Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesHalf past four on a Thursday in a small café off Borough High Street. A 34-year-old woman tells her oldest friend, between sips of flat white, that the promotion has come through. The friend says the right warm things. Then, in the gap before the next question, the heroine looks down at her cup a...
Oksana Miatova22 min
GuidesSomewhere around your birthday, the Sun returns to the exact spot in the zodiac it sat at the minute you were born. A solar return chart is the snapshot of the whole sky at that moment — and astrologers read it as a one-year theme map running from this birthday to the next. It isn't always on you...
Oksana Miatova15 min
GuidesFour o'clock on a Friday in October. Your manager rang to say you're being put forward for senior consultant — that you've earned it, that the directors agreed it was overdue. You thanked him. You hung up. You made dinner, watched something undemanding, brushed your teeth. The whole time, running...
Oksana Miatova24 min
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
GuidesMara has saved eighty-seven pins to a Pinterest board called "taurus tat ideas". Glyphs. Bull heads. A long-horned silhouette in fine line. Constellation maps with a small clump of stars. Roses with a small symbol curled inside the petals. The Roman numeral II. A pair of peonies. A minimalist cow...
Oksana Miatova19 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
GuidesThree friends, three different January birthdays, three different Chinese zodiac animals — and at least one of them looked it up on a different website and got a different answer. Somewhere in that confusion is a real question: what are the Chinese zodiac signs by year, how do you find yours, and...
Oksana Miatova18 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 is nine on a Wednesday in October. A 34-year-old woman in Manchester is sitting at her parents' kitchen table, three months after her divorce was finalised, in the slow logistical middle of finding her own flat. A mug of herbal tea has gone cold beside a notebook with two underlined words, *wh...
Oksana Miatova20 min
GuidesSix different sites will tell you an Aquarius is independent, intellectual, humanitarian, eccentric and a little aloof — usually in the same order, often in the same words. If you're an Aquarius and you've read those lists thinking "that's only half right, and the half that fits doesn't fit all t...
Oksana Miatova13 min
GuidesIt's a Tuesday evening in a Clapham café and your partner of two years hasn't answered the message you sent at six. It's now seven. Your stomach has done that small sliding thing it does, and the thought has arrived on its usual schedule: *something's wrong, he's going off me, I can feel it.* You...
Oksana Miatova17 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