The book from the Stars by Dolores channel

Dolores' Book of Lucky Homes

The twelve signs, the rooms of the house, and Mama's old rules — with the sense in every one.

“The letters people sent me were hardly ever about next Tuesday. They were about home. Most of my answers were too long for twelve paragraphs, so they went into a shoebox. This is the shoebox.”— Dolores

356 illustrated pages
All 12 signs
Every room of the house
A recipe for every month

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356pages, in color

12signs, 15–16 pages each

10rooms of the house

12months of Mama's year

30days to change your mind

What's inside

A whole house of old customs, room by room

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Not a horoscope for next week. A book you keep in the kitchen drawer — what the old astrologers wrote about each sign, what the old houses did, and the plain good sense hiding inside every custom.

Gold zodiac wheel over a cozy reading chair

Part One · page 27

The Twelve Signs

Fifteen pages for every sign: the character in the old astrologers' own words, the home, the bedroom and the kitchen that suit it — with a real recipe — the front door, who it gets along with, Mama's rules and its lucky days.

An old-fashioned front hall with a broom and an open door at sunset

Part Two · page 219

A Lucky House, Room by Room

The threshold, the kitchen, the table, the bedroom, the laundry, the porch and the garden — about two hundred customs, each with where it comes from and why it made sense.

A snowy January kitchen with a pot on the stove

Part Three · page 268

Mama's Year

Twelve months of the old calendar: what Mama did in the house each month, the sky that month, and one recipe for the season.

A windowsill with bread dough and seedlings under a new moon

Part Four · page 318

The Moon

Its four faces, the Moon through the signs, the full-moon names of the year, and gardening by the Moon the way the old almanacs taught it — with planting times by U.S. garden zone.

Part One

Find your sign — and everybody else's

Every sign gets the same fifteen-page chapter, so you can look up your husband, your daughter-in-law and the neighbor who never returns the casserole dish. Born on the edge of two signs? Each chapter has a table of the exact change-over dates for every year from 1940 to 2030, worked out from NASA's own planet tables.

AriesMar 21 – Apr 19

TaurusApr 20 – May 20

GeminiMay 21 – Jun 20

CancerJun 21 – Jul 22

LeoJul 23 – Aug 22

VirgoAug 23 – Sep 22

LibraSep 23 – Oct 22

ScorpioOct 23 – Nov 21

SagittariusNov 22 – Dec 21

CapricornDec 22 – Jan 19

AquariusJan 20 – Feb 18

PiscesFeb 19 – Mar 20

From inside the book

Turn a few pages

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Page 5: A letter from Dolores — Page 5 · A letter from Dolores

Page 27: Aries opens Part One — Page 27 · Aries opens Part One

Page 36: A family recipe in every sign — Page 36 · A family recipe in every sign

Page 38: Aries and everybody else — Page 38 · Aries and everybody else

Page 40: Each sign on one page — Page 40 · Each sign on one page

Page 219: The threshold and the front door — Page 219 · The threshold and the front door

Page 268: January in Mama's year — Page 268 · January in Mama's year

Page 324: Gardening by the Moon — Page 324 · Gardening by the Moon

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In every sign chapter

What you'll find each time

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The sign at a glance: its element, planet, color, stone and metal
Its character, quoted word for word from Ptolemy, Alan Leo and Evangeline Adams
The home, the bedroom and the kitchen that suit it
A real family recipe, written out in full
The front door: what goes beside it and what never does
How it gets along with all twelve signs, in one table
Mama's rules for that sign, from the old Sicilian house
Its lucky days, and “do it today” in ten minutes
The questions readers ask most, answered
The whole sign on one page, to tear out and stick on the fridge

Dolores at her kitchen table in Youngstown, next to the typewriter

At the kitchen table, next to the typewriter that wrote the column.

Why it got written down

Dear friend, pour yourself a cup of coffee first

For twenty-six years I wrote the horoscope column in our little newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio — twelve short paragraphs a week, squeezed between the bridge column and the crossword.

I learned the stars at a kitchen table on the north side of town. Mama was born in a village near Palermo and ran our house by rules. A dropped dish towel meant company was coming, so you swept the porch. Nobody put new shoes on the table, ever. Every one of us knew our sign by the time we could spell it.

Frank, my husband — a Taurus who likes his chair right where it is — finally said, Dolores, either write the book or buy a bigger closet. So here it is: everything that wouldn't fit in twelve paragraphs.

— Dolores

Honest about it

Who it's for

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It's for you if…

you read your horoscope with your morning coffee and smile
you grew up with a grandmother's “never do that in the house” and want to know where it came from
you'd like a gift for a daughter, a sister or a friend who loves the stars
you like a recipe, a garden calendar and a good story in the same book

It's not for you if…

you want a personal chart reading — this book teaches you to read your own, it doesn't do it for you
you want predictions about money, health or love — there are none, on purpose
you want a printed hardcover — this is a PDF (you can print it at home)
you want serious astronomy — this is tradition and fun

Questions

Before you buy

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What exactly do I get?

One PDF of 356 pages in full color, about 24 MB. It opens on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and prints well at home on letter paper.

How do I get it?

Right after you pay, you land on a download page with your book. Bookmark it — the link keeps working. Stripe also emails you a receipt. If anything goes wrong, write to hello@starsbydolores.com and we'll send it.

I'm not good with computers. Will I manage?

On an iPhone or iPad, tap the download link and choose “Open in Books” — it stays there for good. On a computer it opens like any document. The book also walks you through finding your own chart online, one click at a time.

Is there a subscription?

No. You pay $37 once, and the book is yours.

What if I don't like it?

Write to us within 30 days and you get your money back. No forms, no questions.

Does it promise me luck?

No, and it never will. It's a book of tradition and fun: what the old astrologers wrote, what the old houses did, and the sense behind each custom. Nothing in it is advice about health, money or the law.

Is Dolores a real person?

Dolores is the storytelling character of the Stars by Dolores channel, and the pictures in the book were made with the help of AI. What she tells you is real: every custom, quotation and date in the book comes from old books and records listed at the back, chapter by chapter.

How do I pay?

Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, on a secure Stripe checkout. We never see your card number.

Keep it in the kitchen drawer