One thing is certain about you, no matter where you are -- you're one of the people who gets a lot out of life because you look beneath appearances and are willing to think for yourself, astrology being somewhat off the beaten track these days. So what is ASTRO*CARTO*GRAPHY*EXPLAINED? It's based on the common, instinctive idea that a person has different chances, luck, experiences or options in different localities -- that you aren't exactly the same person in New York that you are in Los Angeles. It works by looking at the planets' relationships to the places you've asked about at your birth moment. If a particular planet was especially powerful in the location noted when you were born, then the affairs that it symbolizes should predominate if you travel there, reside there or even have anything to do with that location from some other place.

Since 1976, when the now-standard ASTRO*CARTO*GRAPHY technique was introduced, wide acceptance by both the astrological community and the public has validated it. In addition, ASTRO*CARTO*GRAPHY has been able to benefit from the actual experiences of the thousands who have ordered its maps. The product of this experience is this new service.

WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?

To understand how this information will be useful, perhaps we should question why people move around so much in the first place. In addition to the obvious reasons are psychological ones. Psychologists (Carl Jung especially) have suggested that people instinctively seek wholeness, or a completeness of their experience. If it's true that different locations accent different parts of your potentials, moving offers a way to speed evolution, to get acquainted with new parts of yourself. So if you find that a location you are obliged to reside at is one in which some of the more problematical influences predominate (such as Saturn, Neptune, etc.), you should look beneath the superficial and immediate desires and concerns of your life and try to understand what emerging consciousness has brought you here. Every location is good for something, and you would not be considering living in a difficult one for no reason. Also, don't get frightened if some of the interpretations sound extreme or perilous. Every planet has numerous possible manifestations, and, while we've tried to include them all here, rarely do the more extreme ones occur. The point in this report is to enable you to anticipate the nature of influences at your potential residence and so become able to recognize and utilize their most positive manifestations.

Different people are apt to react differently to the same astrological influence. You will feel more comfortable with what you already know, so certain planets will be easier for you to live under than others. For example, if you are a woman with traditional values, Mars and the Sun will possibly pose more problems for you than for a man, sincethe qualities and life experiences associated with these planets are not usually socially encouraged in women's upbringing. Similarly, men will find the Moon and Venus more challenging. People who tend to follow external authorities and believe in society's order as unchallengeable may find themselves more at home under Jupiter and Saturn lines, and stressed by new experiences under Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, while individualists and the more self-reliant will reverse these reactions.

You might find it useful to realize that, when faced with challenging astrological potentials, it is sometimes easy to "project" these onto your mate or partner, seeing the emerging parts of your own psyche as things THEY are doing. If your interpretations seem to fit your mate, realize that these things are happening because of possibilities in yourself that you aren't ready to face, and try to develop the positive sides of the astrological potentials described.

EVERY PLACE IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING

But the most important thing to realize is that every location is good for something; if you recognize and understand its potentials, you can use them constructively. You'll find that in some instances you don't even have to travel or live in the location -- that its influence affects you through people who come from there, or remote concerns, such as business, cultural or other life interests that symbolize those psychological potentials described by this report.

So here goes with the ASTRO*CARTO*GRAPHY*EXPLAINED analysis of the locations you're interested in. We hope it opens up for you opportunities to find what you're looking for in life; but we also hope it enables you to look beneath the surface, to see patterns in your own development and your instinctive growth toward wholeness.

Your Chart Data

Locality Interpretation For San Francisco, CA
122W25'06" 37N46'30"
Jan 1, 2013 to Dec 31, 2013

Permanent Influences (Lines):
Jupiter Ascendant
Moon MC

Secondary Influences (Crossings):
Sun*Pluto

Temporary Influences (CCG):
Saturn Descendant

At the location which you have specified, there was more than one important influence at the time of your birth. Below we have identified the nature of these influences, and they will probably seem somewhat contradictory to you. Residing in a location where there is more than one important planetary influence is of itself somewhat stressful, and it is likely that one or more of the influences will be "projected"; that is, instead of acknowledging and assimilating the influence yourself, you will be inclined to seek other people, or external situations, to act it out for you. Nevertheless, you should attempt to comprehend all influences operating here, since it is only by inwardly accepting such power that you can gain control over it.

