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Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityA small church hall in Hackney on a Wednesday evening. A housing meeting that started at seven has not finished at half past nine; the organiser is putting chairs away and pointedly not turning the lights off. Two people are still standing by the leaflet table, both holding paper cups of tea long...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityIt is Sunday morning, and you are both already at odds without quite knowing it. You want a slow day at home: coffee, the paper, perhaps a walk later. He has a list. Market, gym, two small admin things, dinner with his sister. Both of you think you are being reasonable. By eleven you feel slightl...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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
CompatibilityA Leo texts her Aquarius partner late on a Tuesday afternoon: "Are we still on for Sarah's birthday tonight?" He answers, twenty minutes later: "Yeah probably. Might pop in."
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityIt is 11:53pm. The takeaway menus are still open on the kitchen counter. He said "I genuinely don't mind, you choose". She said "no really, you choose". This is the third evening this week that has finished without anyone choosing the restaurant, and neither of them is sure whether that is sweet ...
Oksana Miatova16 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 screen-grabs a paragraph from Cosmopolitan and sends it to her best friend. "Is this us?" The friend reads two sentences and sends back a shrug. A different site rates the pair at 47 per cent. A third calls it "one of the most challenging matches in the zodiac", then a Reddit thread tells her...
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityShe met him in a bereavement group — the local Talking Therapies service ran one for adults who'd lost a parent. She'd lost her father six months earlier; he'd lost his mother the year before. They started having tea after sessions. Four months later they were together, and she was lying in bed a...
Oksana Miatova13 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
CompatibilityShe wants to know whether they're moving in together. He answers, easily, by suggesting a long weekend in Porto, as though those two questions belong on the same shelf. Both think they have engaged. Neither has heard the other. By Tuesday the conversation about the flat has gone quiet, and he is,...
Oksana Miatova13 min
CompatibilityTwo o'clock on the 31st of December. The Cancer partner is in the kitchen, putting together a small supper for four — her sister, her sister's husband, the two of them. Candles already on the table at this hour; the music chosen yesterday. The Aquarius partner walks in with his coat still on. "I ...
Oksana Miatova16 min