Astro*Carto*Graphy; (ACG is a registered trademark)

[SteveS]

We can go to any angular ACG planetary line with any chart we choose to work with, or the planetary line can come to us by the birth location or residence we find ourselves residing. Below is a link demonstrating with Solar Maps where my Natal Jupiter line came to me with my birth location (Albertville, Al) by going through the most important location in my entire life, Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta is where I conducted all of my fortunate business in my life and is where I experienced most all of my fun in life pertaining to the business I was in for most of my life. My ACG Jupiter ASC line came to me, but my ACG Jupiter ASC line proved to me that angular planetary ACG lines (world locations) can have their symbolic planetary influences on natives. Because my ACG Jupiter ASC line went through Atlanta, I experienced a tremendous amount of benefic Jupiter influence in this one city in the USA.

https://ibb.co/fnCGWJ6

Note: My ACG Saturn-Pluto MC lines pass very close to Dallas, Texas. When all the companies I did business with in Atlanta closed an moved to Dallas my business world was turned upside down and my career came crashing down, another story. Note also my MC Mars ACG line passes very close through San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. Knowing what I know now about ACG--no way would I choose to reside or visit these cities, unless maybe if I was a sports athlete earning a living.

ACG is a most fascinating study, and Jim has extensive experience by relocating his return charts, but anyone can choose where they want to reside through their birth charts with their angular ACG world lines. Just make sure if you do decide to relocate yourself and reside in a new location you do it for practical common sense reasoning, you cannot necessarily relocate to a Jupiter or Venus ACG line and expect magic to instantly occur, it takes time to develop any benefic life influence.
More examples later…

[Jim Eshelman]

Over the last couple of years, I have started calling the relocated natal chart the first layer of astrological prediction. Here is a passage from the new book demonstrating some of that:

Hundreds of relocation examples could be cited. Astrologers (especially Sidereal astrologers) have routinely tracked locality charts for decades. The late Jim Lewis, who marketed the first commercial product helping people understand how their chart changes with geography, collected anecdotes of people’s experiences living in and visiting various places.

My wife, born into an airline family and with a personal will to wander, is widely travelled with many tales to tell. When she first wandered the often-confounding streets of Paris on her own, she felt at home, that they were entirely familiar (the sort of familiarity that stirs suspicions that past life memories are in play). While it takes nothing extraordinary to feel happy in Paris, the intimacy of her connection aligns with her natal Venus and Neptune mere minutes from her Paris angles.

On the other hand, she lived two summers in Homer, Alaska, nearly dying there from an abrupt kidney infection. For Homer, her Saturn is 0°40' from Eastpoint in close mundane opposition to Mars, and her 4° natal Mars-Uranus conjunction becomes a 0°00' orb mundane conjunction!

Using the best birth times available, a dozen U.S. presidents have been born with Jupiter foreground, second only to Sun for most common angular planet. (Similarly, Moon-Jupiter aspects are their most common aspect.) Nine of these twelve foreground Jupiters moved closer to the angle in Washington, DC, while seven other presidents acquired an angular Jupiter when they moved to Washington. Jupiter is by far the most common planet on local Washington angles for U.S. presidents.

Acclimating or Instantly Shifting?
When we move to a new location, does it take time to acclimate to the new angles? Or is the effect immediate?

In terms of producing objective events, effects are immediate. We know this because local angles have reflected people’s experiences simply driving through an area. Astrologer Jim Lewis reported a personal “flat tire zone” that he could not drive or even ride across without getting a flat. Pres. Harding, becoming sick while touring Alaska, died of a feverish illness soon after landing in San Francisco where his Mars was on local Midheaven. Pres. Kennedy had Pluto on MC through the longitudes of Texas. His widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, had Jupiter angular in Greece, which permanently improved her fortunes. Billie Jean King won her biggest, best-known match ever in Houston where her Jupiter is 0°02' from an angle. Charles Manson moved his Mars-Neptune conjunction to the angles when he relocated from Cincinnati to Chatsworth, California. So immediate are these effects that we might consider relocation of one’s natal angles as the first layer of astrological prediction.

