Holiday
Where should I go on holiday?
Five destinations, ranked. Tell us who you are travelling with and what you want out of the trip; your birth chart is placed on a real map and every candidate is measured against your planetary lines. A line counts when it runs within 900 km, and each match shows which lines and how far.
What a planetary line is
At the moment you were born, each planet was directly overhead somewhere on earth, directly underfoot somewhere else, and rising or setting along two long curves. Draw those on a map and you have your astrocartography lines. They are computed from the ephemeris. The geometry is real, and what a line is read as meaning is tradition.
- Venus line
- The classic holiday line, pleasure, beauty, ease.
- Jupiter line
- Expansion and luck. The trip you come back bigger from.
- Sun line
- Where the tradition says you are most visible and most yourself.
- Moon line
- Somewhere that feels like being looked after.
- Mars line
- Physical and high-energy. Good for a trip you want to feel.
- Mercury line
- Where you learn something and talk to strangers.
- Neptune line
- Dreamlike and disorienting, at its best by water.
- Saturn line
- Serious and solitary: better for a reset than a party.
The 900 km influence radius is an AsterNym convention, not an established boundary. Practitioners use anywhere from 300 to 1,000 km and none of them can tell you why theirs is the right number. Ours is disclosed so you can discount it.
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What a planetary line is, and what it leaves out
An astrocartography line marks the places on Earth where a planet stood on one of the four angles at the moment you were born. There are four kinds per planet: where it was rising, where it was setting, where it was at the top of the sky, and where it was at the bottom. The mathematics is straightforward and entirely determined by your birth time and coordinates, which is why the map changes sharply if your recorded time is out by even a quarter of an hour.
That sensitivity is the first thing to know before planning anything around it. A line that runs through a city on a 14:00 birth can run a few hundred kilometres away on a 14:15 one. If your time came off a hospital record rounded to the hour, the lines are drawn confidently from a number that was not.
The second is what the map has no view on at all. Visas, cost of living, language, safety, season, whether you can work there, whether anyone you know is nearby. A destination sitting on a favourable Venus line and inside a war zone will still be on the line. Read it as a shortlist generator for somewhere you were already considering, and do the rest of the research the ordinary way.