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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.

  • Real sky positions
  • Built from your answers
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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.

Ask a question, draw a card, then ask the next one. The thread remembers what you have already turned over.

How a reading actually goes

A real reading is not one spread handed over in silence. It is a conversation: you ask, something turns up, and what turns up changes the question you want to ask next. Almost every tarot site online gives you one spread and a button to start again, which is the one shape a reading never takes.

This keeps the thread. You ask, a card comes, and when you ask again the next card is drawn knowing which cards have already been used and what you asked before it. No card repeats inside a session, because a reading where the same card keeps arriving is not a reading.

What the movement between cards means

Underneath the twenty two major arcana there are about seven demands: begin, say it, take it, let go, choose, wait, look. The interesting part of a multi card reading is rarely the second card on its own. It is the move from the first demand to the second.

Going from being asked to wait to being asked to begin is a different reading from the reverse, and this names the move rather than leaving you to notice it.

What it will not do

It will not tell you what you want to hear, and it will not keep drawing until something nice comes up.

If you ask it something that needs a doctor, a lawyer or somebody who loves you, it says so and stops rather than handing you a card. That is deliberate. A tarot card is not an answer to a question about your health, your safety or your case, and a site that pretends otherwise is doing real damage for the sake of one more page view.

Questions

How many questions can I ask?
As many as the deck allows. Cards do not repeat inside a session, so the reading ends when the major arcana does.
Does it remember what I asked before?
Within the session, yes. The draw depends on the whole thread, so the same opening question followed by a different second question gives you a different second card.
Do I need to phrase the question in a special way?
No. Open questions tend to produce more useful readings than yes or no ones, but there is a separate reading for yes or no if that is what you want.
Is anything I type stored?
No. The questions stay in your browser and are not sent to a server.

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