by Elizabeth Smith, Grasp Astrocartographer
As soon as folks uncover locational astrology, they quickly study that their astrocartography map can present them the most effective locations on the planet to reside, work and thrive.
Astrocartography is a visible picture in map type of how the astrology of your location modifications once you go to or remotely work together with anyplace on Earth. It appears to be like like a worldwide map with many intersecting coloured strains.
Every of those strains represents a particular planetary affect that you’ll really feel manifesting in a particular space of your life at that location. The nearer you might be to the road, the stronger and extra frequent this affect can be felt.
One of many first questions many individuals ask after they first see this powerfully revealing map is “What do the strains on my astrocartography map imply?”
Every planet in astrology has a particular vitality or character that impacts us in particular methods. The place in our lives this impression happens is decided by the place that planet was on the time we took our first breath. The normal natal or natal chart, our map of the sky right now, exhibits us the place Mars will function in our lives.
The astrocartography map builds on this by drastically increasing our entry to astrological data. It exhibits the place the vitality of this planet is activated not solely in that space of our lives (recognized in astrology as the home) decided at delivery, however the place on Earth it’s activated in any of the 4 (angular) areas strongest of the chart generally known as the Ascendant, the Imum Coeli, the Descendant and the Midheaven, all of which have an effect on essential areas of our lives.
After we reside or journey in a spot the place a planet turns into energetic within the Ascendant, it impacts us internally by way of our ideas that form who we expect we’re.
THE ASCENDING LINES (AC).
We determine in our minds with the vitality of the rising planets and act extra like them on the planet. For instance, Mars, a strongly yang or masculine planet, has the impact of energizing us with a need to behave. We will be extra bold, outgoing, bodily energetic, impulsive, heroic, courageous and/or aggressive. If we transfer to the place Mars is rising, our self-expression, who we expect we’re, turns into extra like Mars.
IMUM COELI LINES (IC).
When you're below a Mars IC line, it's a unique story. IC regulates your sources of safety, together with your property, household, neighborhood experiences, cultural influences, and the way you work together along with your mom or mom figures in your life. With Mars there, you’ll have lots of bodily exercise in or close to your property, reminiscent of renovations, constructing initiatives, train or sporting actions, gardening or a love of the outside might prevail. Since every planet can specific itself as a excessive or low frequency, Mars, the God of Battle, also can produce home strife, hostile neighbors, accident proneness, in addition to many different phenomena which can be basic indicators of its presence.
THE DESCENT LINES (DC).
In case you are drawn to a spot in your astro-chart chart that’s close to Mars in DC or Descendant, the purple planet will manifest its nature within the type of the kind of folks or conditions it attracts into your life. As a substitute of the planet coloring your ideas and pursuits because it does on the Ascendant, when it’s on the opposite facet of the world it colours the considering and pursuits of your shut associates.
Your closest associates or companions could also be athletic or very aggressive or impulsively fast, for instance. Conditions that rapidly grow to be aggressive or escalate into some type of confrontation can be extra doubtless right here, as tempers run extra impulsively in these you might be closest to below your Mars DC. If Mars performs with a better frequency, folks will be energetic in a extremely disciplined or productive approach, reminiscent of an completed athlete, businessperson, outdoorsman, machinist, carpenter, dentist or a army or different uniformed skilled, all of that are dominated by Mars. .
THE LINES OF COELI/MIDDLE SKY (MC or MH).
The fourth sort of line you will discover in your astrocartography map is the MC line (Latin for center coeli) or the midheaven line. Similar to the AC, DC and IC strains, there can be a MC line represented someplace on Earth for every planet.
Any MC planet in a placement will manifest in your life on the general public stage, that means it’ll assist form your public fame, your occupation will decide what you want and dislike doing for a residing and the way profitable you might be or will not be at what you do.
In native astrology, the MC planets additionally form all of your encounters with strangers and acquaintances in public locations, on the Web, on the telephone, or wherever you work together with folks you don't know nicely. Why do you get a great impression of a sure place once you go to and somebody thinks that the folks there have been terribly unfriendly? Take a look at the planets within the midheaven to grasp why all of us depart locations with such completely different impressions!
In conclusion, to grasp a line in your astrocartography chart first study in regards to the nature of the planet it represents after which study how that planet is thought to behave in that particular space of the chart. Every of the planets has very completely different traits and can transfer into any of the 4 angles described above, providing you with a really particular window into the affect they will create in your life in that location.
