Sample map
This is the full reading for a sample person, Maya, born in Toronto and living in Berlin. Yours is drawn for your own birth.
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Maya
Thursday, 19 August 1993 · 14:05 · Toronto, Canada
Solid vertical: MC (culminating) · dashed vertical: IC · solid curve: rising · dotted curve: setting
The portrait
At the moment you were born, every planet stood on the horizon or the meridian somewhere on Earth. Those places form the forty lines on this map. Near a line, its planet is felt more strongly: in your manner when it is rising, in partners when it is setting, in career when it is culminating and at home when it lies at the foot of the chart.
Among a hundred and fifty of the world's cities, the strongest for each part of life are St Petersburg for love, Florianópolis for career, Hong Kong for home, Edinburgh for growth, São Paulo for adventure. At the birthplace, Toronto, the nearest lines are Saturn IC (825 km), Sun MC (885 km).
The pages that follow read every line, then the best places for love, career, home, growth and adventure, and the places to approach with care.
How to read the map
A line is strongest within about 300 kilometres and fades by 800. Living on a line makes its planet part of daily life; visiting a line for a holiday or a few months gives a taste of it. A line does not create what is not in the chart: it turns up the volume of what is already there.
Your Sun is in Leo and Moon in Virgo; the lines show where on Earth those energies, and all the others, come into focus.
☉︎ Sun lines
Sun lines are places of visibility and vitality. You feel more like yourself, more confident and more noticed; they are classic places for a career breakthrough, a fresh start or simply feeling alive.
On your Sun culminating line your career and reputation come into the light: recognition, leadership and a public role. One of the best lines for success.
Living on your Sun culminating line, your career and reputation shine. It is one of the best lines for fame, leadership and public success. On a visit, you feel ambitious and seen; good for job interviews, launches and business trips.
It passes near New Orleans, Chicago, Tulum.
On your Sun rising line you feel most yourself: confident, vital and seen. It is a place to become who you are meant to be, to lead and to start something of your own.
Living on your Sun rising line, you are seen and felt everywhere: confident, healthy and recognised. It is one of the best lines for becoming who you are, though others may find you dominant. On a visit, you come home recharged, more yourself, and often with a new sense of purpose.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
On your Sun setting line you shine through partnership: you meet strong, warm people and may find a partner who reflects your best self back to you.
Living on your Sun setting line, important partners come into your life, often strong, confident people who bring out your best. Partnership is the centre of life here. On a visit, you may meet someone important, a partner, a mentor or a client.
It passes near Venice, Prague, Florence, Tunis, Rome.
On your Sun lower-meridian line you find yourself through home and family: a place to put down roots, build a family and feel at the centre of your own life.
Living on your Sun lower-meridian line, you feel at home and rooted; it is good for family, property and inner confidence. On a visit, you feel a deep sense of homecoming and connection to your roots.
It passes near Kolkata.
☽︎ Moon lines
Moon lines are places of feeling and belonging. You feel at home, emotional and nurtured, and you are drawn to family, roots and the public. They are good for settling, healing and caring.
On your Moon culminating line you are known for your care and empathy: work with the public, families, food or homes flourishes.
Living on your Moon culminating line, you connect with the public and with women; good for care, hospitality and popularity. On a visit, you feel recognised and liked.
It passes near Caracas, San Juan, La Paz, Mendoza.
On your Moon rising line your feelings are close to the surface: you become more sensitive, intuitive and nurturing, and the public responds to you emotionally.
Living on your Moon rising line, your feelings are close to the surface; people find you warm and approachable, and you become sensitive to your surroundings. On a visit, you feel emotional, nostalgic and nurtured; a good place to rest.
It passes near Anchorage, Honolulu.
On your Moon setting line you attract caring partners and close emotional bonds; a place for tenderness, and sometimes for dependence.
Living on your Moon setting line, you attract caring, emotional partners, and relationships feel like family. On a visit, you form close emotional bonds quickly.
