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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.

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.

Life path and expression, calculated the traditional way from your birth date and the name you were given.

What the two numbers are

The life path comes from your date of birth and is the number most people mean when they say their number. It is read as the shape of the route rather than the destination: what you keep returning to, and what you keep having to learn in a different costume.

The expression number comes from the letters of your full name at birth. It is read as what you are equipped with rather than what you are aiming at, which is why the two can sit uncomfortably together in the same person.

How they are calculated

The life path is the digits of your birth date added and reduced to a single figure. The expression assigns a number to each letter of the name and does the same.

There is one exception that matters. Eleven, twenty two and thirty three are not reduced. They are the master numbers, and in the traditional method they are left standing because they are taken to mean something different from the two, four and six they would otherwise collapse into.

Why the name you were given

The convention is the full name as it was first recorded, not the name you use now. The reasoning is that the expression number describes what you arrived with.

If your name has changed since, by marriage or otherwise, the usual practice is to read the original for the expression and treat the current one as a second, later layer. Neither cancels the other out.

Questions

Which name should I use?
The full name as it was first written down, including middle names. If you are unsure of the spelling that was registered, use the one on your birth certificate rather than the one you sign.
What if I get an eleven or a twenty two?
It is left as it is. In the traditional method the master numbers are not reduced, and they are read as the same ground as the single digit with a good deal more pressure on it.
Is numerology part of astrology?
No. It is a separate tradition with a different basis, and the two have been read side by side for a long time without either depending on the other.
Does it need my birth time?
No. The date is enough for the life path, and the name is the rest of it.

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