What is a relocated chart and how to use it for deciding where to move
A relocated chart is a concept within astrocartography, the astrology of location.
A relocated chart goes beyond the planetary lines on your astrocartography map and reveals how your entire life changes in a new location, and how this new location contributes to your personal growth and fulfilling your soul’s purpose.
If you’ve ever moved to a new city, state, or country, you probably know what it’s like to feel like you don’t quite know who you are or how to fit in to your new environment.
This doesn’t happen just because you changed your surroundings.
It’s because by moving you created an entirely new version of you AND your natal chart, known as a “relocated chart.”
Relocated charts are used in astrocartography to help people decide where to move. Your relocated chart is your natal chart, but adjusted for the time and place of your new destination.
It’s still you, but it’s a different version of you - one that gets to live out its own story, with its own challenges and opportunities.
Think of it like trying on a new style of clothing.
You’re still yourself, but the world sees and responds to you differently, and so you carry yourself differently, too.
How my relocated chart showed me where I could thrive in love
When I moved from Denmark to Estonia, two aspects of my life that I’d struggled with the most went through a complete reset. One of them was love.
In Denmark, my 7th house of committed relationships was loaded with difficulties to learn from.
But in Estonia that weight lifted, and within three months, I met the man who would become my husband (this is not an exaggeration for dramatic effect).
My relocated chart explained it perfectly - in Estonia, my 7th house was freed up to finally thrive in love (but as a much wiser woman from all of the lessons I’d had in Denmark).
That hardship I’d previously experienced in love now moved to my 6th house of daily routines, mental health, and workplace dynamis, an area of my life that has served me just as many lessons as my love life used to in Denmark.
It’s important to remember that no place will give you everything.
You might find career feels effortless in one location, but relationships are a struggle.
Or maybe you feel highly sensitive about your identity in one place, but deeply appreciated and seen somewhere else.
The spiritual principles of relocated charts
Astrocartography helps put words to how you and your entire life has changed or may change in that location and how to best navigate it.
However, when you live in a new location, both your natal chart and your relocated chart are active.
One does not cancel out the other and neither one is more important - they both play out simultaneously.
Your natal chart shows the overarching story of your soul’s journey, while your relocated chart highlights what you’re here to grow into to help fulfil your natal promise.
This is why, when I investigate the transits, life cycles, and yearly themes for someone living abroad, I always consider both charts - their natal and relocated chart.
Your relocated self is still connected to your natal chart, but it has its own timeline, its own growth, and its own opportunities.
The more you know about these different versions of you, the more you’re able to make sense of the potentially conflicting energies pulling you in different directions.
Living somewhere new doesn’t just shift your life - it reveals a new part of who you are.
This part of you doesn’t cease to exist when you leave the location behind.
You may feel like there’s some unresolved business, but the wisdom you’ve gained from your time in that location will continue to exist within you regardless.
How to generate a relocated chart
Gather your birth details: Before you can generate your relocated chart, you need to have accurate birth details: date, time, and place of birth.
Change your birth time to match the time zone of your destination: Use a free tool like this to make this easier. You don’t have to account for daylight savings.
Change your birth location to your destination
Interpret your relocated chart like a normal natal chart: How does your life look different compared to your original natal chart? If you’d like a tutorial on the basics of interpreting your natal chart, check out this free masterclass.
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