⚡ Thunder & Lightning

A chart in a new sky

Relocation

The same birth, a different horizon.

Relocation keeps the birth instant fixed while changing the terrestrial viewpoint. The planetary positions remain those of the moment; the local horizon and meridian change.

Astrocartography gathers the angular conditions of all those possible viewpoints onto one earth. A line is the locus of places where one body is rising, setting, culminating, or anti-culminating at the original instant.

A relocated chart can sharpen a question about place, but it cannot supply evidence about housing, work, health, safety, or relationships on its own.

A fixed sky meeting two different local horizons
A fixed sky meeting two different local horizons

Small glossary

RA · α
A body’s eastward celestial coordinate.
GAST
The sky’s apparent rotation at Greenwich.
Dik-bala
Jyotiṣa’s measure of planetary strength by direction.
Kūrma-cakra
A classical nine-region directional scheme.
Nakṣatra
One of twenty-seven divisions along the ecliptic.