Our Story
Astrocal began in 2004 in a tiny flat in Hove. The first Moon Calendar was conceived and designed during the time Tina was supposed to be writing her final dissertation for an MA in Digital Media – a fine distraction to put off starting to write! We had both become bored of having the same Moon Calendar on our wall year after year and were looking for something different. We couldn’t find what we were looking for and so the design process began… We wanted to move away from the linear design to show the circularity of the solar and lunar cycles as well as to make it more astrological. After completing the design of our new Moon Calendar, we uploaded it to a webpage and to our delight we had fantastic feedback and lots of sales!
Since then, each year we’ve designed new products, slowly but surely creating a whole range. As the collection has grown so has the business side. We ended up living with boxes of stock and packaging in every room until we completely out grew our flat.
We have been overwhelmed with how popular our diaries and calendars have become and have had interest and praise for their design from all over the world from Brazil to Japan to Australia. It is an extremely satisfying experience to have such a good response for products that we’ve designed ourselves.
We feel very proud of all of the products we produce, particularly our Astro Moon Diary as it brings together art, photography and creative writing from many of our talented friends. How blessed we are to have such inspiring people around us! We also really appreciate the support and endorsement that Jonathan Cainer gave us from the outset as this helped immensely. We were very sad at his passing – he will forever be a part of Astrocal’s history….
Even though we don’t class ourselves as astrologers, astrology is a way of life for us and has been for many years. We’ve run the Astrology Area at Glastonbury Festival every year for nearly 25 years now and we have huge respect and appreciation for the deep insight astrology has given us along our journey through life.
We’re very fortunate to have formed a strong working relationship with Blackmore Printers in Dorset. Blackmore have been extremely professional and supportive in our expansion. We feel very strongly that it’s important to keep our printing local. We now often sell out before the end of the year so we’re increasing our print runs to try to avoid disappointing customers. We have recently moved the printing of our US products over to the USA with a company called Acutrack who also send out our orders for us to various places including Amazon.
We now live in Dorset by the sea with our Cairn Terrier who takes us out walking every day, up the hills and along the beaches. We love to experience the turning of the seasons with the change in light, temperature and colour. Nature is our inspiration and we hope to inspire you with our creativity.
We would like to thank our customers for all of their lovely feedback. Appreciation makes it all worthwhile!
May the Sun, the Moon and the planets guide you on your way.
Tina & Ceri