To understand the following influence, you should be aware that it is very strong; while reading the description of its psychological and particular manifestations below, keep in mind that you will be drawn into these types of activity almost beyond your will, and that residence here is probably a very significant chapter in your life, one that makes you aware, as never before, of the potentials that are embodied by the astrological effects operating here at your birth. If you do not feel that you wish to deal with these matters as a major part of your day-to-day life, perhaps you should consider residing elsewhere, or at least 300 miles east or west of this location, where the influence is apt to be more moderated.

Jupiter-Ascendant:

IF YOU'RE JUST VISITING, YOU'LL WANT TO COME BACK

This is a very positive zone to visit, as you consort with a better class of people, attract favorable attention to yourself, seem to acquire new social status and power, and love to spend money. Even if you're not a gambler, don't leave without spending a few dollars on lottery tickets, as this is a very lucky zone, one that increases both your desire for speculation and your odds of winning. It's also a place of religious truth and revelation, dealings with authorities, and chance meetings with the powerful and wealthy, where you could find yourself treated like royalty. Your ideas attract favorable attention, perhaps even offers for publication.

STAYING HERE: THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT

Jupiter's power here assures that the central theme of this area is growth through "adding-on" or accretion, so that evolution, deeper participation in experience, and cultural outreach are likely while you reside here, through broadening contact with the world and a "better" class of people. You feel that you are protected by forces or deities favorable to you, and belief in this favoritism gives you an optimistic, omnipotentoutlook which encourages you to dare the impossible, exceed your limits, and ascend personally and socially. This is where "wishing makes it so," as hope and faith expand; you come to feel deserving of special treatment by the cosmos which, because you expect it, occurs, particularly extraordinary good luck and social or financial advancement. "Sanctuary" and protection by authorities can be expected; bourgeois values and self- evaluation become prominent here, as you feel distinguished from the mass of humanity, somewhat righteous, self-satisfied, complacent, important, or self-important in community concerns.

The issue of class is very Jupiterian, and you engage in a competition of decency, trying to outdo the Joneses (or maybe the Rockefellers), impressing the world with your attainments, credentials, diplomas, and possessions. The "right" people (especially "professionals") are not to be questioned, and social ascendancy is hierarchical, tradition- based, conservative, and middle class, marked by a contradictory need to feel "special" and an unquestioning addiction to fashion and public opinion. People in academic, bureaucratic, administrative, and professional circles rise quickly here, though the attendant temptation to fulfillment of ambition is abandonment of life's meanings, values, and goals in favor of complacent self-satisfaction.

THE OMNIPOTENT EXECUTIVE

Jupiter's myth is, of course, that of the "chief administrator" of Mount Olympus. Jupiter, or Zeus, was symbolized as justice, light, and intellect, as opposed to the dark earth god Saturn or the god of the underworld Hades. The problem of this zone stems from Jupiter's inherent superiority, which is often interpreted as an imperialistic privilege to ride roughshod over the rights of others. Positively, Jupiter's insight grants foresight, psychic powers, innate leadership, superiority, and understanding of the patterns and structures of the universe; negatively, it breeds blind fundamentalism, intolerance, selfrighteousness, superstition, bigotry, xenophobia, and a barren morality that condemns whatever is not just like itself.

In its immature stages, Jupiter consciousness is usually marked with some of the above-mentioned excesses -- having found the "truth" (oneself), any other reality or person must accept your higher vision or be seen as infidel to be forcefully "converted." There is also a bragging, boastful bullyishness; arrogant, imperialistic self-centeredness, and a feeling that you have the right to dominate anyone else by mere reason of who, and how important, you are. This belief is underlain by an infantile expectation that the world is created by your needs in order to fulfill them. Greater maturity finds you dominating through kindness, becoming the philanthropist, humanitarian or liberal who magnaminously wishes all others to have the opportunity to attain the heights of social acceptance and success that you have attained and seeks to offer such opportunities (whether asked for or not).

Wisdom, exuberance, and humor are Jupiter's attainment in full flower, and here is the philosopher-king, generous, benevolent, divinely inspired, able to guide the community and humanity as a whole to a realization of its highest visions. The moral guardians of the state -- judges, academics, artists, musicians, and religious and charitable leaders -- embody this most perfected image of the potentials of this zone and, under itsmost positive influence, the patterning of ideas that constitute humanity's cultural heritage and knowledge of the past. This ability to comprehend the future can be grasped and understood, putting you in a powerful social role of leader and guide.

DOES "MORE" REALLY MEAN "BETTER"?

