Who Writes Astrovision: Astro, and the Team Behind It

Every article here carries the same byline: written by Astro, reviewed by the Astrovision Team. This page says what that means. You deserve to know who is talking to you.

Who is Astro?

Astro is not a person. Astro is the name we give to the editorial engine that drafts our articles. It is wired straight into our star charts, so every date and position it writes comes from our own calculations.

Who is the Astrovision Team?

The Astrovision Team is the group of people behind this site. They set the rules, pick the subjects, check the numbers, and answer for what goes out.

They sign as a team, not one by one. That is a privacy choice, and we would rather say so than dress it up. The duty is real. If something here is wrong, it is on us, and you can tell us.

How an article is built

The sky comes first

Our sums run on Astronomy Engine, an open-source star almanac. Where each planet sits, when it enters a sign, when it turns back, when the Moon is full: we work it out. We never copy it from another site.

That is why our articles give dates. Not “when Jupiter moves through your twelfth house”, but the day and the hour. Neptune left Pisces on 26 January 2026 at 14:31 UTC. Uranus sat in Scorpio from 21 November 1974 to 16 November 1981. You can check both.

We count, we do not guess

When we say a placement is rare, we measured it. We do not draw charts at random. We step through the sky at fixed intervals from 1600 to 2400. For Jupiter and Saturn, we count whole orbits instead. Every figure is run twice, with two separate sets of planet tables: astronomy-engine and the Swiss Ephemeris. The zodiac is tropical. For house figures, we use real US birth times from the CDC birth records, and we name the house system.

One rule we learned the hard way: a sixty-year window lies, even for a fast planet. Venus repeats its path about every eight years. In a short window, that rhythm can make Aries look like the most common Venus sign. Over 800 years, Cancer leads and Aries sits in the middle. Uranus in Aquarius shows up in 13.3% of people born from 1950 to 2010, but in about 9% of the time across whole orbits. So every frequency on this site now rests on 800 years or on whole orbits. When a page talks about people born in a given span, it says so.

Plain speech is measured

Astrology has a jargon problem. We do not fix it by cutting the technical words — that would make the article poorer. We fix it by explaining each one the first time it shows up, inside the sentence.

Then we measure. We use two standard scores before we publish. A Flesch score of 65 or more. A Gunning Fog score of 10 or less. Sentences of 15 words on average, or shorter. An article that fails is rewritten, however well researched it is.

Sources are named in the text

Where a claim rests on a tradition, we say which one, and who wrote it down. Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, Vettius Valens’ Anthologies and William Lilly’s Christian Astrology for the old material. Liz Greene, Robert Hand, Stephen Arroyo, Demetra George and Chris Brennan among the moderns.

And a line we will not cross. Astrology is not a science. We write “in the Hellenistic tradition” because it is true. We will never write “studies show that”, because it is not.

English is the original

We write in English. The French pages are translated from it. When the two disagree, the English text is the one that was written, and the French is fixed.

When we get it wrong

We do get things wrong, and we fix them in place. Two from our own archive. One article said Neptune comes back to a sign after 165 years. That is how long it takes to circle the Sun; the gap between two stays is closer to 150 years. Another gave Mercury’s widest gap from the Sun as 24.2 degrees. The true range runs from 22.0 degrees in Sagittarius to 27.8 in Aries. We caught both by redoing the sums, and both are fixed.

Found an error? Write to us. A fix costs us nothing, and it beats a page we defend.

What this page is not

This page is about how our articles are written. The paid reports and audio guides follow their own path, set out in The Astrovision Method.