Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
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
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
CompatibilityShe has been quietly looking at flights to Lisbon for a week. He says, casually, what about the same Cornwall cottage as last year, the one with the view. She says yes, that would be lovely, and a small disappointment lands she can't quite explain. By Tuesday he has booked Cornwall. Nobody is wro...
Oksana Miatova12 min
GuidesHannah opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Taurus birthstone is emerald. The second listed ten stones — emerald, rose quartz, jade, lapis lazuli, sapphire, peridot, garnet, citrine, malachite, tiger's eye, all apparently «the Taurus stone». The third was quieter and stranger: «E...
Oksana Miatova23 min
CompatibilityA Virgo sends her Libra colleague a proposal at 4:47 on a Thursday afternoon: "Final read. Going to client at six." Twenty minutes pass. He writes back: "Lovely. I do wonder if we should sit on it overnight — give Maya a chance to weigh in."
Oksana Miatova18 min
Birth-time rectificationYou find a birth-chart site, type in your date and place, and then the form asks for your time of birth. You don't have it. The cursor blinks in the empty field, and it's easy to assume that's the end of it, that without the time your chart is a write-off and there's no point going on.
Oksana Miatova10 min
GuidesIt's 11.47 on a Monday night. The alarm goes off in six and a quarter hours. You're lying on your back, eyes open, replaying a phrase from this morning's meeting — what your colleague said, what you said back, what you should probably have said instead, and what he might have meant, and whether t...
Oksana Miatova18 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
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
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts about your love life. Astrology.com tells you to expect a meaningful conversation with your partner today; Elle UK says today is about leaning into attraction; Cafe Astrology mentions a Venus-Saturn square but doesn't quite translate what that means f...
Oksana Miatova16 min
Birth-time rectificationYou sit down to build your birth chart, the form asks for your time of birth, and you stall. Maybe there's nothing written down. Maybe there's a number, but your mum shrugs and says "sometime in the morning, I think." Maybe the certificate in the drawer has a date and no time at all.
Oksana Miatova11 min