Other effects build over time, seeming to mark a distinct destiny for a place. Walt Disney, born in Chicago, wrote his name forever on Anaheim where his Mercury was exactly angular, just as Mercury was on MC of Rancho Mirage when Betty Ford was born. Harvey Milk left his home in New York, moving to San Francisco where he had Mars within a degree of an angle for a life of passionate activism and eventual death by murder. The Rev. Jim Jones relocated his church and followers to what became the eponymous Jonestown, Guyana, where his Sun and Mars were each 1° from an angle in close mundane square: He and those who went with him died there...

[Jim Eshelman]

It's not always remembered that these techniques were primarily pioneered by leading Sidereal astrologers. Another section from the chapter:

Sidereal astrologers pioneered the methods for making these decisions that today are commonplace across all astrology. The basic technique is to prepare a map (whether of a limited area or the whole world) showing exactly where each planet is on each angle. Because these are shown as lines, the method gave rise to expressions like, “living under a Venus line.”

The generic name for this is an astro-map.

Bradley’s 1948 book Solar and Lunar Returns included a section devoted to relocating the natal chart. I learned to calculate astro-maps by hand from reading a Fagan “Solunars” installment in American Astrology from the 1960s. Firebrace sometimes published similar hand-drawn maps in Spica for his quarterly world forecasts beginning in 1962.

The first person to generate astro-maps by computer was Gary Duncan, using IBM mainframe computers: He calculated them each year for new moon and full moon charts for the Llewellyn Moon Sign Book and provided similar maps to Donald Bradley for Sidereal lunar ingress charts... for “Garth Allen’s” annual political forecast articles.

But the person who truly put astro-mapping on the map was the late Jim Lewis, who first made astro-maps commercially available to anyone under the trademarked name Astro*Carto*Graphy. Jim’s beautiful, artistic plotted maps, intelligent support literature, and wonderful lectures and writings spread A*C*G quickly. Other innovators, such as Neil Michel-sen’s through his Astro Computing Services, later offered similar computer generated astro-maps. Today, popular astrology software calculates these on demand.

Jim Lewis worked alongside Bradley at Clancy Publications where American Astrology was published. Though a Tropical astrologer so far as signs went, Jim routinely used Sidereal solar and lunar returns. It was part of what alerted him to the undeniable importance of precise angularity.

[SteveS]

Thanks Jim for this important historical information. I first learned about these astro maps from the early sidereal astrologer authors from the book “Mundane Astrology” by the England writers. I never will forget when I first purchased my Natal Map from ACG and saw my Jup-ASC ACG line running on top of Atlanta and going almost exactly over the store of a high grade psychic which I did a lot of work with her natural talents which increased my business success greatly, I was blown away with this natural ACG JUP-ASC Atlanta line I was born with. By the time all the distributors (major movie companies) closed shop in Atlanta and moved their entire Southern Distribution to Dallas, I was well aware with Lewis ACG Map for my Natal, it was a terrible location for me to do business. I did test Dallas out by visiting all the NEW Branch Managers in Dallas, and I felt this heavy, heavy weight on my shoulders (Saturn-Pluto-MC ACG line) knowing I would not be able to do the same benefic business with em as all the Branch Managers in Atlanta who did not move to Dallas. This played a very important role in me deciding to sell my passion—my small 4 screen Theater---it broke my heart—but I knew the party was over with the new set of Branch Managers in Dallas---it’s complicated to explain.

