Places
The same sky meets a different horizon everywhere. See where each planet rises.
Example map
This is a fixed demonstration sky, not your birth chart.
A familiar made in this browser can supply its saved chart. Nothing here is saved, and birth details stay on the server.
Tap a point, or zoom and drag. Keys: +/− to zoom, arrows to pan, Enter to pick the map center, Home for the world. Or search for a place below.
Choose a place
Search sends only this place name to Open-Meteo / GeoNames, never your chart. Tapping the map or entering coordinates stays in this tab.
Enter coordinates
North and east are positive. Enter the place to explore, not your birthplace.
What moving changes
At one instant, a planet is rising somewhere, setting elsewhere, and crossing a meridian in other places. The lines show that geometry. Moving changes the local horizon and meridian, not where the planet is in the zodiac.
Astrocartography reads meaning into those lines. Here, each planet and angle offers questions to explore. A nearby line is not evidence that a place will bring success, a relationship, difficulty or any other outcome.
How this works
These are geocentric, in-mundo lines: each planet’s full apparent sky position is used, including its latitude away from the ecliptic. Astrodienst’s method comparison explains the distinction. AC and DC label geometric rising and setting, which need not match a relocated chart’s Ascendant or Descendant. A planet is overhead at only one point on its upper meridian line.
Positions come from Astronomy Engine 2.1.19, with sample positions checked against JPL Horizons and Earth rotation against the US Naval Observatory’s apparent sidereal times. Atmospheric refraction, terrain and the observer’s position on Earth’s surface are omitted, which can noticeably shift the Moon’s rising and setting lines. Distances are measured on a sphere, not on the flat map, and the 5 km rounding is a display choice.
A recorded birth time is essential: Earth’s rotation moves the map roughly one degree in four minutes, so unknown-time charts do not produce a personal map. Near the poles the map is stretched, and houses are left unassigned where a rising sign is ambiguous.
The house comparison uses the tropical zodiac and the same saved instant in every place. The rising sign is house one, and the Midheaven is calculated separately. Reference cases are checked against Swiss Ephemeris’s documented house calculation, an offline reference and not the site’s engine.
The backdrop uses Natural Earth’s 1:110m land outlines, supplied in the public domain. The example uses 1 January 2000 at 12:00 UTC, a fixed synthetic instant with no person’s data.
Your map and privacy
Opening a saved map needs the creator permission issued in this browser when the familiar was made. The server sends geographic planetary positions, and a house comparison returns signs and house numbers. No birth date, time, birthplace or zodiac degrees enter this page. The map and comparison are still personal: keep them private if you share your screen.
The map and selected places stay in this tab’s memory. Comparing houses with a saved chart sends only destination coordinates to magical.skin; they are used for that request and are not saved. The example comparison runs locally. A city search sends the place name alone to Open-Meteo / GeoNames. No third-party map tiles, chart service, AI call or automatic place lookup is used. Clear the map or reload to return to the example. Account recovery and cross-device chart access remain unavailable.
Write it down
What do you already know about a place? What would you find out by spending time there? Keep those notes separate from the map’s symbolism.
Open your journal