Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesIt's a Tuesday evening in a Clapham café and your partner of two years hasn't answered the message you sent at six. It's now seven. Your stomach has done that small sliding thing it does, and the thought has arrived on its usual schedule: *something's wrong, he's going off me, I can feel it.* You...
Oksana Miatova17 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
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
CompatibilityShe met him in a bereavement group — the local Talking Therapies service ran one for adults who'd lost a parent. She'd lost her father six months earlier; he'd lost his mother the year before. They started having tea after sessions. Four months later they were together, and she was lying in bed a...
Oksana Miatova13 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
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 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
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
Birth-time rectificationYou've probably been handed two flatly opposite answers. One friend insists you can't read a chart at all without an exact time, and treats a missing minute like a missing limb. Another waves it away: signs are signs, the rest is fuss, just enjoy your Scorpio season. Both of them are half right, ...
Oksana Miatova9 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
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
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