ASTROCARTOGRAPHY

Your session includes a Customized Astrocartography Report.  Reports are 40 or more pages.

This Astrocartography map from astro.com shows planetary influences (represented by lines) at a specific moment in time, illustrating where planets rise and set on Earth. Astrocartography projects planetary positions onto a world map, allowing astrologers to interpret experiences in particular locations. The map is used to track how global planetary influences from a natal chart change in new places, and can be created for any moment or event.

WHAT IS ASTROCARTOGRAPHY?
Astrocartography, or astrolocality, is a branch of astrology that relocates your natal chart to a different place on Earth, changing the strengths of your planets. This shift explains why your experiences and opportunities vary from one location to another.

While locational astrology has ancient roots, Jim Lewis (1941-1995) pioneered modern astrocartography by using computers to plot planetary trajectories worldwide. He examined how planets express at specific positions (lines) on the map.

WHAT IS A RELOCATED CHART?
The relocated chart keeps the exact birth moment but adjusts for the new time zone and uses the location’s coordinates. For example, a Bronx birth at 8:40 PM is 6:40 PM in Taos, Mountain Time—both reflecting the same instant. The latitude and longitude change for the new location.

Each moment has a unique planetary arrangement. Every location also experiences that moment differently. Charts for the exact moment, cast for other places, keep planets in the same sign degrees, but vary their positions in the houses because the wheel rotates based on new coordinates.

HOW DO THE PLANETS EXPRESS IN THE RELOCATED CHART?

      • The Sun, Mars, or Jupiter can help to create career opportunities.
      • Sun lines enhance your visibility and appeal. Your creativity, confidence, and self-expression flourish here. You have vitality and feel purposeful. The Sun can draw romantic partnerships and motivate you to take the lead in your life.
      • Moon lines foster a sense of belonging, connection, and heightened emotional or intuitive awareness. It’s also favorable for writing, especially autobiographical work.
      • Mercury influences travel, communication (including speaking and writing), and education—whether it involves aking, teaching, or pursuing self-directed study. Here, your mind is agile, you’re more articulate, and you experience greater intellectual stimulation.
      • Venus influences relationships, especially romance, and generally attracts social connections, community, and pleasure. Life feels more beautiful under this line.
      • Mars lines elevate ambition and drive, and are beneficial for athletics; however, they can also attract aggression. Mars helps to maintain intense focus on goals.
      • Jupiter brings expansion, luck, abundance, and optimism, along with opportunities in social and career spheres. It can also encourage indulgence and enhance leadership.
      • Saturn emphasizes responsibility, helps you maintain focus, and motivates deep study. Saturn also brings stability and long-term growth. Saturn’s energy can also impose restrictions.
      • Uranus brings unpredictability and excitement, disrupting routines and making you appear eccentric or unconventional. This is not the place for those seeking stability or predictability.
      • Neptune inspires spirituality and compassion, heightening sensitivity and intuition. Stay grounded, as this influence can distance you from the material world.
      • Pluto lines reveal personal power, transformation, and possible disempowerment. Pluto’s energy is profound, often leading to challenging but cathartic change.
      • Chiron indicates where you seek and can find healing, which involves acceptance and self-forgiveness. These locations are also conducive to healing and mentoring others.

When assessing a planet’s behavior in a new location, astrologers consider how it expresses in your natal chart. A planet afflicted by challenging aspects carries those difficulties into the relocated chart, although harmonious aspects can mitigate their effects. The chart’s angles—Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, and Nadir—are critical reference points.

WHAT ARE THE ANGLES IN ASTROCARTOGRAPHY?
The Angles are the cardinal points of your natal chart. These mathematical points in space arise from the following intersections:

      • The Ascendant is where the ecliptic (the Earth’s orbital plane) meets the Eastern horizon.
      • The Descendant is where it intersects the Western horizon.
      • The Medium Coeli or Midheaven marks the intersection with the local meridian above ground, and
      • the Imum Coeli (IC or Nadir) is where the ecliptic meets the meridian below ground.

These intersections connect your chart to the celestial sphere, linking your position to the Earth.

Because the cardinal points in a natal chart are real points, I never reconfigure any chart to begin at 0 degrees of the rising sign. Michel Gauquelin’s research proved that the cardinal points at birth are crucial in identifying the rising and culminating zones (power placements) of the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Subsequently, research astrologer Patrick Jerome2, who spent several decades reviewing and validating Gauquelin’s data, also found power zones for Neptune. (These five — Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune — are known as the “Gauquelin planets.”)3 When the true Ascendant and Midheaven are altered to create whole sign houses, we lose the actual zones for the birth placements of all the planets. When you consider that Mr. Gauquelin found through his research for 36 zones inside the traditional 12 houses, it is clear that reconfiguring the original (true) angles by giving the Ascendant and Midheaven 0 degrees causes natal planets to lose their G-Zone placements. The result is that we are unable to perceive how certain planets actually behave in the natal chart as well as the relocated chart.

When interpreting a relocated chart, I also utilize the meanings of the Gauquelin planets when they fall within Gauquelin’s rising and/or culminating zones (G-Zones). This approach deviates from, but adds to, the standard astrocartographic approach of looking only at (besides the parans) the relocated chart planets in relation to the angles. I also examine the Gauquelin placements of the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, as including these in the interpretation of a relocated chart provides a more comprehensive understanding of how the relocated chart influences the experience of the new location.

Astrocartography focuses on the power of the relocated angles as they twine with every mathematical aspect a planet in the relocated chart makes, if any, to the angles. I add the meaning of the Gauquelin planets in the relocated chart to the astrocartography of a location if they are in their power zones in that chart. Unlike the standard approach, their relationship to the angles is not relevant; however, if an aspect to the angle from a Gauquelin placement is present, it will fall under the rules of astrocartographic interpretation.

