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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.

One of you wants to come home and one of you wants to go further, and neither of you is being difficult about it.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, water against fire, cardinal against mutable. Cancer builds in and Sagittarius goes out, and this is the pairing where two entirely good-natured people keep hurting each other by accident.

Sagittarius is honest and Cancer is sensitive, and that combination produces casualties. Nothing Sagittarius says is meant to wound and a good deal of it does, and Sagittarius finds the reaction baffling rather than unreasonable, which is its own kind of insult.

What works is that Cancer gives Sagittarius a place that does not require performance, and Sagittarius gives Cancer the evidence that the world is not as dangerous as it feels. Both of those are genuinely valuable and neither is noticed by the person receiving it.

What each of you brings

Cancer brings the home. Sagittarius has usually never had one that stayed put, and will not mention how much it matters until it is threatened.

Sagittarius brings the door open. Cancer's instinct is to withdraw at the first sign of trouble, and you are the one who makes going out again look possible.

The argument you will have

Sagittarius says the blunt accurate thing, Cancer is wounded, and Sagittarius then argues that it was true rather than acknowledging that it hurt. Both of those are separate facts. The argument is about which one gets dealt with first.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Sagittarius learns to say sorry for the landing rather than defending the content. It costs nothing and it is not a concession about who was right. Cancer learns to say that stung rather than going under for two days.

What the two charts actually say

A hundred and fifty degrees, the quincunx. No element in common, no mode in common, no natural bridge at all. Fire and Water, and the old books are blunt about this one: steam or nothing. You either change each other or you spend years carefully not touching.

Sun in Cancer about 20 June to 22 July, in Sagittarius about 21 November to 21 December. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts is the reading for this one: with nothing shared on the Sun, it is all in the rest. Cancer and Sagittarius have their own pages.