Fortune Guide
How are maiunse's 40 readings actually calculated? A primer on each system.
maiunse brings Eastern destiny studies, Western astrology and numerology, personality tests and dream interpretation together in one place. Knowing how each reading is calculated makes every interpretation richer.
Today's Fortune
Today's Fortune contrasts the day's pillar — the stem and branch that change daily — with your own day master to read the day's flow. It shows the kind of energy arriving today (its Ten God), how today's branch relates to yours, and the lucky element that fills what you lack. The iljin is the stem and branch attached to a given day, and it is what people consulted when choosing a date to move house, marry, or open a business. Two people get different results on the same day because today’s pillar is set against your own day master. Past midnight the pillar becomes the next day’s, and the reading changes with it.
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Four Pillars (Saju)
Saju (Four Pillars) writes your birth year, month, day, and hour as eight characters of heavenly stems and earthly branches, then reads your innate temperament and the flow of fortune through the balance of the Five Elements. maiunse builds the chart on a verified lunisolar calendar and unfolds it step by step: element strength including hidden stems, strong/weak day master and the useful element, Ten Gods distribution, and the great, yearly, and monthly luck cycles. The art took its present form when Xu Ziping of the Song dynasty shifted the centre to the day stem, where Li Xuzhong of the Tang had read from the year pillar; this is what is called Ziping astrology. The lunisolar calendar it relies on is an almanac with the solar terms and the stems and branches worked out for every date, and because months are cut at the solar terms, two people born in the same May can fall either side of the Beginning of Summer and receive different month pillars. Times are calculated as standard time, and you can turn on a true-solar-time correction for the longitude of your birthplace if you want one. Gender is asked only to set the direction the luck pillars run in, and the eight characters themselves are the same either way.
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Birth-Hour Sign
Reads the inner nature and life flow from your birth-hour animal (hour pillar), distinct from the outward year sign. In Korean fortune-telling the day is divided into twelve two-hour periods, the sipi-sijin, running from the hour of the Rat (23:00–01:00) to the hour of the Pig (21:00–23:00), each carrying one of the twelve zodiac animals. Where the year pillar is the face others see, the hour pillar has traditionally been read for the inner mind and the later years. Since the unit is two hours, a rough idea of your birth time is enough.
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Day Pillar (Ilju)
Reads your innate essence — the core of the Four Pillars — and the inner nature of your day branch from your day pillar (60 sexagenary cycle). Treating the day pillar as the self is the method of Ziping astrology, set down by Xu Ziping in the Song dynasty; before that the year pillar held the centre. Ten heavenly stems pair with twelve earthly branches to make the sixty, advancing one per day from the day of Jiazi, so once the date of birth is fixed the day pillar is fixed with it. That is why this reading works without knowing your birth time.
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Tojeong Secret
Tojeong Bigyeol is a Korean New Year oracle named after the Joseon scholar Tojeong Yi Ji-ham. Your lunar birthday and the year's stem-branch combine into a three-digit number that selects one of 144 hexagrams, read as the year's overall fortune, its flow, and the key attitude to hold. Tojeong Yi Ji-ham was a sixteenth-century figure remembered as an eccentric who cared more for ordinary people’s livelihoods than for office, and whether the book is truly his work is uncertain. It was read widely as part of the custom of taking the measure of the coming year at New Year. Whether the hexagram is favourable or not, the verses hold that how the year is lived rests with the reader.
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Compatibility
Compatibility places two Saju charts side by side to read the harmony of a bond. maiunse scores five aspects: the bond of the two day masters, the spouse palace (day branches) in harmony or clash, the zodiac-year relation, how each fills the other's lacking elements, and the balance of energy between the two charts. Exchanging saju papers when a marriage was being discussed was a widespread custom in the Joseon period, and people have long distinguished outer compatibility, read from the animal signs, from inner compatibility, read from the full charts. The five aspects weighed here belong to the inner reading. Still, pairs who score low often last, so it is better read as advance notice of where the two of you are apt to rub than as a verdict.