Jim Lewis was a brilliant astrologer whose seminal work in astrocartography opened up a whole new avenue of astrology, providing insights and incisiveness, with a focus mainly on the relationship between the planets and the angles. As such, it does not include the data-based and reproducible findings of Michel Gauquelin’s research. However, I intend no disrespect whatsoever towards Mr. Lewis’s seminal work, and, along with countless astrologers, I am deeply appreciative of his extensive efforts to reveal the remarkable effects of astrocartography.

PARANS
Parans, or paran lines, in astrocartography are also important. Parans are places where two planets are angular together; for instance, the Moon is on the IC (nadir) while the Sun is rising, or on the ASC (ascendant).

Where two planetary lines cross, the point of their crossing forms a Paran.

Parans are latitudinal lines that stretch across the globe, and they are most powerful with a 1-degree orb (or around 70 miles). 2-degree orbs have impact as well, but 1-degree orbs are more influential.
Paran lines show the specific energies in certain regions. Refer to the map below for an illustration of how Paran lines appear. The horizontal, or latitudinal, lines crossing this map are Parans.

EFFECTIVE PLANETARY DISTANCES IN ASTROCARTOGRAPHY

    • To feel the effect of a planetary line, stay within 600 (8.57 degrees) miles.
    • 280-420 miles is about the same as 4-6 degrees distance away.
    • 420-560 miles is 6-8 degrees away.
    • The closer the planet is to an angle, the greater its intensity.

The reality of current astrological practice is that there are many approaches to interpreting a natal chart, as different traditions employ their own lenses to analyze it. The various branches of astrology employ diverse methods, including Hellenistic, Vibrational, Evolutionary, Mundane, Electional, Horary, and Medical, among others. Although astrologers have a variety of techniques and interpretive methods, the astrological community generally does not use Michel Gauquelin’s findings. For example, to this day, astrologers continue to interpret the 12th house and its associated planets as a challenging location in the chart. But: the 12th house is created from the Ascendant, or the true horizon. The horizon is the place of sunrise, literally or symbolically. Planets rise above the Ascendant; they do not descend! 12th house placements are held up to the light, and Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in this position are not debilitated. Contrary to tradition, and as revealed through painstakingly gathered data, in the 12th house, they are especially powerful.

There are many formulas for calculating houses. Those formulas can change a planet’s house placement. This is why I do not emphasize the meaning of a planet in a house and focus instead on its placement in one of several Gauquelin sectors (G-Zones) that Michel Gauquelin identified. Some of the house systems are: Placidus, Koch, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Sripati, and Equal Houses. I use the Placidus House System because its houses most closely approximate the G-Zone placements of Michel Gauquelin’s research. These placements proved to be meaningful in terms of how a planet expresses itself.

CLIFF NOTES SUMMARY OF THE ANGLES, OR CARDINAL POINTS

      • The Ascendant represents how others perceive you and experience your personality and physical presence, serving as your direct interface with the world. We influence others.
      • The Descendant shows who you attract and how, and who you find attractive and how others find you attractive. Intimate partnerships are emphasized here. Others influence us.
      • The Nadir shows where you feel at home and can establish roots. It is sometimes used to interpret how we experienced our first foundation of home.
      • The Midheaven shows your public image, reputation, achievements, and the profession others associate with you. Like the Ascendant, this point represents your visibility to others, but it is more closely tied to your profession, career, and social status than to your physical appearance.

Your relocated chart angles will change, and the changes will become more significant the farther the new location is from your birth location. New angles can change how others perceive you and bring you new opportunities for partnerships, career advancement, home, and other areas. When the natal wheel shifts with relocation, although the planets retain their signs and degrees, they will make different aspects to the angles, and this is one of the primary factors of relocation that creates new planetary influences that can bring you a different experience in the new location.

Astrolocality reveals that we have different experiences in different locations. However, please know that your natal chart influences do not disappear because you have a relocated chart. Your natal chart will always be an active and powerful influence, but you can receive new opportunities in locations that specifically offer that to you, based on your natal chart.

How this Service Works
We will explore locations around the world that hold personal significance for you, examining how various factors—such as friendship, career, love, creativity, and spirituality—are influenced by these places. I can also suggest locations for you. Please note that requests for more than 8 locations will incur an additional $15 fee per location. Additionally, we will review the transits to your natal astrology, as they can influence timing.

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The session is two hours long, and the purchase price is $297. We will meet on Zoom. You will receive: 1. A recording of the session; 2. Your customized Relocation Report, which includes each of your relocated astrology charts, location scores, Gauquelin placement assessments, your world astrocartography map, and  3. Your Human Design chart.

Contact Me with your birth information (month, day, year, time, and location — city, state, country), what places you want to explore, what you are looking for, and your questions about this service.

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1 Michel Gauquelin (1928-1991) was a French psychologist and astrologer, who together with his wife Francoise, also a psychologist, conducted rigorous research over a period of thirty years that demonstrated that certain astrological phenomena held true to a high degree of statistical validity.

2 Patrick Jerome has studied causation in astrology for decades. He set out to review the scientific basis for conventional astrology, using over 200,000 charts to obtain solid data. Michel Gauquelin’s research, which Mr. Jerome purchased from his widow, was the platform from which he launched his own investigation.

3 Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, when placed in specific sectors of the natal astrology chart, exert a powerful influence on that chart. Those influences are characteristic of how these planets are traditionally understood to express themselves, but their placement in these particular sectors can significantly dominate the chart. This means that the planetary trait is clearly identifiable through personality. An accurate birth time is necessary to calculate a Gauquelin placement.

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