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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 goes deep and one of you goes wide, and neither of you is where the other is looking.

How it actually goes

Water beside fire, fixed beside mutable. Scorpio holds and Sagittarius moves on, which is the single difference and it runs through everything. Scorpio reads Sagittarius as shallow. Sagittarius reads Scorpio as stuck. Both are cheap readings and both get made inside a month.

The reason it can work is honesty. Sagittarius says the true thing without needing it to be strategic, which a Scorpio almost never encounters and secretly finds restful. Scorpio takes things seriously, which a Sagittarius needs about once a year and badly. The failure is Scorpio tightening in response to Sagittarius leaving, which makes the leaving more likely, which tightens things further.

What each of you brings

Scorpio brings the follow-through on anything that matters. Sagittarius begins a great deal, and you are the one who is still there when it gets difficult.

Sagittarius brings lightness into a sign with almost none. You can say the enormous thing and then have lunch, and that is a skill a Scorpio cannot learn alone.

The argument you will have

Sagittarius says something blunt and leaves the room. Scorpio stays in the room with it for a week. By the time Sagittarius has forgotten it entirely, Scorpio has built it into a structure. The fix is Scorpio saying it now and Sagittarius coming back the same day.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Sagittarius has to understand that leaving a conversation is itself a message, and it is being received at full volume. Scorpio has to say the hurt out loud rather than waiting to see if it is noticed, because it will not be.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. Fire and Water, and the old books are blunt about this one: steam or nothing. You either change each other or you spend years carefully not touching.

Sun in Scorpio about 22 October to 21 November, in Sagittarius about 21 November to 21 December. Both edges move with the year.

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