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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.

Four cards: what still holds, what you will not say, what is moving, and what is on the other side.

Why it asks who ended it

Being left and leaving produce completely different recoveries, and a reading that treats them the same is not reading anything.

If you were left, the work is usually about the story you have been told about yourself. If you left, it is usually about guilt and the quiet suspicion that you were wrong. The reading asks first because the four cards mean different things depending on the answer.

Why it asks how long it has been

Three weeks and three years are not the same question. Early on, almost everything is weather and the only honest advice is that it passes. Later, if it has not passed, the question becomes what is being held onto and why.

The reading adjusts rather than offering the same four paragraphs to somebody in the first fortnight and somebody in the third year.

The four positions

What still holds is the attachment that has not let go, whatever you have told people. What you will not say is the sentence you have not said out loud, sometimes not even to yourself. What moves is the thing that is actually changing while you are not watching. What is on the other side is not a promise about a new person, and this is careful not to make one.

Grief that is being hurried is grief that comes back. If the reading tells you it is too early for the fourth card to mean much, that is the reading, not a failure of it.

Questions

Will it tell me if they are coming back?
No. Any reading that answers that is making it up, and answering it would keep you waiting, which is the opposite of what this is for.
Is it different if I was the one who left?
Yes. The first question changes the reading, which is why it is asked before anything is drawn.
What if it has been years?
Then the reading is about what is being held rather than about recovery, and it will say so. That is worth knowing rather than being told to give it time.
Is this a substitute for talking to somebody?
No. If this is sitting on you in a way that is not shifting, a person is worth more than any four cards, and that is worth saying plainly.

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