Astrocartography calculator: your chart, somewhere else

The classical reading is in the lines. For every planet there are places on the map where it sat exactly on one of the four angles at the moment of your birth: rising, setting, at the top of the chart or at the bottom. A Jupiter line on the Midheaven is not the same promise as a Jupiter line on the Descendant, and a Saturn line is not a place to avoid so much as a place that asks something of you. The report gives every planet's distance from each angle at the place you choose, within a ten-degree orb.

It also answers the question people actually arrive with: where in the world would be best for me to do this particular thing. Choose an aim — work, love, vitality, money, creativity, peace, friends, home, learning, a fresh start — and three hundred cities are scored for it. The lines count, and so do the houses: a city with no planet on an angle can still rank, because relocation moves every planet into a new house and Venus arriving in the seventh means something for love whether or not it touches the Descendant.

You can also type the aim in your own words rather than take one from the list. The first time a phrase is asked, a scoring table is written for it and then pinned to those words, so the same aim always ranks the same places and two people asking the same thing get the same astrology rather than two different guesses.

For a place you are seriously considering, the report casts the relocated chart itself: the same planets, with the houses and angles of that city, so you can read it as a chart rather than as a score. It also shows how much of the aim's territory your chart expresses there compared with where you were born, which is a different question from whether the place ranks well.

What astrocartography does not do is make you someone else. The chart is the same chart everywhere; relocation changes which part of it is in the foreground, not what it contains. A difficult planet on an angle abroad is the same planet you already live with, met in a room with brighter lighting — and a good line is an invitation, not an outcome.

This report needs an accurate birth time, more than any other here. The angles are what relocation moves, and the angles come from the time: four minutes of clock error moves them a degree, and a degree of error moves a line about seventy miles. With an unknown birth time there is nothing honest for astrocartography to draw.