It's a service where you talk about yourself with an AI-based astrologer who knows your individual chart. We combine Western (tropical) and Vedic (Jyotish) astrology, and the conversation is led by the persona you choose — Richard, Elizabeth, Tom or Apa. You can ask about yourself, your relationships, a good moment for an important decision, or simply talk out of curiosity.
No. Richard, Elizabeth, Tom and Apa are personas powered by language models (AI). They are not living astrologers. We've put a lot of work into making their answers accurate and grounded in your real chart, but — like any AI — they can sometimes be wrong. So treat the conversation as inspiration and an invitation to reflect, not as advice on which you base life decisions.
Above all, we actually compute your chart. A language model asked directly does not perform astronomical calculations — it recalls planetary positions from memory and can get them wrong, often while sounding very confident. Here the sky map is computed on our own server from your date, time and place of birth, accurate to the arc minute, and the astrologer receives a finished data sheet with a hard rule against inventing anything that is not in it.
The second difference is scope and continuity. The astrologer sees the Western and the Vedic layer at once (your Moon's nakshatra, the current Dasha period, Gochara, the full Sade Sati cycle), a multi-year transit forecast, the moon calendar, a comparison of two charts, and the search for a good moment for an important decision. Your chart is saved to your account, conversations come back, and the astrologer remembers the whole conversation and receives a summary of earlier ones — instead of you explaining everything again in each new chat window.
There is also a difference in how the conversation is held: the astrologer also names the demanding configurations and their shadow, rather than saying only pleasant things, and follows clear rules for difficult topics. You pay for the conversation in berries — no subscription, based on how much the astrologer actually processes (details in the Pricing).
They differ in temperament, not in craft — all of them use the same, precisely calculated data (Western astrology + Vedic Jyotish). Richard is calm and analytical: he combines both systems thoughtfully, showing the mechanism and the logic behind the planetary layout. Elizabeth is warm and intuitive: she reads a chart like a story, through emotion and imagery. You may also come across Tom — our young apprentice with a keen sense of humour, who works with the portrait and the year ahead — and Apa, a being from beyond this world who looks at a chart with unclouded insight and unconditional kindness. Choose the one you talk with more easily.
That is what we call a conversation where you pick two astrologers instead of one. Both then answer every question you ask: the first gives their reading, the second responds to it and adds their own perspective. With the next question the order reverses, so neither of them permanently holds the first word.
They look at the same, precisely calculated data — what differs is what each of them finds most important. One will point to the structure and the mechanism, the other to how a given configuration plays out in everyday life. Sometimes one will add to or correct the other — and that is the point of this mode: you get a fuller picture than either would give alone.
Such an exchange costs the sum of both astrologers' rates — two answers, two rates. You will find each astrologer's rate in the pricing.
If listening is available to you, you will see a "Listen" button under the astrologer's reply — one click plays it back in your astrologer's voice. There is also a "Listen to replies" switch in the message box: turn it on and every following reply in that conversation will speak up on its own. The switch applies to a single conversation — a new one starts in silence.
A few things worth knowing:
Yes — there is a "Concise" switch in the message box. Turned on, it makes the astrologer answer in a few sentences: the essence only, without lists or subheadings. Turn it off whenever you want full replies back; the setting stays on for later conversations until you change it.
It comes in handy for quick, specific questions, or when you are listening to replies rather than reading them. The price of an exchange is the same — a shorter reply does not cost less, because the astrologer still reads your whole chart in order to answer it.
Berries are our in-house currency. A conversation with the astrologer costs berries. The first questions are on us (see below), and you top up the rest whenever you want to keep talking. You pay only for what you actually use — no subscription and no automatic charges.
Because we don't want you paying for months when you don't use us. Berries are prepaid credit: you buy as much as you want and spend it only on real conversations — no recurring charges, no "forgotten subscription" quietly pulling money in the background. Berries don't expire as long as your account is active. You pay for the value you actually take — not for the mere passing of time.
Yes. The first berries are on us — you can ask your first 5 questions without registration and without payment, to see whether it's for you. Only if you want to keep talking do you top up your berries.
It depends on the currency you choose. Payments in Polish zloty are handled by the ING Pay gateway (formerly imoje), provided by ING Bank Śląski S.A. — BLIK, Visa and Mastercard cards, fast online transfers and Google Pay. Payments in euro, dollars and pounds are handled by Stripe — Visa and Mastercard cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link. In both cases your card details go directly to the payment provider and never pass through our servers.
