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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.

Two people who have both thought it through carefully and reached completely different conclusions about what matters.

How it actually goes

Five signs apart, earth against air, mutable against fixed. Virgo works on the thing in front of them and Aquarius works on the system behind it, and both of you consider the other's focus slightly beside the point.

There is real intellectual respect here and very little emotional vocabulary. Both of you would rather be correct than comforted, both of you handle difficulty by analysis, and neither will be first to say that something hurt.

It works when the two of you have a problem to solve together, because the combination is genuinely strong: Aquarius sees the shape of the thing and Virgo makes it function. Left with only each other to attend to, it can go very quiet.

What each of you brings

Virgo brings execution. Aquarius has the better idea and no patience for the implementation, and without you it remains an opinion.

Aquarius brings the question of whether the thing is worth doing at all. Virgo will optimise something that should have been abandoned, and you are the one who says so.

The argument you will have

Pedantic on both sides. Virgo argues the detail and Aquarius argues the principle, and the two of you can spend an hour disagreeing about different things entirely without either noticing.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, say the feeling before the reasoning, once a week, in that order. Both of you will present a case instead by default, and a relationship between two people who only ever present cases is a long correspondence rather than a life.

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.

Sun in Virgo about 22 August to 22 September, in Aquarius about 19 January to 18 February. 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. Virgo and Aquarius have their own pages.