Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
Birth chartYour astrology rising sign, also called your Ascendant, is the version of you the room reads in the first thirty seconds before anyone has said a word. Door, surface, manner. People call it the mask, which is half right and half misleading. It isn't a disguise you chose. It's the visible part of ...
Oksana Miatova15 min
GuidesMaya opens a third browser tab. The first article said the Capricorn birthstone is garnet. The second said it's blue topaz, turquoise or tanzanite, depending on which December list the jeweller was using. The third gave a list of eight stones, half of them dark and «Saturn-ruled», the rest appare...
Oksana Miatova20 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
PlanetsEight o'clock on a Tuesday evening. You're finishing an email to a client. You read it a sixth time, because a small steady voice inside your head says it isn't quite right yet — not really, not enough. You change one word. You send it. You feel less like you sent a good piece of work and more li...
Oksana Miatova16 min
HousesYou looked at your birth chart, saw twelve numbered wedges around the wheel, and someone told you those were the houses. You opened a guide to find out what they meant, and were handed twelve paragraphs in a row, each one describing a different house as though it had a personality of its own. By ...
Oksana Miatova14 min
CompatibilityThe mediation room is on the third floor of a corporate building near Liverpool Street, two glasses of water already poured. Maya, the family-law mediator, walks in three minutes early in a soft navy blazer and the small, easy smile she opens every session with. Sam, the investigative journalist ...
Oksana Miatova15 min
CompatibilityYou've been working with someone on a slow project — a renovation, a small business, a volunteer committee, the kind of thing that runs three to nine months and asks for steadiness rather than fireworks. It's been going unusually well. Today, over coffee, you asked when his birthday was, and he s...
Oksana Miatova15 min