We'll be honest with you — it comes from how language models (AI) work. At the start of every conversation, the astrologer has to "load" your entire context: your complete chart, the data of both systems — Western and Vedic — and, if you chose a forecast, that too. This is the single largest one-off cost in the whole conversation, which is why the first question is more expensive. The following ones use the already-loaded context, so they are cheaper. We prefer to explain this openly rather than hide it in the pricing.
For the same reason, in reverse. The longer the conversation, the more the astrologer has to "remember" — with each reply it takes the whole conversation so far into account. As it grows longer, the amount of data processed grows too, and so does the cost. This is a natural feature of the technology, not a pricing trick.
The exchange is charged in full — including when you stop it before the first word appears. This is not a penalty but a reflection of how the technology works: the moment you hit send, your question together with your chart goes to the model and the cost arises right then, before you see any reply. Stopping halts the display, but it does not undo a computation that has already run.
The language model providers we use bill it the same way — we pay for the request that was processed, whether or not anyone read the result to the end.
So if you send a question by mistake, stopping it will not recover anything. You may as well wait for the answer — it has already been paid for.
A few simple ways:
In short: you pay for how much the astrologer has to process. The lighter the context, the cheaper.
It's a chart focused on WHO you are — your character, talents, tendencies — without the future-forecast layer. It's lighter, so a conversation about it is cheaper. It's useful when you want to get to know yourself or compare several variants (different dates, different places). Important: a forecast cannot be added later to a finished Portrait — if you need one, generate a separate chart with a forecast.
You give the type of undertaking, up to two goals, a date range and a place, and we scan the whole window on pure ephemeris, scoring every allowed day from 0 to 100. The score combines classical electional rules: the Moon's condition and phase (including void-of-course and via combusta), retrogrades, the angles and houses, the Ascendant ruler, significators matched to your goal, and — most importantly — hard aspects from malefics to the lights and significators (applying ones count for more than separating), plus cazimi and combustion (being "in the heart of the Sun" strengthens; combustion weakens). A malefic in dignity is judged more gently. For the highlighted and selected days we also point out the golden minutes — the exact (to-the-minute) culminations, planetary risings and Ascendant sign changes.
There's one guiding principle: the tool informs, it doesn't decide. Nothing is hard-filtered out — even a difficult day gets a score, so that under deadline pressure you can still pick the least-risky moment. Badges (e.g. "Sun/Moon afflicted", "via combusta", the green "cazimi") flag what to watch for. It's a decision aid and an invitation to reflect, not an oracle — the final call is yours and rests on practical, real-world considerations.
The lunar calendar shows the Moon's movement through the signs and its aspects to your chart over the coming weeks — ingresses (entries into successive signs), phases, void-of-course periods, and favourable and demanding days scored in a simple traffic-light system (green / amber / red). We calculate it on pure ephemeris from your place of residence, so the times are local. It's a look at the rhythm of the days ahead — not an oracle; the final call is always yours.
They are a layer of practical hints laid over the lunar calendar, drawn from biodynamic and folk tradition — suggesting when a day favours (or doesn't) matters such as the garden and sowing, diet, the body (e.g. haircuts), relationships, home, official paperwork, or physical activity. It also includes the Vedic Ekadashi (fasting day). You can turn on and off the categories that interest you and switch how they're grouped (favours / avoid, or by category). It's inspiration rooted in tradition, not a prescription — science does not confirm these correlations, and the decision is always yours.
The lunar calendar is the tactical layer — the rhythm of the days ahead. Key transits are the strategic layer: the most important encounters of the slow-moving planets (Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, Chiron) with points in your chart over months and years — the big developmental themes: maturing, breakthroughs, tests. On the calendar you see them as coloured rings around the days, and a separate "Transits" page shows the full list with the culmination date and a short description of each. It's a pointer to when a theme builds and peaks — the details are best discussed with the astrologer. This layer requires a chart with a forecast.
A chart with a forecast has three tabs: Transits, Chapters and Progressions. Each looks at time from a different distance.
