Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityYou type your sign and your partner's into a compatibility search box, and the internet hands you a verdict in about three seconds. Aries and Cancer — incompatible. Leo and Aquarius — match. Cancer and Cancer — depends who you ask.
Oksana Miatova25 min
CompatibilityShe wants to know whether they're moving in together. He answers, easily, by suggesting a long weekend in Porto, as though those two questions belong on the same shelf. Both think they have engaged. Neither has heard the other. By Tuesday the conversation about the flat has gone quiet, and he is,...
Oksana Miatova13 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
Birth chartYou were born somewhere, at some particular minute. A birth chart is simply a map of where the planets sat in the sky at that moment — drawn from your date, time and place of birth. That's the whole input. What it gives back is harder to summarise, which is probably why most guides skip the expla...
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityShe screen-grabs a paragraph from Cosmopolitan and sends it to her best friend. «Is this us?» The friend reads two sentences and sends back a shrug. A different site rates the pair at 47 per cent. A third calls it «one of the most challenging matches in the zodiac», then a Reddit thread tells her...
Oksana Miatova12 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
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
GuidesYou had a knock — a clipped reply, a comparison you didn't ask for, a meeting that went sideways — and now, at twenty past ten on a weeknight, you've typed "quotes on self-esteem" into Google. Two minutes into a list of ninety-nine you're feeling slightly worse than when you started. The quotes b...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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
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
CompatibilitySunday evening, kitchen table, two laptops open to the same colour-coded planner. He flags a missing comma in row eighteen at exactly the moment she does. They both laugh, then both quietly fix it on their own copy, then both notice the laugh has happened before. This is what virgo on virgo compa...
Oksana Miatova14 min