Astrocartography

Domain XIV · Western esoteric, divinatory & new spiritual movements · Jim Lewis · 1976

What it is

Astrocartography ("locational" or "relocation" astrology) is a divination method, not a therapy. It redraws a person's birth chart as a world map showing where, at the moment of birth, each planet was rising, setting, culminating or anti-culminating. Practitioners read the resulting lines as places…

Format

• This is a method used by astrologers and their clients; it has no therapeutic phases of its own. The framework below has two parts: (A) the method as practitioners describe it, so the therapist can follow what the client is talking about; (B) a therapist's working sequence when a client brings…
• Evidence status (one line). No controlled test specific to astrocartography is known; for astrology in general, Carlson's double-blind test (Nature, 1985) found astrologers matching charts to personality profiles at about 37% against 33% chance, and a 2003 Journal of Consciousness Studies review…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status (one line). No controlled test specific to astrocartography is known; for astrology in general, Carlson's double-blind test (Nature, 1985) found astrologers matching charts to personality profiles at about 37% against 33% chance, and a 2003 Journal of Consciousness Studies review…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• Debt, concealment from family, a reader who discourages other advice or therapy.
• Pressure to collude or to debunk; the client seeking the therapist's verdict as one more reassurance (see 4.7).
• Depressed mood, isolation or financial strain after a move; a pattern of serial moves each followed by disappointment.
• Triangulation (the therapist recruited against family or astrologer); a child's needs lost in the adults' disagreement.
• Escalating certainty, urgency and loss of insight; declining function; risk indicators. Do not treat ordinary belief as symptom.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.