Where should you live, by your birth chart

Each of your planets was overhead somewhere on Earth when you were born. City Globe scores 1,081 cities against the lines they trace.

What astrocartography is

It's your chart drawn on the Earth instead of a wheel. Seven planets, four lines each: where the planet stood overhead, where it stood underfoot, where it was rising on the horizon and where it was setting. Near one of those lines, that planet's part of your chart is said to run loud. Venus lines are read for love and ease, Jupiter for luck and room to grow, Saturn for weight and work, Mars for drive. Nothing about your chart changes when you move. Where you stand in relation to its lines does.

How a city gets its score

Pick what you're asking about: love, career, money, home or growth. Each goal weighs the seven planets differently, so Venus counts for most of a love score and little of a career one. Every city is then scored out of 100 on how close it sits to the lines of the planets that matter for that goal, and whether those planets help or hinder in your chart. Gold means the city wants you for that goal, blue means it doesn't, and the ten best and ten hardest are listed outright.

Questions people ask

What is astrocartography?

A map of your birth chart laid over the Earth. Instead of planets in signs and houses, you get lines on a globe showing where each planet was overhead, underfoot, rising or setting when you were born.

Can moving somewhere really change things?

Your chart is fixed at birth and moving doesn't alter it. What changes is which of your planet lines you're close to, and that's what astrocartography reads. Treat a city's score as a description of what that place tends to pull out of your chart, not a promise.

Do I need my exact birth time?

Here it matters more than anywhere else. The Earth turns a full circle in a day, so a few hours of uncertainty can slide every line thousands of kilometres east or west. Without a time the reading uses noon and the cities are a guess until you add it.

Which planet line is the best one to live on?

It depends on what you're asking for, which is why the goal comes first. A Venus line that's lovely for love does little for a career, and a Saturn line that's heavy going for romance can be exactly right for building something.