Real sky + Real numbers = Your Real Love Story

The sky

Planets, Sun and Moon

Our planet, Sun and Moon positions, Moon phases, retrograde dates and Rising signs use the published methods of astronomer Jean Meeus, whose book Astronomical Algorithms (1991) became a standard reference for these calculations, together with NASA JPL’s published orbital elements for the planets. That is why our retrograde dates match astronomy calendars to the day: for example, Mercury turns retrograde on October 24, 2026 and direct on November 13, 2026.

• NASA JPL: Approximate Positions of the Planets (E.M. Standish and J.G. Williams)
• Jean Meeus: Belgian astronomer, born 1928; asteroid 2213 Meeus is named in his honor

Meeus calculated where the planets are. The meaning we give them is our own, drawn from astrology traditions.

Names

Name numbers and the Name Mirror

We add up every letter of your full birth name with the standard Pythagorean chart, keeping the full total before reducing it (for example 82 → 10 → 1).

Name Mirror odds. About 1 in 58 couples share an exact full-name total, compared with about 1 in 9 who share a reduced name number. We worked this out from about 204 million U.S. births, 1950 to 2005, using the Social Security Administration’s first-name records and the U.S. Census surname frequencies, assuming one middle name.

• Social Security Administration: baby name data
• U.S. Census Bureau: frequently occurring surnames (1990 Census)

Birthdays

Master number birthday facts

Facts like “only 65 of the 36,525 birthdays in the last 100 years add up to a Master 44” are counted directly, by adding the digits of every calendar date. Nothing is estimated, so anyone can recount them. The site recalculates them from today’s date every time you visit.

Other traditions

Chinese zodiac, Maya calendar and tarot

• Chinese zodiac: your animal and element follow the Chinese New Year, which we date with Meeus’s new-moon formula (the new moon in China between January 21 and February 20). This matches the traditional calendar in almost every year.
• Maya calendar: your day sign and tone use the GMT correlation (584,283), the conversion accepted by most Maya researchers. Read about it.
• Tarot birth card: the month, day and year of your birth added together and reduced to a number from 1 to 22, matched to the Major Arcana.

Check it yourself

Two calculations you can do with a pencil