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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.

  • Real sky positions
  • Built from your answers
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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.

Three cards: what shaped it, where it sits now, and the direction it is currently pointing.

The oldest spread there is

Three cards in a row, read left to right. It is the first spread anybody learns and the one most readings still come back to, because the shape of it matches the shape of how people actually think about a situation.

The first card is what the thing grew out of. The second is the state it is in while you are asking. The third is where it goes if nothing changes, which is a different claim from where it will go.

What the third card is and is not

It is not a prediction. It is the direction of travel given everything the first two cards describe, and the entire point of looking at it is that you are allowed to change it.

A reading that tells you the future is fixed has removed the only reason to have one. The third card is useful precisely when you do not like it.

How to read the three together

The move between them matters more than any one of them. A card asking you to wait followed by a card asking you to begin is a story. Two cards both asking you to let go is a different story and a more uncomfortable one.

This names the movement between the cards rather than leaving three separate paragraphs next to each other, which is how most three card readings are written.

Questions

How far back is the past card?
As far as the situation goes, not a fixed number of months. It is about origin rather than calendar.
How far ahead is the future card?
Near enough to act on. Treat it as the next bend in the road rather than a destination.
Can I ask about somebody else?
You can ask about your situation with them. A reading about what another person is secretly thinking is a reading about your own anxiety, and it is worth knowing that going in.
Does it remember previous readings?
Not this one. Ask the Cards is the one that keeps a thread across several questions.

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