Hi there, I'm Lale Aricoglu, and welcome to a very fun Women Who Travel episode this week

that's all about astrology. I'm talking to Steph Koithman, who writes our horoscope column,

where she offers travel predictions for each zodiac sign every month on our website.

She started writing for us in August last year, and it's hugely popular.

For this episode, Steph is reading the charts of three listeners chosen from our mailbag.

Steph is talking to me today from Florida.

I grew up at a time when it wasn't cool to like astrology, and you just had to kind of know most people in casual conversation. You're just going to roll their eyes at you or kind of change the subject actually.

Well, I guess it was when we were growing up, astrology, or at least in my head in the UK,

it was this sort of like, I was really leaning into stereotypes,

but it was sort of like women with lots of bangles and sort of baggy tops,

sort of like looking at crystal ball, and it was all

a bit airy, fairy. And I mean, now we have like apps. We have so many, like, well-respected

writers like yourself who are actually like, I mean, it's sort of, it's an art form and a science.

You write for women who travel, a astrology column that is very focused on travel. What are you like as a

traveler? When this opportunity came my way, I was just kind of like, of course I would write a

travel column because I'm a very ninth house person, right? The ninth house in astrology

has to do with travel. It has to do with education. It has to do with spirituality and astrology

and divination and all of those

kinds of journeys and quests for knowledge. And I myself am kind of in a time in my life where I'm

trying to do more travel. I'm trying to be a little bit more nomadic. So it fits. Yeah.

One of the things I really like about the column is that you can see the sort of personalities and traits of different types of travelers coming through according to their signs. And I can definitely see some of my own. I was going to say chaos. I don't know if that's the right word. What are your traits as a traveler? Well, my ninth house falls in Gemini. And so one of the traits of

Gemini is curiosity and multiplicity and liking to have a little bit of everything. For me, language is a

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