All 52 chapters
  1. Part 1 · The sky and the chart
  2. The sky above us
  3. Time and place of birth
  4. Two zodiacs
  5. How a chart is drawn
  6. Part 2 · The building blocks
  7. The 9 planets
  8. The 12 signs
  9. The 27 nakshatras
  10. The 12 houses
  11. The lagnas
  12. Part 3 · How planets work together
  13. How planets interact
  14. Friends, dispositors, exchanges
  15. House lords
  16. Reading one placement
  17. Part 4 · Strength and condition
  18. Dignity in depth
  19. A planet's mood
  20. Planetary strength
  21. Ashtakavarga in depth
  22. Part 5 · Patterns: yogas and doshas
  23. Yogas
  24. Doshas
  25. Part 6 · The nakshatras up close
  26. Reading a nakshatra
  27. Tara Bala
  28. Part 7 · Divisional charts
  29. Divisional charts
  30. Navamsa in depth
  31. Part 8 · Timing
  32. Dashas
  33. Transits
  34. The annual chart (Tajika)
  35. Part 9 · Relationships
  36. Compatibility
  37. Marriage in depth
  38. Part 10 · Advanced systems
  39. Special points
  40. Jaimini astrology
  41. Arudha padas
  42. KP astrology
  43. Nadi astrology
  44. Part 11 · Choosing the moment
  45. Panchanga
  46. Muhurta
  47. Prashna (horary)
  48. Part 12 · Life areas
  49. Career, money and business
  50. Travel, abroad, spirituality
  51. Health and longevity
  52. Karma and past lives
  53. Remedies
  54. Rectifying a birth time
  55. Part 13 · Western astrology
  56. Western astrology basics
  57. Aspects and chart shapes
  58. Western prediction
  59. Synastry
  60. Horary and electional
  61. Part 14 · The wider world
  62. Mundane astrology and eclipses
  63. Astrocartography and branches
  64. Part 15 · Putting it all together
  65. How it all fits
  66. How AstroMatch4u scores a chart
  67. Using astrology well
Part 14The wider world
CHAPTER 49

Astrocartography and other branches

Does a chart change if I move to another city?

Astrocartography

Developed by Jim Lewis in the 1970s, astrocartography draws your birth chart onto a world map. For each planet it draws four lines: where that planet was rising, setting, overhead (MC) or underfoot (IC) at the moment you were born. Living near a planet's line is said to bring its themes forward: near a Venus line, love and comfort; near a Saturn line, hard work and responsibility; near a Jupiter line, growth and luck.

Planetary linesSun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the nodes, four lines each.
ParansLatitudes where two planets were on angles at the same time, read as shared influence along that whole latitude.
Relocated chartYour birth moment recast for a new city: planets keep their signs, but the houses and angles shift.
Local SpaceMichael Erlewine's method: planets drawn as compass directions from where you live, used even for arranging a home.

Other branches of astrology

AgriculturalTiming sowing and harvest by the Moon and nakshatras (Krishi Jyotish).
WeatherRainfall forecasting from ingresses and the Moon, as in the Brihat Samhita.
PoliticalNational and leaders' charts (mundane).
SportsJudging contests by the 1st and 7th houses, as in horary.
PsychologicalCharts as maps of the psyche (Dane Rudhyar, Liz Greene), drawing on Jungian ideas.
VocationalCareer guidance from the 10th, 6th and 2nd houses and the D10.
Esoteric and evolutionarySoul-purpose approaches that read the chart for spiritual evolution.
Medical, relationship, electional, horary, mundane, financialEach covered in its own chapter above.

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