Relocation & C*C*G Interpretation for

Introduction

The Relocation Chart

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.

Local Space Astrology by Michael Erlewine

If you were to walk outside your home at the moment of birth and look around you, the Sun, Moon, and planets would each be somewhere in the sky above and around you. For example, the Moon might be rising low to the Southwest, and so forth. If you were to draw a line from your birth spot in the compass direction of the Moon, it would extend across (and around) the Earth, passing through any number of cities. The circular line

of those cities and places mark a path across the earth toward the direction of the Moon. If you did this for the Sun and all the planets, you would be examining a map of the space surrounding your locale. That map would be a standard geographical map with the direction of each planet laid out on it as lines. This is why I originally called this technique Local Space Astrology.

At any given moment, the Sun, Moon, and all the planets are above a certain spot on earth and in a particular direction from your birthplace. In fact, not only planets and stars, but also cities, countries, and even the local water tower or the neighbor's house has a place and direction on this map. It does not matter how far away an object is, we only want to know in what direction it is. You can walk toward, write letters to, or get up and relocate into, for instance, the direction of Venus or Mars, and we each do this all the time.

Local Space maps are useful when it comes to relocation and/or when we want to pick a city (and direction) of a planet we would like to experience more of, like perhaps Venus (love, beauty, value) or Jupiter (might help us find our life path or career), and so forth. There are also planets we might like to experience less of, as well, so we might avoid those spots. But these lines are also great for picking spots for vacation and business trips, as well as checking out where friends and not-so-friends live. It could be someone all the way in China or as close as a neighbor's house.

Understanding Local Space allows you to fine tune your life by picking the places you live or want to visit in terms of what they can add or take away from your overall life experience. For example, if you are struggling to find the right career, you might want to take a trip or have a vacation in the direction of the planet Jupiter (the planet of vocation) and see what develops. Or, as I myself did, you may want to permanently relocate to a Jupiter spot until you can find your way to making a living. Or, if you find yourself living in a city along your Saturn line and you feel too hemmed in and inhibited, you might want to just move to a city in line with a planet that is more encouraging. You get the idea.

Check out your Local Space Chart and look at each line to see in what direction it is and what cities or places it passes through. Read about and consider what each planet offers you in the way of qualities and changes. Don't forget about the places where your friends and not-so-friends live, whether they are far away cities or just across town. Give it some thought. Local Space can be very useful in fine-tuning your life experience through astrology.

Angles in Signs

Ascendant in Cancer

Standing up for yourself on principle can come easily here, but so can ignoring the valid positions of others, so don't close down your pathways of communication and above all, don't pout. Make your point, but don't block the road if you don't ultimately get your way. Lead with your feelings, but don't get them hurt unnecessarily.

Midheaven in Pisces

You can fly whatever flag you want here and people will believe it -- any flag except your own, that is, which may be harder to sell. The way to take advantage is to use the illusion -- don't try to make things too clear, just steer the situation where you want it to go, and go with that. You already know who you really are.

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 Uranus Local Space Line (Strong)

Uranus and places along that line offer us more independence, opportunities for us to break with convention, and do something a little different. This is the planet of freedom and liberation. Uranus also provides insights into our life, particularly as to what binds or holds us down, and how to get beyond them. Inventions, innovations.

Traveling or vacationing at places along this line can be nothing short of liberating, throwing caution to the winds, and trying new things. These places can also be good for insights and sudden illumination with problems that you have been trying to work through, but have made no progress with to date.

Uranus in Fourth House

There is a fundamentally restless quality about this landscape that may cause you to never feel quite at home here and yet constantly seeking discovery. It's a little like living on a fault line where you never know when the ground is going to move under your feet. Always challenging, never quite secure.

Natal Venus On AS (Strong)

There is a certain allure here that pleases, attracts, and gives you satisfaction the moment you arrive. In fact, that may well be what brings you here -- something that you need that only this place offers. Similarly, your ability to please and charm the locals is particularly high, and flattery will get you everywhere. As you draw in the atmosphere your pleasure is evident, and simply saying so is a compliment in itself. The allure of pure desire is particularly strong here, so keep it at a positive and generous level and don't let it devolve into mere selfishness and self-gratification. Seduction is in the air, but the ultimate question is, who is being seduced and to what end? Beauty and satisfaction may be at your fingertips, so learn to sip it artfully and resist the temptation to gorge where your hunger is strongest or your needs most demanding. There's a treasure chest to be mined, and the more wisely you mete it out to yourself, the more permanent your receipts. When you invest as much as you take out, the rewards will only grow, so use this potential wisely and you'll always want to come back for more, and be welcome to it.

