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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.

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Two fixed signs who both refuse to explain themselves, waiting to see who asks first.

How it actually goes

Scorpio is water that holds and Aquarius is air that will not be moved, and the square between them is the coldest one on the wheel. Both of you are private, both of you have a position you will not surrender, and neither of you asks a direct question when a long observation would do.

The pull is that neither of you can read the other, which after a lifetime of being read easily is fascinating. Scorpio cannot get underneath Aquarius because there is a principle in the way. Aquarius cannot categorise Scorpio because the feeling does not resolve into a theory. That keeps both of you interested and it also means the two of you can live together for years without ever closing the distance.

What each of you brings

Scorpio brings the willingness to go all the way into a thing. You do not keep a safe distance from your own life, and Aquarius needs somebody in the house who does not.

Aquarius brings air into a sign that does not get much. You will not be dragged into the intensity, you do not take it personally, and that steadiness is genuinely useful to a Scorpio.

The argument you will have

Nobody raises their voice. Scorpio withdraws with it and Aquarius detaches from it, and the room gets very cold very fast. Neither of you will be the first to come back, which is why this pairing can lose a fortnight to something that took ten seconds.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, agree the rule in advance: whoever is less upset speaks first, within a day. Two fixed signs with no such rule will reliably test each other instead, and the testing is what does the damage rather than the original offence.

What the two charts actually say

Ninety degrees, a square. This is the angle that rubs, and it rubs permanently. 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 Scorpio about 22 October to 21 November, in Aquarius about 19 January to 18 February. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts finds where the two charts actually touch. Scorpio and Aquarius have their own pages.