Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityIt is Saturday morning, six months after you moved in together. He has chosen a small ceramic jug at a craft market because the colour was right. You have relabelled the jars in the cupboard so the lentils actually get used. He bakes bread on Sundays now. You buy the kind of tea he drinks without...
Oksana Miatova18 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
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
GuidesIt's the sixth Friday of a relationship that, by every honest measure, is going well. He's kind, available, turned up on time, and last week he remembered something you mentioned in passing. You should be pleased. Instead, in the half-hour before he arrives to collect you for a weekend away, you ...
Oksana Miatova16 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
GuidesThree different sites will tell you a Scorpio is mysterious, intense, secretive, jealous and vengeful — usually in the same order, often in the same words. If you're a Scorpio and you've read those lists thinking "that's only half right, and the half that fits doesn't fit all the time", you weren...
Oksana Miatova13 min
CompatibilityIt is Sunday afternoon, eight months in. She has been talking for twenty minutes about an allotment they could share — the compost heap, the herbs, the slow lunches with friends pulling carrots they grew. He has been listening properly, the way he always does, and has just asked how much the coun...
Oksana Miatova20 min
GuidesSunday, half past five. The laptop has been closed since Friday. You did the long walk, made the slow lunch, ignored the inbox the way the wellness columns suggested. You open the laptop now just to check, just to be ready for Monday, and the feeling you spent the weekend trying to outrun is alre...
Oksana Miatova17 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
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
CompatibilityIt is a Tuesday evening, and you have been turning a small thing around all afternoon. A colleague said something at lunch that landed harder than it should have, and you have been holding it for three hours. Then the door opens and your partner walks in mid-thought about a podcast, an article he...
Oksana Miatova17 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