Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
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
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 Miatova13 min
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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