Policies
Booking
You answer a few questions, choose a time and pay by card through Stripe, all in the booking form on the Readings page. For A Single Question and the Return Reading, write to me for now.
What I need
For a Natal Reading: your birth date, birth time and birth place, with the source of the time if you know it, or your best estimate and how you reached it. For a Single Question: your question, and a few sentences of background. Your birth details are not needed. For both: a name to address and an email address. I do not need, and ask you not to send, health records or other private documents.
If you do not know your birth time
A Natal Reading still works. If you know your birth time to within about an hour, I can rectify it by testing it against events in your life, and I will say how sure I am. If you have no time at all, there are limits to what I can say: the rising sign, the houses, the Lots and the exact degree of the Moon are uncertain, and I will not guess at them.
Timing
Natal Reading: you choose the time of the call when you book. Times are offered from 24 hours ahead. Return Reading: write to me to arrange a time. Single Question: 3 business days from the day I read and understand your question. If I need more information from you, the time counts from when I receive it.
Format
A Natal Reading and a Return Reading are live calls over Zoom. You keep a recording of the call and my notes. A Single Question is answered in writing, by email, with the chart.
Refunds
I refund you in full if I cancel, or if I find that a chart is not fit to be read, in which case I give no judgment.
Once a call has taken place, I do not give refunds. If a call goes badly, for example the connection drops or a question goes unanswered, I offer you a short follow-up at no cost instead of money back.
For A Single Question: no refund once the written answer has been sent.
These terms are stated again when you book.
Rescheduling
You can reschedule up to 24 hours before the call. A Single Question has no appointment to move.
Privacy of your birth data
Your birth details, the recording of your call and my notes are used to give you your reading. I do not sell them or give them to anyone else, except that the payment service handles your payment details and Zoom carries the call. I do not publish your reading or anything that identifies you. I handle your data as applicable law requires. To ask about your data, write to noordung.astrologer@gmail.com.
What a reading is and is not
A reading is an interpretation of a chart by the methods of traditional astrology. It is not medical, legal, financial, psychological or other professional advice, and it does not replace any of those. I read difficult subjects, including health, death, money, legal matters, relationships and other people, with care.
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I say what the chart shows, in the tradition’s terms, and where it is doubtful.
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I do not diagnose. I do not give medical, legal or financial instructions. Where a matter needs a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or other professional help, I say so and encourage you to get it.
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I do not predict a date of death.
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I do not promise any outcome. What you do with a reading is your decision.
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When a reading touches another person, I read the matter from your side, I do not claim to know what they intend beyond what the chart shows, and I do not read to expose their private affairs.
What I will not read: a question already asked, when nothing has changed; a question asked out of idle curiosity or to test the method; a request to harm someone or to do something unlawful; and an emergency. If you or someone else is in danger now, contact emergency services first.
Age
You must be 18 or older to order a reading.
Image credits
Figures are numbered across the site. All images are in the public domain or carry no known restrictions.
Fig. 1
Habitat wheel
after H. Noordung, 1929 · Public domain, via NASA / Wikimedia Commons
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Proportion of the body
Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490 · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fig. 3
Perspective apparatus
A. Dürer, 1525 · No known restrictions · Library of Congress
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Order of the spheres
N. Copernicus, De revolutionibus MS · Public domain · Jagiellonian Library, via Wikimedia Commons
Fig. 5
Muscle man
A. Vesalius, Fabrica, 1555 · Public domain · Wellcome Collection
Fig. 6
Astrolabe, Plate IV
after Chaucer, drawn for W. W. Skeat, 1900 · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Three-unit station
H. Noordung, 1929 · Public domain, via NASA / Wikimedia Commons
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Armillary sphere
Sphaera mundi, printed by E. Ratdolt, 1485 · Public domain (CC0) · Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons
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Diagram of the qualities
Tractatus de complexionibus, attributed to Johannes de Nova Domo, c. 1495 · Public domain · Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, via Wikimedia Commons