Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
CompatibilityYou've heard the word. A friend used it ("we ran our synastry") and you nodded as if you knew exactly what they meant. Most people, asked to define synastry on the spot, say something about charts and compatibility and then trail off into "you know, like a couples thing".
Oksana Miatova11 min
CompatibilityA Wednesday in late October. The Aquarius partner is on the sofa with a laptop and the document she's been editing on and off for three weeks — a climate report for a charity she advises. The Sagittarius partner is on the floor next to a half-disassembled bicycle, the second of two he's restoring...
Oksana Miatova17 min
PlanetsYou open the horoscope app on a quiet Sunday morning, scroll your daily Aries reading, and feel — politely, honestly — nothing. The forecast doesn't sound like your week. It doesn't even sound like you. Somewhere in the comments, someone mentions a moon sign, and you realise you've been reading a...
Oksana Miatova15 min
HousesYou're twenty-eight, in a perfectly respectable London office, and a simple question has been sitting on your kitchen counter for three months: *do I actually want to stay here for the next five years?* You haven't answered it. Every morning looks like the one before. A few weeks ago a friend-of-...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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
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
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
Birth-time rectificationYou've hunted for your birth time and come up empty. The certificate has a date and no hour, the hospital's records have thinned with the decades, and your family offers a shrug and a vague "sometime in the morning." Then an astrologer says something that sounds equal parts hopeful and suspicious...
Oksana Miatova11 min
GuidesThree friends, three different January birthdays, three different Chinese zodiac animals — and at least one of them looked it up on a different website and got a different answer. Somewhere in that confusion is a real question: what are the Chinese zodiac signs by year, how do you find yours, and...
Oksana Miatova18 min
GuidesEmma opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Leo birthstone is peridot. The second said it's ruby. The third gave a list of ten stones, all of them apparently «the Leo stone». She closes all three. None of them said the same thing as either of the others, and none of them said why.
Oksana Miatova17 min