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.
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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.
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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.
Your Big Three
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.
Sun, Moon and Rising, calculated from your date, time and place rather than guessed from a birthday.
Why these three
Of everything in a chart, these are the three that people recognise in themselves fastest. The Sun is what you are consciously trying to be and what you would say if asked to describe yourself. The Moon is the private half: how you settle, what you need, what you are like when nothing is being performed. The Rising is the arrival: what people meet before they know any of the rest.
A person who only knows their sun sign is reading a third of the sentence. The three together is where most people first feel that astrology is describing something rather than flattering them.
Why a birthday is not enough for two of them
The Sun takes a month to cross a sign, so a date gives it to you. The Moon takes two and a half days, so two people born on the same date can differ. The Rising changes roughly every two hours, so a date gives you nothing at all.
That is the whole reason this asks for a time and a place. Anything that gives you a big three from a birthday alone has invented two thirds of it.
What this does with your details
It computes the real positions from the moment you give it, using the same astronomical model used to produce an ephemeris, and reads off the sign each one falls in.
The calculation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, there is no account, and it is free. If you do not know your birth time, put midday: the Sun and Moon will be right and the Rising will be flagged as a guess rather than presented as fact.
What each sun sign is working on
Sun in Aries You need something to push against, and you will invent one if the situation does not supply it. Peace, when it finally arrives, tends to last about a fortnight before you go looki
Sun in Taurus You attach to things and then cannot be moved off them: a person, a house, a way of doing a job. It reads as loyalty from the outside and as dread of starting again from the inside
Sun in Gemini You are quick, and you have let that stand in for depth more than once. The things you are best at are the ones you stayed with past the point where they stopped being interesting.
Sun in Cancer You look after people as a reflex and then quietly count what it cost. Both of those are real, and pretending only the first one is true is the expensive part.
Sun in Leo You want to be seen doing it, not just to have done it. There is nothing wrong with that; the trouble only starts when you will not say it out loud.
Sun in Virgo You fix things. Given a situation with no problem in it, you will locate one, and the people around you have learned not to hand you anything they are happy with.
Sun in Libra You would rather be fair than be right, and you have called that diplomacy. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is a way of not having the argument.
Sun in Scorpio You go all the way in or you do not go. There is no version of you that dabbles, which is why the things you have left, you have left completely.
Sun in Sagittarius You need the exit to stay visible. You have talked yourself out of good situations because they started to feel permanent rather than because they were wrong.
Sun in Capricorn You are building something that will outlast the effort, and you are prepared to be bored for years to do it. The cost is that you are hard to be around on the way up.
Sun in Aquarius You hold a position on principle and then discover the principle was the point, not the position. It has made you interesting and occasionally impossible.
Sun in Pisces You take on the mood of whatever room you are in, which makes you unusually good with people and unusually bad at knowing what you want when you are alone.
Questions
Which of the three matters most?
It depends what you are asking. For how you behave under pressure, the Moon. For how strangers read you, the Rising. For what you are deliberately building, the Sun. No one of them outranks the others.
My big three does not sound like me. What went wrong?
Usually the birth time, which changes the Rising and sometimes the Moon. Failing that, it is worth checking whether you are reading the Sun and ignoring the other two, which is the most common way a correct chart feels wrong.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel.
What comes after the big three?
The full chart, which adds the remaining placements, the houses they sit in, and the angles between them. The angles are where most of the actual reading happens.