Since both the cities Atlanta and Dallas was not actually chosen by me to do Business in, it leaves a burning question: Can we choose the locations (benefic ACG angular planetary lines) where we want to build good business relationships or seek benefic love relationships. I certainly don’t see why not, we certainly can chose where we want to reside or re-locate a return chart like you do for yourself a-lot. It’s like the Universe wanted to prove to me with Lewis ACG Map with these two business cities I conducted business, we can make knowledgeable natural law choices where we want to do business or for better locations for better mate/love probabilities. Jim, you are the master for relocating charts for other people-- so I only want to give examples in this thread with some of my private thoughts pertaining to my few experiences for relocating some of my return charts. If my links to the maps eats into your pocket book, let me know and I will stop the links. Better still, if any member needs your re-location services I hope they will help you by sending you a few bucks to help on your end with the forum expenses.

Jim wrote:

Jim (Lewis) routinely used Sidereal solar and lunar returns. It was part of what alerted him to the undeniable importance of precise angularity.

Yes, I understand, Jim Lewis provided the astrological community a great service. It allowed me to see/understand the tremendous potential for applying this ACG knowledge to help improve the quality of one’s life.

[SteveS]

Hanging out on my ACG Jupiter ASC most of my life.
We all know Jupiter has much to do with “expansion & growth”, but ACG Jup line brought me much more “expansion & growth” besides benefic material gain with my career. The only Metaphysical/Occult book store within a several hundred mile radius of my residence was a book store named “The Sphinx” in Atlanta, Ga, on my Jupiter line. The right book to a Virgo is like a piece of gold because a Virgo delights in “Learning” things regardless the subject matter. “The Sphinx” is where I discovered my first Sidereal Astrology book---Jim’s book “Interpreting Solar Returns.” The study of this book allowed me to learn WHY Solar Returns were never important with my 15 years of studying Tropical Astrology, and when I started to reviewing my past Sidereal Solar Returns (SSRs), I realized the timing value of SSRs, quite frankly SSRs blew me away with their timing art.
When I would travel to Atlanta for business/contracting movies my wife and I would spend 1 or two nights depending on how many movies the distributors were screening to exhibitors in the Theater business. I would always drop my wife off at her favorite Shopping Center and then go spend a morning at “The Sphinx”. I became close to the store operators and developed a relationship with them where they would tell me about other books by the word of mouth they were hearing from other book buyers, and one of the books I kept hearing about was “The Oracle of Geomancy”, ‘Techniques of Earth Divination’, by Stephen Skinner. The managers of “The Sphinx” told me buyers of this book were saying the techniques really worked for them practicing it on the surface of “earth.” It just so happened at the same time I took up my study of this book on “earth” divination I had acquired my Natal ACG Map from Jim Lewis brilliant work which he originally learned from the early Siderealists and their work. This is when I leaned I had been hanging-out most of my life on my ACG Jupiter-ASC line, and exactly where my Jup “Earth” line extended to. I realized it extended further into a southern latitude to the Gulf Coast where I had already been going to for years. In other words my ACG Jup line had compelled me to hang out on it besides just Atlanta, Ga. When I learned “Earth” divination which I only practiced for my individual objectives, I realized I was visiting one of the best “Earth” spots to practice my “Earth” divination---my Jup Gulf coast line surrounded by gentle gulf breezes (air/wind); fire (sun); water (the gulf); but, most important of all---sand ( tons of crystals/earth).
When I first became the sole owner of my small 4 screen Theater, I had a tough uphill battle to win—competing against a Theater Company with another much larger/newer 4 screen Theater, the largest Theater Company in the USA. After studying my earth divination book, my first practice was on the gulf coast in the sand on my ACG Jup line. I asked the “Oracle of Geomancy” 3 times what I should do to win the movie going public vs my competitors, and all 3 times the answer was simple “females, the odds very high for this happening 3 times in a row.” I didn’t know what this meant or what on earth (no pun intended) to do with this oracle answer. Then one very busy evening I was sitting in the lobby with my suit on next to my male manager with his suit on, and I realized the people who were really running the show (again-no pun intended) were females including my wife who had become great friends with a female assistant manager. It was at that moment I realized what the earth oracle was conveying to me: Let the females run the entire Theater operation on the floor in front of the public. Me and my manager left the floor and became the film operators upstairs invisible to the public, and then between shows cleaned the auditoriums, we took off our suits and became invisible to the public. My manager didn’t like this move!! The girls had a blast and fun running the entire visible Theater operation---the movie going public loved em!

