The Western chart
Tropical natal chart computed with the Swiss Ephemeris — the same ephemeris professional astrologers use. Every body and the Ascendant to the arcminute.
MERIDIAN HOUSE
The document of your origins.
You were born on a particular day, at a particular hour, in a particular place on the earth. Those three facts fix a sky that will not occur again.
We compute your natal chart, your Four Pillars, your Chinese zodiac, and the map of your own planetary lines across the surface of the earth — then write the one document that reads them together.
Commissioned and written by hand. Twelve or twenty-four pages. Delivered within two working days.
Four traditions, cross-referenced.
Western astrology was built around the Mediterranean. The Four Pillars were built in China. The sidereal chart came out of India. The map of your planetary lines is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century idea laid over a globe that did not exist as a shared object when any of the others were written.
Different continents. Different centuries. Different assumptions about what a sky is for. None of them was designed to agree with the others, and none of them was built with the others in mind.
Where they agree anyway is the part worth reading.
Most reports run one system and tell you what it says. Yours runs four, independently, and then reports the convergence — and, just as carefully, where the systems argue. A single tradition can tell you a story. Four traditions arriving at the same finding from unrelated starting points is a different kind of information.
The Four Pillars
BaZi with the day master and the five-element balance, with solar-term boundaries derived from true solar longitude rather than a lookup table.
The Chinese zodiac
Read properly. Year pillar, stem element and branch animal — not the placemat.
Natal geography
Your own planetary lines drawn across a world map, with the honest orbs. The chapter almost nobody else leads with.
What is inside
A typeset document, written to your chart, naming your degrees.
- The facts of your birth.
- The date, the hour, the coordinates. The time zone actually in force that year, including whatever daylight-saving rule applied. The house system, the ayanamsa, the ephemeris. We show our working before we say anything about you.
- The wheel.
- Your full natal chart with aspect lines, a placements table, and your element and modality balance.
- Sun, Ascendant, Moon.
- What you are, how you arrive, and what you are like when nobody is watching.
- Chiron and the nodal axis.
- The wound, the shape it left, and the competence it produced. Then what you are fluent in, and what you have been assigned instead.
- The Four Pillars and the day master.
- Your elemental supply line, in per cent. Which elements feed you, which drain you, and which are simply absent.
- The animal and the element.
- Your year pillar, read against the Western chart rather than beside it.
- Natal geography.
- A world map of your planetary lines, the five strongest, and what runs over the place you already live.
- Synthesis.
- Where the four traditions agree. Then, at equal length, where they do not.
- In plain language.
- The entire document with no technical vocabulary, and instructions for how to use it.
And in The Commission, twelve further pages that stop describing and start counselling:
Where to live, at length — five cities, what each amplifies, and the honest orbs. Places that ask more of you, and how to live well where you already are. The core wound triangulated across three systems, and a protocol for it that is doable this month. Your creative signature, where it jams, and the unblocking move. Care derived from your actual favourable elements rather than from generic wellness. Your nervous system: how you settle, how you come apart. In relationship: what you bring, where you struggle, and the specific repair. Your timing — the ten-year luck pillar you are inside, and what the next one changes. And a closing letter, addressed to you by name.
Three commissions
The Record describes. The Commission also counsels. The Complete House includes everything we make.
12 pages
$89
A complete account of the sky you were born under.
Natal chart and wheel. Sun, Ascendant, Moon. Chiron. The nodal axis. The Four Pillars and your day master. The Chinese zodiac, read properly. Natal geography with your world map. Synthesis, and a closing in plain language.
The Record answers what am I.
Commission the RecordMost chosen
24 pages
$129
The Record, and then the counsel.
Everything above, and twelve further pages that are entirely prescriptive: where to live, the core wound and a protocol for it, the creative signature, care by element, the nervous system, relationship and repair, your timing, and a closing letter addressed to you by name.
The Commission answers what do I do about it.
Commission the Commission24 pages and all five annexes
$249
The Commission with everything we make attached to it.
The Sidereal. The Design. The Typology. The Numbers. Attachment and Love Languages. Each woven into the reading rather than bolted onto the back.
Bought separately the same contents come to $350.
Commission the Complete HouseAnnexes may be added to any commission after you have chosen your tier. Three of the five are computed from birth data you have already given us.
