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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 wants to settle and the other has just thought of something.

How it actually goes

Earth next to air, fixed next to mutable. Taurus wants the thing to be solid and present. Gemini wants to know what else there is. Neither of you is wrong and neither of you can quite believe the other means it.

The attraction is that Gemini makes Taurus laugh and Taurus makes Gemini feel safe, and both of those are rarer than they sound. The wear comes from repetition: Gemini changes the plan again, Taurus digs in again, and both of you start playing a role rather than being a person. Taurus becomes the heavy and Gemini becomes the flake, and neither of you started out that way.

What each of you brings

Taurus brings the ground. Gemini has never had anybody who stayed put while they went round in circles, and the staying put is what makes the circles survivable.

Gemini brings the air into a life that would otherwise set like concrete. You will suggest the thing Taurus would never have suggested, and about a third of the time it is excellent.

The argument you will have

Reliability, and it is always the same one. Taurus says you changed it again. Gemini says it was not important. The unit of disagreement is what counts as a promise, and you have never agreed on that. Decide which things are fixed and treat the rest as weather.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, write down the handful of things that are not negotiable, and let Gemini move everything else freely. Taurus is trying to pin down more than is necessary and Gemini is treating everything as provisional, and both of you can give ground on that without giving up anything real.

What the two charts actually say

Side by side on the wheel, thirty degrees apart, sharing a border and almost nothing else. Earth and Air. One of you wants the idea and the other wants the thing built, and the gap between those two is where most of your conversations quietly live.

Sun in Taurus about 19 April to 20 May, in Gemini about 20 May to 20 June. Both edges move with the year.

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