A Friend Code for Your Birth Chart

Astra Loom gives a natal chart a shareable Sky Code. A friend can scan it in the iPhone app or with the iPhone camera, then compare the two charts in a feature called the Book of Bonds. The code appears as both a QR image and an alphanumeric string, with share and scan controls alongside it.

The result becomes a person in a small circle of friends. In the product's supplied example, Theo's entry lists a Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon and Scorpio Rising beside a match value. Opening it places Aurora and Theo together above a gold ring marked 80%, labelled a warm connection.

What gets exchanged starts with an individual chart. Astra Loom asks for a date, time and city of birth, then sets the chart in a jewelled golden dial. Touching a stone opens a planet's sign and house, while a pinch brings the dial closer. In the example image, separate plaques beneath it identify a Pisces Sun, Cancer Moon and Pisces Rising. A Sky Code carries that calculated chart into the next person's comparison.

The sharing page spells out the contents: the person's first name and planetary positions. It says the birth date, time and place are not written out in the code. The feature passes the already calculated positions ready for a comparison. The receiving friend can start with that chart, without entering the birth details again.

There is a text route as well as a camera route. The official browser version offers copy-code and copy-link buttons, then a field that accepts a friend's code or link. Its built-in example opens without creating an account. The Friends page also offers an option to add someone on the same phone; opening it brings up a prompt for what to call that friend. Exchanging an existing chart and starting another profile are presented as separate choices.

Under the overall match, the reading becomes more specific. The official Aurora–Theo image gives Heart 79 and Mind 58. Heart discusses feeling safe, cared for and emotionally understood. Mind discusses conversation, humour and how two people make sense of things together, including pauses to check that they mean the same thing. The two bars tell different parts of the product's relationship story.

The summary names chart contacts too. It presents Sun trine Ascendant as a strength and Mercury square Mercury as a place for patience and humour. Tabs labelled Your Match and Theo's Day keep the comparison separate from the friend's daily reading.

The code brings the friend's chart in. The comparison gives it a place beside your own.