How readings are made
What we look at in the sky, and how it becomes your love reading.
Every horoscope on horoscope.love is about love and relationships, and every Western reading
starts from where the planets really are. We find each planet’s place in the sky, see which part of
your love life it touches for your sign, and write the reading from that. Here is how it works.
1. We start from the real sky
For every reading we work out where seven bodies are: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn. We also mark the key moments of the period: a planet moving into a new sign, a
planet seeming to turn backwards or forwards (retrograde or direct), a New or Full Moon, and two
planets meeting at an important angle. Our positions and dates are checked against NASA and US
Naval Observatory data and agree to within minutes.
We use the tropical zodiac, the one Western horoscopes have always used. Everyone with the same
sign shares the same sky on the same day, because these are Sun-sign horoscopes, not personal
birth charts.
2. We place the sky in your twelve areas of love
Your sign is area 1. Counting on around the zodiac gives eleven more areas, each about one side
of love. When a planet is in a sign, it lights up the matching area for you. For Aries, Venus in
Leo falls in area 5, romance and pleasure. For Cancer, the same Venus in Leo falls in area 2,
self-worth and security.
The daily reading may also name a sign whose energy stands out that day: the sign where the
Moon, Venus, Mercury or Mars sits in one of your easier areas. When no sign stands out clearly,
none is named.
Weekly, monthly and yearly readings follow the same sky. Their hearts and “best match this
period” are an overall view of the whole period rather than the daily count.
4. How the reading is written
Each reading is written from this sky and nothing else: which planets are moving through
which of your love areas, the planet that rules your sign, any planet that is retrograde, the Moon’s
phase and the key dates of the period. A daily reading also follows that day’s hearts. Readings are
prepared ahead of time: daily ones a day early, weekly ones over the weekend before, monthly ones
near the end of the previous month and yearly ones in late December.
Every reading is checked before it goes live, and rewritten if it is far too short, claims to
know your personal birth chart (such as your rising sign), promises an outcome, predicts a breakup
or puts a number on your chances in love. A daily reading appears first as tomorrow’s, then today’s,
then yesterday’s horoscope, so it names the date instead of saying “today” or “tomorrow”. These
checks are automatic, and readings are not reviewed one by one by a person.
5. Chinese zodiac readings
Chinese zodiac readings are yearly. They are written from the traditional Chinese calendar: your
animal and its element, the animal and element of the year, the year’s name in the sixty-year cycle,
and the date of Lunar New Year. Planet positions are not used. The year’s hearts and best match are
an overall view of the year.
6. Compatibility
Western compatibility follows the same rules for every pair. For two signs we look at how far
apart they are in the zodiac, whether their elements (fire, earth, air, water) and their modes
(cardinal, fixed, mutable) work together, and whether they share a ruling planet. This gives four
scores, for affection and chemistry, emotional rhythm, communication and repair, and commitment
and direction, which are averaged into one percentage. Scores stay in a moderate range on
purpose: no pairing is perfect or doomed.
Chinese compatibility follows the traditional relationships between the twelve animals:
animals in the same group of three and “secret friend” pairs score highest, while opposite animals
(a clash) and harming pairs score lowest. The five elements are described for context but don’t
change the score.
Finding your sign
The sign finder uses the usual fixed dates for each Western sign. If you were born on the first or
last day of a sign, it also shows the neighbouring sign, because the Sun changes sign at a
particular hour on that day and only your birth time and place can settle it. Your Chinese animal
changes at Lunar New Year, not January 1, so people born in January or early February get the
previous year’s animal when that is correct. The finder covers birth dates from 1900.
Love Tarot
Love Tarot uses the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, always upright. Your first name, your birth
date and the current date together pick the cards, so the same details on the same day always give
the same cards. The Daily Love Card draws one card; Heart
Mirror draws three different cards for where you are, what deserves honest attention and a
grounded next step. Card meanings were written in advance. Nothing you enter is stored.
Love Numerology
Love Numerology works from your birth date. Your Life Path number adds up the month, day and year of
your birth separately, reduces each to a single digit and then reduces the total, keeping the
master numbers 11, 22 and 33. For compatibility, two numbers are looked up in a fixed table that
covers every pair; master numbers use their base number (11 as 2, 22 as 4, 33 as 6). Your Personal
Year, Month and Day add the current date to your birthday. The calculated result is held for
about half an hour so the page can show it, and your birth date is not kept.
If a current reading isn’t ready, we say so, or show the latest one with its real dates.