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February 4, 2002
This time:
Will re-locating change your life?
The main question, "Will re-locating change your life?" I did a
lecture on this Saturday in Richmond (which was taped, and those can
be bought for $15 including postage), and I approached the question
from a psychological point of view. Astro*Carto*Graphy has been a
fascination of mine for many years. I get a lot of requests from
people to interpret their map and advise what an area of residence
might do to improve their lives. There is one basic rule that has to
be taken into consideration with this technique, and it is the same
rule that applies in examining compatibility charts. Wherever you
go, and with whomever you relate, you take yourself with you! If
your own shadow side is the main cause of disappointments and
rejection, then changing residences or partners is not the answer.
However, there are places where we can more easily show our better
selves and where things seem to go better for us. It will not cure
or heal our
darker natures, but instead might repress them more easily. One
wonders how much
good that really does for us. Jim Lewis developed this technique
more than twenty years ago. He devised a way of overlaying an
individual’s chart onto a map of any kind – world, state, country –
that clearly showed which planets would be on which angle and in
which places. For instance, if you calculated your relocation chart
for, say, London,
and saw that Saturn would fall right on your ascendant if you
relocated to London, then on an Astro*Carto*Graph (ACG) map, there
would be a line labeled "Asc/Saturn" that would run right through
London. If you moved there, you would experience Saturn energy more
intensely, and it would relate to the traditional meanings of the
Ascendant.
I’ve lived in Europe, California, Georgia, Florida, Canada... lots
of places (Uranus rising in my natal chart), and I’ve actually
experienced the truth of this technique. But, more growth came from
inhabiting those places where a "shadow" planet was prominent. A
shadow planet is one in your chart that shows challenges to growth.
Saturn is a shadow indicator for everyone more or less, but there
are several ways a planet can be classified as signifying an issue
that we want to avoid facing. There is nothing mysterious about it;
the rules are the same as interpreting a natal chart. If you want to
get a book about this, The Psychology of Astro*Carto*Grapy by Jim
Lewis and Kenneth Irving is a good one.
You can get an ACG map of the world for your chart very easily. I
can provide it as one of my services, or you can get a prettier one
in color with a booklet to help you understand it from Astro Numeric
Service 1-800-627-7464. It costs about $20 plus postage from them
last time I checked. Next time, I’ll probably be too embarrassed by
having been late two times in a row to dare to be late again!
:-)
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