Questions People Ask

Before you order

Do I need a reading at all? Not always. If a question about your direction, your work or a period of your life keeps coming back, a reading helps. If you're in crisis, want someone to decide for you, or want certainty, it's the wrong tool. I wrote a whole page on it: Do You Need an Astrology Reading?

Which reading should I start with? I'd start with the Profound Birth Chart Reading: it reads your chart and the timing of the years you're in. Just curious about your chart: Birth Chart. One decision: Ask One Question. A relationship: Synastry. Still unsure? Write to me.

How much are readings? Personal written readings are $57 to $167, depending on the reading. Every price is on the readings page. The live session is $1,500, and only after a Profound reading.

Is tax included in the price? No. Prices are in US dollars, before tax. At checkout, Whop, the payment platform, adds any tax that applies where you live: VAT at your country's rate in the EU and the UK, sales tax only if your US state requires it, and local tax elsewhere where it applies. You see the full total before you pay, and your receipt shows the tax separately.

Can I see an example? Yes. See four real pages from a full reading of Keanu Reeves' chart, and four from a compatibility reading of Donald Trump and California. Personal readings are built the same way.

Do you use AI? Yes, as one of my tools. Each reading is hours of my own work: going through the chart step by step, deciding what it says, and rewriting until it's right. Along the way I use software for the calculations (Swiss Ephemeris) and an AI assistant to help with wording and to check quotations and dates, which is also why you won't find my typos in it. The assistant works from my own library of old books, collected over the years, so what it quotes comes from the texts themselves. Some of them are new translations from the Greek and Latin that I made with the assistant. Astrologers have always worked with the tools of their time. I follow them.

Do I need my exact birth time? It helps a lot. The time sets your Ascendant, your houses and the Moon's position. If you have it, even roughly, send it. Don't know it? See how to find your birth time, and what a chart without one still shows.

Does a few minutes' difference in birth time matter? Usually not much. Four minutes moves the rising degree by about one degree. It matters only when the rising sign or a planet sits near the edge of a sign, and if yours does, I'll tell you.

What if I don't know it at all? You can still get a real reading. I work from what holds without a time: planets by sign, their aspects, the slower cycles. I'll tell you plainly which parts I can and can't speak to. Many long-form birth certificates list the time, so it's worth checking.

Can you find my birth time if I don't know it? Often, yes, if you know roughly when you were born and can date the big turns of your life. That is birth time rectification: I test the possible times against your dated events and keep the one that fits them best. It gives a best fit with a stated confidence, not a certainty.

Can I order a reading for someone else, or as a gift? Yes. I need their birth date, time and place, and it helps to know what they'd like to look at. The PDF comes to your email, so you can pass it on. Please check they're happy for you to share their birth details.

The readings

How do I get it? As a PDF by email, usually around 5 days, sometimes faster. Profound, Compatibility, Astrocartography and Birth Time Rectification usually take around 7 days. It comes from roman@romanoleksandr.com, so if it isn't in your inbox by then, check your spam folder, then write to me.

Can I print it? Yes. The PDF is laid out on standard US Letter pages, so it prints cleanly at home or at a print shop. You can keep it in a folder; the dates are worth coming back to.

Why written, and not a call? The reading is written on purpose: you can come back to it whenever you need it, which is how astrologers worked in the past too. Astrology isn't a session like therapy. Talking things through is a psychologist's work; mine happens in the background, on your chart. You read it, send me your feedback, and we go from there. How to choose an astrologer, and why I work this way →

Can a reading show when life chapters begin and end? Yes, that's what the old timing techniques are for. Annual profections name the planet that runs each year of your life, and zodiacal releasing divides a life into chapters and peak periods, with dates. Both are in the Profound Birth Chart Reading.

Is astrocartography only for moving? No. It's just as useful for trips: where to go for a holiday, a rest or a honeymoon. The best place for two weeks is often not the best place to live or work, and the Astrocartography reading tells them apart.

Can you tell me if my ex will come back? No astrologer can honestly promise what another person will decide. Your chart shows your side: the patterns you repeat in love, and the stretches of time when relationships come into focus. That's what the Profound Birth Chart Reading goes into.

Can you predict exact events? I give timing windows: the months a theme is active. I won't promise a specific event on a specific day. That's fortune-telling, and it isn't honest.

Will you tell me something frightening? No. When a chart has a heavy placement I name it honestly and say what can be done with it. No curses, no doom.

What won't you read for? I don't predict death or illness, and I don't read for medical questions, mental-health crises, pregnancy, legal or financial decisions. For those, please see the right professional.

Method and honesty

Is this a psychic reading? No. I calculate your chart from astronomical data and interpret it using a two-thousand-year-old technique. I always separate the calculation from the interpretation.

Western or Vedic? Why is my sign different in Vedic? I read Western, Hellenistic astrology in the tropical zodiac, which counts the signs from the spring equinox. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, measured against the stars, which today sits about 24 degrees behind. So a Western Libra is often a Vedic Virgo. Both systems are consistent; my readings use the tropical one.

What's the difference between a ritual and manifestation? Manifestation keeps one part of a ritual: the intention. A full ritual also has timing, preparation, the right materials, words, a sacrifice, an action and a closing. My Personal Ritual is built on all of them, around your chart.

Is astrology scientifically proven? No, and I won't pretend otherwise. I offer a reading as a structured way to reflect on your life, not as a proven forecast. More on what astrology can't do.

After you order

What if the reading doesn't feel right for me? Tell me. Your follow-up question is included, and if it still isn't right for you, I'll refund you, even after it's delivered.

Is my birth data kept private? It's used only to prepare your reading. See the privacy notice for how it's stored and when it's deleted.