People will be content here who value society and its rewards and who aspire to the roles described above. Jupiter zones are less favorable for strong individualists, those who enjoy challenge and pitting themselves against authority and the odds -- those who espouse their own morality and values, as well as the truly creative and independent. This is the place for you if you have a taste for caviar and your eyes light up when a limousine passes by. You'll love it if you feel you are "going someplace" in society and have a vision and commitment to culture, religion, law, education, or the other professions. It could be unfulfilling if you are not typical of your class or family background, consider yourself "self-made," and find TV sitcoms boring.

As a man, you will probably react to this zone's opportunities for social advancement and improvement of status by making the most of them, furthering your education and technical skills and raising your expectations of yourself a notch or two. The problem here may be overconfidence and the intolerant excesses enumerated above. You tend to act without doing enough homework, rely overly on connections and the power of "credentials," and get yourself into situations where you're getting by on appearances and favoritism. These dangers aside, this is a very beneficial zone where success can come in sport, profession, career, and social attainments and where you feel good about yourself and what you can do.

THE WINNERS' CIRCLE

The conventional interpretation of "good luck" seems to be acquiring an abundance of material goods or social status without expending much effort. If this is what you want in life, this is the right place to be. Prosperity, success, credibility, honor, academic achievement, and accomplishment are furthered here as life proceeds effortlessly, you climb socially, and leisure, nonproductive activity and bourgeois conformity are frequent rewards. This zone accents humor, education, religion, quality, integrity, prizes, and mental and cultural accomplishments, and here you are more optimistic, extroverted, and relaxed. Health improves (except where there are problems of overindulgence or sluggish activity), as do magical and healing abilities. In addition to this being a place where you can heal others, any sort of business prospers and succeeds here, as do self-improvement and creativity. Your mind aspires to the lofty, trying to create patterns that explain the universe, and things are seen in general rather than particular context, so that you grasp wholes more easily than details or parts. Music, sports, religion, publishing, media, broadcasting, advertising, promotion, business, import-export, education, the law, finance, medicine, languages, foreign concerns, and travel are all professions that do very well under this influence.

Gambling and speculation are successful here, and this zone is one in which large sums of money may be won (and sometimes lost) in such activities. You might want to try your luck here or invest in companies whose head offices lie within this zone. But beware of blind optimism, extravagance, going into debt to impress others, overgenerosity, and snobbishness -- all dangers of this area. Resist comparing yourself too much to others and getting caught up in totally nonessential, fashionable activity of little enduring value. Notwithstanding these potential hazards, this is one of the most optimistic, successful, and fortunate zones possible, especially for any sort of business or material pursuits.

GOOD LUCK FROM AFAR

Even if you can't travel to this area, it is apt to be significant in your life as a source of sustenance, income, and success. People who come from here can be guides, teachers, mentors, or financial benefactors. Investment in companies or industries based here will tend to prosper, and education (even by correspondence courses) can establish a cornerstone of lifelong success. Cultural concerns are inviting here, and you may like to read about this zone or find its religion, language, or ethnic roots interesting and important.

The particular position that occupied in this location at your birth will direct this type of energy and experience particularly into certain life areas; while the most important thing to understand is the underlying meaning and psychological principle, these are apt to manifest more obviously in specific life areas than in others.

THE BIG FROG

This location emphasizes the acting out of the (sometimes superficial) personal role of success, authority, and power for others. Or, you may act as an agent to activate these potentials in others' lives, as does a teacher or mentor who guides people to self-fulfillment. Your face or personality may become famous, and people imitate or follow you as a leader or guru, since you exude self-confidence and exhibit religious, healing, or organizational powers. Faith, hope, and optimism are outwardly apparent, having effects on those who deal with you, who feel elevated, ennobled, or inspired by your presence. A living example of the power of positive thinking, you can even work miracles of faith in the lives of others. Many who have lost direction in life are strongly attracted to you, creating a danger that you take all this attention and preferment too seriously, becoming pompous, self-important, overweight, or lax, very much the big frog in a small pond.

Spiritual evolution is possible here, and your mind grasps universal principles easily. You become a person of consequence, the essence of establishment values, a pillar of the community, and are liked by people for the joy and exuberance with which you live your life, your generosity, kindness, and obvious concern for others' evolution, to which you can truly contribute. As a teacher, spiritual guide, or financial resource, you can contribute to the expansion and development of individuals and the community, though extreme individualists and idealists may find the unthinking adulation irritating. This is a very good zone to improve your own health (except where problems stem from excesses, such as overweight), and here you may feel relief, freedom, and less stress than usual; you may be identified with some religious group or practice and belong to an organization that enables you to improve your self-image and self-confidence. Negatively, overconfidence can lead to restlessness, conceit, procrastination, pretentiousness, or fanaticism, and moderation needs to be embraced along with the basic good fortune of this zone.

