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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 notice everything and neither of whom says most of it.

How it actually goes

Earth and water. Virgo analyses and Scorpio perceives, and between you very little gets past. This is a shrewd, private pairing with a great deal of unspoken understanding and a real respect for each other's competence.

The sextile keeps it workable. What it does not do is make either of you open. Virgo withholds the feeling in case it is irrational and Scorpio withholds it as a matter of policy, so a relationship with two very perceptive people in it can run on almost no disclosure at all. Both of you will call that privacy. Some of it is.

What each of you brings

Virgo brings the practical repair. Scorpio sits with a problem and you fix the part of it that can be fixed, which is a specific kindness Scorpio does not expect.

Scorpio brings the willingness to look at the thing directly. Virgo manages around a problem forever, and you are the one who names it.

The argument you will have

Cold and accurate. Both of you argue well and neither forgets, and the thing that lingers is not the row, it is the evidence each of you quietly filed during it.

If you are already in it

If you are already in this one, say the irrational feeling. Not the reasoned case for it, the feeling itself, before it has been tidied. Two people this controlled can go years without either knowing what the other is actually like underneath. The other habit worth breaking is the filing. Both of you store evidence rather than raise the point, and in a pairing where both people are this observant, two archives are being built and neither will ever be read out in a useful way.

What the two charts actually say

Sixty degrees, the sextile. The helpful angle: it works if used and does nothing if not. Earth and Water, which is the combination that actually grows things. The ground holds and the feeling moves through it, and this is the most underrated mix on the wheel.

Sun in Virgo about 22 August to 22 September, in Scorpio about 22 October to 21 November. Both edges move with the year.

Your Two Charts says whether the effort would be worth making. Virgo and Scorpio have their own pages.