Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
PlanetsYou opened the year-ahead tab on some free astrology site, and forty-seven paragraphs unfurled. Saturn is squaring something. Pluto is doing something to your eighth house. Mercury will go retrograde four times. By paragraph six you had quietly closed the tab.
Oksana Miatova16 min
PlanetsThree Instagram stories in a row warn you that Mercury retrograde starts tomorrow. A chaos guide from a lifestyle site you half-trust tells you not to sign contracts, not to buy a laptop, not to text your ex. By the time you've finished your coffee, the next three weeks have become a sky-shaped p...
Oksana Miatova12 min
PlanetsYou opened your weather app on a Monday morning and noticed it: a thin sliver next to "Waxing Crescent, 14%". Or you scrolled past your astrology app and it told you the moon was full, in a tone faintly implying you ought to do something about that. You'd quite like to know what the phrase means,...
Oksana Miatova14 min
PlanetsEight o'clock on a Tuesday evening. You're finishing an email to a client. You read it a sixth time, because a small steady voice inside your head says it isn't quite right yet — not really, not enough. You change one word. You send it. You feel less like you sent a good piece of work and more li...
Oksana Miatova16 min
PlanetsThe full moon is rising over your kitchen window in Camden. You've just made tea, the light has turned that particular silver, and you've found yourself reaching for your phone *— is this why I can't sleep?* The first three search results disagree completely. One is from NASA and is about orbital...
Oksana Miatova19 min
PlanetsThree signs come up so often in astrology now that they have a nickname: the big three. Sun, Moon and Rising. People swap them on first dates, list them in dating-app bios, and ask each other "what's your big three?" as if it's a quiz with three answers instead of one.
Oksana Miatova13 min
PlanetsYou open the horoscope app on a quiet Sunday morning, scroll your daily Aries reading, and feel — politely, honestly — nothing. The forecast doesn't sound like your week. It doesn't even sound like you. Somewhere in the comments, someone mentions a moon sign, and you realise you've been reading a...
Oksana Miatova15 min
PlanetsSomewhere on your For You page, a 28-year-old is crying into the camera about how her Saturn return ruined her engagement, her career and her hair. The comments are unhinged. The duets are unhinged. By the third video you've started Googling whether you're about to be cosmically demolished too.
Oksana Miatova12 min