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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.

Both ruled by Venus, and that is genuinely all you have in common.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, earth against air, fixed against cardinal. The shared ruler is real and it shows: you both like beautiful things, good food and a civilised evening, and the first few months are extremely pleasant.

Underneath that the methods are opposite. Taurus wants the thing itself and Libra wants the arrangement around it. Taurus decides once and stops considering. Libra reconsiders as a way of being alive. Each of you reads the other as missing the point, politely, for years.

It works when both of you treat the difference as a division of labour rather than a flaw. Libra handles what involves other people. Taurus handles what has to actually hold. Neither comments on the other's half.

What each of you brings

Taurus brings the decision and the follow-through. Libra can be weighing something for a month, and you are the one who simply acts and takes the consequence.

Libra brings everybody else. Taurus would be content with a very small world, and you are the reason there are people in this life who were not already there ten years ago.

The argument you will have

Taurus digs in and Libra negotiates, and neither of those is an argument, so nothing is ever had out. Taurus says no and does not explain. Libra proposes alternatives until something sticks. Over time Libra stops asking and Taurus does not notice they have stopped.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, Libra states the want once, directly, without a cushion around it. Taurus gives a real answer rather than a reflex no. Both of those are small and neither happens without being agreed first, because the quincunx supplies no instinct for it.

What the two charts actually say

A hundred and fifty degrees, the quincunx. No element in common, no mode in common, no natural bridge at all. 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. Both signs answer to Venus, which is rarer than it sounds.

Sun in Taurus about 19 April to 20 May, in Libra about 22 September to 22 October. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts is the reading for this one: with nothing shared on the Sun, it is all in the rest. Taurus and Libra have their own pages.