There are three major things that an astrologer can do to relocate a chart. The first, and perhaps the best known, is astrocartography, a series of complex calculations developed by the late astrologer Jim Lewis. These calculations show where your planetary lines run throughout the world. They help you to understand what parts of yourself, as indicated by the planetary lines, are being triggered in different places. For example, if you were living under a Venus line, your desire to love, relate, and create would be enhanced and amplified. You would find your primary values supported in this location. Venus lines are notoriously positive places for finding a partner. You would need to transform unresolved issues around relationship, partnership, and self-worth in order for your relationships to thrive. If you were living under a Mercury line, your ability to write and communicate would be enhanced. Unresolved issues related to your personal style of communicating with others would come up for change and revision. Each planetary line brings both the gifts and the negative tendencies of a particular planet. The amount of stress you would experience in a particular location would have something to do with the way in which the planetary line under which you live is aspected in your birth chart. If you choose not to live under any planetary line, then the energy of your birth chart would operate in a less biased and more natural way. Living under the line of a particular planet makes the energy of that planet uppermost in your consciousness. The second technique that astrologers use to relocate a chart is to actually relocate the birth chart for a particular location. For example, if you were born on March 13, 1954 at 2:00 p.m. local time in Chicago and wanted to relocate your chart for Seattle, the only thing that would change is the name of the place and the latitude and longitude. The Central Standard Time zone would remain the same. Nonetheless, you would have a very different chart! The value of a relocated chart is that, often, several planets will shift to different houses, or areas of life. Relocating a chart will show which areas of life would be emphasized in the new location. If you had a very challenging planetary configuration in the ninth house of higher education, travel, and philosophical development and it moved to your eighth house by relocation, you might find that suddenly, in the new location, intimacy was much harder to achieve. Psychological issues might rapidly assume much greater significance in your life. Conversely, difficult relationship issues might become much easier in a new location. The last technique that astrologers use for relocating the chart is to compare the chart of a person to the chart of a city that she or he is considering as a possible location. This is a bit more iffy, since most city charts are based on the first date of incorporation. Nonetheless, these data can be very interesting, revealing which areas of your birth chart are being triggered by the chart of the city itself. This gives you even more information about what parts of yourself will be brought out in a particular location. For example, Seattle is a Scorpio city. Seattle has the sun conjunct Mercury in Scorpio. It also has Jupiter in Scorpio. This indicates that the Scorpio area of your own chart will be highly accentuated by living in the city of Seattle. If you have Scorpio rising, living in Seattle will trigger very strong desires to develop and to express yourself. If you have Scorpio on your fifth house of social life, creativity, romance, children, and sports, you will find that this area of life is accentuated while living in Seattle. If you have Scorpio on your 11th house, friendship and the development of your dreams and goals will become very important themes in your life while residing here. As you can see, relocation can give you a much clearer sense of what parts of yourself will be brought out and accentuated in a particular place. This information can assist you in making wise choices about where you would like to live. It can give you more choice about which areas of your life will be brought forward in your experience, and some of the key issues that are likely to surface. It also reveals which personal gifts will be brought forth in a particular area. If you decide to get your chart relocated, be sure to ask the astrologer which methods she or he is using. Vedic astrologers may have their own methods; usually a blend of methods will give you more accurate information than astrocartography or chart relocation alone. Getting your astrological chart relocated can be a very enjoyable and informative experience. If you have very positive lines running through a particular area of the country and have no inclination to live there, it may be that knowing about these lines could be helpful for future business ventures or for travel. Relocation offers a lot of hope: if your dreams aren't coming true in your present location, there are always other possibilities you can try. My best wishes to you in finding just the right place to fulfill your heart's desires. Nancy Kahn, author of The Astrology of the Inner Family, has 25 years of experience as a professional astrologer and astrology teacher. She emphasizes a psychological and spiritual approach to the birth chart. Nancy is also a past-life regressionist and clinical hypnotherapist. She will give a Foundation Class in Psychological Astrology beginning September 19. Call (206) 284-1143 or visit <http://members.aol.com/Nancykahn/>. |
The relocation branch of astrology seeks to find the best place for a person to express all of his or her potentials and to find personal happiness: love, friendship, romance, career success, etc. When an astrologer "relocates" a chart, she or he is attempting to find a location where the person can have a fulfilling home life, personal life, and professional life. It can be challenging to find one place that fits all of these categories. Sometimes in relocating a chart, the astrologer is simply looking for fulfilling places for a person to travel.