By Elizabeth Smith, master astrocartographer
Planetary influences are invisible to the eye and unregistered by our other physical senses. Yet they exist as any skilled astrology reading will make quite clear. We define that physically unperceived presence as existing within the realm of energy.
Being energy, they have no boundaries to contain them. Because of this boundless state, when you live with someone, you share and are continually interfacing with their energy, including the energetic forces they are attracting from the planets and stars. This energy exchange becomes vividly and fascinatingly displayed once you recognize the astrocartography influences that exist in every location.
If you plan to relocate with a family, it is a very good idea to check the astrocartography influences for everyone who will dwell in the household with you because you will be affected by them in direct and indirect ways and these same people, in turn, will be affected by yours. So knowing the full picture is a huge advantage for all concerned.
Juggling the complexities and choices made evident by analyzing just one astrocartography map can be challenging, for the map reflects the complexities that we experience as life itself. It only makes sense then that the more people you cohabitate with, the more variables arise.
For most people, the more they’ve relocated, the more clearly they see that having this knowledge gives a huge ‘leg up’ over going to a new place astrologically blind and learning from the school of ‘hard knocks’.
Here are a few practical examples of how knowledge of this ethereal download can help you save time, money, stress, frustration and, in many cases, disappointment and the heartache that comes from making poor choices all because we have no information on how we are being continuously influences by the natural world above us. This invaluable perspective is what astrocartography provides.
If you move somewhere knowing that, due to Pluto’s MC presence, your partner is likely to have a much harder time than you making new social connections there, anticipating this, you can seek out friends who would be suitable to socialize with together as a couple.
Or if you know your college bound teen has a talent for athletics and would be more likely under their Mars AC line to succeed in competitive sports, then that might be a good location to seek out schools they might apply to.
Certainly if someone in the family is vulnerable to chronic discontent due to AC Saturn’s proximity, goin to a place where their mental well being is being supported by Jupiter’s optimism is going to improve life for all family members.
This list of examples could go on and on, siting, literally, everything under the Sun.
So if you are half of a tightly bonded couple or a member of a cohabitating family, then consider your individual astrocartography map to offer insight on only a fraction of the energetic astrological influences that will affect your quality of life. And the more energetically attached you are to your loved ones, the more freely the energies intermingle. In the end, the more you know the better so you can plan ways to take advantage of and/or to proactively work with whatever planets you encounter wherever you go.