A city that gives you almost everything except a sense that you have arrived. London is unusually good at being interesting and unusually slow at being home.
What London is actually like…
A city that gives you almost everything except the sense that you have arrived. London is enormous, layered several centuries deep, permanently under construction, and it will not be talked into liking you.
The weather is the least of it. What actually meets a newcomer is a social architecture built on long acquaintance: people are courteous immediately and available in about three years.
It repays that patience with a life that is difficult to reproduce anywhere else — work that counts somewhere, a local that knows you, and four other cities inside the same one for when you get bored of yours.
What living in London may emphasise…
London has no single astrological meaning. What a place emphasises depends on which of your own lines run near it — so the readings below are organised by line rather than by verdict.
Best for visiting London…
Come in February if you are serious about it. Anyone can enjoy London in June, and June is not the thing you would be signing up for.
Ride the buses rather than the tube. The tube teaches you the map. The buses teach you the city.
Arrange to be somewhere entirely unremarkable at six on a Wednesday. London's real mood lives there, not in the parts printed on tea towels.
If you are considering relocating to London…
Money and housing decide most of it. The rent is what it is, and the compromise everyone eventually makes is distance from the centre — which is fine, and is also the thing that quietly determines who you still see.
The chart's use here is naming the shape of the slog rather than removing it. A Saturn reading and a Mercury reading both describe a hard first couple of years and are not the same difficulty at all.
Assume three years before it feels like yours. The people who leave at eighteen months almost all report the same thing afterwards, which is that it had just started to work.
Why two people experience London differently…
Two people standing on the same street in London may have entirely different lines running through it. One may find the place easy and warm; the other may find it beautiful and closed. Nothing about the city has changed — the charts are different.
This is the reason this page describes readings rather than making a recommendation. The only version of London that matters to you is the one your own chart draws.