The Astrology of Local Space - Relocation

The Astrology of Local Space:

Relocation
By Michael Erlewine
Michael@Erlewine.net
Local Space
There are several types of locality
astrology that are in popular use, and
let’s mention them:

Relocated Angles to Big Rapids,
Michigan
Relocated Angles
This is the oldest and most traditional
technique, that of
relocating the chart angles and then
looking to see how this changes the
chart. This kind of relocation is as
simple as casting the birth chart for the
same moment in time, but in another
town or location. We then look to see if
any planets changed houses, and so on.
Astro*Carto*Graphy Sample
Astro*Carto*Graphy
Then, there is Astro*Carto*Graphy,
made popular by Jim Lewis. Lewis did
not originate this technique. Gary
Duncan and others had done this same
mapping years earlier and published the
maps to prove it. What Lewis did was to
popularize this technique and show the
rest of us how to use and love it.
Astro*Carto*Graphy (among other
things) shows great circles on a map
(which appear as lines) for where a
given planet would be on the Ascendant
(and thus significant) if you were born at
any spot along the line. Lewis made this
style of mapping available to the world
in a meaningful way.
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Local Space
Local Space
And last is Local Space, a technique I
popularized. I was not the first
astrologer to look at planets in Azimuth
(longitude-equivalent on the local
horizon), but I was the first to make it
popular, to explain what it means and
how to use it. Local Space is easy to
understand. Just imagine your mom at
your birth (with you in her arms) walking
outside and looking at the sky. She
might see the Sun in one direction along
the horizon from where she stood, the
Moon in another, and Venus as a
morning star somewhere else. This is
Local Space, the fact that each of these
planets makes a line from where you
stand that stretches around the Earth
and passes through any number of
cities. Thus Jupiter (for example) many
be in the direction of Ann Arbor,
Michigan as in my case and Ann Arbor
was where I found my vocation as an
astrologer. Jupiter = life path or
vocation. You get the idea. Local Space
is easy to grasp.
I am not expert in the other techniques,
but am glad to discuss anything to do
with Local Space and look forward to it.
For those interested in this technique in
more detail, I have a book 'Local Space:
Relocation Astrology" available in
paperback on Amazon.com.
I typically use three coordinate systems
when I look at a chart:
(1) Geocentric – This gives me info on
the circumstances and the personality of
the individual – what appears on the
outside.
(2) Heliocentric – This gives me
information on the dharma or life path of
the individual, what is on the inside
behind the outside - the macroscope.
(3) Local Space – This give me
information on the nitty-girtty, how things
move around on the ground so to speak,
where the rubber meets the road - the
microscope.
If you have never read the original
papers on Local Space? If not, they
would probably be worthwhile. They
were written in the middle 1970s or
earlier, if I remember right.
Like all astrological techniques, Local
Space works if it works for you. No
accounting for taste in techniques.
For my own use of Local Space, I use it
to look at the natal Local Space chart in
the following ways. I will walk you
through them. If any of these are active,
then I consider the significance. Here is
my Local Space chart:
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Natal Local Space Chart Local Space Aspect Patterns

(1) Are any of the bodies in the four
cardinal directions of East, South, North,
or West? Here you can see that my Sun
is due West and that my Neptune/Lunar
Node conjunction is due South.
(3) You can also consider aspects and
aspect patterns in Local Space, but I
seldom use them. I am into the low-
hanging fruit, and the patterns take too
much energy for my taste. If I can get
nuggets of gold, I won’t pan for the
flakes. Lazy.
(4) Are any of the planets or the cardinal
directions in the direction of cities of
importance? If you extend the zero and
180-degrees of azimuth lines, what
cities do they run through? I don’t have
an image here, but you get the idea.

Natal Local Space Altitudes

(2) Are the altitudes of any of the bodies
close to the horizon, that is less than ten
degrees or so… Less is more. Here we
can see that Jupiter is less than 3
degrees from the horizon in altitude.
This is significant. Even the Uranus at 7
degrees is noteworthy. Jupiter/Uranus =
Career/Technology.
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Local Space on the Map
(5) Look for azimuth lines on the map
running through cities. My Jupiter (blue
line) runs right through Ann Arbor,
Michigan, which is where I became an
astrologer. Jupiter is the career or life
path. The red line represents my triple
conjunction of the Moon, Saturn, and
Neptune. It runs just above Big Rapids,
Michigan where I live.
Altitudes for Big Rapids, Michigan
(6) Now if I relocate the Local Space
chart, meaning if I cast a chart for a
relocation city using the same birth data
but the coordinates of the new place,
how does this change the picture? For
example:
I moved from Ann Arbor (after
establishing a career as an astrologer)
to Big Rapids, Michigan. In the above
list you can see what it did to my triple
conjunction of the Moon, Saturn, and
Uranus, all at 152 degrees of azimuth –
all conjunct to within 22 minutes of arc.
It took that gnarly threesome and
positioned Uranus right on the Horizon.
It separated Uranus from the other two
and positioned it as Key. That is where
Matrix Software blossomed.
(7) We can also (by relocation) bring a
planet on top of a natal planet. For
example, a relocation might bring your
Mercury to your natal Mars. What is
this? This is a progression in space
rather than time. If you can’t wait for a
progression in time, you can achieve
that by relocation at any time.
Local Space on a Michigan Map
(8) And yes, you can lay a Local Space
map on a geographic map and get ideas
of what directions might be useful to
you. You can do the twelve houses, if
you like. As for cleaning my garage with
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Local Space, I don’t do that fine an

adjustment.
I hope these examples are useful to
you. It makes some sense for me to
point this out as I founded the
technique. If you have other questions, I
will try to answer them.