Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
CompatibilityIt is Sunday afternoon, eight months in. She has been talking for twenty minutes about an allotment they could share — the compost heap, the herbs, the slow lunches with friends pulling carrots they grew. He has been listening properly, the way he always does, and has just asked how much the coun...
Oksana Miatova20 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
CompatibilityIt's a Tuesday-evening pitch night in a converted Shoreditch warehouse. Maya is on stage in trainers, talking through her start-up deck like she's already late for the next thing. Aries, you'd guess, even if you didn't know. Sam is two rows back, half-watching, half-typing into his phone, working...
Oksana Miatova15 min
PlanetsThe full moon is rising over your kitchen window in Camden. You've just made tea, the light has turned that particular silver, and you've found yourself reaching for your phone *— is this why I can't sleep?* The first three search results disagree completely. One is from NASA and is about orbital...
Oksana Miatova19 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
GuidesIt's the sixth Friday of a relationship that, by every honest measure, is going well. He's kind, available, turned up on time, and last week he remembered something you mentioned in passing. You should be pleased. Instead, in the half-hour before he arrives to collect you for a weekend away, you ...
Oksana Miatova16 min
CompatibilityYou type your sign and your partner's into a compatibility search box, and the internet hands you a verdict in about three seconds. Aries and Cancer — incompatible. Leo and Aquarius — match. Cancer and Cancer — depends who you ask.
Oksana Miatova25 min
CompatibilityIt is Saturday morning, six months after you moved in together. He has chosen a small ceramic jug at a craft market because the colour was right. You have relabelled the jars in the cupboard so the lentils actually get used. He bakes bread on Sundays now. You buy the kind of tea he drinks without...
Oksana Miatova18 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
GuidesThe hoover packed in halfway through the living room, and that was how Anna ended up sitting on the rug at three on a Sunday afternoon, two-and-a-half years after the divorce went through, realising she could not remember when she had last gone for a proper walk. She used to love walking. Used to...
Oksana Miatova17 min
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