Astrocartography Chart: Where Should I Live?
Enter your birth details. We tell you the city that suits you best and why, then show every planetary line on the world map.
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How it works
Enter three things.
Your birth date, time and place. The time zone is worked out for you.See your best city.
With the reason, in plain English.Tap anywhere.
Tap any place on the map to see which lines are near it and what they mean.
Astrocartography is a way of drawing your birth moment on a world map. For each of 12 sky bodies, it marks four lines: the places where that body was rising, setting, overhead or underfoot when you were born. Astrologers then connect each line with a theme, such as affection, growth or home. Enter your birth date, time and place here to see all 48 lines, free and without an account, plus the city your map points to first and why.
What an astrocartography chart shows
Picture the sky at the minute you were born. The Earth is round, so at that exact moment Venus was climbing over the horizon for some places, sinking below it for others, reaching its highest point along one strip of the planet and its lowest point along the opposite strip. Join those places up and you get four lines for Venus. Do the same for the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the North Node and Chiron, and you have 48 lines around the globe.
That part is plain astronomy. What the lines mean comes from astrological tradition: astrologers read a place on or near a line as somewhere that body's themes stand out. You do not need to know any astrology to use the map, because tapping a place tells you in ordinary English which lines are near and what they are connected with. You may also see all this called an astro map or locational astrology.
A real example: Maya's map
Maya is our sample person, born on June 10, 1990, at 2:30 pm in New York. Every figure below is what the calculator returned for those details.
The first city overall is Tbilisi, Georgia, because three lines pass close to it:
| Line | Distance from Tbilisi | What astrologers connect it with |
|---|---|---|
| Venus underfoot | 18 km | Affection and enjoying life, showing up in home and private life |
| Moon rising | 22 km | Emotional safety and daily habits, showing up in how Maya comes across |
| Jupiter setting | 214 km | Growth and new chances, showing up in close one-to-one ties |
Change the goal and the answer can change too. Tbilisi also comes first for love and for home, while career moves to Boston, where the Jupiter overhead line is 72 km away.
Now move the birth time one hour later, to 3:30 pm. The first city becomes Istanbul. That is how much the time of birth matters, and why the time you enter is worth checking.
None of this tells Maya to pack. It gives Maya a short list of places to look into, with a reason attached to each.
What the four kinds of line talk about
The body sets the subject and the kind of line sets the part of life it shows up in.
- Rising line (AS): how you come across and how you meet new situations.
- Setting line (DS): the people you draw close and your one-to-one partnerships.
- Overhead line (MC): your public side, such as reputation and career direction.
- Underfoot line (IC): home, roots and your private life.
So a Jupiter overhead line pairs growth and new chances with your public side. All 12 bodies are covered in Line Meanings.
Astrocartography, birth chart and relocation chart
| What it is | The question it answers | |
|---|---|---|
| Birth chart | The sky at your birth, drawn for your birthplace | What does my chart look like? |
| Astrocartography map | The same moment, drawn as lines across the whole world | Where do my lines run? |
| Relocation chart | The same moment, redrawn for one other city | What does my chart look like there? |
The map is the place to start when you do not yet have a city in mind. Once you have one, a relocation chart shows your new rising sign and houses for it.
How close counts
Astrologers do not share one fixed distance. This map gives you the real number instead of a vague zone: tap any place and you see every line within 1,000 km, with its distance in kilometres. When it picks your first city, closer lines count for far more. A line 350 km away counts for a little over a third of one running right through the city, and past 1,000 km it is not counted at all.
Why another site may draw it differently
Three things explain most of the gaps. The first is the birth time: every four minutes moves the lines about one degree, which is about 111 km at the equator. The second is the time zone, including daylight saving rules from the year you were born, which this site converts for you. The third is the drawing method. This map uses in mundo by default, which follows where the body really stood in the sky, and you can switch to Zodiacal, which uses its zodiac degree. The gap depends on the body: none for the Sun and the North Node, usually under about 300 km for the Moon through Mars, and more than 1,000 km in places for Pluto on our sample map. How we calculate has the full test results.
How to choose a city from your map
- Decide what you want from a place right now: an overall fit, love, career or home.
- Read the first city for that goal, and why it came first.
- Look up the cities you were already considering. Any place works, not just the ones on the list.
- For each, read the closest lines and ask whether those themes are what you are after.
- Weigh that against your real list: cost, paperwork, climate, language and the people you want nearby. A short stay tells you a lot.
When no line runs where you live
Say Maya lives in Chicago. The closest lines there are Sun overhead at 826 km, Mars setting at 842 km and Uranus underfoot at 860 km, so nothing runs close. Astrologers would not read that as a bad sign. It simply means no one line's theme stands out there, and your birth chart carries on as it always has. If you want a particular theme in your life, find the nearest line carrying it and try a visit.
FAQ
Can ChatGPT read astrocartography?
It can explain what a line means in general, but working out your lines is a different job, and a chat model can fill gaps with details that sound right and are invented. Calculate your lines here first, then paste the line names and distances into the chat and ask about those.
Which line should you live on?
No single line suits everyone, because it depends on what you want from a place. Astrologers tend to look at Venus for love, Jupiter or the Sun on an overhead line for career, and the Moon on an underfoot line for home. Pick a goal and the tool sorts this for you.
How do I figure out my astrocartography?
You need three things: your birth date, your birth time and your birth place. Enter them and the map draws all your lines and names the first city with its reasons. There is nothing to work out by hand, and no astrology knowledge is needed.
Is it free, and do I need to sign up?
The map is free and needs no account. That covers all 48 lines, your first city and why, the first city for each of the four goals, a lookup for any place, a relocation chart and your rising sign in any city. There is also an optional paid report with the full city lists.
Do I need my exact birth time?
It helps a lot, since lines shift about 111 km at the equator for every four minutes. If you do not know the time, choose that option and the map is drawn for 12 noon local time as an illustration, without city rankings. A close guess gives you a far more useful map.
Is my birth data stored?
If you are not signed in, the server does not keep your birth details once the calculation is done. They never go into the web address, and they stay saved in your own browser, so you do not have to type them again next time. If you sign in, they are also kept with your account so you can open them on your other devices, and you can remove them on the My Cities page. You are never asked for your name or gender.
How accurate are the lines?
We compared the lines with a standard astrology reference across 3,001 moments and found a largest difference of 0.633 km. The position of a line is astronomy that can be tested. What a line means comes from astrological symbolism, which has no scientific evidence behind it.