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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.

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.

One of you is interested in everything and one of you is interested in what it amounts to.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, air against earth, mutable against cardinal. Gemini is movement and Capricorn is consequence, and neither of you naturally values what the other is for.

What makes it function is that each of you is useless at the other's job. Capricorn cannot generate possibilities and Gemini cannot see a thing through, and when the two of you cooperate rather than compete the results are considerably better than either alone.

It fails on seriousness. Capricorn decides Gemini is not to be relied on, usually early, and after that every late reply confirms it. Gemini decides Capricorn is joyless, and after that every reasonable objection confirms that.

What each of you brings

Gemini brings the alternative Capricorn had not considered, usually at the point where Capricorn had decided there was only one route.

Capricorn brings the follow-through. Gemini's third-best idea is worth more realised than the best one described, and you are the only one here who will realise it.

The argument you will have

Capricorn calls Gemini unreliable and Gemini calls Capricorn rigid, and both of those are intended to close the subject. They do. Nothing after that exchange goes anywhere for about a week.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Gemini commits to a small number of things and keeps them exactly, and Capricorn stops counting the rest. Reliability in a few places buys Gemini all the freedom they want everywhere else, and no other currency works on a Capricorn.

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. Earth and Air. One of you wants the idea and the other wants the thing built, and the gap between those two is where most of your conversations quietly live.

Sun in Gemini about 20 May to 20 June, in Capricorn about 21 December to 19 January. 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. Gemini and Capricorn have their own pages.