Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
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
CompatibilityIt is Thursday evening. They have been together two years. He is talking about the new bakery in Stoke Newington he wants to try on Saturday morning, and the long lunch they had planned afterwards. Her phone buzzes. A friend has a spare seat in a car going to Cornwall, leaving Friday night, back ...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesMaya is thirty-one. People keep asking what she's doing now, and she keeps answering with a line out of her CV, as if she were reading the side of a tin. The honest thing, the thing she doesn't say aloud, is that she's been answering that way since university. Long before the divorce, long before...
Oksana Miatova19 min
CompatibilityHannah has three tabs open on her lunch break. The first says Leo and Sagittarius are a 95% match. The second says 88%. The third doesn't bother with numbers and just calls them "meant to be". She scrolls to the Leo and Capricorn paragraph. First tab: 40%. Second: 71%. None of the sites explain w...
Oksana Miatova12 min
NumerologyA friend mentions in passing that her life path is 7, and it explains everything. You type "numerology" into Google and land on a calculator that hands you back a number with three lines of description and no clue where the number came from. You're not entirely sure whether numerology is the same...
Oksana Miatova22 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
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
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
CompatibilityShe sends her best friend a screenshot — a small argument, mostly resolved, slightly still itching. Her friend replies with a shrug emoji and "you two are so different though, lol". Twenty minutes later, in bed with the lamp still on, she types `pisces aries love compatibility` into Google. The f...
Oksana Miatova12 min
GuidesIt is nine on a Wednesday in October. A 34-year-old woman in Manchester is sitting at her parents' kitchen table, three months after her divorce was finalised, in the slow logistical middle of finding her own flat. A mug of herbal tea has gone cold beside a notebook with two underlined words, *wh...
Oksana Miatova20 min
GuidesAnna opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Libra birthstone is opal. The second listed eight stones — opal, rose quartz, lapis lazuli, sapphire, tourmaline, peridot, jade, citrine — all apparently «the Libra stone». The third was firm: «Sapphire, if you were born in September, eve...
Oksana Miatova20 min