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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.

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 wants to be admired and the other wants it done properly, and you are both quietly judging.

How it actually goes

Fire beside earth, fixed beside mutable. Leo arrives with the vision and Virgo notices the three things wrong with it, and that exchange can either be the most productive partnership either of you has had or a slow erosion of a perfectly good person.

The good version is simple: Virgo makes Leo better and Leo makes Virgo matter. Virgo does the work nobody sees and Leo makes sure everybody knows it was done, which is the one thing a Virgo wants and will never request. The bad version is Virgo correcting in public and Leo performing instead of listening, and both of those start small.

What each of you brings

Leo brings the belief. Virgo will undersell themselves indefinitely and you are the one who refuses to let that stand, loudly, in front of other people.

Virgo brings the standard. Leo's instincts are good and the execution is often approximate, and you are the reason the thing actually holds up.

The argument you will have

Virgo criticises and Leo takes it as a verdict on the whole person, because for Leo it is. Then Leo gets grand and Virgo gets precise, and the room becomes very unpleasant. Virgo: say what works first, always. It is not flattery, it is accuracy, and it changes everything that follows.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Leo has to stop treating correction as rejection and Virgo has to stop saving up a list. Both of those are habits rather than traits, and this pairing improves faster than most when the two of you decide to.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. Fire and Earth. One of you supplies the heat and the other supplies the ground it burns on, and each of you privately thinks the other needs more of what they have.

Sun in Leo about 22 July to 22 August, in Virgo about 22 August to 22 September. Both edges move with the year.

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