The two dates
Everything below comes from 15 May 1990 and 3 November 1988, and from nothing else. No birth time, no birthplace, no names. Type the same two dates into the tool and you will get this page back, because every number here is a function of those two dates and — in one block, marked where it appears — of the moment you happen to read it.
The angle, and the five cards
Taurus and Scorpio stand 180° apart — an opposition. That is the measurement the score is built on: the number of signs between them, read as one of the seven classical angles, then adjusted by the angle between their faces.
Strong current — 72 out of 100. There is real pull here and it is not frictionless. Both of those facts are load-bearing, and neither cancels the other.
Taurus's third face, which answers to Capricorn, meets Scorpio's second face, which answers to Pisces.
Across the wheel — the pull that does not weaken with distance.
01 What runs between you
Water finds the shape earth offers it. Care turns practical here — a made bed, a full tank, a thing remembered without being asked.
02 What it costs
Polarity swings. The quality that drew you in is the quality you will criticise, in almost the same words, in a different tone. Push and pull are one motion seen from two chairs. Neither of you moves first. What feels like patience from the inside reads as a standoff from anywhere else in the room.
03 The undercurrent
The first impression here was wrong in an interesting way, and one of you has never updated it.
04 When it shows
A change in one of your routines — not in the relationship — is what moves this next.
05 A small experiment
Argue the other person's position out loud until they admit you have it right.
The second reading
Below the score the same two dates are asked nine more questions. The angle is one quantity and a thin one: two people born under these two signs a decade apart would share it and share almost nothing here. Each block says on its own face whether the position was computed from the sky or assigned by somebody, and when.
One note about the voice. The paragraphs below are the reading's own words and they address the pair as "you", because that is who the tool is speaking to. They are reproduced exactly as it produces them rather than rewritten for this page — a page that improved on the output while claiming to show it would be the one dishonest document on this site.
06 The space between you
Computed The point itself is arithmetic on two measured Sun positions. Reading it as the relationship rather than as either person is assigned, and modern: Alfred Witte's Hamburg School, 1920s.
Halfway between them: 17°51' Leo.
The two Suns stand 166.9° apart on the wheel. The mark halfway along the shorter arc is neither of them — it is the pairing itself, read as though it were a third person with a birthday of its own.
Your union performs, in the good sense: it is visible, warm and generous, and other people are drawn to stand near it. The cost is that both of you feel the audience, and something rehearsed can creep into what was spontaneous.
07 Lunar resonance
Computed The phase is the real Sun–Moon elongation (Meeus ch. 47). The temperament reading of a birth phase is 20th-century — Dane Rudhyar's eight-phase cycle, 1967.
Waning Gibbous meets waning crescent.
Full, and beginning to give it back. Traditionally the disseminating moon: the phase of telling people what you learned. A temperament that arrives at understanding and then cannot leave it alone.
The last sliver before the dark. The balsamic moon, and the oldest of the eight: a temperament that arrives already knowing how something ends, which is either wisdom or a difficulty starting, depending on the day.
Offset moons, neither matched nor mirrored. This is the commonest arrangement and the least discussed, which is a pity: two different phases with no neat relationship is simply two people, and everything between you was built rather than inherited.
08 The edge
Computed The apogee is geometry; the meaning is not. Sepharial coined a Black Moon in 1918 for something else, and the reading used here is French and American astrology from the 1970s onward.
Scorpio and Virgo.
The first is in Scorpio: the pull toward what costs something. Nothing here is interested in the safe version, and it can tell when it is being offered one.
The second is in Virgo: a private list of everything that is not good enough, kept in fine detail and almost never read aloud.
Yours sit at an easy angle. Neither of you finds the other's blind spot alarming, which is comfortable and means nobody here is going to point at it.
This is not a planet. The Moon's orbit is an ellipse and this is the empty far end of it, which is a real point in space and an unusual thing to give a personality to.
09 The compass
Computed The nodes are where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's path, which is why eclipses happen there. As Rahu and Ketu the tradition is ancient; the past-life reading used in the West arrives through Alan Leo and Dane Rudhyar and is popularised by Martin Schulman in 1975.
Aquarius and Pisces.
