Relocation Interpretation

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 Scorpio

You've got everything to gain here from hiding something -- or at least pretending to. Playing an intense and somewhat mysterious role comes naturally and will get you the most attention with the least risk. You're at your best when smoldering, with just enough smoke to show there's fire down below.

Midheaven in Leo

A reputation for warmth and good times will precede you here, so all you have to do is live up to it. Don't pass up a party, and showing off your talents of the heart will get you everything. You can get away with things you never could at home, simply by wearing a smile and inviting others to do the same.

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 On MC (Strong)

This place is like high noon for you because, astrologically, it literally is. Here you have a bully pulpit from which to disseminate your personality in such a way that everyone will hear about you. Thus, it has the makings of career and business success, as it will allow you to more easily seize the spotlight. On the other hand, it will also mean you can't bury your light under a bushel, even when you might want to, and your business is likely to be on other people's tongues whether you choose it or not. Your balancing act may be accepting center stage without seeming to hog it, adding your valuable input without appearing egotistical. Honesty and sincerity tempered with modesty are what it's all about, because there's no place to hide. But chances are, it's being out in the middle of it all and enjoying the sunshine that brings you here to begin with, so put on a little sun block and enjoy the extra rays, it's yours for the taking. It's an energizing locality, whether you visit or stay, and you'll probably want to come back for more, as long as you're willing to go out in the midday sun.

Sun in Tenth House

You're likely to get good press just by showing up here, and certainly you're favored for any career moves you want to make. Because you're pretty much on display, you may find you have to perform a lot and you can't turn down an encore. Please the audience, then please yourself -- though both should come at once.

Natal Neptune Local Space Line (Strong)

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 Twelfth House

Your dreams are your own here, and should be kept that way unless you are really sure about letting them out. Your hidden fantasies may not mix with local realities as well as you might think, so take a second look before letting your cat out of the bag. You can't put it back in the closet once it has seen the sunshine.

Natal Moon Sxt AS (Medium)

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.

Moon in Tenth House

Your feelings are likely to be on display here, or it can seem so, so don't expect to have an entirely private life. Don't react unless you expect to make ripples -- something that can give you a lot of good press if you play it right. It's a good place for making a name for yourself, but only if you do it from the heart.

Natal Mercury Sxt AS (Medium)

Words come more easily to you here, and you won't have to rephrase to get your message across. Just say what's on your mind and it will be perfectly clear to anyone who's listening. You don't have to shout, either -- a few appropriate comments take care of everything and grease your path accordingly.

Mercury in Tenth House

Organizing professional affairs and getting them down on paper may be especially easy here -- and you'll find that what you have to say gets spread around a lot more quickly than in most places. For that reason, though, watch what you say and say it right the first time -- the cameras are rolling, even when you don't think so.

Natal Uranus Sqr AS (Medium)

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.

Uranus in Ninth House

When the thought strikes you here, it's a bolt from the blue, and a big one. You can revolutionize your whole life approach if you listen for the cues and clues in the landscape. Don't bother to start thinking until you're well beyond the box. You won't need a suitcase for inner travel here, because it happens too fast.

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 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 On DS (Mild)

You'll be highly energized here, and there is something about the circumstances that just sets you on fire if you let it. It's a great place for making great strides, and you can push your limits here to the point of exhaustion. If you plan to stay, learn to bank your fires a bit or you'll run out of gas before you've finished your task. Intensity and the ambition of the heightened moment propel you to levels of passion that can bring both thrill and risk. You can go overboard with enthusiasm and forcefulness with great effect, just make sure you don't fall overboard in the process. Igniting a hot burn is very much in the cards here, but so is burnout if you don't learn to conserve what fuels your fire. There is a fine line between being a hot action hero and simply being a hothead, so keep your head in the midst of the conflagrations you engender and you'll be a firestarter in the best sense and not a pyromaniac. This environment makes demands that are right down your alley, but if you want to turn it into your long and winding life's road, learn to ease up on the accelerator.

Mars in Seventh House

There's a lot of free energy floating around here for you to draw on if you let someone else take a turn at the wheel. Willing help is not hard to find, as long as you are willing to share on an equal basis. Similarly, enthusiastic personal partners are waiting to take a crack at you if you crack your door.

Natal Neptune On AS (Mild)

This may be your place of dreams, and if you take care to protect yourself, where dreams come true. It can also have you a little out of focus about where you're stepping, so having a reliable backup guide with firm feet on the local ground wouldn't hurt at all. If you want to sell snake oil or glistening trinkets to the natives, you probably can, as they won't have a clue as to who you really are until well after they get to know you. You become something of a dream or fantasy on first sight where others plant their (mis)conceptions, so you can choose your role. Anybody but your real self, that is, which will be the hardest to convey. Spirits of all sorts, from the liquid to the etheric kind, abound in the landscape for you, and sorting them out could be half the fun and challenge of your visit, or the compelling mission of your stay. It's a great place to put on a play -- your own -- but it may be near to impossible to bring the curtain down once the show has begun.

Natal Pluto Sxt AS (Mild)

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 Tenth House

They say you always get your way, no matter what you have to do to achieve it. You didn't know they were saying that? Listen again, because that's the rep you easily get here, and you should figure out how to use or defuse it, as it's not always the thing you want said about you. You can succeed if you push here, but there's always a price to pay.

Natal Venus Sqr AS (Mild)

Getting what you want around here may take more than one try, and that's not because no one wants to please. It's just that it's sometimes unclear to others what you want or what image you are trying to project to get it. A mirror is your best friend, and let your friends be your mirror until you get it right.

Venus in Ninth House

You could open new vistas of desire here -- new possibilities of enjoyment and reward are options here that might not occur to you elsewhere. Take it one mouthful at a time, however, as there may be more than you can digest at one sitting. Best of all, read the menu through completely, then proceed....