Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityShe has been quietly looking at flights to Lisbon for a week. He says, casually, what about the same Cornwall cottage as last year, the one with the view. She says yes, that would be lovely, and a small disappointment lands she can't quite explain. By Tuesday he has booked Cornwall. Nobody is wro...
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityIt's a Wednesday evening writing group in the upstairs room of a small London pub. Ten regulars on a long table, two pages each. You hand yours to your neighbour — tall, mid-thirties, soft jumper, careful pencil — and read his. By the end of the round you have both underlined the same paragraph i...
Oksana Miatova17 min
CompatibilityShe has held a paint chip the colour of warm clay against the living-room wall for a fortnight. He would like to put four shortlisted swatches up for one more week, just to see how they sit in the morning light versus the evening. Neither of them has raised a voice. Neither of them is being unrea...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityIt's a Tuesday-evening pottery class in a community centre. You're at one wheel, working on what you keep hoping is a bowl. The person next to you, tall, mid-thirties, wearing a borrowed apron — has been chatting steadily through the entire session. What he's making. What he thought he'd make. Wh...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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