Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityA small church hall in Hackney on a Wednesday evening. A housing meeting that started at seven has not finished at half past nine; the organiser is putting chairs away and pointedly not turning the lights off. Two people are still standing by the leaflet table, both holding paper cups of tea long...
Oksana Miatova18 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 is 2am on a Wednesday. Her mother has been in hospital for six weeks. Somewhere around the third week, a friend started ringing every evening at the same time. Long voice notes after midnight, the kind that begin "no need to reply, just thinking of you". Tonight, scrolling through the chat, sh...
Oksana Miatova17 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
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
CompatibilityThree horoscope sites can read Cancer and Scorpio and come back with "soulmates", "watch the possessiveness", and "difficult match", each writer perfectly confident. They aren't lying. They're all looking at the same one tenth of the chart and filling in the rest with mood. Astrological birth cha...
Oksana Miatova17 min
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts. Astrostyle tells you to channel your bold Mars energy; Elle UK says today is about embracing your inner fire; Cafe Astrology mentions a Moon-Saturn square but doesn't quite translate what that means for an Aries. You're an Aries, you read your horosc...
Oksana Miatova14 min
Birth chartYour astrology rising sign, also called your Ascendant, is the version of you the room reads in the first thirty seconds before anyone has said a word. Door, surface, manner. People call it the mask, which is half right and half misleading. It isn't a disguise you chose. It's the visible part of ...
Oksana Miatova15 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
GuidesIt's a Friday night in someone's small London kitchen. Two friends, a bottle of supermarket red, the kettle still warm from earlier. Your third serious relationship in eight years has just ended, and your friend, kindly, says the thing nobody else has dared to. *Love. It's the same shape again, i...
Oksana Miatova15 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
GuidesA colleague forwarded the promotion email at 9.47 on a Tuesday. The reply chain filled up; your manager called it overdue. You typed something gracious back, closed the laptop, walked to the window, and felt the old quiet thought arrive on cue: *they've made a mistake; sooner or later, somebody i...
Oksana Miatova13 min