Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesEli has three tattoo references open on his phone — a detailed scorpion in fine line, a phoenix mid-flight with feathers fanning behind it, and a small map of Scorpius with one warm-amber dot for Antares. His appointment at Watermelon Tattoo in Glasgow is in two weeks. He is sitting at the window...
Oksana Miatova23 min
CompatibilityIt is 11:53pm. The takeaway menus are still open on the kitchen counter. He said "I genuinely don't mind, you choose". She said "no really, you choose". This is the third evening this week that has finished without anyone choosing the restaurant, and neither of them is sure whether that is sweet ...
Oksana Miatova16 min
GuidesNadia opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Scorpio birthstone is topaz, and showed a glowing pinkish-orange imperial topaz the colour of late autumn sun. The second said it's citrine, the bright lemon-yellow stone, with a brief footnote that citrine was added to the November list...
Oksana Miatova22 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
HoroscopesThree apps, three slightly different verdicts. Astrostyle tells you to channel your bold Mars energy; Elle UK says today is about embracing your inner fire; Cafe Astrology mentions a Moon-Saturn square but doesn't quite translate what that means for an Aries. You're an Aries, you read your horosc...
Oksana Miatova14 min
GuidesThe Pisces symbol — ♓ — is two fish, tied at the tail, swimming in opposite directions. If you've ever seen it on a horoscope page or on someone's wrist as a tattoo and thought "two fish, fine, but why are they tied together, and why facing away", you weren't being slow. The geometry is the meani...
Oksana Miatova11 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
PlanetsSomewhere on your For You page, a 28-year-old is crying into the camera about how her Saturn return ruined her engagement, her career and her hair. The comments are unhinged. The duets are unhinged. By the third video you've started Googling whether you're about to be cosmically demolished too.
Oksana Miatova12 min
CompatibilityShe has held a paint chip the colour of warm clay against the living-room wall for a fortnight. He would like to put four shortlisted swatches up for one more week, just to see how they sit in the morning light versus the evening. Neither of them has raised a voice. Neither of them is being unrea...
Oksana Miatova18 min
CompatibilitySomeone types «dinner tonight?» to their new Capricorn partner. The reply comes back forty minutes later: a shared calendar invite for next Saturday at seven, with a small note that he's already checked the weather and booked. The Aries reads the message twice. It's not a no, but it isn't a yes e...
Oksana Miatova13 min
CompatibilityIt's the autumn after the fifth year, and someone — the accountant, a friend who hasn't visited in a while, your sister — is sitting in your kitchen looking at the books, or the renovation, or the practice you've built together, and saying some version of the same thing. *I had no idea you'd done...
Oksana Miatova16 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