Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesThree different sites will tell you a Scorpio is mysterious, intense, secretive, jealous and vengeful — usually in the same order, often in the same words. If you're a Scorpio and you've read those lists thinking "that's only half right, and the half that fits doesn't fit all the time", you weren...
Oksana Miatova13 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 Taurus birthstone is emerald. The second listed ten stones — emerald, rose quartz, jade, lapis lazuli, sapphire, peridot, garnet, citrine, malachite, tiger's eye, all apparently «the Taurus stone». The third was quieter and stranger: «E...
Oksana Miatova23 min
GuidesIt's 11.47 on a Monday night. The alarm goes off in six and a quarter hours. You're lying on your back, eyes open, replaying a phrase from this morning's meeting — what your colleague said, what you said back, what you should probably have said instead, and what he might have meant, and whether t...
Oksana Miatova18 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
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
GuidesEli has three tattoo references open on his phone — a detailed scorpion in fine line, a phoenix mid-flight with feathers fanning behind it, and a small map of Scorpius with one warm-amber dot for Antares. His appointment at Watermelon Tattoo in Glasgow is in two weeks. He is sitting at the window...
Oksana Miatova23 min
GuidesNadia opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Scorpio birthstone is topaz, and showed a glowing pinkish-orange imperial topaz the colour of late autumn sun. The second said it's citrine, the bright lemon-yellow stone, with a brief footnote that citrine was added to the November list...
Oksana Miatova22 min
GuidesThe Pisces symbol — ♓ — is two fish, tied at the tail, swimming in opposite directions. If you've ever seen it on a horoscope page or on someone's wrist as a tattoo and thought "two fish, fine, but why are they tied together, and why facing away", you weren't being slow. The geometry is the meani...
Oksana Miatova11 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
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
GuidesMaya opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Capricorn birthstone is garnet. The second said it's blue topaz, turquoise or tanzanite, depending on which December list the jeweller was using. The third gave a list of eight stones, half of them dark and «Saturn-ruled», the rest appare...
Oksana Miatova20 min