Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityIt's a Wednesday lunchtime, café near the office. Maya, queueing at the till, is texting a friend about Sam — fellow journalist, fellow byline on the long investigation they've been running for six weeks. Long meetings, late edits, the kind of working intimacy that creeps in without anyone naming...
Oksana Miatova14 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
CompatibilitySomeone types «dinner tonight?» to their new Capricorn partner. The reply comes back forty minutes later: a shared calendar invite for next Saturday at seven, with a small note that he's already checked the weather and booked. The Aries reads the message twice. It's not a no, but it isn't a yes e...
Oksana Miatova13 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
CompatibilityYou've heard the word. A friend used it («we ran our synastry») and you nodded as if you knew exactly what they meant. Most people, asked to define synastry on the spot, say something about charts and compatibility and then trail off into «you know, like a couples thing».
Oksana Miatova11 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