Progressions (secondary) are a classical technique in which one day after birth corresponds to one year of life. What comes out of it is a slow, inner map of maturing — the Moon does most of the work there, going around the whole chart in about 27 years and marking out chapters of roughly two and a half years each. We show the timeline of hits, a lunation clock (a full cycle takes it some 29.5 years) and a double wheel: your birth chart on the inside, the progressed planets on the outside.
An important difference from transits: a progression is not a point in the calendar but a period. A progressed Moon aspect works for about a month before the exact date and a month after it, and for slow planets it can be around a year — which is why every hit comes with a window, "from – exact – to", rather than a single date.
Chapters, in turn, are the passages of planets between the houses of your chart — longer stays that describe which area of life is currently in the foreground.
Both layers are calculated when the chart is generated, so an older record may not have them — refresh it with the button on the chart page (it is free).
We calculate forecast data up to eight years ahead. The nearest years get full detail, the more distant ones an annual outline, so that the big themes are visible without burying you in minutiae.
This is not the same as the conversation range: when choosing an astrologer you decide how far ahead they should talk with you (a year, three or five, for example), and that affects the cost of an exchange — the more data the astrologer takes into account, the more of it they process. Eight years is the reach of what we calculated and show on the charts; the conversation range is chosen separately, when you start it.
The forecast is calculated from the day the chart is generated, so an older record reaches correspondingly closer today. The free "Refresh" button recalculates it.
Yes — it's an option you turn on manually in your account settings (off by default). About a week before the peak of a key transit to your chart we send an e-mail with a short description and an `.ics` file you can import into your calendar (Google, Apple, Outlook). You unsubscribe with one click — the link is in every message. Notifications require a chart with a forecast and a confirmed e-mail address.
It's an optional e-mail sent once a week (on Sunday), showing the week ahead: each day's score in the traffic-light system plus biodynamic recommendations. You enable it in your account settings — it requires a chart with a lunar calendar. We attach an `.ics` file covering the whole week, which you can import into your calendar. You unsubscribe with one click in any message.
The lunar calendar and forecast are calculated from the day the chart was generated, so an older record may not show the latest events. On the chart page there's a "Refresh" button — it recalculates the forecast and calendar from today (your birth data stays unchanged), and it's free. It's useful when you want to see new transits or lunar events that didn't exist when the record was created.
On each person's chart you can click a chip and indicate whose chart it is — "This is me" (your primary) or a relationship (partner, child, parent…). This way the astrologer knows right away who is meant and doesn't ask about identity, and records with a marked relationship jump to the top of your "My charts" list so they're at hand. Non-person records (comparisons, moment selection) can be given your own label (e.g. "project X"). This marking is visible only to you.
We set two charts side by side and look at the relationship in three layers: inter-chart aspects (how one person's planets "talk" to the other's), house overlays (which areas of your partner's life your planets fall into) and a Vedic compatibility analysis — Guna Milan / Ashtakoot (36 points across 8 categories), Mangal dosha and a shared Dasha axis. A low score does not mean a "bad relationship" — it's one of many lenses, not a verdict. The relationship portrait shows where lessons await you and where natural harmony lies.
Because the same planetary contact means one thing between partners and quite another between a mother and her son, or between business partners. By marking whether the bond is romantic, family, professional or a friendship — or describing it in your own words — you tell the astrologer how to read the same data: as closeness and authority in a family, as trust and division of roles at work, as loyalty in a friendship. The field is optional, but if you skip it the astrologer will ask early in the conversation rather than guess.
It is an Indian compatibility system that grew up as a tool for pre-marital matching — matchmakers used it when planning a wedding. Its starting point is the Moon in both charts: its position in a sign and in a nakshatra (the Indian zodiac divides the sky into a further 27 lunar stations). Comparing those two Moons yields eight categories, called kutas, each carrying a different point weight.
Four of them say something about any bond, not just a couple: Gana describes temperament, Graha Maitri mutual liking, Bhakoot emotional distance, Nadi constitution. The rest — Varna, Vashya, Tara and Yoni — speak directly to the fit between spouses. You do not need to remember any of this: the astrologer will translate every one of these names into plain language if you ask.
It is the sum of the eight categories — the maximum is 36. In the tradition, the higher the better the marriage prospects, and below a certain threshold a matchmaker would advise against the wedding. The number is classically counted from the bride's chart, so we show the astrologer both directions and make no assumption about who is who.
