Three inputs, a chart, and a map. Here is each step, including the parts that are estimates rather than measurements.
1. You give us three things
Your birth date, birth time and birth city — the same three details any astrologer asks for — plus the city you currently live in.
The birth city is converted to coordinates and a timezone, so your birth moment can be placed precisely in universal time. That conversion is where most inaccuracy in amateur astrocartography comes from, and it is worth doing carefully.
2. We calculate where each planet was angular
From that moment we compute the position of each planet, then work out where on Earth it would have been rising, setting, or directly overhead. The guide explains the geometry, which is the same for everyone and not in dispute — only the interpretation is astrological.
3. We score your current city
Your alignment score is a measure of how close your current city sits to the lines associated with each goal — love, career, creativity, community, peace, and the places that challenge you.
Proximity is measured as angular orb — the angle between the city and the line, which is the measurement astrology has always used. We express it in kilometres so the numbers read in familiar units, but the quantity underneath is an angle.
That distinction matters more than it sounds, and it runs the opposite way to the obvious guess. Degrees of longitude converge toward the poles, so the same orb is a far shorter walk in Reykjavík than in Quito. Scoring by ground distance would hand every high-latitude city a standing discount on every meridian line, in every chart. The ground distance is still calculated and shown beside each line, because a breakdown that prints one number and scores another is a breakdown that lies — but it is there to describe the result, not to decide it.
4. The full Atlas ranks the world
The free result scores where you already live. The full Atlas is a one-off payment that ranks cities worldwide against every goal, with the top three for each, a written reading per city, your full line map, and share cards.
What this is not
Astrocartography is not a scientifically validated method, and nothing here is medical, legal, financial, immigration or relocation advice. We write in terms of what a place may emphasise, because that is the honest limit of the claim.
It will not tell you whether you will be happy somewhere. It is a way of narrowing the world to a shortlist worth considering — and it works best alongside the unromantic questions of visas, money, language and the people you would be leaving.