading order the PDF respects