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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.

  • Real sky positions
  • Built from your answers
  • No account needed
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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.

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.

The whole sky from one place at one minute: every placement, the house it sits in, and the angles between them.

What a birth chart is

A birth chart is a map of where everything was, seen from the exact spot on Earth you were born, at the exact minute. Change the minute and the houses rotate. Change the country and they rotate differently. That specificity is the entire claim astrology makes, and it is the part that gets dropped when a reading is written for everybody born in the same five weeks.

What a chart is not is a prediction. It is a description, and the useful ones describe things you already half recognise rather than things you would like to hear.

What this one computes

The real positions of the Sun, Moon and planets at your moment, the houses from your time and place, and the aspects, which are the angles the placements make to each other.

The aspects are where an astrologer actually finds the story. A planet in a sign tells you a tendency. Two planets at ninety degrees tells you where the friction is, which is usually what somebody came to find out.

What you need, and what the time does

Date, time and place. The time is the part that decides the most: the Rising sign moves a whole sign roughly every two hours, and the houses move with it.

If your time is approximate, the chart is still worth reading, but treat the Rising sign and the house positions as provisional and the sign placements as solid. The calculation says which is which rather than presenting everything with the same confidence.

Summer time is not applied automatically. If you were born in summer in a country that used daylight saving, add the hour yourself.

Questions

What if I only know roughly when I was born?
Morning, afternoon or evening is still better than nothing. The Sun and the outer placements will be right. Treat the Rising and the houses as a working guess until you find the time.
What are aspects?
The angles between two placements. Conjunction at zero degrees, sextile at sixty, square at ninety, trine at one hundred and twenty, opposition at one hundred and eighty. Squares and oppositions are the ones that describe friction, and they are usually the most useful part of a chart.
Is my birth data stored?
No. The chart is computed on your device and nothing you enter is sent to a server.
Is this the same as the big three?
The big three is the summary: Sun, Moon and Rising. The chart is everything else as well, including the houses and the aspects.

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