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
Birth-time rectificationYou find a birth-chart site, type in your date and place, and then the form asks for your time of birth. You don't have it. The cursor blinks in the empty field, and it's easy to assume that's the end of it, that without the time your chart is a write-off and there's no point going on.
Oksana Miatova10 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
GuidesSophia opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Sagittarius birthstone is turquoise. The second said it's topaz. The third gave a list of eight stones, all of them apparently «the Sagittarius stone». A fourth tab said «December birthstones are tanzanite, turquoise and zircon — pick o...
Oksana Miatova21 min
GuidesHalf past eleven on a Sunday night. She's on the sofa, the phone face-down on the cushion beside her. He hasn't replied to a text she sent four hours ago. The text was fine — said *hope you had a good day, see you Tuesday*. She knows it was fine. She's read it back twice. She also knows she's abo...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityIt's a Thursday evening arts council planning committee in a Bristol community hall. Twelve volunteers around two long folding tables, the usual urn of tea, a five-page funding-strategy paper in everyone's hands. You volunteer for the sub-group on the third item; she volunteers for the same sub-g...
Oksana Miatova19 min
CompatibilityShe has been quietly looking at flights to Lisbon for a week. He says, casually, what about the same Cornwall cottage as last year, the one with the view. She says yes, that would be lovely, and a small disappointment lands she can't quite explain. By Tuesday he has booked Cornwall. Nobody is wro...
Oksana Miatova12 min
HoroscopesMost "Leo horoscope" pages tell you what your day will feel like. This one starts somewhere different. If you've ever read your Leo horoscope and thought "that's me", then read it the next morning and thought "that's nothing like me", you've already noticed the thing this article is going to expl...
Oksana Miatova15 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
HoroscopesEvery Capricorn horoscope you've ever read sounds, on a quiet level, like the one before it. Discipline. Slow build. Take your work seriously. Maybe a nod to family duty. You start to wonder whether anyone actually checks the sky, or whether someone wrote one Cap horoscope in 1962 and they've all...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityFriday evening, the kitchen at the end of a long week. The kettle has just clicked off. Two phones lie face-down on the table. He's been about to suggest the quiet kind of supper they're both quietly good at, the one where neither of them has to perform. She's been about to suggest drinks at the ...
Oksana Miatova19 min
Birth-time rectificationYou've probably been handed two flatly opposite answers. One friend insists you can't read a chart at all without an exact time, and treats a missing minute like a missing limb. Another waves it away: signs are signs, the rest is fuss, just enjoy your Scorpio season. Both of them are half right, ...
Oksana Miatova9 min