Astrology blog
Planets, houses and aspects in plain language — from your first chart to a year-ahead forecast.
GuidesIt is nine on a Wednesday in October. A 34-year-old woman in Manchester is sitting at her parents' kitchen table, three months after her divorce was finalised, in the slow logistical middle of finding her own flat. A mug of herbal tea has gone cold beside a notebook with two underlined words, *wh...
Oksana Miatova20 min
CompatibilityShe wants to know whether they're moving in together. He answers, easily, by suggesting a long weekend in Porto, as though those two questions belong on the same shelf. Both think they have engaged. Neither has heard the other. By Tuesday the conversation about the flat has gone quiet, and he is,...
Oksana Miatova13 min
CompatibilityThree horoscope sites can read Cancer and Scorpio and come back with "soulmates", "watch the possessiveness", and "difficult match", each writer perfectly confident. They aren't lying. They're all looking at the same one tenth of the chart and filling in the rest with mood. Astrological birth cha...
Oksana Miatova17 min
GuidesMaya is thirty-one. People keep asking what she's doing now, and she keeps answering with a line out of her CV, as if she were reading the side of a tin. The honest thing, the thing she doesn't say aloud, is that she's been answering that way since university. Long before the divorce, long before...
Oksana Miatova19 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
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
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