The first is moving toward the room rather than the audience, and away from being the centre of it, leaving Leo behind.
The second is moving toward letting the shape go, and away from the belief that more analysis will fix it, leaving Virgo behind.
Your paths are unrelated. Nothing here is pulling either of you toward the other's work, which means whatever you build together is not doing that job and does not have to.
10 The weave
Computed Two unrelated systems: the Greek four elements are Empedocles, 5th century BCE, and the Chinese five phases are Warring States, roughly the 4th. They were never meant to be read together, so they are shown side by side as two readings and never blended into one score.
earth and metal · water and earth.
An earth sign born in a metal horse year, and a water sign born in an earth dragon year.
Earth feeds metal. Support runs one way here, and it is the quieter of the two positions that is doing the supplying.
The Greek four and the Chinese five were never one system. They are shown side by side and never added together, because there is no correspondence between them to add.
11 The pacing
Assigned Digits of a Gregorian date, a calendar adopted in 1582 and nothing to do with the sky. Modern numerology is L. Dow Balliett's, around 1900, codified by Juno Jordan in the 1960s.
Three and Twenty-two.
Three: Moves in bursts, and the bursts are genuinely good. Starts more than finishes, and is more wounded than it admits when that gets pointed out.
Twenty-two: A four with a much larger drawing. Wants to make something durable and public, and can put the person in front of it second to the thing being built.
One of you carries a master number, which in this tradition means the same tempo run at higher intensity. It is not a better number; it is a more expensive one, and the pair feels the cost together.
Nothing in this block is astronomy. It adds up the digits of a date written in a calendar Europe adopted in 1582, and it is here because tempo is worth comparing and this is the traditional way of naming it.
12 The card of the union
Assigned The birth-card method enters wide use with Angeles Arrien's The Tarot Handbook, 1987. Nothing is shuffled here, so this is not a divination — two dates always give the same card.
VII · The Chariot.
A union in motion. You are better going somewhere than sitting still, and the pair has real momentum; the question neither of you asks often enough is what the destination was.
The first date's card is The Empress; the second's is The Emperor. The card above is what those two make together.
Nothing is shuffled. Two dates always give the same card, which is a real departure from how a deck is actually used — and the reason this can be checked rather than only believed.
13 The turning sky
Computed Both positions from the same series as everything else here — Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 1991, chapters 25 and 47. No other body is computed on this site, so no other body is named. What an angle is taken to mean is assigned, not measured.
On 18 August 2026 at 21:00 UTC, the Moon stood at 12°02' Scorpio, 84° from the point between them — a square.
The Moon is square to the point between you. Friction is likelier to be about the hour than about the relationship — worth remembering before either of you files it as evidence.
This is the one block that is not fixed. On the tool it is a wheel you can take hold of: drag it and you are dragging the Moon at the thirteen degrees a day it actually travels, and a button throws the sky forward to the next moment it comes inside six degrees of an angle to that point. A document cannot move, so the instant above is pinned and named.
14 Three questions
Assigned Written for this site. Which three a pair is shown is decided by the angle, the tempo gap and their two dates — not by a model, and not at random.
None of these can be answered yes or no, and none of them can be answered on the other person's behalf. That is the whole specification.
- What first drew you to me that you now find hardest to live beside?
- What would you do differently if you had another week — and what would you do the same?
- What is the smallest thing I do that makes you feel chosen?
What was measured and what was assigned
The split is the whole editorial line of this site, and it is worth setting out in one place. Six of the nine blocks above rest on a position computed from published astronomical series — Meeus's solar and lunar theory, checked in this site's own tests against his worked examples rather than against itself. Every meaning attached to any of those positions is assigned, by people, at a date that is named.
Two blocks are not astronomy at all and say so on their own face. The life path adds up the digits of a Gregorian date. The birth card does arithmetic on the same digits and lands on one of twenty-two cards. Both are here because tempo and archetype are worth comparing and these are the traditional ways of naming them — not because either number is measuring anything in the sky.
Nothing on this page predicts an outcome, assesses a person, or offers medical, psychological, legal, financial or relationship-safety advice. It is a way of looking at a connection from another angle, and the angles are named so that they can be checked.