It passes near Warsaw, Belgrade, Kraków, Stockholm, Thessaloniki.
On your Moon lower-meridian line you feel at home as nowhere else: one of the best lines to live, raise a family and feel you belong.
Living on your Moon lower-meridian line is one of the best places to make a home and family; you feel safe and rooted. On a visit, you feel deeply at home, as if you had always lived there.
It passes near Hong Kong, Bali, Perth, Beijing.
☿︎ Mercury lines
Mercury lines are places of the mind and of talk. You think faster, meet more people and learn more; they suit study, writing, trade and every kind of networking.
On your Mercury culminating line your ideas become your career: a line for writing, media, teaching, trade and communication.
Living on your Mercury culminating line, your career in communication, media, teaching or business thrives. On a visit, good for conferences, interviews and pitching ideas.
It passes near Mexico City, Austin, Oaxaca.
On your Mercury rising line your mind quickens: you talk, write, learn and connect more than ever.
Living on your Mercury rising line, you become more talkative, curious and quick; good for writers, students and traders. On a visit, ideas flow and conversations open doors.
It passes near Fiji.
On your Mercury setting line you meet clever, talkative partners and collaborators, and contracts and agreements come easily.
Living on your Mercury setting line, you meet clever partners and clients, and contracts and negotiations go well. On a visit, you make useful contacts.
It passes near Nice, Milan, Berlin, Munich, Helsinki.
On your Mercury lower-meridian line home becomes a place of study and conversation; a good place to write or to work from home.
Living on your Mercury lower-meridian line, home is full of books and talk; good for working from home or study. On a visit, you think clearly and write well.
It passes near Colombo, Almaty, Bangalore, Delhi.
♀︎ Venus lines
Venus lines are places of love, beauty and pleasure. You feel attractive and attracted, and life is sweeter; they are among the best places for romance, art and a happy home.
On your Venus culminating line you are liked and admired in public: a line for the arts, design, beauty and diplomacy, and for money through them.
Living on your Venus culminating line, your career in art, beauty, fashion or diplomacy flourishes, and people like you. On a visit, good for creative work and social success.
It passes near Vancouver.
On your Venus rising line you feel attractive and at ease: life is more pleasant, people are drawn to you, and beauty surrounds you.
Living on your Venus rising line, you feel beautiful and charming, and people are drawn to you; one of the happiest lines. On a visit, you enjoy pleasure, beauty and romance; perfect for a holiday.
It passes near Seoul, Brisbane, Queenstown.
On your Venus setting line love comes to you: one of the classic lines for romance, marriage and harmonious partnerships.
Living on your Venus setting line is the classic line for love and marriage; harmonious partnerships come easily. On a visit, romance is likely; a perfect place for a honeymoon.
It passes near São Paulo, Florianópolis, Bergen, Dublin, Edinburgh.
On your Venus lower-meridian line home is beautiful and peaceful; a lovely place to settle and to live with someone you love.
Living on your Venus lower-meridian line, home is beautiful and harmonious; a lovely place to settle. On a visit, you feel peaceful and content.
It passes near Tehran, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Baku.
♂︎ Mars lines
Mars lines are places of energy and drive. You are bolder, more competitive and more physical; they suit sport, entrepreneurship and hard work, and can bring conflict.
On your Mars culminating line your ambition takes off: a line for competitive careers, entrepreneurship and leadership under pressure.
Living on your Mars culminating line, you work hard and achieve; good for ambitious careers, sport and the military. On a visit, good for competition and pushing a project forward.
It passes near Montevideo, Buenos Aires.
On your Mars rising line you feel energetic, brave and driven, and also more impatient and combative: a place for sport, adventure and bold action.
Living on your Mars rising line, you are energetic, brave and assertive, sometimes combative; good for sport and entrepreneurship. On a visit, you feel energised; good for adventure holidays.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
On your Mars setting line you attract passionate, strong partners, and sometimes conflict; relationships here are intense.
