Ricardo Puerta Isaza
Astrocartography

Your birth chart on the world map

At the moment you are born, the position of each planet becomes visible, carrying that zodiacal position across to a position on the Earth at one of the four corners of the sky. That is what astrology calls astrocartography, and it is what this map draws.

World map with the lines of the fourteen bodies of a birth chart: the vertical Midheaven and Imum Coeli lines, and the curves of the Ascendant and Descendant
Fourteen bodies · four lines each · the example is Elon Musk’s chart, whose birth data is public

Equirectangular projection, the same one Solar Maps uses. Calculated with Swiss Ephemeris, validated against Solar Fire v9.1.0.

What each line marks

The four corners of the sky

Every planet leaves four tracks across the Earth. This is not a metaphor: had you been born at an exact point on the Venus Midheaven line, Venus would sit at the exact degree of your Midheaven.

Where people notice you Ascendant · your personality

The planet was rising in the east. It is what shows: how you come across, what you project, what others notice without your saying it.

Where you get recognized Midheaven · your success

The planet stood at the very top of the sky. It is the career, the craft, the reputation, what people see you by.

Where it comes through others Descendant · your relationships

The planet was setting in the west. It is what reaches you through people: the partner, the associates, the allies.

Where you live it behind closed doors Imum Coeli · family and home

The planet was at its lowest point, beneath your feet. It is the house, the family, the roots and what comes down the line.

How it is organized

Eight segments, eight ways to look

The map is not read planet by planet but by what matters to you. Each segment gathers the planets that govern that subject and shows you, on its own map, which parts of the world you have it active in.

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Venus

Love and Romance

Where affection comes more easily. Crossed with Jupiter, the meeting grows as well.

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Jupiter

Career and Opportunity

Where things flow: the career, the knowledge, the circle of people around you.

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Moon

Friendship and Family

Where you feel at home. And where you don’t: the Moon does not tell the two apart.

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Neptune

Imagination and Inspiration

Where what cannot be reasoned comes in, and where seeing clearly gets harder.

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Uranus

Emotion and Instability

The places that do not leave you the same. It is the segment with the most crossings of all.

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Mercury

Education and Communication

Where your mind switches on: ideas come more easily and contacts appear.

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Saturn

Responsibility and Focus

Where nothing comes for free, but what you build stays.

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Mars · Saturn · Pluto

Challenges and Risks

These are not forbidden places: they are places with a price, and you prepare for them beforehand.

What the report looks like

Sixty-five texts, written one by one

Eight chapters, one per segment, each with its own map. Thirty-six lines, twenty crossings and a closing note. Not one of them generated artificially: I wrote them myself, in a way that makes them easy to follow.

The report cover, with the name and birth data
Your coverWith your name and your birth data, like the birth chart report.
A page of the report with a full segment and its own map
A whole segmentIt opens with that segment’s map — its lines, its crossings and its cities — and the full text follows below.
A page of the report listing the cities and what is active in each
Your citiesIn every segment, the cities where you have it active, with which line and how many kilometers away.

More than 30 pages · English and Spanish · real pages from the PDF you receive when you buy it.

Your astromap
US$ 20.99

in Colombian pesos, at today’s rate

One-off payment. Not a subscription.

Buy my astromap
  • · The full map, with the fourteen bodies and their four lines
  • · The eight segments, each with its own map and its full text
  • · The thirty-six lines and the twenty crossings
  • · Your cities in each segment, with the line and the kilometers
  • · The PDF, to download and in your inbox
Before you buy

What people usually ask me

Does this tell me where I should go and live?

It serves as a guide to the places on the planet that would suit you best and the ones that would not. It tells you what energy each place brings, which is not the same thing. The decision to move depends on your whole chart and on the moment you are living through, and that is looked at in more detail and more depth in a reading with me.

Besides, these lines are energies you can draw on without moving at all: by meeting people from those regions, or by keeping contact with those countries and those cultures. It is like pointing the radar toward the areas where you find, or receive, what you are looking for.

Do I need to have bought my birth chart report first?

No. The astromap is sold separately and stands on its own. If you already have the PDF report of your birth chart and current transits, the two complement each other: the full report tells you how each planet sits in your chart, and the astromap helps you find your bearings in the world.

How exact does my birth time have to be?

Very. Everything depends on that exactness: the more exact it is, the more precise everything becomes — the birth chart PDF and the lines of your map alike. The lines shift about one degree for every four minutes of clock time, so an approximate hour moves the map hundreds of kilometers.

If you don’t know your exact time, write to me before buying, or book a reading first so we can verify and pin down the hour and minute of your birth.

Why are some lines straight and others curved?

The Midheaven and Imum Coeli lines are meridians (vertical lines): the same hour the world over, and that is why they come out vertical. The Ascendant and Descendant lines are the horizon, which depends on latitude, and flattening the Earth onto paper is what makes that curve appear. It is not a flourish of the drawing: it is the shape the thing has.

And if I want to understand it with you?

That is what the reading with me is for. If you are thinking of moving to one of these regions, or you are interested in traveling or studying in one of them, in your reading we look at everything that matters and also at a chart called a Relocation Chart, with its report.

See the readings →

The two together

The report says how. The astromap says where

The report of your birth chart reads you planet by planet: in which sign, in which house, with which aspects. The astromap takes those same planets and lays them over the world. They read well apart and better together.