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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 takes up the room and one of you takes on the room, and neither of you notices doing it.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, fire against water, fixed against mutable, the Sun against Neptune. Leo is a definite shape and Pisces is not, and this pairing has almost nothing structural holding it together.

It works on kindness. Both of these signs are generous, and Pisces gives Leo something no audience can: attention that does not have to be earned. Leo gives Pisces an edge to stand against, which Pisces needs and will never request.

What goes wrong is one-sided and quiet. Pisces accommodates, Leo expands into the space, and after a few years there is one person's life in this house and a very supportive person living in it. Neither of you decided on that.

What each of you brings

Leo brings definition. Pisces disperses, and you are the one who says this is the thing we are doing, which is more welcome than it sounds.

Pisces brings the unconditional bit. Leo is used to being admired for performing and you are the one who is not impressed and stays anyway, which is the thing a Leo actually wants.

The argument you will have

Leo gets loud and Pisces disappears, which Leo experiences as being abandoned mid-sentence and Pisces experiences as self-preservation. Nobody gets to the point. Both of you are hurt and neither can describe by what.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Leo asks what Pisces wants and then waits through the silence for a real answer rather than filling it. Pisces says one thing a week that is purely their own. The imbalance here is not malice, it is the path of least resistance, and it only turns around on purpose.

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 Leo about 22 July to 22 August, in Pisces about 18 February to 20 March. 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. Leo and Pisces have their own pages.