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.
Real sky positions
Built from your answers
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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.
Why this one is different
Three things you can check before you believe a word of it.
Start your journey
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.
Every reading
Was that any good?
One line, if you have one. It may end up on the front page.
No address, nothing that identifies you.
How it works
Someone sent you this. It is free and it takes about a minute.
What's Happening Right Now
For entertainment
A couple of details.
Which one are you?
Your Sun sign, the one everybody means. If your birthday is on the edge of two, pick the one you were told.
Which two signs?
No birth time needed for this one. If you know the exact moment for both of you, the full synastry reading is far more specific.
The moment, as exactly as you have it.
Filled in from your last reading. Change anything if this one is for somebody else.
Date of birth
MonthDayYear
An hour out can move the Rising sign. Midday is a fine guess.
And where.
Filled in from the date and the city, daylight saving included. Change it if you know better.
Now theirs.
Your hand is measured. The reading is the distance between it and somebody else's, which means we need one more hand.
Want tomorrow's card?
A card a day, read for your sign. Follow and it turns up in your feed tomorrow morning.
Your reading is already saved on this device, under Saved in the corner.
By continuing you accept the and the . Every reading on this site is for entertainment.
Before you hold your hand up
Thirty seconds of setup makes the difference between a reading and a guess.
Use the hand you write with. Hold it flat and relaxed with the fingers slightly apart, square to the camera, with the light in front of you rather than behind.
The photo is measured on this phone and never sent anywhere.
This needs the camera.
On a phone this opens your camera. Nothing is uploaded either way.
Would you rather show us than describe yourself?
Take one photo. Your phone measures it and throws it away.
Only a few words travel, the same kind the questions produce. The photo itself never
leaves this device.
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Your readings
Judge the sheet, not the individual portraits. If they look like they came from different artists, the style lock needs work.
Nothing yet. Readings you open are listed here.
The three strongest things the sky is doing to your own chart today, and the date each becomes exact.
What a transit actually is
Your birth chart does not move. It is one moment, fixed, and it stays where it was. The sky does keep moving, and a transit is simply where a moving planet is standing in relation to that fixed chart right now.
That is the whole mechanism. Saturn arrives at the degree your Venus occupies, sits there for a few months, and moves on. Nothing is being sent to you. Two objects are at a particular angle, and astrology is the practice of reading that angle as meaning something.
Why this is not a horoscope
A daily horoscope reads today's sky against your sun sign, which is a twelfth of the world. Everybody born across the same five weeks gets the same paragraph, and it is the same paragraph whether their Moon is in Aries or Capricorn.
This reads today's sky against your chart: your Sun, Moon, Rising, Venus, Mars and Mercury at their actual degrees. Two people born on the same day an hour apart get different answers, which is either the point of astrology or an admission that the horoscope version was never doing anything.
Why only three, and why sometimes none
At any moment there are usually a dozen planets within a loose angle of something in your chart. Print all of them and something dramatic is always happening, which is how a site manages to have news for you every single day for a decade.
The orbs here are tight: between one and a half and two degrees for the planets, four for the Moon. A contact four degrees away is not happening yet, and saying it is would make the reading true all year.
The consequence is that some days this says nothing is close, and it says so rather than finding you three things. That is a real answer, and the readings are worth more because the empty days exist.
What the exact date means
Each contact is given the date the angle becomes exact, computed by searching forward and backward through the actual positions rather than read off a table. It can be in the past: a planet that was exact last month may still be within orb and still doing the thing.
The slow planets are the ones worth watching. Pluto can sit on a point for two years, Saturn for months, the Moon for four hours. The ranking here is by how long the contact lasts rather than how tight it is today, which is why a Pluto contact two degrees off outranks a Moon contact that is exact.
Questions
How often does this change?
Continuously, but meaningfully it changes over weeks. The Moon makes and breaks contacts in hours, the outer planets take months, and the ranking favours the slow ones, so the top of the reading tends to be stable for a while.
What is an orb?
How far from exact an angle can be and still count. A tight orb means fewer contacts and more honest ones. A wide orb means something is always happening.
It says nothing is close. Is it broken?
No. It means nothing is within orb today. Most sites would find you three things anyway. Check again in a week.
Do I need my birth time?
For the planets, no. For anything touching your Rising sign, yes, and the reading says so rather than presenting a guess as a result.
