Why I Use Relocation Charts

I’m a strange astrologer in that I predominantly use relocation charts when it comes to making predictions for people. I came across relocation charts after moving from Connecticut to Florida. When I moved, I was keeping track of my aspects, and nothing that was happening in my life was syncing up with them. Events were happening sooner than I was seeing in my chart. As I was still new to astrology, it was a head-scratcher to me, until I read about relocation charts.

A relocation chart uses all of the same birth data as your natal chart, and adds one extra component: your current place of residence. This one extra piece of data changes the houses in your relocation chart so they’re different from your natal chart.

Depending on how far away you live from the town you were born in, it could be a small change of just minutes or a degree or two, or a larger change of complete signs. Even the smaller changes make a big difference when it comes to prediction. For example, in my relocation chart, I found that my 1st/7th, 2nd/8th, and 3rd/9th houses were each 3 degrees earlier than in my natal chart. That seems small, but it made a difference. The faster moving planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) were entering these houses one to several days before I’d originally thought, which was throwing off my predictions. With the slower moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto), that small 3 degree change meant a difference of a week to a year. The changes to my 4th/10th, 5th/11th, and 6th/12th houses were larger, being 8, 9, and 7 degrees earlier than in my natal chart, respectively. When I moved,

Neptune was in my 3rd house in Connecticut, but jumped into my 4th house right away. If I’d stayed in Connecticut, it would’ve been two more years before that happened. And these changes happened with my moving within the same country and same time zone, so they could have been even bigger.

It not only impacts when the planets enter and exit your houses, but can also impact your house rulers. None of my houses changed signs, but if that happens, your house gets an entirely new planetary ruler, and is impacted by aspects made to an entirely different planet.

Once I found relocation charts and it made so much sense for me, I decided to try it on other people, and it continued to work. Where it doesn’t have as much impact is on your personality; you’re always your natal chart, and over time, you’ll absorb some of your relocation chart into your personality (usually a period of 1 ½ – 3 years of living in the new place), but how much you play up the relocation chart in your personality versus your natal chart varies from person to person. But predictively, your relocation chart takes over as soon as you move.

It’s my belief that predictive astrology needs to take into consideration your current life because it’s the current conditions that you’re living under that dictate what will come next for you. I think this is why relocation charts work. Whenever you work with returns or progressions, you always take the current location into consideration, even if you’re only there for that exact moment (in the case of returns). Why shouldn’t relocation charts work using your current location as well?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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