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What we hold to

Astrology, decoded

There are two ways to come to a chart. One is to ask what is going to happen to you, and then to wait and see whether it does. The other is to ask who you are, and to find that the sky has been keeping notes. Argo is built for the second. Astrology has been sold as the first for a long time: as certainty, as warning, as a reason to be afraid on a Tuesday. We are building the other thing.


The sky is real, so we compute it

Every position in your chart comes from the Swiss Ephemeris — the same ephemeris professional astrologers work from — computed for the minute and the place you gave us. Nothing is approximated. Nothing is invented. If your birth time is unknown, we say which parts of the chart that leaves uncertain rather than quietly guessing.

Most horoscopes are written for one-twelfth of everyone alive. Yours is arithmetic before it is language.

A mirror, never a verdict

A prediction asks you to wait: for the event, for the proof, for someone else to turn out to be right about your life. A mirror asks something harder and simpler. It asks you to look.

Argo reads your chart the way you would read a good map of a country you already live in. It names the terrain: where the ground is steep in you, where the water runs, which seasons come back. What you find there is yours.

We would rather be specific enough to be wrong than vague enough to fit anyone. If a line doesn't fit, the line is wrong, not you.

A claim we haven't earned is worth less than the honesty of not making it.

We don't watch you

There is no third-party analytics on this site. No advertising pixels. No trackers, no fingerprinting, no cross-site identifiers, no data broker anywhere in the story. We count page views with a first-party request that stores no cookie, keeps no identifier between page loads, and never reads your IP address at all.

That's also why there's no cookie banner here. There's nothing to consent to. One cookie exists, it signs you in, and it does nothing else.

We will never sell your data. Not as a policy that could be revised in an acquisition — as a thing we have built the system to be incapable of needing.

We hold as little as we can, and we tell you exactly what

Four fields: your email, and the date, time and place you were born. From those we derive your chart, and from your chart we compose your reading. That's the whole of it. Your birth data, your coordinates and the text of your readings never appear in our logs — enforced by a check that fails our build if anyone adds one. Your birth data is never sold.

The privacy policy lists every field, every company that touches it, and how long each thing is kept — including the parts we'd rather not advertise, like the thirty-day backup window that limits how final a deletion can be on the day you make it.

Argo is also small on purpose. The code that handles your data pulls in almost no outside packages, which removes most of the supply-chain surface that breaks services like this one. Fewer moving parts is a privacy feature with a boring name.

Leaving is as easy as arriving

Cancel in one message, without being asked why and without an offer engineered to stop you. Delete your account yourself, from your own dashboard, and everything we hold about you goes in the same request — your chart, your birth data, every reading ever written for you. Same day. One code path. No soft-delete flag pretending to be a deletion.

Turning off the daily email turns off the daily email. It doesn't cancel anything and it doesn't delete anything, and we will never quietly confuse the two.

The sky is a mirror.

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Argo is a tool for understanding more of yourself, and it is not finished. We are going to keep making it better. If a line on this page or in a reading doesn't match the sky, tell us at hello@argoastro.com. Where this page and the privacy or terms pages disagree, those pages bind.