Two things are worth knowing. First, a low score does not mean "a bad relationship" — it is one lens among several, not a verdict; the same portrait also looks at cross-aspects and house overlays. Second, some categories can produce a so-called dosha, a burden counted separately from the total — more on that below.
Ashtakoot is an Indian matching system that grew up for couples before a wedding — we calculate it for every relationship portrait, because temperament and rhythm are interesting in any bond. But since it was built for marital matching, for a non-romantic bond the astrologer will not treat the x/36 score as a verdict on your relationship — they will reach for the categories that genuinely say something about a parent, a child, a friend or a business partner.
Nor will they raise the so-called doshas (Nadi, Bhakoot, Mangal — also known as Kuja) on their own. In the tradition these concern marriage and children, so in a relationship portrait with your mother or a colleague they are simply beside the point. If you ask about them yourself, the astrologer will explain what they mean in the tradition and why they do not apply to this kind of bond.
It's a separate write-up in which the astrologer sets two variants of the same choice side by side and decides which one is better. We compute full charts for both variants (with or without a forecast), the astrologer reads each one separately and ends with a single verdict. You choose what you are comparing — there are three modes:
In all three modes we read each chart on its own. This is NOT a relationship portrait: there are no cross-aspects and no couple-compatibility analysis here — not even in "People" mode, where we compare two people as alternatives rather than the bond between them.
Four ways of looking at time and people are easy to confuse, so to be clear: the relationship portrait (synastry) studies the bond between two people; "Find a good moment" (election) scans a whole window and points out the best days; "Compare charts" places two alternatives side by side — moments, people or places to live — and picks the better one. The difference between synastry and comparing people lies exactly there: synastry asks "how are we together?", a comparison asks "which of the two?". From an election you land straight in "Moments" mode — you have two strong days and want to settle them head-to-head.
In short: Western (tropical) is great at describing who you are — character, talents, tendencies. Vedic (Jyotish) has a rich tradition of working with time and forecasting. We combine both, so the portrait is complete and the look into the future is deeper. You don't need to know either of them — the astrologer will guide you.
We use classical Parashari astrology — the most widespread school of Jyotish. We calculate sidereal positions with an ayanamsa, the nakshatras (27 lunar mansions), varga diagrams (D1 and navamsa D9) and the Vimshottari Dasha timing system, which the Vedic tradition uses for forecasting work. Jyotish recognises nine grahas (Sun through Saturn plus the nodes Rahu and Ketu) and omits the planets discovered after the invention of the telescope. You don't need to know any of this — the astrologer will translate it into plain language.
To calculate a chart we need your date, time and place of birth — the more accurate, the better. We calculate planetary positions locally on our server, and we process your data in accordance with the GDPR. The content of your conversations with the astrologer is stored in encrypted form — so that you can come back to them, continue them, and download a PDF record. We don't read them manually, and you can delete a chart together with its associated conversations at any time in your account panel. You'll find the details in the Privacy Policy.
We store passwords in encrypted form only (bcrypt) — never in plain text — and we check their strength when you create an account. You can enable two-step login (email 2FA): at each login, in addition to your password, you confirm a one-time code sent to your address. Magic-link login and password reset are also available. The content of your conversations with the astrologer is kept encrypted. You'll find the details in the Privacy Policy.
Yes — you're in full control. In your account panel you can delete any chart at any time together with all its associated conversations; deleting a chart removes its subordinate chats. You can also delete your whole account — your personal data is then permanently anonymized (in line with the GDPR), except for data we must keep for accounting purposes. We store conversations deliberately — so you can return to them, use memory between conversations and download a PDF — which is exactly why we give you a simple tool to delete them whenever you want.
Yes. The time affects part of the calculations (especially the ascendant and the house layout), so without it some details will be less precise — but the conversation still makes sense.
Whatever you like. A few examples users come with:
And if you come without a specific question, just out of curiosity — you're in the right place too.
No. Astro Berries is inspiration and an invitation to reflect, not professional advice — astrological, legal, financial or medical. Make important decisions yourself, based on your own judgment and, where needed, a consultation with the appropriate professional. If you're going through a difficult moment or a crisis, the astrologer will give you a contact for free, 24-hour support.
Write to us at help@coloursofsamadhi.com — we'll try to help as soon as we can.
Astro Berries is run by Colours of Samadhi Sp. z o.o. You can read more about us on the "About us" page, and for any contact matters, write to help@coloursofsamadhi.com.
