How to check whether a country is for you

Some places draw you in for no obvious reason. The Croatian coast, Lisbon, Japan — you want to go there, or you simply keep coming back to them in your thoughts. The Check a place tab in Astrocartography lets you set such a place against your birth chart and see what the astrocartography tradition says about it. This guide walks through a check from the first step to the last.

What you need

• A person with an exact time and place of birth. Four minutes of difference move a line by about a hundred kilometres, so with an approximate time the check does not appear.
• Any plan, to see the preview. The full check, discovering countries and the description in words are part of the Family and Premium plans.

Step by step

1. Open Astrocartography and choose the "Check a place" tab. You can also get there from a card on the Today page or from Intention Travel. By the title, choose the person whose place you want to check.
2. Type a country or a city. The suggestions come from our fixed catalogue of countries and cities; names work in every language of the app. If a name fits several cities, you choose the right one from a list.
3. Read the overall picture. At the top you see how many of your lines run nearby, and one sentence of summary: supportive lines prevail, demanding ones prevail, the lines are mixed, or the place is a quiet background. The last one is an answer too — a place without lines is neither a gift nor a warning.
4. Look through the lines near the place. Every line has its distance, its band (very close, close or the wider band) and the city it runs nearest. The ⓘ button reminds you what the planet and the angle mean — for example Venus on the Ascendant or Jupiter on the Midheaven.
5. See which goals the place echoes. The list uses the same open goal table as Intention Travel. Click a goal and the page recalculates the order of cities and the time windows for it.
6. Compare the cities in a country. For a country you see its catalogued cities in order for the chosen goal. Smaller countries have one or a few cities in the catalogue — then the comparison is shorter.
7. Check the time windows. These are periods when transits support the planets of that goal's lines within your plan's horizon. A window says when tradition reads a theme as more emphasised, not when something will happen.
8. Ask for a description in words, if you like. A short description written by AI comes solely from the calculated lines, cities and windows. It uses one reading from the monthly allowance, counted only once the description is ready.

When you do not know where to start

The Discover countries tab turns the question around. Instead of checking one place, it shows countries whose cities lie nearest your supportive lines — for every goal or for the one you choose, with the option of narrowing the region. Each country comes with a short reason and a "Check this place" button.

Questions worth asking yourself

• What am I looking for in this place: rest, inspiration, new acquaintances, quiet?
• Do the lines I see there fit what I remember from earlier trips?
• What could I bring back from such a trip into everyday life — and can I find it closer to home as well?

Good to know

A country is read through the cities of our fixed catalogue, not through its borders. Lines do not depend on the zodiac, so a Vedic profile has the same lines as a Western one. We do not analyse places on a conservative list of areas of active armed conflict, and we do not assess the safety, cost or logistics of travel at all. How to read the whole map is described in the guide How to read an astrocartography map.

Astrocartography is a symbolic tradition, not science. The check suggests questions — it is not advice on where to go, nor a forecast of what will happen somewhere.