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Relocation Astrology
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Excerpt from Donna's latest e-book,
Astrological Analysis: Selected Readings In Chart Interpretation.
Would Relocation Change Your life? A Look at Astrology’s Answers
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by Donna Cunningham, MSW |
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A major geographic move is a huge displacement in your life and ranks high on the lists of stressful situations published from time to time. It is not something to be entered into lightly, for even the best of moves require an intense adjustment period of at least a year. You would want to read about your chosen location in Places Rated Almanac, a reference book that belongs in any astrologer's library. In the internet, you also have a number of great tools for researching and getting to know any given area you might be considering.
However, astrology itself—particularly the branch known as locational astrology—provides helpful tools for making an informed decision about where and when to move. Locational astrology techniques can take much of the guesswork out of moving, especially the highly sophisticated tool of Astro*Carto*Graphy or other computerized maps that show the spots on earth where the various natal (or progressed) planets come onto the four chart angles (Midheaven, Ascendant, Descendant or IC). Working with this tool, I am often surprised at how many people are instinctively drawn to spots that are excellent for them—although others with less trustworthy instincts are strongly drawn to spots that represent their own worst nightmares.
The first consideration in relocation work is how accurate the birth time might be. Astro*Carto*Graphy and other locational astrology techniques are not forgiving of birth time errors. A difference of 15 minutes can make a difference of a state or two. A time of 3:20 PM, for instance, looks promising, as it seems less likely to be a rounded-off estimate than 3:30 would be. With a rounded off or vague birth time, some rectification may be required, and though a good rectification can be costly, so can a move that is several hundred miles off target!
Transits—The Moving Force Behind a Move
Transits are usually the stimulus for a major geographic change. Moving to a new home may be part of what happens under a transit to the natal Moon, the 4th house cusp (IC), through the 4th house, or aspecting a natal planet in the 4th. Such transits are the primary triggers for changes in residence. Relocation goes more smoothly under a trine--with the Moon/Uranus trine being the swiftest and the least hassle. A move under a Moon/Saturn trine, however, is more organized and more likely to be permanent! Under a Moon/Uranus or Uranus/IC aspect of any kind, you might as well keep nonessentials packed in their boxes, as you're likely to move more than once during the two or three aspects you will generally experience from transiting Uranus. Under Moon/Neptune transits, you're probably not thinking things through carefully enough and may regret the decision—DO NOT buy a house until the transit passes. You're not so much moving to something as moving away from something because you've become disillusioned. Your fantasies about a wonderful new life tend to be unrealistic.
Generally speaking, when life conditions change dramatically at the time of a move, the change is not just due to the location but also the timing. You will probably find a similar message in transits to both the birth and the relocated charts. Often, someone who moves during an important transit is drawn to the exact area where that transiting planet is on one of the four angles. For instance, many 28-30 year olds who are undergoing their Saturn return seem unerringly drawn to an area where Saturn is on one of the angles. They are drawn to a place where the energies of Saturn are maximized. Whatever the planet, under transits like these, the new location makes the issues and lessons of that planet even more pressing to resolve—you might say it forces the issue—but that is not generally a good place to stay for any length of time.
A smooth move is a combination of two things—the right time and the right place. You may hit one of them and not the other—for instance, the location may be promising but the timing stinks! Timing is important even when moving to a positive location. Don't move when nothing is happening to your Moon, IC, or 4th house planets, or when Neptune or Saturn are aspecting them. If you do, you could just sit and spin your wheels for a costly year or two. (Cyclo*Carto*Graphy, based on progressions and transits to the natal Astro*Carto*Graphy map, is the best clue to understanding why a location may be promising at one stage of your life and not at another.)
“Wherever You Go, You Take Yourself Along”
When considering a move based on your map, it is important to refer to the birth chart for interpretation. Suppose you are thinking of moving to one of your Venus lines, generally considered the best places in the world to find love, believing it will improve your chances in relationships. First, you have to consider what your own natal Venus is like. If natal Venus has difficult aspects, then any undesirable long-standing patterns in relationships would be not only active but intensified there. For example, if you were born with Pluto on Descendant squaring Venus, and you move off the Pluto line to a place where Venus is on the angle, you are only increasing the strength of that already challenged Venus. In fact, now you probably have Pluto square the local angle. You'd be better off picking one of the Descendant lines, like Sun or Jupiter on the Descendant, if love were your goal.
Another example might be relocating to improve career potentials. You might expect that Jupiter or the Sun on the Midheaven would be an excellent choice. Suppose, however, that natally Neptune closely squares Jupiter. If you moved to your Jupiter/Midheaven line, you would at the same time be moving to a spot where Neptune squared the local Midheaven—an aspect that is easy to miss, and harder to diagnose a possible undertow of self-sabotage. Difficult conjunctions or oppositions in the natal chart can present a special blockage in relocation, for wherever one of the pair is on an angle, the other one is as well. Thus highlighting that pair of planets by placing them on the MC or IC would not be a good career move.
Difficult aspects and placements in the birth chart represent ways that we create our own difficulties, so analyzing the behaviors represented by those astrological factors is essential to a successful relocation. What you need to consider is that your self-defeating attitudes and behaviors go right along with you when you move, so if the problems you are having in the old location are mostly of your own making, they will be with you in the new one as well.