This location is a little east of the precise planetary influence; therefore, of the possibilities listed above, those which seem most external, objective, and detached from your self and personality are the ones most apt to manifest. As suggested, the influence will act itself out in a social arena, but specifically will act most often in people, situations, and social or cultural influences that represent external authority or the whole of society and its values. If you're in a position of authority, you will clearly exemplify the potentials described above, but more likely will be your repeated exposure to others who act out both this role for you and the role of authority as well. You are assimilating your own leadership potentials from these experiences, as you are powerfully influenced by cultural, educational, legal, or religious institutions. Expect the people, gender, social roles, and professions mentioned anywhere above to become dominant in your social and career life, and anticipate that they will offer important guidance and valuable insights as to what your ultimate social power is and where it lies.

To understand the following influence, you should be aware that it is very strong; while reading the description of its psychological and particular manifestations below, keep in mind that you will be drawn into these types of activity almost beyond your will, and that residence here is probably a very significant chapter in your life, one that makes you aware, as never before, of the potentials that are embodied by the astrological effects operating here at your birth. If you do not feel that you wish to deal with these matters as a major part of your day-to-day life, perhaps you should consider residing elsewhere, or at least 300 miles east or west of this location, where the influence is apt to be more moderated.

Moon-Midheaven:

IF YOU'RE JUST VISITING, YOU'LL BE IMPRESSED BY THE PEOPLE

A short stay in this zone will immerse you in human interest concerns, day-to-day dramas, and emotional storms. Because your appetites (all of them) are intensified, their gratifications are more rewarding, and the body and its pleasures take on new meaning. Gourmets of all kinds will find opportunities for indulgence. You will want to care for or be taken care of by others, so women (especially mothers), family, and domestic concerns dominate. It's hard to pass through this zone without getting embroiled with other people, but you feel closer to your humanity, humbled and still ennobled by the struggles we all share.

IF YOU PLAN TO LIVE HERE, GET USED TO DESIRE

This is your intense "feeling" zone, and living here in this location puts you in touch with the astrological Moon -- your deepest and most significant needs. Existence can be viewed as a constant war of the will between seeking independence and pure, spiritual expression (the Sun) and attaching to the physical world, with subsequent needs for security, nurturance, supportive surroundings, and awareness and sensitivity to environmental influences. In this location, you become attuned to the latter half of the equation, so that life is surrendered to sensation, feeling, vulnerability, needs, and attachment. The gratification of appetites becomes the central focus here, needs seem more intense than in other places, and senses perceive more strongly. Appetites guide destiny, as the self finds itself drawn and attracted to people or their approval in an effort to fill out some missing pieces. Erotic urges are insatiable and often compulsive.

There is a naive emotional reaction to every event and affect, and you are immersed in reality, like a kid watching a movie, hypnotized by the play of sensations and forms outside you. You become especially reactive to other people's awareness of you, unable to ignore their attention or interest, both craving the feeling of substantialness that such attention gives you and resenting your dependence upon it. Yet, just as no seed can grow apart from the earth, this entanglement in sensation fertilizes spiritual potential; the incredible magnetism exerted by people, things, and situations acts to draw you to complete involvement outside yourself -- to parenting, creativity, or other actualization of your possibilities. The tides of attraction are so strong here that you cannot remain aloof and are pulled toward a fertile marriage with material reality. The myth here is of course the Child-Who-Becomes-A-Parent, a union of opposites motivated by the mortality of the flesh to which spirit is wed and the untamable desire of the spirit to live beyond the durability of its bodily prison. And, just as the child is unaware of its identity as a child but is directed entirely toward trying to become "like" its parent, here "what you want to be" becomes the center of attraction, as opposed to "what you are," the focus under the Sun.

