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
No account needed
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.
Why this one is different
Three things you can check before you believe a word of it.
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.
Every reading
Was that any good?
One line, if you have one. It may end up on the front page.
No address, nothing that identifies you.
How it works
Someone sent you this. It is free and it takes about a minute.
Astrology, computed rather than looked up
For entertainment
A couple of details.
Which one are you?
Your Sun sign, the one everybody means. If your birthday is on the edge of two, pick the one you were told.
Which two signs?
No birth time needed for this one. If you know the exact moment for both of you, the full synastry reading is far more specific.
The moment, as exactly as you have it.
Filled in from your last reading. Change anything if this one is for somebody else.
Date of birth
MonthDayYear
An hour out can move the Rising sign. Midday is a fine guess.
And where.
Filled in from the date and the city, daylight saving included. Change it if you know better.
Now theirs.
Your hand is measured. The reading is the distance between it and somebody else's, which means we need one more hand.
Want tomorrow's card?
A card a day, read for your sign. Follow and it turns up in your feed tomorrow morning.
Your reading is already saved on this device, under Saved in the corner.
By continuing you accept the and the . Every reading on this site is for entertainment.
Before you hold your hand up
Thirty seconds of setup makes the difference between a reading and a guess.
Use the hand you write with. Hold it flat and relaxed with the fingers slightly apart, square to the camera, with the light in front of you rather than behind.
The photo is measured on this phone and never sent anywhere.
This needs the camera.
On a phone this opens your camera. Nothing is uploaded either way.
Would you rather show us than describe yourself?
Take one photo. Your phone measures it and throws it away.
Only a few words travel, the same kind the questions produce. The photo itself never
leaves this device.
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Your readings
Judge the sheet, not the individual portraits. If they look like they came from different artists, the style lock needs work.
Nothing yet. Readings you open are listed here.
Every reading here is worked out from where the sky actually was at the minute and the place you were born. Nothing is looked up in a table of date ranges.
Every astrology reading on this site
Your Birth ChartpaidEvery placement, house and aspect, not just the big three.
Your Night SkyfreeThe real sky over your birthplace, the minute you were born.
Your Year AheadfreeYour animal against this year's animal, free.
Your AnimalfreeThe sign of the year you were actually born into.
Your NumberspaidLife path and expression, worked from your birth date and name.
Their InitialspaidTwo letters that will start turning up.
What that means in practice
A sun sign comes from the date alone, because the Sun takes about a month to cross a sign. Everything else moves faster. The Moon crosses a sign in two and a half days and the Ascendant in about two hours, which is why two people born on the same day in the same city can have almost nothing in common on paper.
So these readings ask for a time and a place, and the ones that genuinely cannot be done without a time say so and stop rather than handing you a midday guess in a confident voice. The arithmetic runs in your browser using the same astronomical model that produces an ephemeris.
Where the daylight saving goes
The offset for your birthplace is worked out for the date you give, not for today. Portugal ran on Central European time from 1992 to 1996. Kyiv was on Moscow summer time in 1990. An hour in the wrong direction moves the Ascendant about fifteen degrees, and two hours moves it a whole sign, so this is the detail that decides whether a rising sign is yours or somebody else's.
What it will not do
None of it is a prediction. There is no reading here that tells you what will happen, who you will marry or when you will die, and the ones that deal in dates say plainly that a date is when a planet reaches a point in your chart and nothing more. It is written for entertainment and it says so on every page.
