Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
GuidesMaya is thirty-one. People keep asking what she's doing now, and she keeps answering with a line out of her CV, as if she were reading the side of a tin. The honest thing, the thing she doesn't say aloud, is that she's been answering that way since university. Long before the divorce, long before...
Oksana Miatova19 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
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
GuidesAnna opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Libra birthstone is opal. The second listed eight stones — opal, rose quartz, lapis lazuli, sapphire, tourmaline, peridot, jade, citrine — all apparently «the Libra stone». The third was firm: «Sapphire, if you were born in September, eve...
Oksana Miatova20 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
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
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
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
GuidesIf someone asked you, over coffee, what astrology actually is, you'd probably know roughly what to say — but only roughly. Most of us have absorbed a vague mix of horoscope columns, Instagram bios, and a friend's confident pronouncements about Mercury retrograde. None of it quite adds up to a cle...
Oksana Miatova23 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
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