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- Do both people need to know their birth hour?
- Does a low score mean we are a bad match?
- Can I use this for someone other than a partner?
- What if only one of us knows the birth hour?
- If the two of you were born in different places, is the time corrected separately?
- Why do you ask for gender?
- What if the two people use different calendars?
Chinese Zodiac
The East Asian zodiac reads the year's luck through the twelve animal signs of your birth year. The relation between your sign and the year's reigning branch — harmony or clash — and whether you are in a Samjae (three-calamity) period form the heart of the reading. maiunse assigns signs by Lunar New Year's Day rather than the spring solar term. The twelve branches were originally just twelve markers for counting years; pairing them with animals spread from around the Later Han, which is why the creatures differ a little from country to country — Vietnam has a cat where others have a rabbit. Samjae names the three years in every nine that fall on you according to your sign, divided into the entering, the dwelling and the leaving year. It does not mean misfortune is fixed; it has always been read as a stretch to take care through.
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Name Analysis
Name Analysis reads the energy carried in the sound of a name. Korean names map each initial consonant to a Five Element — tracing the generating or clashing flow between syllables and the yin-yang balance of vowels — while Latin-alphabet names are read through Pythagorean numerology: Expression, Soul Urge, and Personality numbers. Mapping the sound of a name onto the Five Elements comes from Hunminjeongeum, which grouped initial consonants as molar, lingual, labial, dental and guttural sounds; these are matched to Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. It is a separate strand from the name study that counts the strokes of Chinese characters, so the two can give different results. How a name sounds and what it means matter more, and legally changing a name is a formal process — this reading is not grounds for deciding on one.
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Zodiac Compatibility
Weighs traditional relations like the three/six harmonies and clashes between two Chinese zodiac signs to show a compatibility score and reading. Set the twelve branches in a circle: the three standing four places apart form a triple harmony, while the pair six places apart, facing one another, form a clash. The six harmonies are pairings such as Rat with Ox or Tiger with Pig, and the "harm" relations mark positions that grate. When a marriage was being discussed, matching the animal signs came before anyone opened the full chart. Only the year branch is compared here, so treat it as the first gate rather than the whole reading.
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Feng Shui Directions
Traditional Eight Mansions feng shui: from your birth year and gender, it finds your Kua number and your four lucky directions and the one to avoid. The method sorts people into an East group and a West group, each with its own set of favourable bearings. The Kua number comes out differently for men and women because the reckoning has always been kept separate, and since 5 sits at the centre and has no direction it is replaced by 2 for men and 8 for women. Start with the places you occupy longest — which way your head lies when you sleep, or which way your desk faces.
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Palmistry
Pick the shapes of your palm lines (life, head, heart, fate, sun, wealth, marriage, health, travel and the girdle of Venus) and traditional palmistry reads your innate nature and fortune. Reading the palm is a long practice in India and China, and it reached Europe through the medieval period, where the names now in common use — the life, head and heart lines — took hold. There is no basis for readings that take the length of a line as a span of years, so looking at how a line runs suits this catalogue better than how long it is. The palm is not a fixed destiny but an old way of reading temperament.
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Face Reading
Pick the shapes of your seven features (face, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, ears) and traditional physiognomy reads your innate fortune. Face reading was codified in physiognomic manuals such as the Maui Sangbeop and carried into Korea, dividing the face into the forehead, brows, eyes, nose and mouth and assigning a meaning to each. Here you pick the shape of each feature yourself rather than uploading anything, so no image of your face is received or stored. Face reading does not disclose a fixed destiny; it is an old way of reading an impression, so please take it lightly.
