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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 get things done and privately think most other people do not.

How it actually goes

Earth and earth, Mercury and Saturn. You are both competent, both serious, and both have spent years carrying more than you mentioned. Meeting somebody who does the same is a particular relief and this pairing is built largely on that recognition.

The trine makes the practical half effortless and leaves the emotional half unattended. Neither of you volunteers a feeling and both of you treat work as a legitimate answer to a personal question. A life here can be extremely well run and quite lonely, and both of you would call it fine if asked, because by your standards it is.

What each of you brings

Virgo brings the detail and the care inside it. Capricorn thinks in structures, and you are the one who notices the person inside the structure is tired.

Capricorn brings the long frame. Virgo optimises the week, and you are the reason the weeks are going somewhere.

The argument you will have

Clipped and factual. Two earth signs argue in evidence and neither raises their voice, and the resentment that does build has no outlet because neither of you considers a feeling an admissible argument.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, say one unprompted appreciative thing a week. Not for an achievement. For being there. Both of you are starved of it and neither of you will ever mention that, and this is one of the few pairings where that single habit changes everything.

What the two charts actually say

A hundred and twenty degrees, a trine. Same element, smoothest angle there is, and it asks nothing of either of you. One Cardinal, one Mutable. One of you decides and the other goes along, and it works right up until the one going along quietly stops.

Sun in Virgo about 22 August to 22 September, in Capricorn about 21 December to 19 January. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts is where an easy pairing gets interesting. Virgo and Capricorn have their own pages.