My ACG Jup-Asc line (link below) on the Gulf Coast in Florida. Note the Jup-Asc-MC line intersection on the Gulf Coast. This is exactly where my wife and her family would rent a house for our weekly vacations. After telling my psychic friend in Atlanta about this earth divination experiment, she told me to brings bags of sand (crystals) back and surround the outside of my Theater, which I did, my staff except for my wife thought I was crazy . But my main point with this post is Jupiter can work for you in spiritual ways with "growth & expansion." The book store "The Sphinx" became my spiritual center on my Jup-Asc ACG line in Atlanta.

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[Arena]

Thank you for sharing Steve. Interesting stories. You've experienced ACG lines in relocations and in remote activation.

I knew that the man who bought my biggest and most expensive painting was living close to my Ven-Jup lines in Australia. He's building a hotel on that same longitude in Port Moresby where he's planning to hang my painting. When he told me that my heart jumped with joy and I thought to myself that this might be very important for my career as an artist (although this will not happen until 2025 or 2026). Added: He paid me slightly more for the artwork than I originally intended.

I just looked at my Ven-Jup lines and how close they are to where he lives in Cairns, Australia. For the alternative bt of 23.27 Venus is within 2° from MC measured in mundo and Jup is 0.02° from the IC! But for the 23.40 bt the planets are slightly further out, Jup outside 3° and Venus outside the 5° mark for potency. This place on the Earth also has planetary directions for Ven-Jup running through! I get the feeling this man or this placement might actually be important to help me with my career if I simply ask him to.

[Arena]

I decided to check two other places where I've sold original work to in the US. Two states. Somewhere close to Orlando, Florida and somewhere in the state of Washington on the west coast, close to Seattle.

Orlando is close to a Moon IC line and the alternative bt puts the state right in the middle of where Sun and Mer square and the dir Ven-Jup aspect is therefore squaring the state now. There is also a Jup-Pl/MC midpoint there for that bt (but not the 23.40).

Washington state (close to Seattle) has a midpoint of Moon-Ven/DSC and for the alternative bt of 23.27 it is close to a Jupiter square.

These two are perhaps not as "out of the ordinary" as Cairns, Australia. It would be interesting to see if I will have more sales over there when that artwork will be hung in the hotel.

[SteveS]

I hear you Arena, you got the full grasp of the astrological concepts we are allowed to work with our natals and return charts with ACG lines, and nobody can take that away from us. We can choose to be in the right place at the right time and possibly avoid to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. All we have to do is take Solar Maps or any other ACG programs available out there, and see where our benefic and malefic places are in the World with our Natals & Return charts.

And the Sky is the limit when we want to choose to calculate transiting parans with our benefic natal planets, or possible benefic paran set-ups with our return charts For example: Since I already know where my Jup-Asc-ACG line is near my residence and in the world, I can easily see when a t Venus is partile O 180 my angular Natal Jupiter for a possible t Venus to r Jup paran set-up, and you have it even better with your natal Venus-Jupiter 180.

We can take our return charts and note when there are partile 0 90 180 aspects with return planets or with our natal planets and see in the WORLD where we can hop a plane and fly into a benefic paran set-up with our return charts for possible clear-cut objectives. This is what I started doing with my benefic SLRs many years ago for recreational purposes and the results were astounding. It can be done with any purpose/objective we choose it to be. And this all has to do with "outstanding incident" return charts when you understand what the moving planets in the heavens eventually sets-up for our lives with our return charts. Magical

[Sharla]

Thank you for piquing my interest in ACG again Steve

I have a friend of a friend who is experiencing difficulties in their life, so I decided to look at the lines that run through their current city of residence. To be honest, I was anticipating Saturn based on what they were experiencing. And Saturn is located in London, where they now dwell.