CHILDREN COME IN ALL SIZES AND AGES

In the earliest stages of Moon consciousness, the child dominates; there is acute awareness of personal incompleteness and a need to be cared for that is fueled by apprehension that you would perish if left alone. Hunger is the feeling of the unformed lunar consciousness, that aching void within which stems from the umbilicus, the place where mother was "taken" from us. In early stages of Moon consciousness (often the only ones that men ever learn), appetites are so deep and unfulfilled that they threaten to devour their objects. This childlike dependency leads eventually to a role of parent in oneself -- from being child, one switches roles and perceives the parent, the nurturer, provider, and mother-to-the-world -- either as one's own role or in the person of other people. This can result in the unquestioned but total attachment one enjoys with relatives, an unconditional awareness that you and the other person are in life together, for better or worse. The development of this type of interdependency acknowledges that there are other entities in the world. Finally, the Moon matures as the ultimate nurturing parent -- the person who can by his or her mere presence make others feel secure, protected, loved unconditionally, and safe in a supportive and growth-sustaining world. Since all these aspects of Moon consciousness depend on interactions with others, it is in the area of human relationships that most of this awareness is acted out, and it is through such relationships that the different stages are at first defined and then, eventually, assimilated. The tortured pangs of unfulfilled needs lead to the ability to fill those needs not only for oneself, but for others as well.

WHY IS EVERYONE SO EMOTIONAL ALL THE TIME?

This location will be especially critical for men, the masculine-identified, and the self-consciously "superior." People who cannot feel their feelings will project them onto other people and find themselves embroiled in constant wars of emotion and possessiveness. If you see yourself as independent, spiritual, superior to the flesh and its temptations, then this zone will pose real problems for you, although you may insist these are the result of other people's failure to rise above their attachments.

As a man, you will find this area one of particular difficulty for you. You will probably emerge at the earliest stages of Moon awareness noted above, and Woman (or a thinly disguised symbol) will constitute the "reigning need" without which you feel you cannot exist. Goaded by desire, you will seek to attach yourself in an effort to regain your autonomy and independence, often to whomever or whatever first makes itself available. As society encourages men to ignore their feelings, your self-discovery will be a lonely one, but the intensity and insatiability of your desire will force you to seek fulfillment within yourself, most likely through parenting.

THE TEARS AND LAUGHTER

On a more practical level, this area is one in which you get very much involved in every thing and person around you. You are the center of attention and feel self-conscious, exposed, and sympathetic to the multicolored spectrum of emotions that you react to and perceive in others. There are strong domestic, religious, devotional, nostalgic, and sentimental impulses here that can lead to a xenophobic conservatism. You are easily influenced, like a child, unable to say "No." Psychic abilities are highlighted. Love is intensely needed, a frequent crisis concern, so it tends to become one-sided and impermanent, at least until you learn to nurture and care for yourself emotionally. Your relationship with your mother comes to the fore here (too often reenacted in marriage), and you feel your instincts and desires more strongly. You will seek security, are prone to tears and laughter, and may find yourself playing the consumer, trying to fill the empty void and incompleteness that you can't help feeling here. An unpretentious identity is often the product of imitation, and you react with a naive emotionality to every affect, as you sense yourself too close to every human situation in which you become involved. Life seems more like a soap opera, where domestic concerns and a feeling of kinship and "family" with any and all humans take over; this is not an area to go to feel superior -- you are too aware of the needs that bind you and all people together, resulting in a gravitation toward a working-class and shopworn reality, with its variegated feelings and frequent domestic and human-interest crises. The Moon is the "infinite capacity for perception," and here, feelings guide destiny.

Fields in which others are cared for are suggested occupations here: parenting, cooking and restaurant work, helping professions, counseling, roles of interpreter and agent. Success is also likely in gynecology, midwifery, nursing, baking, real estate, public concerns, or daily life concerns such as sales, etc. Feelings are at the bottom of most health complaints, which frequently center in allergies, the gastrointestinal tract, breasts, and female organs.

If you find yourself attracted to and involved with take-charge, maternal types, this may show that you have not accepted your own potential for nurturing, domesticity, caring for yourself and others. Work out life routines that enable you to experience and satisfy your emotional needs; working with others defines these needs and enables you to find in yourself a safe haven and the capacity for self-sustenance.

WHAT DOES THIS ZONE MEAN IF I STAY AWAY?

Even if you can't travel to these areas, you will find yourself better able to care for your own needs as a result of people from here, a sense of family that you may find associated with this part of the world, or even religious doctrrines that come from here. Pay attention to information and travelers from these world zones, as they bear messages telling you what you truly need to feel secure and safe in this world. If you relate strongly to your ethnic background, Moon lines may well pass through that part of the world, or residence here activate ancestral patterns in some significant way. Some maternal figure (probably a relative) who lives here may have exemplified an early ideal of the perfect, nurturing mother role in you, which you either attempt to live out yourself or seek in someone else.

