Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesThe podcast is two minutes old by the time the Jubilee line pulls out of Canary Wharf. Someone you've never met is telling the host how, at thirty-six, she quit twelve years of marketing and trained as a midwife. You've heard the story before, in different costumes — the lawyer who runs a bakery,...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesSunday, half past five. The laptop has been closed since Friday. You did the long walk, made the slow lunch, ignored the inbox the way the wellness columns suggested. You open the laptop now just to check, just to be ready for Monday, and the feeling you spent the weekend trying to outrun is alre...
Oksana Miatova17 min
GuidesYou had a knock — a clipped reply, a comparison you didn't ask for, a meeting that went sideways — and now, at twenty past ten on a weeknight, you've typed "quotes on self-esteem" into Google. Two minutes into a list of ninety-nine you're feeling slightly worse than when you started. The quotes b...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesSophia opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Sagittarius birthstone is turquoise. The second said it's topaz. The third gave a list of eight stones, all of them apparently «the Sagittarius stone». A fourth tab said «December birthstones are tanzanite, turquoise and zircon — pick o...
Oksana Miatova21 min
GuidesYou're at brunch on a slow London Sunday and a friend, two glasses of wine in, asks whether the person you've been seeing for eight months is your soulmate. You hear yourself answer, with more conviction than you feel, that you're not sure you believe in any of that. Three hours later, kettle on ...
Oksana Miatova15 min
GuidesIt's the sixth Friday of a relationship that, by every honest measure, is going well. He's kind, available, turned up on time, and last week he remembered something you mentioned in passing. You should be pleased. Instead, in the half-hour before he arrives to collect you for a weekend away, you ...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesA colleague forwarded the promotion email at 9.47 on a Tuesday. The reply chain filled up; your manager called it overdue. You typed something gracious back, closed the laptop, walked to the window, and felt the old quiet thought arrive on cue: *they've made a mistake; sooner or later, somebody i...
Oksana Miatova13 min
GuidesIt's a Friday night in someone's small London kitchen. Two friends, a bottle of supermarket red, the kettle still warm from earlier. Your third serious relationship in eight years has just ended, and your friend, kindly, says the thing nobody else has dared to. *Love. It's the same shape again, i...
Oksana Miatova15 min
GuidesHalf past eleven on a Sunday night. She's on the sofa, the phone face-down on the cushion beside her. He hasn't replied to a text she sent four hours ago. The text was fine — said *hope you had a good day, see you Tuesday*. She knows it was fine. She's read it back twice. She also knows she's abo...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesHannah opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Pisces birthstone is aquamarine. The second listed nine stones — aquamarine, amethyst, moonstone, fluorite, bloodstone, jade, turquoise, lapis lazuli, opal — all apparently «the Pisces stone». The third was firm: «Amethyst, the spiritua...
Oksana Miatova22 min
GuidesYou are standing on the platform at Clapham Junction at 7.42 on a Tuesday with a cardboard cup of coffee, and the quiet thought arrives, almost in passing: *is this the rest of it?* Not a drama. Not a breakdown. Just a low, persistent note that the architecture you have built — the job, the partn...
Oksana Miatova17 min
GuidesIf you've ever Googled "gemini birthstone" on a friend's behalf (usually three days before her birthday, in a panic at a jewellery counter), you've met the same answer about six times in a row: pearl. Then, depending on which site you landed on, either nothing else, or fourteen other stones with ...
Oksana Miatova16 min