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Astrology, tarot, palm readings and portraits worked out from where the planets actually are and what you actually answer, not from a paragraph written last month for everybody who shares your star sign.

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Dream Reading

Tell it what you dreamt, then choose whose tradition reads it: Thai, Chinese, Islamic or Hindu. Four of the oldest systems for reading a dream, and four different answers to the same night.

How it works

A reading of your own in four steps, and most of them are one answer.

1. ChoosePick a reading. Ten of them run all the way through for nothing.
2. Add detailsA birth date, a question, or a photograph of your hand. Never an account.
3. Get your readingComputed in this page, in a few seconds, from the real sky.
4. Come backThe sky moves. Most of these say something different tomorrow.

Real insights, for a more meaningful you

Ancient wisdom for modern life.

HalfKnown works the old methods properly: the actual positions of the planets at the minute you were born, the cards you actually drew, the creases actually on your hand. Nothing is a prediction, and every page says so.

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Find out what today actually says.

Your horoscope for today, worked out from where the planets are this minute. Free, no account, about a minute.

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One of you thinks about the whole of humanity and one of you feels the person in front of you, and you will both accuse the other of missing it.

How it actually goes

Air beside water, fixed beside mutable. Aquarius holds a principle and Pisces holds whoever is in the room, and the border between those is where this relationship happens. It is the gentlest neighbouring pair and the vaguest.

There is genuine kindness in both of you and neither finds the other's difference offensive, which is more than most pairings manage. What is missing is anybody holding a line. Aquarius detaches, Pisces dissolves, and nothing gets confronted. This relationship does not end in a row. It ends with both people being lovely about it.

What each of you brings

Aquarius brings the steady frame. Pisces can be pulled in any direction by whoever is upset, and you are the one who does not move with the weather.

Pisces brings the particular person back into view. Aquarius can care enormously about everybody in general, and you are the reminder that the one in the kitchen also counts.

The argument you will have

There is hardly one, and that is the issue. Aquarius goes abstract, Pisces goes quiet, and the actual subject never gets named. Both of you are so reluctant to impose that nothing is ever asked for directly.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, practise asking plainly. Not hinting, not framing it as a general observation. One direct request each, this week. It will feel rude to both of you and it is the only thing this pairing is short of.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. Air and Water. One of you explains the feeling and the other simply has it, and you will each suspect the other of doing the easier half.

Sun in Aquarius about 19 January to 18 February, in Pisces about 18 February to 20 March. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts settles a border case, because it uses both birth moments rather than both labels. Aquarius and Pisces have their own pages.