She does, however, have Saturn on one side and Pluto on the other. Would you say London is at her Saturn/Pluto midpoint? Is that how map midpoints are calculated?

All we have to do is take Solar Maps or any other ACG programs available out there, and see where our benefic and malefic places are in the World with our Natals & Return charts.

Also, when you say solar maps do you mean placing our SSR over a map? I never knew you could do this.

[Jim Eshelman]

Also, when you say solar maps do you mean placing our SSR over a map? I never knew you could do this.

"Solar Maps" is an older name of the astro-mapping feature in Solar Fire. The name is still used on one of the drop-down menus and at the top of the resulting map.

[Arena]

Sharma. If your friend really is living in a Saturn-Pluto area, I would tell them to get out of there ASAP. It can be a place of total loss and destruction.

[Sharla]

Sharma. If your friend really is living in a Saturn-Pluto area, I would tell them to get out of there ASAP. It can be a place of total loss and destruction.

I forgot to leave a link to the image, here it is.
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This is the reason I asked as to whether it would be classed as the midpoint of Saturn and Pluto, or if midpoints are determined differently for maps.

I believe I have heard that Janus software calculates midpoints for ACG, but I cant afford it right now.

[SteveS]

Sharla wrote:

Thank you for piquing my interest in ACG again Steve

You are so welcome Sharla. Thank you for your feedback . Of all the astrology I have studied in my 40 year study---locational astrology is the most fascinating. When I first got into Sidereal Astrology with American Astrology magazines I discovered Jim Lewis and his ACG Maps for my wife’s and I maps of world lines, and realized most of my Jupiter ACG line had chosen me to do a-lot of business and fun recreational stuff on it by what I had been frequently visiting since a kid and more so as an adult. I was kinda amazed! Then I started learning about Sidereal Astrology with their super accurate return charts for forecasting our psyches. I thought to myself since I had the luxury of time and a business expense account: Why not experiment with recreational locations where a well-defined ”outstanding incident” set-up with Jim’s definition for an “outstanding incident” Sidereal Lunar Return (SLR), and was floored at the results I got which went beyond a normal recreational trip, difficult to explain, only can be experienced in a knowing way. I also experimented a-lot with very benefic transits to my Natal Jupiter which put the transits on my other natal angles creating a paran transit set-up with my r angular Jupiter, these were very outstanding for selecting benefic times. For sure I have proven to myself with peak recreational activity it pays to pay attention to the locations with TIME we choose with the teachings of Sidereal Astrology. Also, I have proven to myself with my Natal Saturn-Pluto lines very close to Dallas---it was a terrible place for me to continue my lifelong business when Distribution moved from Atlanta (my Jupiter business line) to Dallas.

Yes, as Jim explained, “Solar Maps” an old stand alone ACG program is now embedded in the Solar Fire astrological program, and I always love playing around with Solar Maps for locational purposes with certain objectives. I so wish I had Solar Maps when I would spend a-lot of time seeking out “outstanding incident” SLRs charts with a very cumbersome, time consuming DOS program with some place in the USA for me to spend a few days of peak recreational time. Astrology is such a great learning tool with our new technology of computers with certain programs. I love to meet people with AA birth charts who have traveled a-lot and ask them their favorite and least favorite places they have visited in the world. It’s kinda surreal to me a locational vibe, malefic or benefic, can influence our psyches so much with ACG lines.

Below is a link to Kamala Harris ACG chart with her planetary angular lines. Note her full moon lights (Sun IC/Moon MC) shines very close to Washington DC. We will soon see if it is within her Destiny for her to take her full moon and shine her lights for maybe the next 8 years.

https://ibb.co/54KTfFp