Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityYou've been working with someone on a slow project — a renovation, a small business, a volunteer committee, the kind of thing that runs three to nine months and asks for steadiness rather than fireworks. It's been going unusually well. Today, over coffee, you asked when his birthday was, and he s...
Oksana Miatova15 min
CompatibilityFriday afternoon, the small project room at the end of the corridor. Two laptops, a whiteboard, a 4 pm deadline scrawled in dry-marker at the top. He's read the three options, picked the second, and would like to send it. She's read the three options, sat with them, and would like ten more minute...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityMaya wants to book the bigger gallery space for her opening. Sam has run the numbers and wants to stay with the smaller one. The disagreement isn't loud. It isn't even, strictly, about the gallery — it's about the print run, who gets named first on the marketing copy, whether the studio rent shou...
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
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
CompatibilityFriday evening, the kitchen at the end of a long week. The kettle has just clicked off. Two phones lie face-down on the table. He's been about to suggest the quiet kind of supper they're both quietly good at, the one where neither of them has to perform. She's been about to suggest drinks at the ...
Oksana Miatova19 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
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 Miatova15 min
CompatibilityYou type your sign and your partner's into a compatibility search box, and the internet hands you a verdict in about three seconds. Aries and Cancer — incompatible. Leo and Aquarius — match. Cancer and Cancer — depends who you ask.
Oksana Miatova25 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
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