Your birth time sets who suits you.

Your sign is one fact about you.Your chart is the whole sky.

Horoscopes read the one twelfth of the zodiac your Sun was passing through, and share that reading with everyone born that month. Counterpart reads your full birth chart — every planet, to the degree, set against the houses of the exact minute and place you were born — and uses it to describe how you love, connect, and clash.

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The shaded slice is all a horoscope uses. Everything drawn inside it is what Counterpart reads.

Your birth time is the part most people are missing

Most people know their sun sign. Very few know their rising sign, because it depends on the hour you were born, not only the day. And the rising sign sets every house in your chart, including the seventh, the one this site is built on.

  1. Your birth timeThe hour and place you were born
  2. Rising signThe sign crossing the eastern horizon at that moment
  3. Twelve housesEach one starts from the rising sign
  4. Your seventh houseAlways the sign opposite your rising sign
  5. Your readingWhat suits you, and what to watch

One day, one city, four different hours

Born in Calgary on June 15, 1990. An example, not a real person. The Sun is in Gemini for every one of them.

Born atRising signSeventh house
2:00 amPiscesVirgo
8:00 amCancerCapricorn
2:00 pmVirgoPisces
8:00 pmSagittariusGemini

The Sun barely moves in an hour. The rising sign moves about one degree every four minutes, so a few hours changes it completely, and with it the partner your chart describes.

What a horoscope reads, and what we read

Both start from the sky at your birth. The difference is how much of it they look at, and what they claim to do with it.

Sun-sign horoscope
Counterpart
What it uses
Your birth month
Ten planets to the degree, plus twelve houses set by your birth time and place
Who else gets it
Roughly one in twelve people alive
Almost no one — the houses shift every few minutes
What it offers
Predictions: luck, love, money this week
A description of your patterns in relationships, and where they tend to go wrong
The hard parts
Rarely mentioned
Named plainly — every reading shows where it flows and where it asks for work
When it's unsure
It doesn't say
It tells you — a missing birth time is flagged, not papered over

It describes. It doesn't predict.

Counterpart won't tell you who you'll meet or whether it will last. It reads the shape of a chart — what you need from a partner, how you show up in closeness, the habits that trip you — and puts it in plain language you can hold up against your own life.

The planets are there if you want them. Each point in a reading carries its source in small type underneath, so you can check the work. You never need to know what a trine is to understand what it says.

Precise sky, honest reading. Planet positions are calculated astronomically, accurate to a fraction of a degree, and the houses use the Placidus system, a widely used standard. What those positions mean is astrology — a symbolic framework for reflection, not a science — and we write it that way.

Two ways to get a reading

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The way you love, written in your chart.

Your seventh house, the part of the chart about partnership, and what the rest of your chart does to it.

  • The kind of partner you're built for, and what breaks it
  • How you partner, day to day, and where your energy goes
  • Your blind spots, named plainly
  • The one pattern it all comes down to
  • Your chart wheel

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Everything in the solo reading, plus the twelve-house chart and compatibility for any pair you choose.

  • Solo readings, as many as you like
  • The full twelve-house chart reading
  • Compatibility for any two people
  • Where it flows and where it asks for work

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From a sample reading

A pairing that feels wonderful before it's tested.

Where it flowsThey like each other as they actually are. Three of one person's most outgoing traits land right where the other wants to be delighted.
Where it asks for workThey disagree about where things should be heading, and one person's intensity lands harder than they mean it to.

From a compatibility reading of two demonstration charts. No real person's data.

What you'll need

Birth date

Places every planet in its sign and degree.

Exact birth time

Sets the rising sign, and with it every house. A birth certificate or hospital record often has it.

Birth city

Fixes the time zone and the angle of the horizon.

If you don't know it. Ask a parent, or look for a hospital record or baby book. If it can't be found, we won't guess: a reading that depends on the hour will say so plainly, or won't run.

What Counterpart is, and isn't

It is

  • A careful reading of your full birth chart
  • A way into a conversation with yourself, or with someone else
  • Private — charts are calculated in your browser, and no birth details are ever stored

It isn't

  • A prediction of what will happen
  • Advice on whether to stay in, or leave, a relationship
  • A substitute for talking to the person in question