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
CompatibilityHannah has three tabs open on her lunch break. The first says Leo and Sagittarius are a 95% match. The second says 88%. The third doesn't bother with numbers and just calls them "meant to be". She scrolls to the Leo and Capricorn paragraph. First tab: 40%. Second: 71%. None of the sites explain w...
Oksana Miatova12 min
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 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
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
CompatibilityIt is Thursday evening. They have been together two years. He is talking about the new bakery in Stoke Newington he wants to try on Saturday morning, and the long lunch they had planned afterwards. Her phone buzzes. A friend has a spare seat in a car going to Cornwall, leaving Friday night, back ...
Oksana Miatova14 min
CompatibilityThree horoscope sites can read Cancer and Scorpio and come back with "soulmates", "watch the possessiveness", and "difficult match", each writer perfectly confident. They aren't lying. They're all looking at the same one tenth of the chart and filling in the rest with mood. Astrological birth cha...
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
CompatibilityIt is Sunday afternoon, eight months in. She has been talking for twenty minutes about an allotment they could share — the compost heap, the herbs, the slow lunches with friends pulling carrots they grew. He has been listening properly, the way he always does, and has just asked how much the coun...
Oksana Miatova20 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 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