Free Relocation Chart Calculator

A relocation chart is your natal chart recalculated for a different place on Earth. Your planets keep the exact signs and degrees they had at birth. What changes is the framework around them: the Ascendant, Midheaven, and every house cusp shift, so your planets fall into new houses.

That distinction is the one people get wrong most often, so it is worth stating plainly. Relocation does not move your planets. Your Sun does not change signs because you moved to Berlin. The zodiac positions of the planets are fixed by when you were born, not where you happen to be standing now. A relocation chart that claimed otherwise would not be a relocation chart at all.

What location controls is the house framework: which slice of the sky was rising, which was culminating, and therefore where each planet sits relative to the angles. Move far enough and a planet that ran your career in one city can quietly slip into your home life in another. The planet is the same. Its job description changed.

Say you were born in Chicago. Your natal chart puts the Ascendant at 12° Libra and the Midheaven at 14° Cancer. Two placements to watch: your Sun at 25° Capricorn sits in the fourth house of home and roots, and your Jupiter at 26° Virgo is tucked away in the twelfth, the most behind-the-scenes part of the chart.

Now recalculate that same birth moment for Lisbon. Nothing about the planets changes. The Sun is still 25° Capricorn, Jupiter still 26° Virgo. But the angles swing: the Ascendant is now around 5° Sagittarius and the Midheaven around 28° Virgo. The whole house structure has rotated underneath the planets.

Watch what that does. The Sun slides into the second house, so a placement that was about home and family now reads through resources and self-worth. And Jupiter, buried in the twelfth back in Chicago, lands right on the Lisbon Midheaven. The most hidden planet in the birth chart becomes the most public planet in the relocated one.

Same person, same birth instant, same planets. One move, and two placements completely change their job. That is the whole technique in a single example.

One thing that does not change: the aspects between your planets. If natal Venus trines natal Mars, that trine holds in every relocation chart, because both planets are frozen in place. Relocation moves the stage. The actors keep their marks. What shifts is which house each planet performs in, and which planets step up to the angles.

Here is what most relocation calculators leave out, and it is the part that actually matters. The angles are not just lines on a wheel. A planet sitting on one of them, what astrologers call an angular planet, gets turned all the way up. It becomes one of the loudest voices in how a place feels. That Lisbon Jupiter from the example above is not just in the tenth house. It is on the Midheaven, and it will dominate the chart.

The whole strategic use of relocation astrology comes down to this. You are looking for cities where a planet you want more of moves onto an angle, and ideally cities where a planet you find difficult moves off one. What each angle does with a planet:

• Ascendant. A planet here colors your physical presence, vitality, and the version of yourself that shows up first. Venus on the relocated Ascendant tends to read as ease and likeability; Saturn there can feel like you are working harder just to be seen.
• Midheaven. A planet on the MC shapes your public role, career, and what you become known for. This is the placement people chase for professional reinvention.
• Descendant. A planet on the seventh-house angle shapes partnership and the kind of people you attract. A Jupiter Descendant city and a Pluto Descendant city produce very different relationship weather.
• Imum Coeli. A planet on the IC works on home, family, and your private base. Quieter than the other three, easy to underrate, but it sets the emotional foundation of a place.

If this sounds familiar, it should. This is the same mechanism behind astrocartography. An astrocartography line is simply the set of all places on Earth where one planet is exactly angular. Stand on a Venus MC line, pull your relocation chart for that spot, and you will see Venus sitting on the Midheaven. The map and the chart are two views of one idea.

One caution, because the calculators that skip this section also tend to oversimplify it. There is no universally good or bad angular planet. A Saturn angle is heavy for someone running from responsibility and steadying for someone ready to build something that lasts. Read the planet against what you actually want from a place, and against how that planet already behaves in your birth chart.

These three get blended together constantly, including by tools that should know better. They are related, but they answer different questions.

A relocation chart and astrocartography run on the same math. An astrocartography line is just every location where a given planet hits an angle. The relocation chart is what you get when you stand on that spot and cast the full wheel. Astrocartography is the map. The relocation chart is the close read.

Local space is the genuine outlier. Instead of projecting zodiac angles, it draws directional lines, actual compass bearings, from a single location. It answers which way rather than which city. Some people use it to choose a direction to move within a region, or even to orient a room.

The clean workflow uses all three in sequence. Scan globally with astrocartography, pull a relocation chart for each city that looks promising, then use local space to fine-tune direction once you have settled on a region.

A relocation chart is only as good as the birth time behind it, and it is less forgiving than a natal chart on this point.

The angles move fast. The Ascendant and Midheaven travel roughly one degree every four minutes, about fifteen degrees an hour. A birth time that is off by twenty minutes drags your angles five degrees out of position. That is often enough to slide a planet from one house into the next, or to move it off an angle it looked perfectly placed on.

A natal chart absorbs some of that error, because so much of it (the planetary signs, the aspects between planets) does not depend on the angles at all. A relocation chart has no such cushion. The angles are the entire technique. When they are wrong, the chart is wrong.

So before you read too much into a relocation chart, be honest about your birth time. If it came off a birth certificate, you are in good shape. If it is a family memory of “sometime in the morning,” run a birth time rectification first. And if you have no birth time at all, a relocation chart cannot really be cast, because there are no reliable angles or houses to recalculate. That is a hard limit of the method, not a flaw in any one calculator.

1. Enter your birth date, exact birth time, and birth city. The calculator needs the same precise details a birth chart would. Birth time matters most.
2. Add your destination city. This is the place you want the chart recalculated for, whether you live there now, are planning a move, or want to understand a place that affected you.
3. Read the relocated angles first. The new Ascendant and Midheaven tell you the headline shift before you look at anything else.
4. Check which planets changed houses. The calculator flags every planet that moved, so you can see which life areas get a new tenant in this location.
5. Look for planets that landed on an angle. Those are the placements doing the heaviest lifting in how the city reads.