FOUNDATIONS

Your birth chart records the sky at one moment. Astrocartography asks where on Earth that same sky would have placed each planet on one of the chart's four angles.

You get off a train somewhere you have never been and something in your shoulders drops. Plenty of explanations for this. There is also the one people actually want… is this home?

Four minutes of error moves a line about a degree. An hour moves it across a country. The least mystical paragraph on this site, and the most consequential.

Every publication runs this piece. Almost none mention that it sorts eight billion people into twelve holidays, which even by astrology's standards is ambitious.

The maths is accurate to the minute. The meanings are a tradition. Whether a line changes your life has never been demonstrated, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

Your first map looks like a plate of spaghetti thrown at the world. There is an order to look at it in, and it is not the order your eye wants to use.

They get used as synonyms constantly. One is a filter that works on the whole globe at once; the other is a detailed reading of a single address. The order you use them in matters.