Living on your Mars setting line, relationships are passionate and sometimes conflictual; competitors and strong partners appear. On a visit, watch for arguments; passion is high.
It passes near Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nicosia, Beirut, St Petersburg.
On your Mars lower-meridian line home can be a battlefield or a building site; a place for hard work on property, less for rest.
Living on your Mars lower-meridian line, home life can be lively or tense; good for renovation and physical work. On a visit, energy is high at home base.
It passes near Seoul.
♃︎ Jupiter lines
Jupiter lines are places of luck, growth and generosity. Opportunities open and life feels bigger; they are the classic lucky places for money, travel, study and joy.
On your Jupiter culminating line success and recognition come more easily: one of the best lines for career, reputation and wealth.
Living on your Jupiter culminating line, your career expands and luck follows you; one of the best lines for success. On a visit, good for business and opportunities.
It passes near São Paulo, Florianópolis.
On your Jupiter rising line you feel optimistic, generous and lucky; opportunities and growth find you. One of the happiest lines on the map.
Living on your Jupiter rising line, you feel optimistic, generous and lucky; one of the best lines for growth and wellbeing. On a visit, good fortune and joy; ideal for a holiday.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
On your Jupiter setting line you meet generous, helpful people and good partners; marriage and business partnerships prosper.
Living on your Jupiter setting line, generous partners and helpful people come into your life; good for marriage and business partnerships. On a visit, you meet benefactors.
It passes near Moscow, St Petersburg, Antananarivo.
On your Jupiter lower-meridian line home is abundant and happy; a fortunate place to buy property and raise a family.
Living on your Jupiter lower-meridian line, home and family flourish; good for property and a large household. On a visit, you feel abundant and at peace.
It passes near Osaka, Kyoto.
♄︎ Saturn lines
Saturn lines are places of discipline and responsibility. Life is more serious and slower; they reward long-term work and maturity, and can feel heavy.
On your Saturn culminating line career is built slowly and solidly: authority earned through effort, and lasting status for those who persevere.
Living on your Saturn culminating line, career rises slowly and surely through hard work; authority comes with time. On a visit, good for serious business, less for pleasure.
It passes near Kolkata.
On your Saturn rising line life becomes serious: responsibility, discipline and hard work. Demanding, but it builds lasting achievement and maturity.
Living on your Saturn rising line, you feel serious, responsible and sometimes burdened; it rewards discipline and long effort. On a visit, you may feel tired or tested; good for focused work.
It passes near Vienna, Tallinn, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Helsinki.
On your Saturn setting line relationships are tested: older or serious partners, commitments and lessons through others.
Living on your Saturn setting line, relationships are serious and committed, sometimes heavy; good for lasting partnerships. On a visit, relationships feel formal or demanding.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
On your Saturn lower-meridian line home can feel heavy or lonely; a place for duty to family and for building security the hard way.
Living on your Saturn lower-meridian line, home can feel cold or restrictive; good for building a solid base slowly. On a visit, you may confront family issues.
It passes near New Orleans, Chicago, Tulum.
♅︎ Uranus lines
Uranus lines are places of freedom and surprise. Life changes suddenly, and you feel more original and awake; they suit innovation and reinvention, less so stability.
On your Uranus culminating line your career takes unexpected turns: innovation, technology and independent work, with ups and downs.
Living on your Uranus culminating line, your career becomes innovative and unpredictable. It suits technology, science, astrology and independent work, and brings sudden turns in reputation. On a visit, sudden opportunities and flashes of insight about your direction.
It passes near Tehran, Doha, Baku, Abu Dhabi.
On your Uranus rising line you feel free, unconventional and electric: a place to reinvent yourself, with surprises and restlessness.
Living on your Uranus rising line, you feel free, original and wide awake. Life brings surprises, sudden changes and unusual people, and you reinvent yourself; it suits independent spirits more than those who need routine. On a visit, expect the unexpected: chance meetings, sudden ideas and a feeling of liberation, sometimes a little unsettling.
It passes near Montevideo, Dublin, Edinburgh, Bergen, Oslo.
