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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 keeps things pleasant and one of you wants to know what is actually going on.

How it actually goes

Air beside water, cardinal beside fixed. Libra smooths and Scorpio digs, and the border between those two is where this relationship lives. Scorpio finds Libra's diplomacy evasive. Libra finds Scorpio's intensity unnecessary. Both of you are describing the other accurately and unkindly.

When it works, Scorpio gives Libra permission to have a real opinion and Libra gives Scorpio a way of being in the world that does not cost so much. That exchange is genuinely transformative for both of you. When it fails, Scorpio interrogates and Libra placates, and the two of you end up in a dynamic where neither has ever said a plain sentence.

What each of you brings

Libra brings proportion and air. Scorpio takes everything to the bottom, and you are the one who can say that this particular thing does not go that deep, and be believed.

Scorpio brings the truth Libra was avoiding. You will not accept the pleasant version, and for somebody who has been offering the pleasant version their whole life, being refused it is a relief.

The argument you will have

Scorpio asks the direct question and Libra gives the fair answer rather than the true one, which Scorpio hears as a lie. Then Scorpio goes cold and Libra works harder at being reasonable, which makes it worse. The repair is Libra saying the unreasonable true thing once.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Libra has to stop managing Scorpio's reaction before speaking. The management is what reads as dishonesty. Scorpio has to stop treating a careful answer as evidence, because sometimes it is just manners.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. 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 Scorpio about 22 October to 21 November. Both edges move with the year.

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