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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.

Start your journey

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.

Open beta. Every reading is free while the site is new, including the ones that will be paid later. Nothing here asks for a card.

One of you moves before thinking and one of you feels everything about it afterwards.

How it actually goes

Aries acts and Cancer absorbs, and at ninety degrees those two do not naturally meet. Aries will say the sharp thing and have forgotten it by evening. Cancer will have it for a fortnight. Neither of you is being unreasonable and both of you keep being surprised by the other's reaction.

The reason it holds is that each of you supplies the thing the other has no access to. Cancer gives Aries somewhere to come back to, which Aries pretends not to need and absolutely does. Aries gives Cancer a reason to leave the house and a demonstration that not every risk ends badly. It fails when Aries starts calling Cancer oversensitive and Cancer starts managing Aries instead of talking to them.

What each of you brings

Aries brings the push. Nothing stalls, nothing gets endlessly considered, and for somebody who feels their way into a decision over weeks that is occasionally exactly what is needed.

Cancer brings the home and the memory. You notice what Aries did not notice they needed, and you keep the relationship stitched together on the days nobody is trying.

The argument you will have

Aries raises their voice and Cancer goes quiet, and from there it stops being about the subject within a minute. Aries thinks it is finished because the shouting stopped. Cancer thinks it is unresolved because nothing was said about how it felt. Both are right about their own half.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Aries needs to learn that tone is content. It is not an unfair standard, it is just a different unit of measurement. And Cancer needs to say the hurt on the day rather than storing it: Aries genuinely does not know, and will deal with it immediately when told.

What the two charts actually say

Ninety degrees, a square. This is the angle that rubs, and it rubs permanently. Fire and Water, and the old books are blunt about this one: steam or nothing. You either change each other or you spend years carefully not touching.

Sun in Aries about 20 March to 19 April, in Cancer about 20 June to 22 July. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts finds where the two charts actually touch. Aries and Cancer have their own pages.