Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
PlanetsEight o'clock on a Tuesday evening. You're finishing an email to a client. You read it a sixth time, because a small steady voice inside your head says it isn't quite right yet — not really, not enough. You change one word. You send it. You feel less like you sent a good piece of work and more li...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesIf you've ever Googled "gemini birthstone" on a friend's behalf (usually three days before her birthday, in a panic at a jewellery counter), you've met the same answer about six times in a row: pearl. Then, depending on which site you landed on, either nothing else, or fourteen other stones with ...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityMaya wants to book the bigger gallery space for her opening. Sam has run the numbers and wants to stay with the smaller one. The disagreement isn't loud. It isn't even, strictly, about the gallery — it's about the print run, who gets named first on the marketing copy, whether the studio rent shou...
Oksana Miatova16 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
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's a Tuesday-evening pottery class in a community centre. You're at one wheel, working on what you keep hoping is a bowl. The person next to you, tall, mid-thirties, wearing a borrowed apron — has been chatting steadily through the entire session. What he's making. What he thought he'd make. Wh...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesMaya opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Capricorn birthstone is garnet. The second said it's blue topaz, turquoise or tanzanite, depending on which December list the jeweller was using. The third gave a list of eight stones, half of them dark and «Saturn-ruled», the rest appare...
Oksana Miatova20 min
HoroscopesMost Virgo horoscope columns will tell you to organise something today. Your inbox, your week, your finances, your skincare drawer. They will be confident about it for one paragraph, and slightly different from the next column's verdict by Wednesday. If you've ever read your Virgo horoscope and t...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesSix different sites will tell you a Taurus is stubborn, sensual, loyal, loves food and hates change — usually in the same order, often in the same words. If you're a Taurus 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't ...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesNadia opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Scorpio birthstone is topaz, and showed a glowing pinkish-orange imperial topaz the colour of late autumn sun. The second said it's citrine, the bright lemon-yellow stone, with a brief footnote that citrine was added to the November list...
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
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