An astrology shop inside Telegram: what it sells and how to order

What the Telegram shop is

The shop is a Telegram Mini App: a web page that opens inside Telegram, in its own window, instead of in your browser. It is the Lunonis catalogue in a form made for a phone screen, and it shows its texts in your Telegram language.

Everything in it is a digital edition, as on the website. You view it online and get a PDF. Nothing is shipped.

How to open it

There are three ways in, and all of them lead to the same shop.

• The Shop button. In the chat with the Lunonis bot, the menu button next to the message field is called Shop.
• The /shop command. Send it to the bot and it answers with a button that opens the shop.
• A direct link. t.me/lunolisBot?startapp opens the shop from anywhere, for example from a message you send to a friend.

The link can also open a particular screen. Put books, reports, gifts, month or plans after startapp= and you land in that section, and a product name such as book-me opens that product. You can use them to send a friend straight to one thing.

You do not need to set up anything first. If you want the free horoscope as well, our guide to the daily horoscope in Telegram explains the bot itself.

What you find inside

The home screen groups the catalogue into a few doors:

• Your month, the personal forecast for the month, written from the planets’ transits to your chart.
• Books: the natal chart book, the couple book, the baby book, the family book and the Destiny Matrix book. A book is written for one chart, a couple or a family, as a PDF.
• Forecasts and readings: a forecast for a month or a year, a compatibility report, readings about yourself, love or work, and reports built around one event or cycle.
• Gifts, for giving a book, a reading or a poster to someone else. The gift page itself opens on the website.
• Chart poster, a print-ready poster of a birth chart, in three colourways: midnight, cream or gold.
• Plans, if you want a personal forecast on a regular basis, and a button to the free birth chart on the website.

Each product has its own screen with a short description, what is inside and what you need to give. The prices are in the shop, in the currency of your country. This article does not repeat them, so they cannot go out of date here. Our examples page shows finished editions you can open and read before you decide.

How an order works

For one-off products, such as a book, a report or a poster, the whole order happens inside Telegram:

1. Open a product and press Order.
2. Fill in the birth details: a name where the book needs one, the date, the time and the place of birth. For a couple book, you fill in both people. On the poster you also choose the colourway.
3. Enter your email address and tick the box that accepts the terms.
4. Press Pay. The pay page of Lunonis opens in the same window, and you pay there by card or in crypto. The pay page shows which options it offers.
5. The PDF is made, and it arrives in your Lunonis account and by email.

The price is on the Pay button, so you see the total before you press it. If something goes wrong, the form shows a message and you can try again with your details still in place.

The address is needed because the PDF is sent to it, and because it lets you open the order in your account later. The details are checked and priced by the same service as on the website, so an order from Telegram and an order from the site are treated alike.

What still opens on the website

A few things need more room or more steps than a Mini App is good for, so the shop sends you to lunonis.com for them. Telegram opens the page for you.

• Subscriptions, including the monthly forecast subscription.
• The plans, which you can compare on the plans page.
• Gifts and gift vouchers.
• The family book, which takes up to six people.

Nothing you do there is lost: the site is the same shop with the same catalogue.

No birth time?

Many people do not know the hour they were born, and the form allows for it. Tick “I don’t know the time” and the chart is drawn without the houses and the Rising sign. Our guide to a chart without a birth time lists what stays readable: the Sun sign, the planets in their signs, most aspects and, on most days, the Moon sign.

Anything built on the Ascendant and the houses cannot be drawn from a date alone, so those parts are left out. The Destiny Matrix book works differently: it is made from the birth date alone and asks for no time or place. If you would rather find the time first, the same guide explains where to look for it.

If you are not sure what a chart without a time looks like, try the free birth chart calculator first. Leave the time empty and it draws the planets for noon and leaves the houses out, which shows you what you would be working with before you order anything.

Before you order: a short checklist

• Have the birth date, time and place to hand, for each person the product is for.
• Check the spelling of your email address. The PDF goes there.
• For a poster, decide on the colourway first. You choose it in the form.
• Look at an example edition if you are unsure which product fits your question.

Who it suits, and who it does not

The Telegram shop suits you if you already have Telegram open, you know what you want and you would like to order in a few taps. It is also a quick way to send a friend to a product: share the link, and they land on the shop in their own language.

If you want to compare products at length, read finished examples or set up a subscription, the website is more comfortable. The catalogue is the same, so you can start in one place and finish in the other.