Meaning of the astrocartography lines
A line's meaning comes from two things: the planet, and the angle it stands on. Each planet has its own reference page here, covering all four of its lines — AC, MC, DC and IC — along with the two things that change the reading: sect, and the condition of that planet in your own chart.
How to use this reference: build an astrocartography map for your date, time and place of birth, see which lines run near the places you care about, and read those planets below. Inside the tool it is faster still — tap a line on the map and its meaning opens. If the map itself is new to you, start with how to read an astrocartography map.
- How to Read an Astrocartography Map Series overview — how the lines are drawn, how to read a planet-and-angle pair, and how close to one you have to be
- Sun Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles The only line where every program agrees exactly — and the only planet that rules a single house
- Moon Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles Belonging, and the body's weather — the line most often felt before it is understood
- Mercury Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles Never more than 28° from the Sun — and the only planet whose sect you have to work out
- Venus Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles The nocturnal benefic — and the line whose failure mode is that nothing goes wrong
- Mars Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles In sect at night — the line that is dangerous to the wrong chart and indispensable to the right one
- Jupiter Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles The diurnal benefic — and why the same line reads differently in a night chart
- Saturn Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles In sect by day — not a bad place, a place that charges
- Uranus Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles Outside the traditional framework — a line the older doctrine has no rules for, and what to use instead
- Neptune Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles The line where the reading is hardest to falsify — and what to do about that
- Pluto Line in Astrocartography: Meaning on All Four Angles 17° off the ecliptic — the one line where two maps of the same birth can be hundreds of kilometres apart
What the online map does not draw
The online version draws the lines of the seven classical planets, the Sun through Saturn. The lines of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, aspect lines to the angles, parans, line crossings and cyclocartography are calculated by the desktop ZEUS astroprocessor — you can try it free for 21 days. That is a deliberate division rather than an omission: the free map is there to show you the method, not to replace the program.
- Astrocartography online — the line map built from your data
- Interpretations — the full reference this series belongs to
- ZEUS Online — natal chart, transits, progressions and the uranian dial