Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
CompatibilityIt is Sunday morning, and you are both already at odds without quite knowing it. You want a slow day at home: coffee, the paper, perhaps a walk later. He has a list. Market, gym, two small admin things, dinner with his sister. Both of you think you are being reasonable. By eleven you feel slightl...
Oksana Miatova14 min
CompatibilityIt's a Tuesday-evening pottery class in a community centre. You're at one wheel, working on what you keep hoping is a bowl. The person next to you, tall, mid-thirties, wearing a borrowed apron — has been chatting steadily through the entire session. What he's making. What he thought he'd make. Wh...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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
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
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
CompatibilityA small church hall in Hackney on a Wednesday evening. A housing meeting that started at seven has not finished at half past nine; the organiser is putting chairs away and pointedly not turning the lights off. Two people are still standing by the leaflet table, both holding paper cups of tea long...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityShe has held a paint chip the colour of warm clay against the living-room wall for a fortnight. He would like to put four shortlisted swatches up for one more week, just to see how they sit in the morning light versus the evening. Neither of them has raised a voice. Neither of them is being unrea...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityIt's a Wednesday evening writing group in the upstairs room of a small London pub. Ten regulars on a long table, two pages each. You hand yours to your neighbour — tall, mid-thirties, soft jumper, careful pencil — and read his. By the end of the round you have both underlined the same paragraph i...
Oksana Miatova17 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
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