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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.

Two people who both want to avoid the unpleasant thing, now living together.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, air against water, cardinal against mutable, Venus against Neptune. Both of you are gentle, neither escalates, and the atmosphere in this house is genuinely lovely. Everybody says so.

Neither of you confronts. Libra keeps it fair, Pisces keeps it soft, and whatever is wrong simply remains wrong while both of you are kind about it. This is the most conflict-avoidant pairing on the wheel and that is its entire weakness.

It works where there is a practical structure imposed from outside: shared work, children, a mortgage, something with deadlines. Left to itself it drifts, pleasantly, for years, and then one of you is quietly very unhappy and the other is genuinely shocked.

What each of you brings

Libra brings the shape and the fairness. Pisces loses their own edges and you are the one who keeps track of what is reasonable to expect.

Pisces brings the depth under the courtesy. Libra can be pleasant to everybody and close to nobody, and you are the one who gets past it.

The argument you will have

There barely is one, which is not the same as peace. Both of you retreat into being accommodating and neither says the plain thing. The resentment is real and it has nowhere to go, so it comes out as tiredness rather than as words.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, institute a complaint. One each, weekly, out loud, however small and however awkward. It sounds absurd and it is the only reliable mechanism this pairing has, because neither of you will ever raise anything spontaneously.

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 Libra about 22 September to 22 October, 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. Libra and Pisces have their own pages.