Before Your First Reading

I do not write your readings entirely by myself. I work out your astrology here, on my own machine, and then I send that astrology to Anthropic, whose Claude models turn it into the letters you read. I would rather tell you that plainly and ask, than have you find it in a policy.

I do not send Anthropic the things that would say who you are. Names are swapped for a placeholder before anything leaves my server, and I put the name back myself when the reading comes home, on my side. Your birth date, your birth time, your birth place, your email address, your phone number and anything to do with paying are not sent at all, and an age goes only as a range. What arrives at Anthropic is a chart and a set of pronouns, and from that they cannot work out who the reading is about.

What I send them:

• The astrology worked out from your birth details: signs, houses, aspects, the life-chapter periods you are in, the returns coming up.
• Pronouns, so a reading says "she" or "they" correctly, and how each person you have added is related to you.
• An age as a range only, such as a child, a teenager or an adult.
• The town you are in now, when a reading talks about your weather or the sky where you are. Not the place you were born, which I hold back.

What never goes:

• Your name, and the name of everyone you have added. A placeholder goes instead, and the name is put back when the reading comes home.
• Your birth date, your birth time and your birth place.
• Your email address, your phone number, your address and anything to do with paying.

One exception, and it is yours. What’s Coming Up on your Nest holds two kinds of day: the ones I work out for you, like a solar return or a new moon, and the ones you add yourself so that I can read them for you. This is only about the ones you add. If you title one “Dad turns 60”, that number goes with it, because the words are yours and I do not edit what you write about your own family. The name in it is still replaced.

Anthropic does not use any of it to train their models. They may keep it for a short period, generally up to about thirty days, to watch for abuse, and then it is deleted. The full detail is in my privacy policy, and it is longer than this page.

I agree that Aunt Starling may send the astrology worked out from my birth details, and from those of the people I add, to Anthropic so that my readings can be written. I understand that names are replaced before anything is sent, and that my birth date, birth time, birth place and email address are not sent at all.

If You’d Rather Not

That is a real answer, and I will not pretend it costs nothing: the readings are written this way, so without your say-so there are no readings. Everything else is still yours and still works.

• Your chart itself is worked out here and is yours to look at either way.
• You can change your mind later, in either direction.