Astrocartography reads your birth chart as a map of the whole world: the cities where love comes easier, where work gets traction, where you finally feel at home. This free calculator draws that map for you in about thirty seconds.
Free. No account, no email. Your birth details stay in your browser.
Date, time and place of birth are all the calculator needs. Time matters most for the AC and DC lines, which move roughly one degree of longitude every four minutes, so use a birth certificate time if you have one.
Your details are stored in your own browser so the map can redraw. Nothing is sent to a mailing list.
Astrocartography, sometimes called locational astrology or astromapping, takes the sky exactly as it stood at your birth and asks a different question of it. Not "where was Venus in my chart?" but "where on Earth was Venus rising at that instant?" Answer that for every planet and every angle, and you get a set of curves and meridians spread across the globe. Those are your lines.
A line marks the places where a planet sits on one of the four chart angles: the horizon, the meridian, and their opposites. Stand on your Jupiter MC line and Jupiter is directly overhead in your relocated chart, sitting on the Midheaven, colouring your public life and career. Stand on your Saturn AC line and Saturn is on the eastern horizon, pressing on your identity, your body and your sense of time.
The lines do not decide anything for you. They describe emphasis. A planet that sits quietly in your ninth house at home can be loud and unavoidable somewhere three thousand miles away, and a planet you have never noticed can become the thing everybody comments on. That is why the same person can feel effortless in one city and permanently braced in another.
Every planetary line belongs to one of four angles. The planet tells you what shows up; the angle tells you which part of your life it shows up in.
Career & public life
The highest point of the chart: your visible life. Reputation, vocation, the thing strangers know you for. MC lines run straight north-south as meridians, and living near one tends to push that planet into your work and your public standing whether or not you asked it to.
Midheaven · career & public life
Home & roots
The bottom of the chart, directly opposite the MC: home, family, ancestry, the private room nobody else sees. IC lines are the places that either feel like belonging or like being handed your family's unfinished business to carry.
Imum Coeli · home & roots
Identity & vitality
The eastern horizon: the planet is rising as you arrive. AC lines change how you come across and how you physically feel: energy, appetite, presence in a room. These are the most personal lines on the map and the most sensitive to an inaccurate birth time.
Ascendant · identity & vitality
Relationships
The western horizon, opposite the AC: the planet is setting. DC lines govern who you meet and what you keep attracting into partnership: romantic, business, adversarial. If a place keeps introducing you to the same kind of person, look at your DC lines.
Descendant · relationships
Name, date, exact time and city of birth. The calculator resolves the coordinates and time zone for your birthplace automatically, including historic daylight-saving rules.
Eleven bodies (Sun through Pluto plus the North Node), each drawn on all four angles. MC and IC lines come out as straight meridians; AC and DC lines curve, because the horizon tilts with latitude.
The map is scored against your birthplace so you can see which lines are actually live for you right now, how far away each one runs, and what that planet-and-angle pairing tends to bring.
A full astrocartography map is honest but crowded. Pick the thing you actually want more of and the map keeps only the lines that speak to it: the ones that draw love toward you, the ones that put money and recognition within reach, the ones that carry the harder rebuilds. Thirteen goals, all free, all on your results page.
Switch modes as often as you like. The map redraws instantly.
Thirty seconds of birth details, and the whole world map comes back marked. Then filter it by whatever you are actually trying to change.