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Five-Element Face
Five-Element Face reading (五行形) is a traditional physiognomy that sorts your face shape into the five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) to read your innate temperament. Pick your face shape to explore your personality, love, work, and health tendencies. Reading a face through the Five Elements continues from physiognomic manuals such as the Maui Sangbeop, which likened the grain of bone and flesh to the elements. It gathers the shape of the whole face into a single energy rather than weighing feature by feature. Its level of view is therefore different from a catalogue that reads forehead, eyes and nose separately. Most real faces mix two or three of the shapes, so simply choose the closest one.
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I Ching Trigram
Draws one of the eight I Ching trigrams from your birth date and today’s date to read today’s flow and advice. It refreshes at midnight each day. The eight trigrams are the eight shapes made by stacking three lines of yin or yang, standing for heaven, lake, fire, thunder, wind, water, mountain and earth. The Book of Changes pairs them to unfold sixty-four hexagrams, but since this reading looks at the grain of a single day it stops at the eight. Its scope is therefore different from divination worked with the full sixty-four.
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Yut Divination
A Korean folk divination that casts four yut sticks to read today’s luck as Do, Gae, Geol, Yut, or Mo. It comes from cheoksajeom, the New Year practice of divining the fortunes of the coming year: the same sticks as the yut board game are used, but no piece is moved and only the single cast is read. Each of the five outcomes carries an old divinatory verse handed down with it. Yut and Mo each come up once in sixteen throws, which is what makes them prized.
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Nine Star Ki
Nine Star Ki is an East Asian astrology that sorts your birth year into nine stars (One White Water Star to Nine Purple Fire Star) to read your innate temperament and flow. The nine stars assign the nine palaces of the Luoshu magic square to the energies of the sky. Read as directions those same nine cells give the Kua number of feng shui; read as the energy of a year they give Nine Star Ki. Each star moves through the palaces in a fixed order and returns to its own after nine years, which is why people who share a main star are nine years apart.
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Decans
A decan is a 10° subdivision of each zodiac sign (30°) in Western astrology, dividing every sign into three. Even within the same sign, your decan carries a different sub-ruler (traditional triplicity), giving subtly different traits. Find your decan and its sub-ruler by your birth date and explore your personality, love, and work tendencies in finer detail. Dividing the sky into thirty-six comes from the Egyptian decans, thirty-six groups of stars used to tell the hours of the night, and Hellenistic astrology laid them over the twelve signs to give the present arrangement. There is more than one way to assign the sub-ruler; here we use the traditional triplicity, cycling through the rulers of the three signs that share an element. Results may therefore differ from tables that assign sub-rulers in Chaldean order.
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Horoscope
The horoscope reads innate disposition from the zodiac sign the Sun occupied on your birthday — the most popular form of Western astrology. Four elements (fire, earth, air, water), three qualities (cardinal, fixed, mutable), and a ruling planet shape each sign's character. Dividing the ecliptic into twelve began in Babylon and was shaped into its present form in Hellenistic Greece. The version read today from a single sun sign, however, took hold in newspaper columns early in the twentieth century; astrology proper draws the whole sky, including the hour and place of birth. Precession has also shifted things: over two thousand years the dates of the signs and the constellations actually behind the Sun have drifted apart by close to a full sign.
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Sign Compatibility
Shows a compatibility score and reading from the angular distance (aspect) and element affinity of two Western zodiac signs. On the zodiac divided into twelve, the gap between two signs is read as an angle: 120 degrees (a trine) is easy, 90 degrees (a square) grates, and 180 degrees (an opposition) faces off. Whether the four elements — fire, earth, air and water — match or agree is weighed as well. Only the sun signs are compared, so this is one slice of compatibility rather than the whole.
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Tarot
Tarot draws insight from the symbols of the 22 Major Arcana. Cards are shuffled and drawn at random, with upright and reversed orientations carrying different meanings. maiunse offers a single Card of the Day or a three-card Past·Present·Future spread. Tarot began as a fifteenth-century Italian card game, and only came to be used for divination in eighteenth-century France. The imagery in common use today follows the deck made early in the twentieth century by Arthur Waite and Pamela Colman Smith. Of the full seventy-eight cards, twenty-two are the Major Arcana; the remaining fifty-six are the Minor Arcana in the four suits of wands, cups, swords and pentacles.