This, then, is the underlying psychological principle of the planetary influence operating for you in this location, and you should strive to understand the abstract as well as the particular manifestation of this energy as described above. However, due to the position held at birth at this location, it is apt to operate more in certain life areas than in others.

BUT THEY NEED YOU

The general and particular manifestations of the Moon are most apt to manifest here in your "image" in society, your career, and your relationship with the social milieu of which you are a part. You exhibit emotional attachment to your status, need social acceptance, and model yourself on "success," all of which serve to attract the attention of those of higher rank. The mother-identification will act out in your job here, so that helping professions, domestic concerns, or public service (perhaps even populist-type politics) are possibilities here, as are professions to do with food service, real estate, and the other fields mentioned above. Sensitive to the pulse of public opinion, you may find your relationship with your mother (or people like her) deepening, and you are propelled by a need for approval and acclaim that could well motivate a successful public career. The urge to nurture and protect others is acted out in society, so that underdogs, two- or four-legged, swarm about you in needful confusion. Still, beneath your vulnerable, self-sacrificing public spiritedness, there is the self-conscious need for attention, which sure enough comes, usually from the boss, the powerful, or the politically important. Relationship is both key to success and the great problem here, as influence gains you the status you crave, but stability and security remain dependent upon others, and thus elusive.

This location is a little east of the precise planetary influence; therefore, of the possibilities listed above, those which seem most external, objective, and detached from your self and personality are the ones most apt to manifest. As suggested, the influence will act itself out in a social arena, but specifically will act most often in people, situations, and social or cultural influences that represent external authority or the whole of society and its values. If you're in a position of authority, you will clearly exemplify the potentials described above; but more likely will be your repeated exposure to others who act out both this role for you and the role of authority as well. You are assimilating your own leadership potentials from these experiences, as you are powerfully influenced by cultural, educational, legal, or religious institutions. Expect the people, gender, social roles, and professions mentioned anywhere above to become dominant in your social and career life, and anticipate that they will offer important guidance and valuable insights as to what your ultimate social power is and where it lies.

While the possibilities of how these influences might interact are limitless, the description below suggests some of the experiences you can expect.

Moon*Jupiter

WISH UPON A STAR

As long as you aren't disturbed by fluctuations in the material aspects of life, this area is one of the best possible, in which you will find fulfillment of your potentials encouraged by the public and personal environment. Loved and admired, surrounded with the best in social and material pleasures, you are universally regarded, preferred by those in authority, yet still loved by those with less status than yourself. Advancement comes easily; money and honor accrue to you and your family, which prospers in the congenial surroundings of bourgeois comfort. Your humor and intellect attract others to you who provide favors and opportunities for advancement. There is a cultured, academic, and exotic air here, and faraway places may act on you through other people or actual opportunities for travel. Enjoyment of the best in food and drink point to dangers that exist in this climate -- too much of a good thing, overindulgence, and loss of interest in accomplishment. Good nature, bemusement at life's curiosities, and multiplication of pets, livestock, and dependents all point to an unusually happy life, though one in which the abundance of good fortune may be balanced by reverses brought by slackening of ambition and motivation. Feelings of security and wellbeing put minimal demands on self, and laughter and pleasure are balanced by feelings of righteousness and social usefulness, possibly edged with a "do-gooder" mentality.

Often religious devotion is an important issue in this locale, and there is attraction to its more ritualistic forms or possible attachment to a teacher or guru. Social successes and skills are learned in a cultivated atmosphere, and academic hierarchies are easily scaled. There is a sense that all is right with the world, that authority is not to be questioned, and that what you already have (especially in regard to family and background) is sufficient to establish yourself as one of the "better" people. Health is also good here (except where strong appetites are indulged), and recommended professions include philanthropy, charity, family counseling, academia, civil service, or anything deemed socially desirable and solidly middle class.

The material presented above describes the most potent and significant planetary influences operating at the location you have designated at the time of your birth. It is these concerns and manifestations that should demand your concentrated attention, and it could be suggested that it is to assimilate and understand this type of experience that you have considered residence in this locale. However, there are additional, less potent influences, that also operate here, due to the geographical latitude at which it is located, a latitude that has special importance for you. These influences will constitute a "subplot" or subsidiary influence while you are here, influences of about one-third the power of the major ones described above, and ones which are apt to manifest in relationships especially -- with either you or your partner acting them out.

