In the Astral Doorway appA book of your life
Your Life Under the Stars
A book of one life, written for you alone.
About 40 pages, from the sky at the hour you were born, read through the old systems, joined where they agree, and written in the voice of an elder speaking to you. Not a horoscope, and not a prediction: a keepsake you can read again at every age.
- More than 40books written since it opened in October
- 4.7 of 5from 12 readers who gave it stars
What you receive
What the book is
You type a name, a birth date, a time and a place. The chart is worked out from the real sky, and a book is written from it, in about half an hour. It waits for you in the app as a PDF, yours to keep.
The sky is calculated, not guessed. The chart is worked out and checked against the real sky; the book is written from that chart, and every placement it names is checked again.
Written to you, not about you. With counsel at the end of every chapter, rather than flattery. It reads a life; it never foretells one.
Yours to keep. Twenty-two chapters, a contents page you can tap, and every figure in an appendix at the back, so you can check it.
The systems it reads
- Western astrology
- The Vedic sky
- Your Chinese animal
- Numerology
- Human Design
- The Gene Keys
- Your birth cards in the Egyptian Tarot
- The places on earth where your chart is strongest
New to some of them? Each has its own page in the app, with what it is, what it reads in you, and where it comes from.
Its first readers
What Readers Wrote Back
After each book, Gene asks its reader how it was: did it feel true, and what felt wrong. Here is every answer so far, counted honestly.
4.7 of 5
the average of the 12 readers who gave it stars
15 readers have written back, through the app’s feedback form or by email.
For 14 of the 15, it landed. For one, it simply didn’t, and that’s fine: no book speaks to everyone. We’d rather tell you than leave it out.
One gave three stars. That reader’s rising sign sits on the last degree of its sign, and the book counted the houses one off from the astrology sites they knew. The book now gives both counts in that case.
What you will not easily do is say the warm, unguarded sentence at the moment it is needed, because the close square between your Moon and your Venus puts the feeling and the expression at an angle to each other, and because Saturn sits on your Mercury and checks every word. You feel it. You cannot always find the door for it.
“Multiple lines instantly resonated with me, unveiling aspects of myself I hadn’t fully comprehended before.
The accuracy was shocking. It has brought to light multiple things that before were hardly noticed, and now are obvious.”
“What this book offered me was a new perspective: a new way of looking at these systems and understanding how they relate to my human persona.
The part that really stood out to me was right at the very beginning: ‘The first book belongs to the reader who is fascinated… The second belongs to the reader who is skeptical.’
This perspective is incredibly important to bear in mind when we use tools like astrology, and I really appreciate it being at the forefront of the book.”
“The best things for me were being told things I knew at a deep level, but seeing it written down brought it to the surface and made it more real and clear.
Many truths that I’ve written down and put a tick next to them.”
“It described everything I didn’t realize I was trying to be!”
“These accuracies really helped validate the authenticity of the reading.
My husband likes to talk on the phone with his friends, like a philosophical discussion once a week, and it said that he benefits from having conversations on the phone and that I should allow him to have that. This is very specific. Same with our three-year-old son: the description of his strong will, and an example of him running out the door without shoes on, is precisely what we live with almost every day.”
“This book put words to some things that I knew were true but couldn’t always name.
Honestly, this book was so meaningful to me. I’m just grateful.”
“I feel seen!
I know I will re-read the book, which is a deep well of insight. Thank you for putting it together!”
“The description of our household dynamics was spot on!
I really, really like the ‘rules for the house.’ I read them to my husband, who doesn’t believe in any modality like this, and he agreed they were useful. Helpful parenting advice too, customized to our daughter’s personality. Honestly, it was so accurate!”
“It was very thorough and eye-opening — unfortunately, it was also very true!
It put me at ease that all the stuff I’ve been fighting against all my life is just a part of the system I was born into, so now I can work with it and around it.”
“The book of my life under the stars is amazing.
It really spoke to me, accurately and deeply.”
“I meant to read it slowly.
Instead, I read it in one sitting. I just couldn’t stop. I kept nodding as I turned the pages, and at times I cried.
Some passages put into words things I seemed to have known somewhere within myself but had never been able to say out loud.
I immediately thought of at least a dozen people in my life whom I will gift a book of their own.”
Every word is read
What Readers Asked For, and What Changed
Every answer goes to Gene, and it shapes every book written after it. These changes came from readers.
Explain the systems.
Every system now has its own page in the app: what it is, what it reads in you, and where it comes from, with a small drawing.
One image comes back too often.
Every book now finds a fresh image for each chapter.
What does “an engine” mean?
Human Design words are now said in everyday terms: what each one feels like on an ordinary day.
