Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
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
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
PlanetsYou open the horoscope app on a quiet Sunday morning, scroll your daily Aries reading, and feel — politely, honestly — nothing. The forecast doesn't sound like your week. It doesn't even sound like you. Somewhere in the comments, someone mentions a moon sign, and you realise you've been reading a...
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
CompatibilityYou've heard the word. A friend used it («we ran our synastry») and you nodded as if you knew exactly what they meant. Most people, asked to define synastry on the spot, say something about charts and compatibility and then trail off into «you know, like a couples thing».
Oksana Miatova11 min
Birth-time rectificationYou've probably been handed two flatly opposite answers. One friend insists you can't read a chart at all without an exact time, and treats a missing minute like a missing limb. Another waves it away: signs are signs, the rest is fuss, just enjoy your Scorpio season. Both of them are half right, ...
Oksana Miatova9 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
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