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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 both want things to be right, one by standard and one by agreement.

How it actually goes

Earth beside air, mutable beside cardinal. Virgo asks whether it is correct and Libra asks whether everybody is alright with it, and most of the friction in this pairing is one of you answering a question the other did not ask.

It is a civilised relationship. Neither of you shouts and both of you try, and that counts for a great deal over a decade. The weakness is that neither of you says what you want directly: Virgo says what is wrong instead, Libra says what would be fair instead, and the two of you can spend years negotiating from positions neither of you actually holds.

What each of you brings

Virgo brings the honest assessment. Libra will talk round a problem for a week, and you are the one who names it, which Libra finds uncomfortable and relies on.

Libra brings the grace. Virgo is right more often than is socially useful, and you are the reason that being right does not cost this pairing its friends.

The argument you will have

It is quiet and it accumulates. Virgo says the sharp accurate thing, Libra absorbs it and files it, and six months later it arrives back as a reasonable, devastating summary. Neither of you had a row and both of you are damaged.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, build in a regular moment to say the small annoyance while it is still small. Virgo will give you an accurate list and Libra will give you nothing unless asked directly, so ask directly, and ask often enough that the list stays short.

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 Virgo about 22 August to 22 September, in Libra about 22 September to 22 October. Both edges move with the year.

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