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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 acts and one of you talks, and both of you are halfway to the next thing already.

How it actually goes

Fire and air, two signs apart. Gemini gives Aries something to do and Aries gives Gemini a reason to stop talking about it. This is a lively, unserious pairing that a lot of people underestimate, including the two of you.

The sextile asks to be used. Nothing here happens automatically: you can both enjoy this enormously and never build anything out of it, because neither of you is the one who turns a good time into a commitment. Both of you can also hold a conversation for years without ever saying anything that costs you something.

What each of you brings

Aries brings the decision. Gemini can hold six options open indefinitely, and you are the one who picks, which is a relief more often than it is an imposition.

Gemini brings the second thought. Aries acts first, and you are the one who finds the angle that makes the action less expensive.

The argument you will have

Quick and verbal, and Gemini usually wins on points while Aries wins on will. Neither of you holds it. The thing to watch is that Gemini can talk Aries out of a position Aries was right about, and Aries can bulldoze a point Gemini had thought through properly.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, make something. A trip, a project, a thing with a date on it. The sextile gives you the ease and gives you nothing else, and a pairing that is only ever easy will stay pleasant and stay shallow. The other thing worth naming is that neither of you is the one who notices the relationship needs attention. Put a recurring reminder in a phone if that is what it takes, because sincerity is not the problem here and memory is.

What the two charts actually say

Sixty degrees, the sextile. The helpful angle: it works if used and does nothing if not. Fire and Air, which is the easiest mix there is and the one most likely to burn through its own fuel. Air feeds Fire. That is a compliment and a warning in the same sentence.

Sun in Aries about 20 March to 19 April, in Gemini about 20 May to 20 June. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts says whether the effort would be worth making. Aries and Gemini have their own pages.