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The exact time comes first
Four minutes of birth time move every line about 110 km. We ask for your exact time before drawing, and we never invent a missing one.
Astrocartography
When you were born, every planet stood straight above one place on Earth. Your map draws where each one was rising, setting, overhead and underfoot, and names the cities those lines cross.
How it works · 01
At the moment you were born, the Sun, the Moon and each planet stood straight above one point of the Earth. Those ten points are where your map begins.
02 · The lines
From each point, four lines run across the globe: where the planet was overhead and underfoot, and where it was rising and setting on the horizon.
03 · Your places
A line passing near a city brings its planet’s themes forward there: Venus for love and beauty, Jupiter for growth, the Sun for vitality. Your map names the cities each line crosses first, then the larger ones nearby.
A sample map: born 12 August 1990, 2:35 pm, Washington, D.C. (the gold point). Shown here: Bakersfield (the pink and violet point), which its Venus line crosses about 10 km (6 miles) from the centre; its Jupiter line passes 29 km (18 miles) away. The lines are exact; the planets’ distances are not to scale.
Draw my mapAstrocartography takes the same birth chart as your Western reading and lays it over the world. Near a line, that planet’s themes tend to come forward: in your work, your home, your sense of self or your relationships.
It is guidance, not a forecast. A place favors certain themes; it never guarantees them, and no place is off limits. It is not travel, relocation, safety or financial advice.
Lines are drawn from each planet’s true position in the sky (in mundo), for the Sun, the Moon and the eight planets. Places within 250 km of a line feel it strongly; within 700 km, noticeably. Earth imagery: NASA Blue Marble (public domain).
Method and trust
Calculation and meaning are kept apart, and every choice behind your map is named.
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Four minutes of birth time move every line about 110 km. We ask for your exact time before drawing, and we never invent a missing one.
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AstrologyAPI calculates where each planet stood. We check every point of every line against our own geometry, then work out the crossings and distances ourselves.
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City names come from Natural Earth’s public-domain list of about 7,300 places worldwide. One calculated map serves both the free and the complete reading.
A way of reading your birth chart on the world map. It shows where on Earth each planet was rising, setting, overhead or underfoot at the moment you were born. Astrologers read places near those lines as places where that planet’s themes come forward.
Yes. The Earth turns a degree every four minutes, so the whole map shifts with the time: four minutes is about 110 km, an hour more than 1,600 km. Without a time there is no reliable map, so we do not draw one.
MC and IC lines are meridians: wherever the planet was overhead or underfoot, it was so along a whole line of longitude. The rising and setting lines follow the curve of the horizon across the globe, so they bend, and they stop near the poles where the planet never rose or set that day.
Within about 250 km, a line is felt strongly; up to about 700 km, noticeably. Farther away its influence fades. Your map gives each city’s distance from the line.
No. Your map offers spiritual guidance, not professional advice. It never says a place is dangerous or that something will happen there, and it does not replace practical decisions about moving, work, safety or money. Travel conditions vary and change: before booking a trip, check your government’s current travel advisories for the places you plan to visit.
They are used only to draw your map and are stored encrypted. A free map stays available for 30 days through its private link, a complete reading for 365 days from payment; you can delete either at any time from the end of the reading. If you lose the link of a free map, you can simply draw it again.
For $4.99, once: all 40 of your lines explained with their closest larger cities, your places for love, career, home and roots, creativity, growth and luck, and rest and healing, where your lines cross, the lines near where you live now if you choose to add it, Your Map Together with a partner, and a PDF to keep. Your map is not calculated again.
Yes, in the complete reading: add your partner’s birth details, with their permission, and Your Map Together shows the places where both of your maps favor the same things and where your lines meet. It is included at no extra charge. We keep their map, never their birth date or time.
Yes. You pay and we email a private invitation; the person you choose enters their own birth details, and their reading is theirs alone. You never see their details or their map.
Enter the email address you used at checkout (or the one your gift was sent to). If a complete reading is connected to it, we will send a one-time link that works for 15 minutes.