My houses were counted one off.
The book counts houses the oldest way, by whole signs. When a rising sign sits late in its sign, it now gives both counts, so it matches the sites you know.
It said I hide my feelings, and I’m the opposite.
Anything about the face you show the world is now offered as something to check, never as a fact.
Could the book grow with us?
The Deeper Octave: a second book grown from your first. A reader’s idea: thank you, Steph G.
For yourself, for two, for a family
Three Kinds of Book
They are not the same book three times. Each is written about a different subject.
One person
A book of one life
The only book that goes all the way into one life. Every chapter is about you alone.
- Who you are, read through every system
- Your strengths, what will be hard, and what you need
- Your talents and calling, how you love
- The road of your life, age by age, and the sky this year
- Practices fitted to you, and a long last word
Two people
A Book for Two
A book about the bond. Each of you has a short chapter of your own; most of the book is about the two of you together.
- What brought you together
- How you love, and where you clash
- The masculine and the feminine in both of you
- Your purpose together, and the years ahead
- A way of practice for two, and a chapter on your children if you have them together
Two to six people
A book for a family
A book about the house. Each person has a chapter of a few pages; the rest reads the family as one weave.
- Each person’s own chapter
- What makes this family special
- How the house fits together, pair by pair
- Rules for the whole house
- A way of practice for the house, and a last word
- If I want all three, will they repeat each other?
- Some things will echo, because the same sky is read in each. But each book is written about a different subject. Your own book is about forty pages of you alone. In a Book for Two or a family book, your own chapter is a few pages, and the rest is about the bond or the house: things your own book never reads, like how two charts meet, or the rules a family can live by.
- Which should I begin with?
- There is no required order: each book is written from the births alone, and stands on its own. If you want to understand yourself first, begin with your own book; it is the only one that goes all the way into one life. If what you most want to understand is a marriage or a household, that book can come first. Nothing is lost either way.
- What would all three cost?
- A book of your own uses one credit, and a Book for Two and a family book use two each: five credits in all. A pack of six ($69) covers all three, with one credit over for someone you love.
- What is the Deeper Octave?
- Once a book is ready, a “Go deeper” line under it offers a second book grown from your first: about 25 pages that walk the year ahead with you. It uses one credit, once a year for each book, for one person, a couple or a family.
Inside a book of one life
What the Book Holds
Twenty-two chapters, a contents page you can tap, and every figure in an appendix at the back, so you can check it.
- How to read this bookThe makeup you were given, the freedom inside it, and how to read with a level mind.
- Who you areA portrait seen whole, with a scene from your own life in it.
- Your western chartSun, Moon and rising; every planet in its house; the aspects that shape you.
- The eastern yearYour Chinese animal and element, your birth month’s, and the animal of your birth hour.
- Your Vedic skyYour birth star, your signs as India counts them, and the great periods of your life.
- Your numbers, your cardsLife Path and the numbers of your name; your birth cards in the Egyptian Tarot.
- Human Design and the Gene KeysHow your energy works, how you decide well, where other people’s moods get into you, and the four spheres of your path.
- Where your sky touches the earthThe places in the world where your chart stands strongest.
- Where the systems agreeThe truths every system keeps saying about you: your strengths, what will be hard, and what you need.
- Your talents and your callingWhat you are good at, the work your life is pointed at, and three small things to try in the next thirty days.
- How you loveIntimacy, romance and partnership, read from the whole chart.
- The road of your lifeEvery age in turn: the long seasons of your life, and the years Saturn and Jupiter return.
- The sky this year, and the nextWhere the planets stand against your chart now, and what comes next.
- A way of practice, and questions for your journalPractices fitted to your chart, many from Gene’s own teaching, and a long last word, written to you alone.
What it costs
One Credit, One Book
One book of a life
$17
- Three credits$39 · $13 each
- Six credits$69 · $11.50 each
A Book for Two or a family book uses two credits. Credits never expire, and anyone can buy them, Free members included. Doorway Membership Plus includes a credit for one book a year.
- Don’t know your birth time?
- The book is still written, and says plainly what it can’t read without one: the rising sign, the houses, the animal of the birth hour and the map of places. A birth time makes it fuller.
- How long does it take?
- Twenty to thirty minutes, a family book or a book for two a little longer. A notice comes when it is ready, and the book waits for you in the app as a PDF.
- What is sent?
- Only the names, birth dates, times and places you type. Nothing from your journal is ever sent.
- Can credits be refunded?
- Credits are added to your account straight away, so they can’t be refunded. They never expire, and a book that can’t be written gives its credit back.
Written and read in the app: Observatory → Your Life Under the Stars.
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