See on a world map where each of your birth planets was rising, setting, culminating and at the nadir, with the nearest cities to every line.
Astrocartography is an astrological technique that projects the sky of your birth moment onto a world map. Instead of asking which sign sat at each point, it asks where on Earth each body stood at one of the four chart angles: rising on the eastern horizon (ASC), setting on the western horizon (DSC), at the highest point of the sky (MC) or at the lowest point, under your feet (IC). Every body and angle pair draws one line, and this tool plots all 44 lines for the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the North Node. The method was worked out by astrologers between about 1930 and 1960 and popularized by Jim Lewis in the 1970s and 1980s. It is not science: there is no evidence that living on a line changes anyone's life, and the line texts are symbolic tradition, never prediction. What is exact is the position of the lines. We use each body's right ascension and declination (astronomy-engine) and the Greenwich sidereal time: the MC sits at longitude RA minus GST, the IC on the opposite side, and the ASC and DSC curves come from cos H = -tan(latitude) x tan(declination). Because the Moon and planets stray from the ecliptic, the lines follow each body's true declination. Near the poles the ASC and DSC curves stop existing: the body simply neither rises nor sets there (for example, above 66.56 degrees of latitude for the Sun at a solstice). We show that as the end of the curve and never invent a line. For each city in a database of 14,145 cities with more than 15,000 people we compute the distance in km to the nearest line, rank cities by proximity, and let you check any city to see its Ascendant and Midheaven as well.
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It is an astrological technique that shows on a world map where each body of your natal chart stood at an angle (rising, setting, overhead or at the lowest point) at the moment you were born. It was developed by astrologers between about 1930 and 1960 and popularized by Jim Lewis in the 1970s and 1980s. Each body gives four lines, so the Sun to Pluto plus the North Node make 44 lines.
The exact time is essential here: the rising sign changes every two hours on average.
Without a birth date and time, the map shows the lines of the sky at this moment. The exact time is what positions the lines.
Lines of the sky right now
Date, time and city stay in your browser and are never sent to a server. Astrocartography is a symbolic astrological technique with no scientific support. Planet positions are real astronomical calculation; what the lines mean is tradition, not prediction.