Venus in Twelfth House

Your desires can lead you astray here, so don't rush in and gobble up the first tasty dish (so to speak) that presents itself. There may be certain protocols you must observe, or ways of hiding what you do and how you do it that are a must and may not be obvious to you at first. Once you've got that part down, then enjoy.

Natal Pluto Sqr DS (Strong)

Situations have a way of forcing themselves on you here, and you on them. It can seem easier to push and shove than work things out, but when that happens, it all just escalates and nothing gets done. Knowing when to back off, and whom to back off from, are the learning challenges here so you don't waste time in needless struggle.

Pluto in Fourth House

If you stake a claim here, chances are you will defend your personal plot with everything you've got. Emotionally, you may have a Don't Tread on Me sign over your doorway, but you should probably be low-key about it unless you really feel impinged upon. Your home is your castle, but it needn't appear a fortress.

Natal Pluto Local Space Line (Strong)

The Pluto line points to power places, often where people are forced to do things or where they force others. Equally, this can relate to penetrating insight into our most vulnerable areas, into sensitive parts of our past or mind -- the skeletons in our closet. Psychoanalysis, depth psychology, investigations, and research are included.

A trip to a Pluto place can provide deep insights of great value, but can just as easily find you face-to-face with some of your most vulnerable issues. You could find yourself being pushed around or pushing someone else around, and power and the use of it is the coin of this realm.

Natal Moon Local Space Line (Medium)

The Moon points to places where you can look to for support and nourishment, an environment that is usually nurturing and protective. This is a location where feelings, nostalgia, and the past are important, where younger people have a voice, and the sense of family is strong.

The Moon is said to be both mother and child. As a mother, it represents the past, in the sense of where you came from, your roots and history. In this role, it is nurturing and like a parent. You came from there.

But it also is like your child, in that you can look back at your youth and roots (where you came from) and see younger people living there now, as you used to live. In this sense, it is like your child, something you understand only too well.

Moon in Fourth House

This place probably has a sense of a home away from home in ways that may be hard to put your finger on. Possibly it's because when you let people know your innermost feelings, it turns out you share them more than you expected. Under any circumstances, the opportunity to get in touch with yourself in new ways abounds.

Natal Neptune Local Space Line (Medium)

The Neptune line is all about inspiration, whatever it is that inspires us, and the pure flight of the imagination. Neptune places are ones where we can let go of differences, and where the sense of unity is greater than that which divides us.

A trip to a Neptune place can be filled with inspiration, whether of a spiritual nature or simply taking in some incredible music, theater, film, or poetry. These are places where you can just let your hair down and join in with those around you -- a deep sense of belonging and unity.

Neptune in Fifth House

Fun doesn't always lie in fantasy, but here is a dreamy playing field that finds its best moments when you don't ask too much but just go with the feeling. Soft-focus feelings don't require hard decisions or permanent promises, just a willingness to blend with the landscape while the time offers the opportunity.

Natal Mars Local Space Line (Medium)

The Mars line and direction have to do with drive and ambition, getting things pumped up and going, and then taking action of all kinds. It is Mars and ambition that drives your career, propelling you along whatever life path you may be on. Mars places are connected to action and action events, not just sports and exercise, but adventure and adventuring of all kinds -- what motivates you.

If you tend not to be assertive or very physical, a trip to places along this line may find you getting more physical, able to act more freely or aggressively. But the reverse is also true: if you already overact and tend to be pushy or driven, a trip here may magnify those qualities.

Mars in Third House

You're likely to have a very active social life here, propelled by the extra energy you put into making contacts with those around you. Indeed, you may find yourself generally the first to make a call and the quickest to return one. Accordingly, you can expect a daily intensity you may not experience elsewhere.

Natal Saturn Local Space Line (Medium)

Saturn is generally considered a pretty heavy planet, and probably not at the top of the list of places to visit by most. And this is as it should be, since Saturn brings rules, regulations, and restrictions, and these can easily appear as inhibitions, barriers, and delays. And this is probably the way Saturn does affect most of us. But there are cases where we need barriers, where rules and restrictions protect us. Saturn also represents the walls that make homes possible.

If you already, by nature, tend to be gloomy, somber, or too serious, then this is probably not a place you will enjoy. However, if you lack discipline and do well with directions or following rules, then this could be a source of strength and organization.

Saturn in Twelfth House

What you don't do here will come back to haunt you, so inaction is likely not your friend. Holding back at the wrong time can get you in just as much trouble as being too forward, and expect abandonment to be mutual if you started it, so when in doubt, be inclusive. It can't hurt, but getting too settled can.

