Astrocartography applies geography to the principle that planets are strongest in the four powerful angle houses of the Vedic Astrological chart - one, four, seven and ten. Plotting lines on a map where the planets were in angular positions at the time and place of your birth shows where they are powerful geographically. These Birth Lines run north to south and are thus longitudinal. Birth Lines influence 700 miles on either side of the lines in a diminishing manner (called orb).
Here is how Vedic Astrology and Astrocartography work together. When your Vedic chart with its attendant planetary cycles is interpreted, you learn how the various planets describe your karmas
(actions and experiences) and when these are activated. As your Vedic chart’s planetary cycles also turn on the Astrocartography planetary lines, these reveal how geography affects you. (This interrelationship is the reason why Astrocartography requires interpretation of the Vedic chart.) Therefore, when you live any location, you experience the planetary energies described by your Vedic chart and mapped out by your Astrocartography lines. For example, if your Vedic chart indicates Mercury for career, and you are running Mercury's planetary cycle, your career would be supported by living in areas empowered by Mercury Astrocartography lines. Visiting those areas would be similarly supportive. There's a third practical application of Astrocartography. Its lines indicate how other people affect you by virtue of where they were born or reside. Continuing the career example, people born or living in areas influenced by Mercury lines would be good customers, employees and supervisors. Doug Riemer has the Solar Maps Astrocartography computer program, allowing him to zero in on any part of the world clients wish and print these localized maps for clients' review.
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