You may get a temporary break from them, given new people and unfamiliar circumstances where you are on your best behavior—a kind of honeymoon period. However, unless you have well and truly learned whatever lesson is involved and healed whatever wounds or patterns you kept tripping on in the old place, the old patterns will eventually creep back in the new one. Thus, if you entertain the thought of a move, you need also to examine your contributions to recurrent problems honestly. Take responsibility for shaping a new reality for yourself in the new location through new attitudes, behaviors, and relationship strategies.
However, suppose that you have been working on yourself and have truly changed, and yet the people and situations in the old place have become so rigidified that they cannot allow you to be different and to grow. In situations like these, then a major change in location can give you the space to create a new reality. This is particularly true of long-standing roles that family or others around you have assigned you (Family Mess-Up, for instance, or Savoir of Us All), roles that you are no longer willing to fulfill. A whole new set of people will not have the same expectations, so you have room to grow.
Consider Your Motive in Moving
Sometimes we relocate for the wrong reasons, and when we do, we are likely to make costly errors in judgement. An ill-considered move can be a major road block in our lives. While the transiting planet involved shows the circumstances of the move, the real question is why are you doing it? It is generally due to an important shift in the lunar areas of life. Often, the reason is that the womb has gotten too confining. As a young adult, you leave your parents' house to go on your own. Later, maybe you move to make a home with someone--or a home without someone. Sometimes, because any aspect to the IC is simultaneously an aspect to the MC, either you or your partner may find a job in a new place. Maybe you have a family now and the house has gotten too small. Or, your family has grown up, and you don't need so much space. The Moon waxes and wanes, all within a life cycle. The pressure to leave the womb precedes the relocation. There is a lunar realignment before the move, followed by a long adjustment to the new home.
It has been especially interesting to me to observe what happens when people are struck by nostalgia and think along the line of a pilgrimage to their roots—maybe even moving back home with the folks for a time. This type of pilgrimage generally comes about with a major transit to the Moon, the IC/MC axis, or a 4th house planet by Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. (When more than one of those points is impacted by transits, it is even more of a rite of passage.) I forget who said that you can’t go home again, perhaps Thomas Wolfe. That ringing phrase has become part of conventional wisdom, the sort of truism that people love to utter.
Like most bits of conventional wisdom, it is wrong as often as it is right. In observing people over these past 35 years—clients, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances—I’ve repeatedly been struck by how profoundly they are affected by returning home after a long absence. Often it is a deep healing of old wounds. Especially when the Inner Child is still stuck in seeing the parents as All Powerful, spending time with elderly parents can provide a reality check. They become just people, maybe mellower or frailer and thus finally seen as life sized rather than the giants our unconscious makes them. Often, based on exposure to the people your parents have become, you can begin to forgive them for what they did to you 30 or 40 years ago, and that forgiveness can be a great healing. Even if you cannot forgive, the experience of confronting them and seeing their humanness can be empowering. Yes, You CAN go home again—but you’ll never be the same!
Often, major moves will entail purchasing a house, so I also look into the effect of transits on that particular decision. Buying a home, especially the first one, is a rite of passage into adulthood. Having a home of your own gives you a greater sense of security, roots, and belonging--for lunar types, especially. Moon/Saturn and Moon/Pluto aspects are the most likely to involve actual purchases of real estate, although Pluto as often accompanies major remodeling efforts. With Moon/Saturn or Saturn to the MH/IC, a home of your own may be the result of well-earned success. You may be conservative in your purchase. You may settle for something smaller or less luxurious than you'd like, because you are being realistic about not taking on too hard of a financial commitment.
With some Moon/Pluto contacts, the new house may be financed by something other than your own efforts. The source could be an inheritance, a gift or bribe from your parents with strings attached, a trust fund, or a divorce settlement--or, it may be a last-ditch effort to keep the marriage together. If you've suffered losses during this phase, take time to mourn the end of one chapter in your life. The grief may be intensified by a period of isolation in the new location.
If you buy property under a Neptune transit to the Moon or other points listed above, you probably haven't inspected the cellar or foundations. The realtor saw you coming, and you may have a lemon on your hands for a good, long time. What to do about it? Ah, well, it would be reprehensible of me to suggest you find a buyer who is also under a Moon/Neptune aspect, wouldn't it? Maybe you could donate it to the church, your guru, or some charitable organization. Or, hang in there for whatever deep spiritual lessons it may teach you--like the one about not signing anything you haven't read and understood.
©2005 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
[1] Parts of this essay appeared in Donna Cunningham's out of print book, THE MOON IN YOUR LIFE, published by RedWheel/Samuel Weiser, Inc, in March, 1996. It is reprinted here with permission.
This article is an excerpt from Donna Cunningham’s newest ebook, Astrological Analysis: Selected Readings In Chart Interpretation.
This article is an excerpt from Donna Cunningham’s newest ebook, Astrological Analysis: Selected Readings In Chart Interpretation. To order a copy, visit http://www.moonmavenpublications.com
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Donna Cunningham,
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 13 books on metaphysical topics.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
She teaches astrology classes online at: astrocollege.com
You may reach her for long-distance astrology consultations at her web site:
DonnaCunningham
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by email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
or by calling:
(503)291-7891.
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/
vibration/
For information on Donna's online classes about flower essences, visit her website:
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"Donna's first astrology ebook will be available in March.
For more
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This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
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If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's new ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
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