Natal Sun Local Space Line (Medium)

The Sun represents not only who you are right now, but also who you can be, given the opportunity to progress. The direction of the sun points to locations where success (career and potential) can be fulfilled, the point where the future unfolds. In these locations, outward development is furthered, and latent ideas and potential have a chance to emerge, develop and grow, and reach their full potential. The Sun has to do with the future, in that it is what, given the right opportunity, you can become or turn into.

The Sun is a place where your inner potential has a good chance to manifest, where, given the right encouragement, you can become all that you can be. This might be a great place if you suffer from too many feelings, too much darkness, and not enough light, for the Sun brings light and heat -- burning brightly.

Sun in Second House

Your inclination here is to go for a piece of the pie. Invest, but spend cautiously, and make sure you claim something tangible for yourself. It's good for doing business, making money, and putting down roots you can put a price tag on. You'll want to get your hands on it, not just flirt with the situation.

Natal Jupiter Local Space Line (Medium)

Jupiter places can be the keys to career and vocational matters, literally the path we tread through the obstacles of life. In Sanskrit, the word for Jupiter is guru, and that says a lot, for the guru is the guide personified. Getting through life, finding some way through life that suits us, that works for us, is very important. Jupiter is the guide or key to the pathways through life.

Traveling to or relocating along this line will stimulate career-related activities, perhaps making it clear what would be a good livelihood to begin with or help you move to the next step in a career already in motion. It can be helpful to take a trip or vacation to such a spot and see if you get the new ideas you are looking for.

Jupiter in Sixth House

There may not be enough hours in the day for you to fit in all you need here, as you're likely to be adding first one thing and then another to your schedule. If you want to get it all done, be ready to get help by sharing your productivity, making your ideas a win-win for everybody involved. It may take a village to do what you'll be proposing....

Natal Venus Local Space Line (Medium)

Your Venus line offers a lot more than just having something to do with love and loving. In fact, Venus has to do not only with loving, but also with valuing anything, people and things, as well as appraising, and possessions, in general. Any city or place along this line, and it runs in a great circle around the earth, will bring the qualities of Venus into focus. Venus rules everything to do with cherishing, valuing, and measuring things and people. Sometimes it is love, as we know it, but as mentioned above, it is valuation of any kind -- estimating the value and quality of something. In this sense, it covers possessions and possessing of all kinds.

If you don't appreciate enough, whether that be people or things, locations in this direction should find you at least counting and measuring, and perhaps even cherishing and loving. It could also bring out a somewhat greedy side, if you are already leaning in that direction.

Natal Mercury Local Space Line (Medium)

A location that furthers connections and communications of all kinds, whether by phone, e-mail, letter -- anything spoken and written. In addition, places along this line are perfect for furthering the mind, things to do with study, academics, and schooling -- whatever relates to the mind and how to use it.

If you like to communicate or need to be able to better communicate and, generally, use the mind more fully, whether as a student or a teacher, locations along this line will enhance this.

Mercury in Second House

Your head is going to be on material matters here, so figuring out the landscape and how to make it pay will be an important part of how and what you have to say. Concrete plans bring productive results and you don't have to think outside the box to fill it up. If you're in it for the money, this could be the place to be.

Natal Uranus Sqr DS (Mild)

It may be hard to be tactful here, partly because you don't know the ropes and partly because you get impatient with the situation. Under any circumstances, things can be a bit more abrupt than comfortable, though the results may be enlightening, so tune up your shock absorbers if you are going to spend any time here.

Natal Moon Sxt DS (Mild)

Feelings find outlet more effortlessly here -- not necessarily by a direct route, but sometimes by an open door that invites you to walk through. You're more naturally at ease with the way you relate to the environment, so the rest flows along without having to think about it or analyze your emotions.

Natal Moon/Sun On AS (Mild)

The heart of your chart lies here, in some primordial way, where personality and emotion meet and there is a sense of purpose and destiny like nowhere else. It may not come on like gangbusters, but there's an underlying strength and focus that connects you to the members of your universal family, both individually and as a group.

Paran Latitude Lines

Mars-Saturn Latitude Line at 33N26'00"

During the Punic Wars, there was a Roman general named Fabius and nicknamed "Cunctator" (the Delayer). He was outmanned and outgunned (so to speak) by Hannibal's elephant-armed invading army, so instead of confronting the famed Carthaginian commander, Fabius led him from one potential battlefield to another, and kept putting off the fight, saving his energy and exhausting his foe. Finally, he struck, annihilating the larger army. That should be your strategy here. Your resources grow slowly and need to be carefully and strategically arranged. Make time and weariness with your friends, and the game is yours.

