— Astromara · The story
Astrologer · Tarot reader · Student of the sky · Online since 1999
— The beginning
I spent years watching my mother with a pencil tucked behind her ear, ephemeris in one hand, Farmer’s Almanac in the other, plotting the sky like it was a map home. The moon was her guide. She gardened by it, lived by it. Quiet, meticulous, never loud about her gift, just deeply in tune.
Even now, long after she’s gone, I still keep her charts going. Not out of duty, but devotion. They’re a connection, a ritual, a reminder.
Yes, the Earth has shifted. The zodiac no longer aligns as it once did, and technically, modern astrology has drifted from its ancient origins. But she didn’t need the stars to be precise. She needed them to speak. And they did. In symbols, in glyphs, in the slow turning of seasons she could feel before they arrived.
“Belief isn’t about being right. It’s about remembering why you looked up in the first place.”
I’ve never believed astrology was about precision. It’s a language of meaning waiting to be found: storytelling rooted in mathematics and geometry. I love the searching. The quiet, hopeful belief that something greater connects it all.
I’m drawn to people who look up at the same sky trying to make sense of the world’s beautiful chaos, who use astrology not as a truth, but as a tool: a symbolic guide for reflection, a map for the inner life.
— What drives me
My main obsession, if I’m honest, is Tarot. That’s where you’ll find me most moments of the day, and where paulomara.com lives. But astrology runs alongside it always, and the moon especially never leaves my thinking.
I follow the moon’s transits through each of its phases. The horoscopes here go out daily, weekly and monthly. The APIs run automatically now, so the sky is always current. The site is as live as the cosmos itself.
You can watch the moon transits on YouTube. And whenever you want to talk, O’Mara’s button is in the corner.
“Whatever the cosmos holds today, I hope it’s wonderful for you.”
— My natal chart
25 March 1966 · 2:54am · Wells, Somerset, England. A live example of what Astromara generates for you.
25 March 1966 · 02:54 · Wells, Somerset · Tropical / Placidus
— Planetary positions
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Consulting the ephemeris… | ||
Sun in Aries. Mars-ruled, direct, driven. The chart ruler in Aries says a great deal about someone who has been building something in this space since 1999 without a roadmap. You start. You learn. You keep going.
The Moon placement shapes the instinctive pull toward the lunar cycles, exactly as it did for the woman who passed the ephemeris down.
— Every word, every image
Everything on Astromara is me. The writing, the chart interpretations, the design, the illustrations, the code that holds it all together. I sit down with my ephemeris and decide the direction of a horoscope before a word gets written. There is no team, no ghostwriter, no template, no designer I briefed.
When a tarot reader says “I designed this deck,” they usually mean they gave their ideas to a designer. Something is always lost in translation. I learned every system I needed to keep my own work unfiltered.
Thirty years as a working designer took me from paintbrushes to Photoshop to what’s possible now. I still use paintbrushes. Good tools don’t replace the craft, they carry it. Partners, not authors. The direction, interpretation and voice stay with me, from the ephemeris through to the final word on the page.
One person’s work, not a brand. If you are reading it, I made it.
A note on how to use astrology: Horoscopes are a symbolic and interpretive art, not a predictive science. If something resonates, that is what matters. Astrology works best when it feels useful rather than literal. The sky offers a language; what you do with it is yours entirely.
Generate your free natal chart, the same kind of map O’Mara has kept going since his mother first showed him the sky.