The following influence is so weak that it may entirely escape notice. Still, it is an option that can be developed, if desired, and will manifest more strongly if it relates well with your personality or other influences present at this location.

Sun*Pluto

THE MIDWIFE OF CHANGE

Here you alone may challenge and pit yourself against the values and institutions of society, motivated by an unconscious, inner realization of what will result: society will strike back, often cruelly and unfairly, and thus define for you both a lifelong role of rebel and malcontent, and furnish you with the proven inner endurance and strength to effectively embody the role. Society, committed to "material security," has a hard time recognizing its own need for intense evolution and change, so people like yourself are unfairly chosen to act out such suppressed urges and to be scapegoats when they cause disruption. In this location, people feel threatened by you, as your intensity and solitude represent the process of change and evolution that leads to death, a subject most would rather avoid. At best, you can help people through crises and be a conscious "midwife of change," emerging as a symbol of evolution and rebellion in its positive manifestation -- but this only after you have learned a lot about yourself and stopped blaming others for the universal changes that involve you here. Until then, you may have to deal continually with people who seem manipulative, ruthless, power crazed, possessive, envious, and spiteful; betrayal and unfair domination are themes that all too often occur in relationships.

You could here exemplify the lonely genius, creating wonders which others will not appreciate for decades. You may identify with the catabolic element in humanity, and extreme individualism may result in petty criminality, defiance of authority, passion, and an overwhelming need for recognition, often taking the form of intense sexual needs. Inwardly, there can be a total conversion of self, a new beginning, a transcendence of needs for relationship and material attachment, and your pride makes you indomitable, aloof, rebellious, and antagonistic. Life can be cruelly fateful and take away whatever you have gained, until your very self is seen as the only permanence. The usual vanity that enables one to ignore mortality is shorn away here so you are intense, serious, and your life is one of inner crises and struggles alone with absolutes. A creative self is born from the ashes of the old personality.

In addition to the permanent, lifelong planetary influences described above, which affect the location you inquired about no matter when you reside there or deal with it, there are also important influences of a temporary nature. These operate strongly during the period about which you inquired (this year if you did not specify a time period).

Transiting Saturn

RESPONSIBILITY THE KEYNOTE THIS YEAR

During the time period you designated for residence in this zone, there is a powerful temporary influence, lasting as long as one year. When it is past, your reactions to this zone should return to conformity with its lifetime indications described above, but during this period responsibility is a central issue, and events and situations in your life conspire to force you to accept more of it. Increased pressure is put on you by employers, friends, your home milieu, and most other external forces in your life, and though you begin fearing inadequacy in the face of such demands, you will later realize that this period was important in establishing your capacity to deal with an issue which becomes essential to your social position, power, and autonomy in society. Restriction and frustrations are encountered, forcing you to trim hopes and aspirations in order to deal with tiresome and dreary day-to-day issues. Other people are unsupportive or hostile, sensing your subtle need for individual power and control in any situation, so cooperation is usually neither sought nor forthcoming. This is a time of growing up, and if you willingly assume new responsibilities and autonomous power in your life, it will simply seem a time of hard work and slow, satisfying progress to distant goals. If you do not, misfortune and difficulty, particularly in health, relationship, career, or family matters, may enforce the patterns noted above and restrict your freedom until you are willing to limit it yourself. This influence usually operates in the guise of harsh external authorities by withdrawal of material resources, so finances, real estate, and your parents can impose limitations on you and require the accomplishment of difficult tasks which later prove essential to the evolving purpose of your life.

These, then, are the important astrological influences which affect this location, now and in the future. Needless to say, they all won't manifest the moment you arrive, but will indeed emerge as the most powerful psychological potentials over time.

This concludes our enumeration and description of the planetary influences, permanent and temporary, that affect the locations that you submitted. As you have observed, some of the information is psychological in nature, as it is the belief of ASTRO*CARTO*GRAPHY that planets act, not through any mystical "power" or magic, but by paralleling potentials in the human psyche, and in orderly and comprehensible fashion, marking the development of this maturity. It is hoped that you are able in this way to see that there are really no "good" or "bad" locations for you -- that in the process of growing into mature completeness, you will have to experience every psychological possibility. At best, this report will work to inform you what these are for you in the locations you are considering, letting you know what to expect, and so empowering you to be able to utilize the most positive possibilities.