Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
CompatibilityMaya wants to book the venue tonight. David wants to think about it until Sunday. The email goes out three days late, after a small, slow disagreement that wasn't really about the venue. He's a Taurus. She's an Aries. They've both noticed the pattern by now, and one of them has started typing the...
Oksana Miatova13 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
GuidesYou are standing on the platform at Clapham Junction at 7.42 on a Tuesday with a cardboard cup of coffee, and the quiet thought arrives, almost in passing: *is this the rest of it?* Not a drama. Not a breakdown. Just a low, persistent note that the architecture you have built — the job, the partn...
Oksana Miatova17 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
CompatibilityYou've been working with someone on a slow project — a renovation, a small business, a volunteer committee, the kind of thing that runs three to nine months and asks for steadiness rather than fireworks. It's been going unusually well. Today, over coffee, you asked when his birthday was, and he s...
Oksana Miatova15 min
CompatibilityFriday afternoon, the small project room at the end of the corridor. Two laptops, a whiteboard, a 4 pm deadline scrawled in dry-marker at the top. He's read the three options, picked the second, and would like to send it. She's read the three options, sat with them, and would like ten more minute...
Oksana Miatova16 min
HoroscopesSix tabs open, six slightly different Scorpio horoscopes. AskGanesha says today is about money; Cafe Astrology mentions a Mars-Saturn aspect; Elle UK suggests trusting your instincts; AstrologyZone goes long on transformation. You're a Scorpio, you read your horoscope most weeks, and you'd quite ...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesSix different sites will tell you an Aquarius is independent, intellectual, humanitarian, eccentric and a little aloof — usually in the same order, often in the same words. If you're an Aquarius and you've read those lists thinking "that's only half right, and the half that fits doesn't fit all t...
Oksana Miatova13 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
GuidesHannah opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Pisces birthstone is aquamarine. The second listed nine stones — aquamarine, amethyst, moonstone, fluorite, bloodstone, jade, turquoise, lapis lazuli, opal — all apparently «the Pisces stone». The third was firm: «Amethyst, the spiritua...
Oksana Miatova22 min
GuidesFour o'clock on a Friday in October. Your manager rang to say you're being put forward for senior consultant — that you've earned it, that the directors agreed it was overdue. You thanked him. You hung up. You made dinner, watched something undemanding, brushed your teeth. The whole time, running...
Oksana Miatova24 min