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Tarot Birth Card
Reduces your birth date to a single Major Arcana, revealing the life card that runs through your whole life and its meaning. Adding the digits of a birth date and reducing until the total is 22 or less is borrowed from numerology, and came into wide use in Western tarot in the later twentieth century. Unlike the daily card, this one stays with you for life. Drawing Death or the Tower does not mean misfortune — in the Major Arcana those two point to an ending, and to rebuilding on ground that has fallen.
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Yes/No Tarot
A tarot oracle: hold a question in mind, draw a card, and it answers simply — yes, no, or maybe. Unlike a full spread, where several cards are laid out and read as a story, this is the light version: a single card that points a direction. The twelve cards hold five yeses, four noes and three maybes, so it leans no particular way. It works best when the answer is already in you and only the resolve is missing.
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Rune of the Day
A rune reading that draws one of the 24 Norse Elder Futhark runes to read today’s guidance and flow. Runes are the old script in which Germanic languages were written, carved into stones and objects from around the second century, and each letter carries a name and a sense — cattle, ice, the sun — which is what the reading works from. Sixteen runes differ top from bottom and are read for their shadow side when they come up inverted; the eight that are symmetrical have no reversed meaning.
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Numerology
Numerology, in the Pythagorean tradition, reduces the digits of your birth date to reveal the patterns of destiny. It reads the Life Path number for your life's overall direction, the Birthday number for innate talent, and the Personal Year number for this year's place in the nine-year cycle. The idea that numbers have qualities reaches back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BCE, but the Life Path calculation used now is a form set down and popularised in the United States early in the twentieth century. Eleven, twenty-two and thirty-three are left unreduced as master numbers, and their force is held to make them demanding to carry. Numbers taken from a name work from its spelling, so spelling it differently changes the result.
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Birthstone & Flower
Pairing a gem with each month is a long European custom, and the twelve-month list in common use today spread from one drawn up by an American jewellers’ association early in the twentieth century. Other countries and other eras name different stones, so there is no single correct list. The birth flowers follow the European tradition of assigning a meaning to each bloom.
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Celtic Tree Sign
This tree reading assigns your birthday to one of 13 Celtic trees. The tree that mirrors you is read for your innate nature, love and aptitude. This tree calendar is not, however, ancient. It spread from the poet Robert Graves, who in The White Goddess arranged the Celtic ogham tree letters across thirteen months, and there is no record that the ancient Druids ever cast birthday readings of this kind. It is closer to a modern reconstruction than to a tradition, and the character descriptions attached to each tree come from that tree’s form and uses.
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MBTI Personality
Explore your tendencies, love and work, and this year’s fortune across the 16 MBTI personality types. Built on Jung’s theory of psychological types, the classification was assembled by Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers around the middle of the twentieth century, with sixteen types arising from combinations of four axes. What is offered here is a shortened quiz that does not stand in for the official instrument, and people vary far more than sixteen boxes allow. Take it as one language for understanding yourself.
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MBTI Compatibility
Compares two people’s MBTI types to show a compatibility score and a reading of the relationship. Each of the four axes is weighed for sameness or difference: sharing the way you take in the world (S/N) makes conversation easy, while extraversion and introversion (E/I) are read as filling each other’s gaps when they differ. The types are a convenient way of sorting people into sixteen boxes, so which axis you diverge on tells you more than the score does.
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Blood Type Personality
Personality, love, work, and this year’s fortune read from your A, B, O, or AB blood type. Sorting temperament by blood type spread from Japan early in the twentieth century and took hold in Korea as well, where it is now a common conversational topic. However, no link between blood type and personality has been confirmed across the research, and the settled view is that it has no scientific basis. Please read it for fun rather than as fact.