If the Record doesn't recognise you, we'll refund it. Read it, sit with it for a fortnight, and if it is not about you, write to us and we will return the money. We do not ask you to return the document.
Read before you commission
We would rather you saw the thing than took our word for it.
Below is a complete page from a real Commission, reproduced with permission and with the identifying details changed. It is page fourteen — the core wound, triangulated across three systems. It is the page that tends to decide people, which is why it is the page we show.
View the sample spread Download the sample PDF
If you would rather start smaller, The First Page is free and it is genuinely good. It gives you your Sun, your Ascendant, and your Chinese zodiac animal and element, written properly and at length.
Questions
Is this just astrology?
Yes, and we are not coy about it.
We treat astrology as a symbolic system for structured self-reflection. A mirror, not a prophecy. The value is not in the sky having caused anything; it is in being handed a specific, fixed, externally-derived text about yourself that you did not write and cannot edit, and being made to sit with it. That is a genuinely useful thing to do and almost nothing else in modern life provides it.
Nothing in the report predicts an event. Nothing in it will tell you whether to leave him, take the job, or move. It will tell you, precisely, what you are working with.
Is this AI-generated filler?
The positions are not opinions. They are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris — the same ephemeris professional astrologers use — and validated against published Rodden-AA chart data, where every body and the Ascendant match to the arcminute. The Chinese solar-term boundaries are derived from true solar longitude rather than read off a lookup table, which is the difference between a correct day pillar and a plausible one.
The writing is done against a house framework, to your chart, naming your degrees. If you have read a generic report before you will know it within two pages, because a generic report cannot afford to be specific. Ours quotes your orbs to the arcminute and tells you that your Metal is at 10.2 per cent. That is not a style choice. It is what makes the document checkable.
Every commission is prepared and reviewed by hand before it is sent. That is why it takes two days and not two seconds.
$129 is a lot for a PDF.
It is less than one therapy session, and about half an hour with a practitioner. Those end. This does not.
That is the honest comparison, and it is the one we would make if you were sitting across from us. A reading costs $150 to $300, lasts an hour, and leaves you with a few notes and a feeling that fades by Thursday. A twenty-four-page typeset document with your name on the cover is a different category of object. People re-read it in year two. Several of our pilot readers have taken it to their therapist.
If $129 is not the right number for you today, The Record is $89 and it is a complete document, not a sample. And The First Page is free and genuinely useful.
I don't know my birth time.
Then say so, and we will not quietly use noon and pretend.
A chart without one is usually defaulted to noon. We do not do that, because noon is a specific answer that happens to be wrong about eleven times out of twelve.
Some values drift with the hour and some are decided by it: the Moon drifts, so we quote its range; the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the houses and the natal-geography chapters are decided, so we withhold them instead of inventing them. Everything resting on the date and place alone still stands, and that is most of the document.
Any tier remains available and will say plainly what is missing. Find the hour later — on a birth certificate, a hospital record or a baby book — and we reissue at no charge.
How long does it take?
Two working days, and usually sooner.
Each commission is prepared, typeset and read through by hand before it goes out. You will hear from us twice: once when your order is received and the birth data confirmed, and once when the document is sent. If anything in your intake needs clarifying — an ambiguous place name, a time zone edge case — we write to you rather than guess.
If you need it for a particular date, say so in the notes and we will tell you honestly whether we can do it.
Can I buy this as a gift?
Yes, and it is one of the things this document is best at.
You buy the commission without needing to know her birth time or the town she was born in. She receives a card — printed, or by email if you are short of time — with a private link where she supplies her own birth details. We produce the document and send it to her, or to you to give her, whichever you prefer.
The gifting page has the whole process, including the printed card line and what to write in it.
What if I don't like it?
If the Record doesn't recognise you, we'll refund it.
Read it. Sit with it for a fortnight. If it is not about you — not if you disagreed with a page, but if the person described in it is not the person reading it — write to us within thirty days and we will return the money in full. We do not ask you to send the document back, and we do not ask you to justify the decision.
We can offer that because the report is specific enough to be wrong. Vague documents never earn refund requests and never earn anything else either.
Three facts fix a sky that will not occur again.
A date. An hour. A place on the earth. Give us those and we will give you the document.
Written by hand, one at a time. Delivered within two working days. If the Record doesn't recognise you, we'll refund it.