Relocation charts are all very well for globe-trotters, but what earthly use are they to us Brits moving house by only a few degrees? When re-casting your natal chart for a different place, Local Space lines are certainly helpful, but relocating one's chart within a country as small as the UK makes very little difference to the familiar natal pattern at all.
And relocation is so useful. If you need to know how life is likely to treat you in the places you visit on vacation, or move to in the course of your working or family life, then draw up your birth chart for the usual time and zone, but for the new locality instead of your birth place.
But people moving around in small countries have a problem. To resolve this, can the relocation chart be fine-tuned?...
Of course it can. For years I have been working with the Dwad, the Dwadashamsha of Vedic astrology that turns every Sign into a mini-zodiac and each 2.5 degrees into a mini-sign, each sequence of the twelve starting with the 'parent' sign and ending with the sign preceding. As you will now realise, the Dwad is important. It expresses not how you present yourself outwardly (the personality of the radix chart) but who you think - or know - you are.
As the Dwad multiplies everything in a chart by twelve, then the dwad MCs of two places only 1 degree of longitude apart will differ by twelve whole degrees ... and have totally different contacts with radix or dwad planets! This reflects different experiences or attitudes in the separate locations.
Now that Solar Fire offers a Vedic module including the Dwad, this notion can be repeatedly tested. Having moved house at least fifteen times and seen a fair bit of the world, my own travels have come in handy. Over years of rectification I have pinned my own time down to the second, know where I have been, and know how I felt about being there.
The differences are noticeable. The range of my Dwad UK Midheavens extend from early Sagittarius in Llandudno, North Wales to early Aquarius at Walmer in Kent. Ascendants run from Llandudno's 18º Aries to Walmer's 29º Taurus. In both Kent and Cornwall the Dwad Moon/Mercury opposition is angular, first on the horizon, then on the meridian. (I was pretty busy in both places!) I don't need to comment further on my own patterns except to say that this agreement between Dwad angularities and experience continued overseas. This is what you will find if you try the Dwad for yourself in relocating your natal - or any other -chart.
Dwad and Superdwad
One more thing. Going back to my own travels, I was still bemused by one town. Here more than in any other place I had to experience deep sadness and final partings. Yet, in common with all the other towns with shared angles nearby, the radix/Dwad pattern there showed nothing of this. Many years ago, however, I had experimented with an extra layer of fine-tuning; I had tried the Dwad of a Dwad, calling this a 'Superdwad'. As it required an extremely accurate birth time (multiplying every radix factor by 144!) there seemed little point in pursuing it. But my own time is now as precise as I can make it - so I had another go. I mapped the Dwad of the Dwad of the relocation chart. And there at last was all the emotion and all the pain and all the separation: not found at any other place nearby was an Ascendant/Pluto/Venus conjunction with radix Ceres (so often the harbinger of grief) opposite Descendant/Mars and radix Neptune. Very unsettling - but very satisfactory.
We have a working Fractal Astrology.
A workaround in Solar Fire:
The Dwad can also be calculated for a progressed chart if required. Select the progressed chart, click on File/Locality,enter the original location, and click OK. The new chart you have made is now a radix chart instead of a subsidiary chart and can be manipulated like any nativity.
Relocated Angles:
When watching transits to natal and progressed angles, remember to check for contacts to their relocated degrees - quite a few timing puzzles should be thus resolved!
There are articles on this website that will show you Relocation at work. Enjoy!
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And relocation is so useful. If you need to know how life is likely to treat you in the places you visit on vacation, or move to in the course of your working or family life, then draw up your birth chart for the usual time and zone, but for the new locality instead of your birth place.
But people moving around in small countries have a problem. To resolve this, can the relocation chart be fine-tuned?...
Of course it can. For years I have been working with the Dwad, the Dwadashamsha of Vedic astrology that turns every Sign into a mini-zodiac and each 2.5 degrees into a mini-sign, each sequence of the twelve starting with the 'parent' sign and ending with the sign preceding. As you will now realise, the Dwad is important. It expresses not how you present yourself outwardly (the personality of the radix chart) but who you think - or know - you are.
As the Dwad multiplies everything in a chart by twelve, then the dwad MCs of two places only 1 degree of longitude apart will differ by twelve whole degrees ... and have totally different contacts with radix or dwad planets! This reflects different experiences or attitudes in the separate locations.
Now that Solar Fire offers a Vedic module including the Dwad, this notion can be repeatedly tested. Having moved house at least fifteen times and seen a fair bit of the world, my own travels have come in handy. Over years of rectification I have pinned my own time down to the second, know where I have been, and know how I felt about being there.
The differences are noticeable. The range of my Dwad UK Midheavens extend from early Sagittarius in Llandudno, North Wales to early Aquarius at Walmer in Kent. Ascendants run from Llandudno's 18º Aries to Walmer's 29º Taurus. In both Kent and Cornwall the Dwad Moon/Mercury opposition is angular, first on the horizon, then on the meridian. (I was pretty busy in both places!) I don't need to comment further on my own patterns except to say that this agreement between Dwad angularities and experience continued overseas. This is what you will find if you try the Dwad for yourself in relocating your natal - or any other -chart.
Dwad and Superdwad
One more thing. Going back to my own travels, I was still bemused by one town. Here more than in any other place I had to experience deep sadness and final partings. Yet, in common with all the other towns with shared angles nearby, the radix/Dwad pattern there showed nothing of this. Many years ago, however, I had experimented with an extra layer of fine-tuning; I had tried the Dwad of a Dwad, calling this a 'Superdwad'. As it required an extremely accurate birth time (multiplying every radix factor by 144!) there seemed little point in pursuing it. But my own time is now as precise as I can make it - so I had another go. I mapped the Dwad of the Dwad of the relocation chart. And there at last was all the emotion and all the pain and all the separation: not found at any other place nearby was an Ascendant/Pluto/Venus conjunction with radix Ceres (so often the harbinger of grief) opposite Descendant/Mars and radix Neptune. Very unsettling - but very satisfactory.
We have a working Fractal Astrology.
A workaround in Solar Fire:
The Dwad can also be calculated for a progressed chart if required. Select the progressed chart, click on File/Locality,enter the original location, and click OK. The new chart you have made is now a radix chart instead of a subsidiary chart and can be manipulated like any nativity.
Relocated Angles:
When watching transits to natal and progressed angles, remember to check for contacts to their relocated degrees - quite a few timing puzzles should be thus resolved!
There are articles on this website that will show you Relocation at work. Enjoy!
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