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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.

Two people who feel everything and will both put the other first until nobody is left looking after anything.

How it actually goes

Water and water, Moon and Neptune. This is the gentlest trine on the wheel. Neither of you is harsh, both of you forgive, and the intuitive understanding between you needs no maintenance at all. People around you notice how kind it is.

The missing piece is structure. Cancer looks after and Pisces absorbs, and neither of you is holding the hard edges: the money, the plan, the difficult conversation with the other person's family. It does not go wrong through unkindness. It goes wrong through two people being so careful with each other that nothing real is ever decided.

What each of you brings

Cancer brings the practical care. You are the one who actually does something about it, and in a pairing with a Pisces that matters more than it would anywhere else.

Pisces brings the absence of judgement. Cancer can be hard on itself in a way nobody sees, and you are the one who simply does not add to it.

The argument you will have

Both of you withdraw and both of you read the withdrawal as rejection, so a small thing can become three days of weather with nobody having said a word. Neither of you is angry. Both of you are waiting.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, appoint somebody to the unpleasant jobs, in writing. The complaint, the bill, the conversation nobody wants. Two water signs will both quietly hope the other does it, and the thing that erodes this pairing is not conflict, it is the pile.

What the two charts actually say

A hundred and twenty degrees, a trine. Same element, smoothest angle there is, and it asks nothing of either of you. One Cardinal, one Mutable. One of you decides and the other goes along, and it works right up until the one going along quietly stops.

Sun in Cancer about 20 June to 22 July, in Pisces about 18 February to 20 March. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts is where an easy pairing gets interesting. Cancer and Pisces have their own pages.