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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 says everything lightly and one of you says almost nothing, and neither trusts the other's method.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, air against water, mutable against fixed. Gemini handles things by talking round them and Scorpio handles things by going straight to the bottom and not reporting back. There is no natural bridge here at all.

The fascination is real: Scorpio cannot work Gemini out, which almost never happens, and Gemini cannot get a reaction from Scorpio, which also almost never happens. That keeps both of you interested well past the point where the practical differences should have ended it.

It works if Gemini stops treating depth as heaviness and Scorpio stops treating lightness as evasion. Both of those are judgements made in the first month and held for years.

What each of you brings

Gemini brings air into something that would otherwise have no outlet. You can make Scorpio laugh at the thing they have been carrying, and very few people can.

Scorpio brings the bottom of it. Gemini skates and you are the one who asks the question that cannot be answered with a clever sentence.

The argument you will have

Gemini talks and Scorpio watches, and Gemini mistakes the silence for agreement. It is not. It is being recorded. When Scorpio finally responds it is complete, exact and from a long way back, and Gemini has no idea where any of it came from.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Scorpio has to interrupt rather than collect, and Gemini has to stop filling silence. Both are habits of defence rather than character, and in this pairing they feed each other precisely.

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. 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 Scorpio about 22 October to 21 November. 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 Scorpio have their own pages.