Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityIt's Sunday morning, and the conversation about the flat, or the business, or the joint account, or buying a car together, has been sitting between the two of you since Tuesday. Nobody shouted. Nobody walked out. The conversation just stopped, gently, and now you are both being unusually warm aro...
Oksana Miatova17 min
CompatibilityIt's the third date, and the conversation has drifted to star signs. You mention you're a Cancer. He says, easily, that he's a Scorpio. You nod, and feel something tighten somewhere between excitement and a small alarm, because you've heard things about Scorpios.
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityIt's a Tuesday-evening pitch night in a converted Shoreditch warehouse. Maya is on stage in trainers, talking through her start-up deck like she's already late for the next thing. Aries, you'd guess, even if you didn't know. Sam is two rows back, half-watching, half-typing into his phone, working...
Oksana Miatova14 min
CompatibilityIt is 2am on a Wednesday. Her mother has been in hospital for six weeks. Somewhere around the third week, a friend started ringing every evening at the same time. Long voice notes after midnight, the kind that begin "no need to reply, just thinking of you". Tonight, scrolling through the chat, sh...
Oksana Miatova17 min
CompatibilitySam has been talking through the entire cooking class. What he's making, what he meant to make, what the tutor just said and what he thinks she meant by it. Maya is at the next station kneading bread dough, hands flour-pale, listening. Halfway through, Sam pauses and asks, a little anxiously, «am...
Oksana Miatova13 min
CompatibilitySomeone posts on Reddit asking whether an Aries Sun and a Scorpio Sun can work. The replies don't agree. One commenter calls it volatile but addictive, another a slow disaster, a third the most intense pair in the zodiac. The original poster reads all three and is more confused than when she star...
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityYou've heard the word. A friend used it («we ran our synastry») and you nodded as if you knew exactly what they meant. Most people, asked to define synastry on the spot, say something about charts and compatibility and then trail off into «you know, like a couples thing».
Oksana Miatova11 min
CompatibilityA Wednesday in late October. The Aquarius partner is on the sofa with a laptop and the document she's been editing on and off for three weeks — a climate report for a charity she advises. The Sagittarius partner is on the floor next to a half-disassembled bicycle, the second of two he's restoring...
Oksana Miatova17 min
CompatibilityIt is a Tuesday evening, and you have been turning a small thing around all afternoon. A colleague said something at lunch that landed harder than it should have, and you have been holding it for three hours. Then the door opens and your partner walks in mid-thought about a podcast, an article he...
Oksana Miatova17 min
CompatibilityShe sends her best friend a screenshot — a small argument, mostly resolved, slightly still itching. Her friend replies with a shrug emoji and "you two are so different though, lol". Twenty minutes later, in bed with the lamp still on, she types `pisces aries love compatibility` into Google. The f...
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityIt is Saturday morning, six months after you moved in together. He has chosen a small ceramic jug at a craft market because the colour was right. You have relabelled the jars in the cupboard so the lentils actually get used. He bakes bread on Sundays now. You buy the kind of tea he drinks without...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityMaya wants to book the venue tonight. David wants to think about it until Sunday. The email goes out three days late, after a small, slow disagreement that wasn't really about the venue. He's a Taurus. She's an Aries. They've both noticed the pattern by now, and one of them has started typing the...
Oksana Miatova12 min