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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.

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.

One of you is planning next year and the other is planning the next decade, and neither plan has the other person in it yet.

How it actually goes

Fire beside earth, mutable beside cardinal. Sagittarius is possibility and Capricorn is consequence, and this is the border where optimism meets the invoice. Each of you believes the other is dealing with an unreal version of the world.

The pairing is better than its reputation. A Sagittarius with a Capricorn gets things that actually happen rather than things that were going to. A Capricorn with a Sagittarius gets a life with air in it rather than a long correct climb. It goes wrong when Capricorn starts treating Sagittarius as a liability and Sagittarius starts treating Capricorn as a parent, and both of those settle in quietly.

What each of you brings

Sagittarius brings the reason to bother. Capricorn will build steadily towards something without ever asking whether it is wanted, and you are the one who asks.

Capricorn brings the structure that turns a plan into a thing. You are not the brake you are accused of being, you are the reason any of it exists.

The argument you will have

Money and risk, and underneath both, seriousness. Capricorn thinks Sagittarius is not taking it seriously. Sagittarius thinks Capricorn has mistaken worry for responsibility. Both of you are partly right and neither says the underneath version.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, split the horizon. Sagittarius owns the next six months and Capricorn owns the next five years, properly, with neither one commenting on the other's patch. It sounds artificial and it removes about eighty per cent of the friction.

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 Sagittarius about 21 November to 21 December, in Capricorn about 21 December to 19 January. Both edges move with the year.

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