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Blood Type Match
Pick two blood types (A, B, O, AB) and we read your personality compatibility and relationship tips with a score. All ten pairings of the four blood types are written out separately, so swapping the order returns the same reading. Sorting people by blood type spread from Japan early in the twentieth century, and no link between blood type and personality has been confirmed across the research. Whether the result says you suit each other or not, please do not let it settle a relationship.
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Sasang Constitution
Diagnoses your Sasang constitution among the four types with five quick questions, plus a health and food guide. Sasang medicine is the system Yi Je-ma set out in Donguisusebowon at the close of the Joseon dynasty, holding that people are born with organs of differing size and so need different remedies for the same illness. The four types are divided accordingly: the Taeyang type has large lungs and a small liver, the Taeeum type the reverse. The five questions here cannot stand in for a constitutional assessment by a practitioner, so if you have a medical condition please consult a professional.
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Enneagram
The Enneagram is a personality system that sorts people into nine types. Pick your type to explore your personality, strengths, love, work, and growth points, and gain a clue to understanding yourself more deeply. The figure of nine types set on a circle and joined by lines was introduced by Gurdjieff early in the twentieth century, and it was joined to personality types in the 1970s through Ichazo and Naranjo. Each type has neighbouring wings, and is held to move towards a different type in ease and under stress. Where MBTI asks what you do, the Enneagram asks why you do it that way.
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Color Personality
Your personality, love style, and today’s vibe read from your favorite color. The notion that colour affects mood and impression is an old one, and colour psychology and design have both catalogued the impressions each shade tends to carry. Still, one favourite colour does not settle a personality, and what you pick shifts with your mood that day and with fashion. Read it lightly, as a note on what draws you right now.
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Personal Color
Personal Color sorts the color families that suit your natural skin, hair, and eye tone into four seasons (Spring Warm, Summer Cool, Autumn Warm, Winter Cool). Find your tone with a few simple questions and get tips on the colors, style, and makeup that suit you. Sorting people by season begins with Johannes Itten, who early in the twentieth century observed that different colours suit different people, and spread in its present four-season form through American colour consulting in the 1980s. An actual assessment is made by holding fabrics against the face in good daylight, so a result from a questionnaire cannot stand in for a professional consultation. A colour that does not suit you is not forbidden either — it is enough to keep it away from your face.
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Animal Face Test
The Animal Face Test is a fun way to see which animal your impression and vibe resemble. Find your type among six — puppy, cat, rabbit, fox, bear, deer — and discover your charm, image, and style. Seeing an animal in a face is an old turn of speech, but sorting people into puppy, cat and fox types in this way took hold in Korean and Japanese popular culture and is not a category of traditional physiognomy. Rather than assigning a meaning to each feature, it gathers the impression the whole face gives into a single word. It is not a judgement on looks, so whichever animal comes up, read it for the charm that impression carries.
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Birth Weekday
Your inborn nature, this year’s fortune, and lucky points read from the weekday you were born on. The idea that the day of the week shapes a person spread through the old English rhyme "Monday’s Child", which is where each day’s character description comes from. Because the day names descend from the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, they are also read alongside the planetary characters of astrology.
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Biorhythm
Charts three body rhythms from your birth date to read today’s condition. The idea began with the German physician Wilhelm Fliess at the end of the nineteenth century and settled into the three curves of 23, 28 and 33 days around the middle of the twentieth. No scientific basis has been established for these cycles predicting how body or mind will actually be. Treat it as the pleasure of seeing a rhythm drawn out rather than a forecast.
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Lucky Numbers
Draws your lucky numbers and a word for the day, refreshed daily from your birth date and today’s date. The same person opening it on the same day always gets the same numbers, and a new set is drawn when the date changes. The numbers come from mixing your birth date with today’s date; they are not a device for predicting a win. Use them when a choice of numbers is hard, and please do not spend more on the strength of them.
