About
Memento Astra is an astrology studio for both beginnings and endings. We compute birth and death charts, and daily readings, from the real positions of the planets, turning a moment in time into something you can read, reflect on, and keep.
Enter a date, time, and place, and we resolve the exact location and timezone, calculate the sky at that instant, and produce a structured reading: placements, houses, and angles interpreted into plain language. Our daily horoscopes are generated the same way: from today's actual transits, not filler.
Every chart is calculated from actual planetary positions using the Swiss Ephemeris. Not generic templates.
Birth charts illuminate a life; death charts offer a reflective, symbolic reading of its conclusion. Few places explore both.
Our death-lens content is philosophical and respectful about meaning and memory, never exploitation.
Memento is three sites: Memento Astra, Memento Arcana and Memento Somnia. The sky above, the card in front of you, the dream behind you. They are made by a team of three, and articles are reviewed by the member of the team who knows their subject best. Each article says who reviewed it, and when.
Founder
Tom built Memento Astra, Memento Arcana and Memento Somnia, and runs all three. He is a web developer and the founder of ByteToast Studio. He writes and edits the guides and builds the tools behind them: the birth chart calculator, the tarot readings and the dream journal.
Astrology, tarot and dreams
Gigi is a senior member of the Memento team, bringing a lifetime of experience and practical knowledge of astrology, tarot and dream work to the project. She reviews the content published across all three Memento sites, including astrology for Memento Astra, tarot for Memento Arcana and dreams for Memento Somnia.
As part of the wider Memento team, Gigi helps oversee the quality, clarity and authenticity of the sites’ content, making sure that complex subjects remain accessible while staying grounded in established practice and tradition. She also writes Memento’s social media content and scripts and develops material for its videos.
Her particular interest lies in helping people explore mystical subjects in a way that is thoughtful, understandable and useful, whether they are completely new to them or have been studying them for years.
Magical and mystical traditions
Indigo is a senior member of the Memento team, with a lifetime of experience studying and working with magical and mystical traditions. Her knowledge helps guide the wider Memento project, with particular responsibility for reviewing the tarot content published on Memento Arcana.
Indigo reviews tarot articles for their accuracy, context and relationship to the traditions from which they originate, including card meanings, symbolism, spreads and historical development. Her role extends beyond individual articles, helping the Memento team maintain a consistent and respectful approach to the subjects covered across the sites.
She brings both extensive knowledge and practical experience to the project, helping ensure that Memento’s exploration of mystical traditions is informative, considered and rooted in the practices it discusses.
No language model wrote a word of this site, and none is called at any point. Every position in a chart is computed here from the Swiss Ephemeris, so it agrees with any almanac to the arcsecond. Every line of interpretation was written by a person in advance, and a reading selects the pieces that match what your chart actually says.
Most astrology published in the last two years was generated, and it reads beautifully, which is exactly the problem: a model writes an equally convincing paragraph about a placement you do not have. You can test the difference here in about a minute.
In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It’s just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better.
It’s like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that’s now been taken away and hidden. The graphite’s not important. It’s just the means of revealing the indentations.
So you see, astrology’s nothing to do with astronomy. It’s just to do with people thinking about people.
That is the spirit this site is built in. The positions are computed properly, from real ephemeris data, because a tool that is sloppy about the sky has nothing to offer. What those positions mean is another matter: our readings are symbolic and reflective, offered for insight and contemplation, never as medical, legal, financial, or forensic advice.
