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
Birth chartYou read your sun-sign description, didn't quite recognise yourself, and wondered what else there was. Or you keep seeing "sun in Scorpio, moon in Pisces, rising in Gemini" on someone's profile and want to know what on earth that's about. Or someone's just told you that a birth chart explains mor...
Oksana Miatova22 min
PlanetsYou opened your weather app on a Monday morning and noticed it: a thin sliver next to "Waxing Crescent, 14%". Or you scrolled past your astrology app and it told you the moon was full, in a tone faintly implying you ought to do something about that. You'd quite like to know what the phrase means,...
Oksana Miatova14 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
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
CompatibilityTwo o'clock on the 31st of December. The Cancer partner is in the kitchen, putting together a small supper for four — her sister, her sister's husband, the two of them. Candles already on the table at this hour; the music chosen yesterday. The Aquarius partner walks in with his coat still on. "I ...
Oksana Miatova16 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
CompatibilitySunday afternoon at the hospital ward. Maya is at the nurses' station with a printed medication chart, working out whether the new dosage clashes with her sister's blood-pressure tablets. Sam is in the side room, holding her sister's hand while a Bake Off rerun plays quietly. Both have been there...
Oksana Miatova15 min
GuidesThree websites, three slightly different dates for the same sign. One friend swears she's "such a typical Capricorn", another tells you Capricorns are nothing like her. Somewhere in the middle, you'd quite like to know what the twelve zodiac signs actually are, where the dates come from, and whet...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilityIt's a Wednesday evening writing group in the upstairs room of a small London pub. Ten regulars on a long table, two pages each. You hand yours to your neighbour — tall, mid-thirties, soft jumper, careful pencil — and read his. By the end of the round you have both underlined the same paragraph i...
Oksana Miatova17 min
GuidesIt's a Friday night in someone's small London kitchen. Two friends, a bottle of supermarket red, the kettle still warm from earlier. Your third serious relationship in eight years has just ended, and your friend, kindly, says the thing nobody else has dared to. *Love. It's the same shape again, i...
Oksana Miatova15 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