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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.

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.

Where you came from, against what you are supposed to become. Most of this relationship happens on that line.

How it actually goes

Cancer builds a home and judges a life by whether the people in it are alright. Capricorn builds a position and judges a life by whether it holds up. Those two are not opposed as often as they are offered separately, and this pairing works because each of you is quietly carrying the half the other dropped.

The unglamorous truth is that this is one of the most durable pairings there is. It does not look exciting from outside and neither of you much minds. What hurts it is the silence: Capricorn working late and calling it providing, Cancer absorbing everything and calling it fine. Neither is lying. Both are avoiding the same conversation.

What each of you brings

Cancer brings the part everybody else forgets to build. You notice when somebody is not alright days before they say it, and in a house with a Capricorn in it that noticing is the whole emotional infrastructure.

Capricorn brings the thing that holds. You will carry more than you mention, you will be there in ten years, and you are far better at showing love through arrangement than you have ever been given credit for.

The argument you will have

It arrives as a row about time and it is really about proof. Cancer wants to be chosen out loud. Capricorn thinks the mortgage says it. Both of you need to hear it in the other's language once, deliberately, and neither of you will do it without being asked. So ask.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, the risk is not a row. It is the two of you running parallel for years, both working, both fine, nobody saying anything. Cancer will absorb it and Capricorn will not notice it has been absorbed. Book the conversation like you would book anything else, because neither of you will have it by accident, and both of you are better at keeping a commitment than starting one.

What the two charts actually say

Directly across the wheel, a hundred and eighty degrees. Each of you carries the half the other left behind. Earth and Water, which is the combination that actually grows things. The ground holds and the feeling moves through it, and this is the most underrated mix on the wheel.

Sun in Cancer about 20 June to 22 July, in Capricorn about 21 December to 19 January. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts reads both charts against each other, the only honest way to look at an opposition. Cancer and Capricorn have their own pages.