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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.

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One of you processes out loud and one of you feels it first and says it much later.

How it actually goes

Air beside water, mutable beside cardinal. Gemini talks a thing through to find out what it thinks. Cancer already knows how it feels and is deciding whether to say. The two of you are doing the same work in opposite orders and it causes an enormous amount of avoidable trouble.

What works is that Gemini is genuinely curious about people and Cancer genuinely wants to be asked. What fails is that Gemini's lightness lands on Cancer as not caring, and Cancer's silence lands on Gemini as being shut out. Both readings are wrong and both are made constantly, usually within an hour of the actual event.

What each of you brings

Gemini brings the words and the lightness. Cancer can sit in a mood for three days and you are the one who can get them out of it without making it a serious conversation.

Cancer brings the weight underneath the talk. You notice what Gemini is actually upset about while Gemini is still being entertaining about something else.

The argument you will have

Gemini makes a joke at the wrong moment and Cancer goes under. Then Gemini explains, at length, which makes it worse, because explaining is not the thing being asked for. The repair is four words long and neither of you reaches for it: that was unkind, sorry.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Gemini needs to learn that Cancer is not asking for a solution or a reframe. Being sat with is the whole request. And Cancer needs to say the thing within a day, because Gemini has genuinely moved on and is not withholding anything.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. Air and Water. One of you explains the feeling and the other simply has it, and you will each suspect the other of doing the easier half.

Sun in Gemini about 20 May to 20 June, in Cancer about 20 June to 22 July. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts settles a border case, because it uses both birth moments rather than both labels. Gemini and Cancer have their own pages.