How it works
Create your account with a link sent by email, no password needed
On My Birth Chart, creating an account without a password takes less than a minute: you give your email address, a link arrives in your inbox, and tapping it creates your account, signs you in and saves your chart. A password is still possible, but it is no longer asked for.
How do you create your account with a simple link?
Everything happens on the My account page, or right where the account is useful to you: under a reading, the card “The rest of your reading is waiting” holds the same form. Either way, there is a single field to fill in.
- Enter your address in “Your e-mail”.
- Tap “Send me my link” (or “Read the rest”, in the card of a reading).
- Open the email “Confirm your account on My Birth Chart” and tap the link inside, within twenty minutes.
- Your space opens: you are signed in, for thirty days on this device.
Nothing is created until you tap the link. If you do nothing, no account exists, and the site does not keep your address beyond the twenty minutes of the link.
Why a link rather than a password?
Because one more password is one more password to invent, remember and then recover. The link proves the only thing that matters: that the address really is yours. It is also what stops someone else from opening an account in your name.
The link is made to work for you alone. It is valid for twenty minutes, works only once, and holds neither your address nor anything from your chart: only a number drawn at random, which the site recognises. After that delay, or once used, it leads nowhere.
You must be eighteen or older to create an account, as for asking your chart questions or ordering.
What the link does when you tap it
The link does more than sign you in: it picks up what you were doing. If you asked for your account from the page of a chart, that chart is saved in your space at the same moment (see saving your chart). If you asked for it from a reading, you come back to that reading, and the rest of it is written before your eyes (see the express reading).
This also works when you open the email on another device, or in the browser of your mail app: the chart and the reading travel with the link, not with the device. You then receive a welcome email, once only, which reminds you what your space keeps and how to come back.
Coming back later: signing in without a password
On the device where you tapped the link, you stay signed in for thirty days. Elsewhere, or later, open My account and tap “Get a sign-in link”: a new link is sent to your address, also valid for twenty minutes, and signs you in with one tap.
The site never says whether an address has an account: the screen is the same for everyone, and the answer arrives in the inbox, where only the person concerned can read it. If the address has no space yet, the email says so, with the link to create one.
Choosing a password, if you prefer
Some people would rather have a password, for example to let their phone’s keychain fill in the form. That is possible at two moments. At sign-up, “or choose a password”, under the address field, opens a second field: ten characters at least. Later, in your space, the “Password” section offers “Choose a password”.
In both cases, the site keeps only a fingerprint of the password, never the password itself; when chosen from your space, an email confirms that it has been saved. The sign-in link keeps working: you then have both ways in. Every section of the space is described in the free account.
To go further, two-factor authentication, which is optional, also asks for a code from your authenticator app at every sign-in, by link or by password.
With your account: seven days of tailored horoscope
Once your account is created and your chart marked as yours (“This is my chart”), you can start seven mornings of horoscope composed for your chart, free and once only. Nothing starts by itself: you ask for it, from the form, your space or the welcome email. The details are in the week of tailored horoscope.
The link does not arrive, or no longer works
The email leaves within a second, but some mail services file it elsewhere: check your spam folder and “Promotions”. If it is not there after two minutes, check the address you typed and ask for another link: three requests per address are possible in ten minutes.
“This sign-in link has expired or was already used” means the twenty minutes have passed, or the link has already been tapped, sometimes by a mail filter that opens links before you do. Simply ask for another one. And if a question is waiting, your chart answers you without an account too, with three questions a week instead of five.
Your email address is enough: one link, one tap, and your space keeps your charts and your readings.
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