Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilitySomeone types «dinner tonight?» to their new Capricorn partner. The reply comes back forty minutes later: a shared calendar invite for next Saturday at seven, with a small note that he's already checked the weather and booked. The Aries reads the message twice. It's not a no, but it isn't a yes e...
Oksana Miatova13 min
GuidesShe heard the word for the first time in a Thursday-evening therapy session, and spent the Tube journey home reading six checklists on six different websites. She recognised herself in each one. By the time the train reached her station, she felt less informed than indicted, and the question wait...
Oksana Miatova15 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
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts. Astrostyle tells you to channel your bold Mars energy; Elle UK says today is about embracing your inner fire; Cafe Astrology mentions a Moon-Saturn square but doesn't quite translate what that means for an Aries. You're an Aries, you read your horosc...
Oksana Miatova14 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
CompatibilityIt's a Tuesday-evening pitch night in a converted Shoreditch warehouse. Maya is on stage in trainers, talking through her start-up deck like she's already late for the next thing. Aries, you'd guess, even if you didn't know. Sam is two rows back, half-watching, half-typing into his phone, working...
Oksana Miatova15 min
CompatibilityIt is 11:53pm. The takeaway menus are still open on the kitchen counter. He said "I genuinely don't mind, you choose". She said "no really, you choose". This is the third evening this week that has finished without anyone choosing the restaurant, and neither of them is sure whether that is sweet ...
Oksana Miatova16 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
Birth-time rectificationYou sit down to build your birth chart, the form asks for your time of birth, and you stall. Maybe there's nothing written down. Maybe there's a number, but your mum shrugs and says "sometime in the morning, I think." Maybe the certificate in the drawer has a date and no time at all.
Oksana Miatova11 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
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts about your love life. Astrology.com tells you to expect a meaningful conversation with your partner today; Elle UK says today is about leaning into attraction; Cafe Astrology mentions a Venus-Saturn square but doesn't quite translate what that means f...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityA Virgo sends her Libra colleague a proposal at 4:47 on a Thursday afternoon: "Final read. Going to client at six." Twenty minutes pass. He writes back: "Lovely. I do wonder if we should sit on it overnight — give Maya a chance to weigh in."
Oksana Miatova18 min