On your Uranus setting line you meet exciting, unusual people; relationships begin and end suddenly.
Living on your Uranus setting line, relationships are unconventional, exciting and changeable. You attract independent, unusual partners and need a lot of freedom within a bond. On a visit, you meet people who shake up your ideas about love and partnership.
It passes near Brisbane, Queenstown.
On your Uranus lower-meridian line home life is unsettled; frequent moves and an unusual way of living.
Living on your Uranus lower-meridian line, home life is unsettled and changeable, with frequent moves or an unusual household. It suits people who want freedom from family patterns. On a visit, you feel free of the past and see your roots from a new angle.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
♆︎ Neptune lines
Neptune lines are places of dreams and spirit. You are more imaginative, intuitive and sensitive; they suit art, music and retreats, and blur boundaries.
On your Neptune culminating line your imagination can become your work: a line for art, film, music, healing and spirituality, with an uncertain path.
Living on your Neptune culminating line, careers in art, film, music, photography, healing or charity flourish; your reputation can be glamorous or vague. On a visit, inspiration for creative work and a sense of calling.
It passes near Tehran, Doha, Baku.
On your Neptune rising line you become more sensitive, artistic and spiritual, and also more impressionable: inspiring, but keep your feet on the ground.
Living on your Neptune rising line, you become dreamy, sensitive, artistic and intuitive, and boundaries blur. It suits artists and spiritual seekers, and asks you to look after your health and clarity. On a visit, a beautiful place for a spiritual or creative retreat, especially near water.
It passes near Edinburgh, Bergen, Dublin, Montevideo, Florianópolis.
On your Neptune setting line romance is dreamy and idealistic; beware of illusions and deception in partnerships.
Living on your Neptune setting line, relationships are romantic, compassionate and idealised. Love feels magical, and you must see partners clearly rather than as you wish them to be. On a visit, romance has a dreamlike quality; enjoy it and keep your feet on the ground.
It passes near Brisbane, Seoul.
On your Neptune lower-meridian line home is a sanctuary near water or in nature, but can blur boundaries; a place to retreat, not always to settle.
Living on your Neptune lower-meridian line, home becomes a place of dreams, spirit and retreat, ideally near water; family matters may be unclear. On a visit, a peaceful retreat where you sleep deeply and dream vividly.
It runs mostly over sea and open land, far from the major cities.
♇︎ Pluto lines
Pluto lines are places of transformation and power. Life becomes intense and deep; they can bring great change, research and healing, and ask a lot.
On your Pluto culminating line you can gain great influence and power in your field, and must use it wisely.
Living on your Pluto culminating line, career brings power, influence and transformation; it suits research, psychology, finance and work with crisis. On a visit, a sense of your own power and of what you could change.
It passes near Seville, Dublin, Edinburgh, Madrid, Casablanca.
On your Pluto rising line you are transformed: intense, powerful experiences that change who you are. Not easy, but profound.
Living on your Pluto rising line, you feel intense, magnetic and powerful, and life transforms you at the root. It is demanding, and it can make you formidable. On a visit, deep and sometimes overwhelming experiences that change your view of yourself.
It passes near New Orleans, Chicago, Oaxaca.
On your Pluto setting line relationships are intense and transformative, with issues of power and control to work through.
Living on your Pluto setting line, relationships are intense, passionate and transforming, with questions of power and control to work through. On a visit, powerful encounters that stay with you.
It passes near Almaty, Kathmandu.
On your Pluto lower-meridian line deep family matters come up for healing; a place of inner transformation.
Living on your Pluto lower-meridian line, home and family bring deep change: old patterns surface to be healed, and the foundations of life are rebuilt. On a visit, buried memories surface; a place for inner work.
It passes near Auckland, Wellington.
What you are looking for
You are looking above all for career and success, so the places for career come first.
The strongest city for it is Florianópolis, under Venus DC (22 km) and Jupiter MC (146 km).
