Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
CompatibilityIt's Sunday morning, and the conversation about the flat, or the business, or the joint account, or buying a car together, has been sitting between the two of you since Tuesday. Nobody shouted. Nobody walked out. The conversation just stopped, gently, and now you are both being unusually warm aro...
Oksana Miatova17 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts. Astrology.com tells you to brace for tension at work; Vogue says today is about emotional release; Cafe Astrology mentions a Moon-Mercury square but doesn't quite translate what that means. You're a Cancer, you read your horoscope most mornings, and ...
Oksana Miatova14 min