Introduction

A relocation chart is simply an ordinary natal horoscope moved to a different location. It's a chart cast for the same cosmic instant of birth, but looked at from another location, as if the birth happened there. The planets' sign positions all remain the same, but they will appear in different houses at different locations, thus altering their strengths and areas of influence. So, if you were born in New York, for instance, and then moved to Paris, your relocation chart would have any first house planets shifted about 90 degrees clockwise into the tenth house; tenth house planets would be shifted into the seventh house, and so on, thus giving your natal chart a whole new look for your Parisian adventures. In fact, if it turns out to be a significant improvement, you might even want to move there. Or, perhaps you might just want to visit when you are doing the kind of things that your Paris relocation chart favors -- work, play, health, creativity -- depending on your planets' relocated house positions.

The Relocation Map

Although any one relocation chart opens up new possibilities for you when you travel, if you put a lot of them together and trace them on a map you get a set of marked-out roads of opportunity that stretch around the world, each of which will add strength and emphasis to specific parts of your personality and potential. There is a geographical ribbon running many thousands of miles around the globe, every mile of which gives you Mars rising, adding to your energy and individual power whenever you are on it. Another gives you the Sun rising, another, the Moon, and so on. Around the other side of the earth are similar routes on which your planets are always exactly setting, on the cusp of the seventh house. Similarly, there are north-south pathways each 12,000 miles long where individual planets are on your Midheaven or IC if you go to them. Together, they make up an often-intersecting set of personal highways, a grid of 40 planetary lines that mark out your chart's strongest places for relocation, where one or more natal planets are on the angles. And if that's not enough potential roads to travel on, there are a total of 180 global lines that depict where your 45 major planetary midpoints are on the angles, adding a subtle substructure to your planetary potential. Altogether, they depict your own personal World Wide Web of highways and byways that add special strengths to your chart and promise new heightened adventure and return for simply taking a trip. You'll find that there's hardly a place on the planet you can go without discovering a new slant on life, a new take on what you already have working inside you.

Windows Of Opportunity

Finally, as your personal progressions and transits move along and affect your natal chart, these same changes will be touching your relocation chart as well, but often quite differently. This will mean that certain parts of the world open up as unique windows of opportunity for a limited, but golden time. A look at these will tell you not only where to travel, but when is the optimum time to be there as well. Find out the best of where and when, and then book your ticket, with the stars on your side.

The Armchair Traveler

You don't have to actually show up at a strong relocation place to have it affect you. You may well find that areas where you have locality planets, midpoints, transits, or progressions on the angles have a way of waltzing into your life unannounced, or that you'll find yourself dealing with people who live there in a way that is described by your chart in that locality. In the era of electronic world travel, you may not need to go out of your door to find your different relocation charts working for you.

Angles in Signs

Open covenants, openly arrived at should be your stock in trade here -- at least, that's what will go over the best and make you welcomed into any situation. Be forthright and honest, or at least play that part, and you'll fit right in. Just be aware that some may try to slip one past you, so smack them if they try it.

Midheaven in Virgo

If you make others think you've got it all under control, your ability to show how sincere you are is strengthened. In other words, if you know it, show it -- and you can even fudge that a little and chances are no one will guess. Ultimately, it's choosing the right situations to follow up on that gets you your rep here.

Planets on Angles

Any planet on one of the angles (Ascendant, MC, Descendant, IC) of your relocation chart will be greatly strengthened when you are at the place of relocation, very much like if it were on the angles of your natal chart. If the Sun is on an angle, you'll have more confidence; if Mars is there you'll have more energy, and so on. Moreover, you don't have to actually go there to get the effect. Having a planet on a relocated angle will accentuate that place for you even if you are only doing business with people there over the phone. You have an accentuated quality to people in such places that you may not have elsewhere.

Natal Sun Qcx MC (Strong)

You can find it easy here to get a reputation for being the person you really are, without having to spend time painting the picture for everybody. What they hear about you will be on the mark and you can work from there. It's supportive for career moves, because you can turn your attention to what's important right off the bat.

Sun in Fifth House

You may find yourself opening up and kicking back more than you ever imagined here, as there's something about the surroundings that puts you in touch with your fun side. If that doesn't happen right away, look for it -- there are good times awaiting you here if you just know which door to knock on.

Natal Pluto Tri AS (Strong)

You'll probably feel and act here like you can't trip up and angels will bear you up if you do -- and you'll be more than close to correct in the assumption. You look like someone to have faith in, and to the extent you feel the same way, you are. Don't throw caution to the winds, but do tread with confidence.

Pluto in Ninth House

They say there are two topics to avoid with in-laws and outlaws: religion and politics. That goes double here, as you can easily knock heads over issues you can't really do anything about except fight over. If your approach is really superior, you needn't feel compelled to enforce it. If you do, you should rethink it.

Natal Sun Ssq DS (Strong)

There may be some conflict between the way you really are inside and the first impression people get upon meeting you here. First meetings don't tell the tale, so you'll have to follow-up until they've got it straight whom they're really talking to. Don't expect the first date to get the results you ultimately want, so have the second already lined up.

Natal Neptune Sxt AS (Medium)

You have imagination -- your own and others' -- going for you here, and playing parts may come quite naturally to you, without having to give up your own true identity. A sense of what people would like to see you as comes naturally, and so does your natural ability to actually fit the idealized mold.

Neptune in Tenth House

You may spend some time and effort straightening out what people say about you, as what you do is a bit of a mystery by nature in this clime. That's not your fault, and you can use it to your advantage. Just be aware that the buzz, for better or worse, is inaccurate (though perhaps flattering) and thus subject to change.

Natal Moon Sxt IC (Medium)

The way you express your feelings here just naturally seems to give you a boost and good press in general. You can achieve a reputation for being candid and having nothing to hide, because it's the truth -- you don't have to second-guess yourself here, so the first thing that comes out of your mouth works just fine.

