Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
Birth chartYour astrology rising sign, also called your Ascendant, is the version of you the room reads in the first thirty seconds before anyone has said a word. Door, surface, manner. People call it the mask, which is half right and half misleading. It isn't a disguise you chose. It's the visible part of ...
Oksana Miatova15 min
Birth chartYou were born somewhere, at some particular minute. A birth chart is simply a map of where the planets sat in the sky at that moment — drawn from your date, time and place of birth. That's the whole input. What it gives back is harder to summarise, which is probably why most guides skip the expla...
Oksana Miatova12 min
Birth chartYou read your sun-sign description, didn't quite recognise yourself, and wondered what else there was. Or you keep seeing "sun in Scorpio, moon in Pisces, rising in Gemini" on someone's profile and want to know what on earth that's about. Or someone's just told you that a birth chart explains mor...
Oksana Miatova22 min