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Name Compatibility
A traditional name-matching game that interleaves the strokes of two names to produce a compatibility score. The two names are laid out one character at a time in alternation, neighbouring numbers are added and the row shortens, and the final two digits are read as the score. It is exactly the game people played on paper, not a Saju-based reading. Since the result follows from letter counts and stroke counts, take it as a bit of fun.
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Dream Reading
Dream interpretation reads the symbols of last night's dream through both traditional dream lore and a modern psychological lens. The same dream can mean different things depending on feeling and context, so treat readings as a reference against your own situation. Korean dream lore accumulated from books such as the Mongjeom Iljji together with stories passed down in ordinary use, and in the twentieth century the readings of Freud and Jung were added, so that symbols came to be read as a language of the mind as well. The two strands see the same symbol differently: tradition reads a snake as wealth or a conception dream, psychology as a fear or a change within. This site presents both and leaves the choosing to you.
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FAQ
Is maiunse free?
Yes. Every reading is free, and no sign-up is required.
Is my birth date stored?
Not on any server. All calculation happens inside your browser, and the birthday remembered for the Today's Flow shortcut is kept only in your own device's browser storage.
Can I enter a lunar or leap-month birthday?
Yes. Choose Lunar in the calendar selector; if that year and month contain a leap month, a leap-month checkbox appears. Dates are converted with an accurate lunisolar calendar internally.
Can I get a Saju reading without my birth time?
Yes. Select "Time unknown" and the chart is read from three pillars (year, month, day). Most analyses — day master, element balance, and more — are still provided. Beyond Saju, Saju compatibility and the Twelve Hours, the birth time also feeds the daily almanac, Tojeong Bigyeol, the day pillar, the Chinese zodiac reading and biorhythms; if you do not know it, only those parts are left out and the rest reads as usual.
How is Saju different from the horoscope?
Saju is Eastern destiny study reading the full stem-branch chart of your birth date and time and its element balance; the horoscope is Western astrology reading disposition from the Sun's position alone. Different systems, complementary pleasures.
How accurate are the readings?
Chart calculation — calendar conversion, solar terms, stem-branches — uses verified astronomical data. The interpretations, however, are reference and entertainment content based on traditional theory; keep important decisions your own.
Can I use it in different languages?
Yes. maiunse supports six languages—Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. Switch from the language selector at the top and every reading is served in that language.
Are there fortunes that change every day?
Yes. Today's Fortune, the daily almanac, your sign's daily horoscope, the tarot Card of the Day, the I Ching hexagram of the day and Lucky Numbers refresh each day by date, so a new result appears after midnight. Biorhythm values also shift with every date.
Can I save or share my results?
On most result screens you can create a share card (PNG) with the “Save Image” button, and your birth date and choices are kept in the URL, so the same result reopens from the link alone.
How do I use the dream dictionary?
Type the dream you are curious about (e.g., snake, pig, teeth) into the search box at the top of the Dreams page, or pick a category to browse related readings. Over 860 dream interpretations are offered in six languages, and the 160 most looked-up dreams have their own pages that split the reading by situation.
What kinds of fortunes can I check?
From traditional readings like Saju, Tojeong, and compatibility to horoscopes, tarot, and numerology, plus blood type, MBTI, palmistry, and dream interpretation — 40 fortunes in one place.
Do I need to sign up or log in?
No. You can use every feature for free without signing up or logging in. What you enter is never sent to a server and is used only within your browser.
What if I get a bad result?
A fortune is entertainment for reflecting on the flow, not a fixed fate. Take an unfavorable result as a sign to be careful — your mindset and effort can always shift the current.
What kinds of compatibility can I check?
Besides Saju compatibility, you can look at the bond between two people in several ways: Chinese zodiac, star sign, MBTI, name and blood type compatibility.
Does it work well on a phone?
Yes. You can use it right in a mobile browser with no app to install, and the layout is optimized for the screen. Add it to your home screen to open it as fast as an app.