The places you named
For each place you are considering, these are the planetary lines that pass within 800 kilometres, nearest first. Within about 300 kilometres a line is strong; by 800 it fades.
Pluto culminating (MC), 327 km, noticeable. Living on your Pluto culminating line, career brings power, influence and transformation; it suits research, psychology, finance and work with crisis. On a visit, a sense of your own power and of what you could change.
Sun setting (DC), 10 km, strong. Living on your Sun setting line, important partners come into your life, often strong, confident people who bring out your best. Partnership is the centre of life here. On a visit, you may meet someone important, a partner, a mentor or a client.
Saturn rising (AC), 188 km, strong. Living on your Saturn rising line, you feel serious, responsible and sometimes burdened; it rewards discipline and long effort. On a visit, you may feel tired or tested; good for focused work.
Mercury setting (DC), 260 km, strong. Living on your Mercury setting line, you meet clever partners and clients, and contracts and negotiations go well. On a visit, you make useful contacts.
Moon setting (DC), 552 km, faint. Living on your Moon setting line, you attract caring, emotional partners, and relationships feel like family. On a visit, you form close emotional bonds quickly.
Moon at the lower meridian (IC), 218 km, strong. Living on your Moon lower-meridian line is one of the best places to make a home and family; you feel safe and rooted. On a visit, you feel deeply at home, as if you had always lived there.
Places
Where the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury culminate, your work is seen, rewarded and built to last.
Places
Where Venus, Jupiter, the Moon and the Sun meet the horizon or the meridian, love and partnership come more easily.
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Where the Moon, Venus and Jupiter lie at the foot of the chart, you feel you belong and your roots can grow.
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Where Jupiter and Neptune rise, life opens up: learning, faith, creativity and the spirit.
Places
Where Uranus and Mars rise or culminate, you come alive, take risks and change.
Home · Berlin, Germany
A relocated chart is the birth chart cast for another place at the same moment: the planets stay in their signs, but the Ascendant, Midheaven and houses move. In Berlin, your relocated Ascendant is in Aquarius and Midheaven in Sagittarius.
With Aquarius rising you meet the world as an individual. People see someone friendly, unusual and independent, sometimes eccentric. The lesson of the Aquarius Ascendant is to let people close.
With the Midheaven in Sagittarius, at work you thrive in travel, teaching, publishing, law, philosophy and anything international.
Mercury DC (54 km). On your Mercury setting line you meet clever, talkative partners and collaborators, and contracts and agreements come easily. Living on your Mercury setting line, you meet clever partners and clients, and contracts and negotiations go well.
Sun DC (215 km). On your Sun setting line you shine through partnership: you meet strong, warm people and may find a partner who reflects your best self back to you. Living on your Sun setting line, important partners come into your life, often strong, confident people who bring out your best. Partnership is the centre of life here.
Saturn AC (399 km). On your Saturn rising line life becomes serious: responsibility, discipline and hard work. Demanding, but it builds lasting achievement and maturity. Living on your Saturn rising line, you feel serious, responsible and sometimes burdened; it rewards discipline and long effort.
Moon DC (484 km). On your Moon setting line you attract caring partners and close emotional bonds; a place for tenderness, and sometimes for dependence. Living on your Moon setting line, you attract caring, emotional partners, and relationships feel like family.
With care
Some lines are demanding: Saturn, Pluto and some Mars and Neptune lines bring pressure, intensity or confusion. They are not bad places, and many people do their most important work on them, but they ask for more.
Travel advice
Plan important beginnings, such as a move, a new job or a honeymoon, near your best lines; visit demanding lines when you want to work hard on yourself.
Sources
Planetary right ascension and declination from Astronomy Engine (geocentric, of date), with Greenwich apparent sidereal time at the moment of birth. Rising and setting lines from the horizon hour angle at each latitude; meridian lines where local sidereal time equals right ascension. Distances are measured east–west at each city's latitude. Land outlines from Natural Earth (public domain). Interpretations are written for reflection and entertainment.