Moon in Second House

Your feelings about the landscape and what's on it can run strong here, and you might well be tempted to buy a sizeable scoop. You'll love it more if you can own it and get physical, so don't hesitate to get your hands dirty in this garden. You'll find you've got a green thumb waiting to happen here.

Natal Uranus Sqr MC (Medium)

Who knows what they think about you around here? Chances are, you don't -- and you may be surprised when you find out. For sure, you will have to do some fine-tuning of your reputation to separate truth from fancy -- and in the process you may become rather more inventive in reinventing others' inventions about you.

Uranus in Seventh House

You can go here to find all the oddballs you never ran across before -- they all live here, or so it may seem. But you'll also want to get to know them in a way you may seldom have done before. You'll be seeking, and finding, originality in a partner over consistency, intensity over reliability, and above all, advendure.

Natal Saturn Tri AS (Medium)

You appear to carry a little more weight here than you might, and inaction will often appear to be the voice of experience and patience rather than indecision. Once you pick up and get going, you've got a lot on your side, so leave drag racing to others who will look nervous and uncertain by comparison.

Saturn in Eighth House

You're better off coming here with your own resources than expecting to find a lot of backing or credit when you get here. God bless the child that has its own -- keep that thought and you'll be fine here. It may be for you to bring your own treasure and plant it, harvesting accordingly, to make this land produce.

Natal Jupiter Tri IC (Medium)

It's easy for people here to think of you as the latest and greatest, as that will be what they naturally hear first. Your job is not to get in the way of that rumor and do all you can to confirm it. Make the most of free good press and then add a little bit to keep the ball rolling and you're set.

Jupiter in Twelfth House

Pushing the envelope too far or raising expectations too quickly can get you into difficulty here, so be cautious about great new opportunities you're either buying or promoting. They might be more trouble than they're worth. The biggest deals are best done in private, behind the scenes, where they can be kept under close scrutiny by only the relevant people.

Natal Mars Sxt DS (Medium)

You should find your stamina level increasing here -- or, at least you find it easier to get the job done without having to waste extra energy. Your first stroke is usually the right one, so you save energy by not having to repeat efforts in order create accomplishment. Easy and invigorating.

Mars in Fourth House

You could spend a lot of effort either building a home here or making where you are staying seem like one. Throughout, you'll want to keep your efforts close to the ground and not dilute your energies with eggs in different baskets. If you keep your focus, you'll seem like you belong here, simply because you're sharing the local game.

Natal Saturn Ssq MC (Medium)

Watch what people are saying about you around here, as it may not be as complimentary as you deserve and it may also not be true. A little time fine-tuning your spin cycle and getting doubters on board won't be wasted and may have to be repeated before you have them counting on you the way they should.

Natal Mercury On IC (Medium)

You're as good as your word here, and if you're willing to speak out, most will readily take you at your word. Since you have that going for you, it's obviously a good place to do business, as however you explain what you're doing, the message will get across as though it were fairly obvious, so you won't have to do a lot of convincing. Similarly, the way things are put together around here are probably pretty clear to you and therefore easy to negotiate and interface with. That's in matters of the head, although the heart may not necessarily follow, depending on circumstances. So this may be a comfortable place to settle or just an opportune area to assemble friends and/or relatives and in-laws. In any case, once you touch base here you'll likely always have some sort of line of communication in play, even if it's only running into people from here surprisingly often. It's a place for getting organized and developing your own organization without having to go out of your way to figure things out. To the extent that you've got your head together (or haven't), you'll have it together here.

Mercury in Fourth House

Figuring out what you really care about and getting that message across is a critical part of being here. You may find you can get to the bottom of things and put into words what others were having trouble getting a handle on, so you can make yourself indispensable if you choose to. It's about fundamentals.

Natal Venus On IC (Mild)

If you're not sure what you want -- in love or in life -- a trip here should bring you some tangible clues. It has a palpable tinge of desire -- yours -- and when you're here you're likely to get your needs attended to as a part of the general situation, even if you don't advertise. What you like just seems to spring from the ground, which is likely to make the physical territory itself appealing. Note what pleases you in your surroundings here and be sure to bring a piece of it back home with you. Or, you may want to just remain here and have your needs attended to. For these very reasons, however, this may not be the most motivating place to be, as it is easier to sit and let things come to you than to get up and hustle. It may be quite sufficient just to be the center of gravity and catch what falls into your net, a situation that may not last forever but could offer more than one would reasonably expect. Above all, however, it puts you in touch with your real needs and allows you feel to comfortable having them satisfied without making a hassle of it.

Venus in Third House

The art of conversation will get you everywhere here, even if you don't technically speak the language. It's all about communicating your desires and desirability by whatever method seems to work. Try several. Friends that please will gather around -- then it's up to you to find out who's just an acquaintance.

Natal Pluto Ssq MC (Mild)

You can find your reputation battered here as a result of trying to take charge too much, or at least being perceived that way. If you go out of your way to show you're a cooperator, the problem will be solved, but you may have to sidestep confrontations along the way, even though they may at first seem unavoidable.

Paran Latitude Lines


Uranus-Neptune Latitude Line at 40N25'24"

There's a shifting twilight quality here that makes it sometimes hard for you to tell if it is morning breaking or evening descending. What seems only a dream at one moment suddenly crystallizes as a truth the next -- and then it dissolves and the cycle begins again. After a fashion, this is a great place to go seek enlightenment, or at least the stages immediately preceding it. In practical daily life, the effect is probably imperceptible, but over the years here it could make this place gather a surreal tint that will stay with you and focus your view of life, making other places seem quite ordinary by comparison.

Relocation Wheel