Astrocartography
Where your planets were on the horizon
At the moment you were born, every planet was directly overhead somewhere on Earth, and rising or setting along two curves. Drawn on a map, those become the lines below. All ten planets, nothing held back, no account needed.
About the accuracy
Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same data professional astrologers use. The lines themselves are geometry and are exact for the moment given.
The birth time is what limits everything. The map turns about 15° of longitude for every hour (roughly 1,600 km at the equator) so a time recorded to the nearest half hour puts your lines around 800 km out. That is the difference between a line through Paris and one through Frankfurt. Use the slider to see it for yourself.
Astrocartography is symbolic interpretation, not prediction. The positions are astronomy; what they are said to mean about a place is not, and this site keeps the two clearly apart.
Found somewhere worth a closer look?
A relocation chart takes one place and shows your whole chart as it reads from there, same planets, rebuilt houses. It is the detail behind a line on this map.
Run a relocation chart →Understanding the technique
What the lines are, what the angles mean, how a paran works, and how to use any of it without moving country for the wrong reason.
- What is astrocartography?The technique, its history, and what it does and does not claim
- The four anglesThe backbone of both a birth chart and an astrocartography map
- Parans and crossingsThe part of a map almost nobody explains, and the surprising thing about it
- Relocation charts comparedTwo techniques, the same birth data, two different questions
- Using a map responsiblyA method, and the limits worth knowing before you book anything
- Local space: the compass versionThe technique that works over a mile as well as a continent
- Visiting a line, or living on oneThe distinction the technique is least clear about, stated plainly
- When no line runs near youThe commonest result on any map, and the one least written about
- Which of the forty to read firstHow to prioritise a map without pretending the ranking is a law