C*C*G Planets on Angles

Transits to Angles

Location charts respond to transits very much like your natal chart. Although Jupiter, for instance, may not be transiting your natal Ascendant right now, it is transiting your relocated Ascendant somewhere, and that somewhere is likely where you'll easily get a lot of extra attention and enhanced personal prospects if you go there or start doing business with people there. The same goes for the rest of the planets, so you can travel to seek or to escape their transits at the place of your choice.

Progressions to Angles

Although you can't escape your natal progressions, you can go experience them someplace else, particularly where a favorable progressed planet relocates right on an angle and thus gets extra emphasis. As with transits, your progressed relocation paths will tell you where it's happening according to the nature of each planet. Being that they are progressions rather than transits, the effect will be more internal than external, but noticeable all the same.

Transit Pluto Sqr MC (Strong)

People here may not trust you to pull through when the going gets tough, even though you actually can. For a few years, it will be up to you to prove that your track record doesn't lie and any lies spoken about it are simply not founded. When pressure is applied stand your ground, but don't risk all for others' benefit alone.

Progressed Mercury On IC (Strong)

You'll feel perhaps a better understanding of where you come from by coming here right now, like there is a key to what you need to know lying about the landscape, waiting for you to pick it up. You don't need to move here to find it, just keep your eyes open, as it will open your locks wherever you subsequently go.

Progressed Mars On IC (Strong)

An urge to start laying down brickwork and hauling furniture may arise here, where the energy focus for you will likely be on making yourself a nest, a home base. Don't feel you have to be that literal, because it's as much about building home fires as building an actual domicile. It's about what's cooking, not the plate it's served on.

Progressed Sun On IC (Strong)

You might experience an especial urge to move here, to call this place home, a feeling that will continue here for many years. That doesn't mean you should pull up stakes and move, but it does mean you can get in touch with an important part of yourself here right now that might be less available to you elsewhere.

Progressed Sun Sxt DS (Medium)

Stepping forward with confidence here comes easily for at least a year or so, as your self-image and your actual appearance link up nicely and you don't need extra makeup to look like you're in tune with yourself. You can concentrate on making accomplishments, as the inner wherewithal needs no attention.

Progressed Moon Sxt MC (Medium)

These several months make you feel like you're in tune with your accomplishments here, and you can take some strides in furthering your reputation and career efforts by honestly taking credit for what you deserve. No false modesty required, just sincere connection to why you did it in the first place.

Transit Uranus Tri DS (Medium)

You can afford to push the envelope here for a year or two, because it won't really look like you're doing it. Being leading edge is just going along with the crowd you'll fall in with, so it won't seem so risky. Lots of interesting discoveries and engaging new contacts are available, so don't be shy.

Progressed Mercury Sxt DS (Medium)

You'll feel very on-message here this year, but without having to make a big deal about it. Words just flow more smoothly out of your mouth and your brain is naturally in gear without having to pump the clutch. Body language does a lot to get the point across, and you may not even know it's happening unless you catch yourself on video.

Progressed Mars Sxt DS (Medium)

You're in a several-year period of heightened effectiveness and strength here, possibly without being really aware of it. Just count up your recent daily progress, however, and you'll notice the difference compared to previous years. It's derived from getting into the rhythm of the place and thus wasting no energy.

Progressed Moon Tri DS (Medium)

You've got a couple of months happening here in which you are very connected to the situation, especially your personal rhythm within the environment. You feel more tuned in than usual, so it's a good place and time to let yourself outwardly express what you feel inside as a natural evolution of the moment.

Transit Saturn Tri DS (Medium)

You're in for a year or so of fairly consistent support from the situation in this locale, at least insofar as you show yourself to be a part of its establishment and don't rock the boat. People look to you for security, so remember the feeling for when it comes time to reverse the process.

Transit Neptune Sqr DS (Medium)

You may find that your image doesn't always slip easily into the current local fantasy right now, and as a result you may be seen as an outsider or an interloper. It's about how you physically present yourself, and there's little to be done except to demonstrate that you can't judge a book by its cover.

Transit Jupiter On DS (Mild)

This year is the perfect time to be here for you, as you'll appear to represent the very latest, newest, coolest thing happening around these parts. It's all about how you look in person, so dress the part and perfect the lines that get the most applause. Next year you cash in on it here and replay a similar game two time zones east of here. And, oh, watch your weight.

Transit Pluto On DS (Mild)

If you're looking for a time and place to simply tune out and change your whole image, this year here could be it. Your personal projection easily comes to a close and a new one replaces it, if you lay back, let it happen, and don't squirm too much. If you're trying to get noticed, however, move along.