As surely a luxury gift as it is reasonably priced, this personalized fine art book is a handcrafted masterpiece. The making of each birthday gift book begins with the recipient's specific birth information (time, date, city, state or province—for any birthplace in the world), from which his or her very own personal horoscope chart is then cast and fully interpreted. This complete and highly individualized interpretation is then composed, color-formatted, edited and woven through an introduction to mythology, astronomy and astrology.  The resultant 342, 8½"x11" pages of each luxury gift book are then pressed and bound within black suede covers on the face of which is laminated the highest-quality photograph of either the Sombrero or Whirlpool Galaxies, and over which the receiver's full name is printed in gold. (The super-deluxe cover version pictured above showcases a magnificent 19"x11½" high-resolution wrap-around photograph of the Sombrero galaxy!) Handmade by the author from start to finish, your luxury gift couldn't be more personalized.  This is truly the most personal luxury gift you can buy: for yourself, a loved one or a friend.

You and the Universe is a personalized, fine art astrology book that pictorially introduces mythology, astronomy, and astrology, and through which each recipient's complete astrology reading is woven. The book opens with a poetic and personal introduction by the author, Carl Woebcke (astrophysicist, published poet, 40-year professional astrologer and Harvard/Caltech educator, formerly on the faculties of six universities). The ten planets are then presented from four viewpoints: astronomy, astrology, mythology, and your own—the latter through interpretations of the meaning of each planetary god by its sign position and weighted aspects to the other god-planets in your birth horoscope.

The place of the Earth in this planetary sequence is occupied by a short but very readable history of astronomy and astrology: from Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, through Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo, and ending with Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. This is followed by the extension of the solar system into the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud, interstellar and intergalactic space, with a grand finale of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photograph back to the end of the universe and to the beginning of time.

The next section of your luxury gift book introduces the 12 astrological houses from astronomical and astrological points of view. The author uses his unique, three-dimensional models to elegantly elucidate this otherwise elusive topic. Following this introduction, each of the twelve houses is briefly and simply presented from an astronomical and astrological perspective, followed by how this relates to you personally: from your own horoscope chart, every sign on each of the twelve house cusps and every planet in its house is fully and clearly interpreted for you.

The luxury gift book ends with interpretations of the north and south nodes of the Moon by sign and house position, the closing quatrains of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, two expository appendices, and a complete glossary of all the special terms used in the book. It is then laid out, printed, hand-bound, covered, laminated, and priority mailed to you by the author himself. A superb and truly personalized luxury gift, the wisdom within it will reveal the recipient to her or himself for the rest of their lives.