Wanderlinesyour free astrocartography map

It's your birth chart laid across the whole globe. At the minute you were born, each planet was rising somewhere on Earth, setting somewhere else, standing overhead along one line of longitude and sitting underfoot along another. Trace all of those places and you get the lines on your map. The astrologer Jim Lewis made the method famous in the 1970s, though astrologers had been sketching versions of it since at least 1960.

Start with what you want more of. Use Where should you go? just under the map to rank cities for love, career, home, luck, creativity or a fresh start, then tap a city to see every line near it. Many people look for a Venus or Jupiter line close by and keep a little distance from the lines that feel heavy for them.

Neither is better. Straight lines mark where a planet was overhead or underfoot, curves where it was rising or setting, and each speaks to a different part of life. Overhead lines are read for career and reputation, underfoot lines for home and family, rising lines for how you feel and come across, and setting lines for love and partnership. Choose the planet you want more of, then the kind of line that fits what you want it for.

The ringed city is the place you're reading, your birthplace to start with. The numbered cities are your top places for whatever you chose under Where should you go? the cities with a ring are the ones you add under Places that mattered to you, and the small dots are other cities you can tap.

Your lines never move. They're fixed by the minute you were born, so the map you draw today is the map you'll have at eighty. What changes is what you need from it. A Venus or Mars line might call to you at twenty five, a Jupiter overhead line when you're building a career, and a Moon underfoot line when you want to settle. Pick a different wish under Where should you go? as your life moves on, and the best places move with it. Astrologers also look at where the planets are moving now to choose the timing of a move.

Yes, more than for almost anything else in astrology. Earth turns one degree every four minutes, so a time that's a little off slides every line east or west, sometimes into a different city. Your birth certificate or hospital record is the best source. Without a time we'll still draw you a map for noon, as a daydream.

Astrologers usually read a line as strongest within a few hundred kilometres, softening the further away you go. Some read wider. Hali shows the real distance from any place to every line near it, so you can see how close you are and decide for yourself.

Every line has its own weather. A Saturn line is often read as a place to build something slowly and well, and a Pluto line as a place that changes you. Some people seek those out on purpose. Gentler lines like Venus and Jupiter tend to feel easier, though easy isn't always what you need.

No. Plenty of people read their lines for a holiday, a semester abroad or a long weekend. Some astrologers also read the lines running through places you only work with or dream about from afar.

Overhead and underfoot lines run straight from pole to pole. Rising and setting lines curve because the horizon tilts as you travel north or south, so near the poles they sweep sharply across the map.