Relocation

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John, I use relocated Solar Returns, and daily angles charts, for the place

where one lives. In my view, if the location and time of our birth is of such

importance to us (and I believe it is, of course) then our move to another place

where we live, work and identify with is also of great importance. I use these

relocation-places when a study-subject or client has been there long enough to

identify with the place or when life's circumstances (marriage, job, family)

take that person there. This has been shown through our personal work (all of

us) and through published works as typified by Astro-cartography, now a part of

most purchased astrological software.

 

However, I have not explored in depth (only casually) the concept of relocating

for one birthday or solar return day. About a year or so ago when I was trying

to get a Solunars Study Group going for the NCGR I was contacted by an Italian

astrologer who specializes in relocated Solar Returns (for a day, or a vacation)

as a means of setting up one's opportunities and environment for the coming

year. His name escapes me at the moment --- I'm in Maine at our vacation home

--- and I don't have his book handy. The book may have been called Transits to

Solar Returns. It is very lengthy. In any case, he uses a sophisticated

Italian software program which permits him to easily and quickly relate Tropical

Solar Returns to a variety of locations where certain planets and experiences

are likely (and where his clients will find nice accomdations). He records what

he advises his clients and then records the feedback from those clients, and now

has a database that numbers in the many thousands. This is the primary work

that he engages in. You have to respect a professional sho is that organized

and dedicated to his craft and clients.

 

Another recent book using this short-term relocation approach to S/R charts was

done by Jeffery Geist, his book (which I obtained as a pre-published copy) is

spiral bound and very extensive. All of his very many charts (using the full

arsenal of Fagan's explorations) are collected at the back of the book. This is

a bit of a bother when one is reading/studying his text, but it makes

writing/formatting easier. In any case, the nature of the book is talking about

the nature of the relocation experience as an experience, feelings meditation,

and possible redirection. It seems, in spite of its length, to be less involved

in explaining the process, the charting, the astrological concepts. I owe him a

reply as he wished to have some feedback. At the time, the book was to

extensive to read in a short time frame, I was busy with my own book, and I

wasn't all that into the relocate-for-a-day approach.

 

I had run a number of charts while writing my book, charts which I didn't use

(how many can you stuff into 200+ pages?) but I remember how several relocated

charts were so indicative of the subject's life and experiences. Yoko Ono

(Tokyo to New York), Katherine Zeta-Jones (Wales to Hollywood to New York where

she married Michael Douglas, and then to Bermuda where they now live), Rush

Limbaugh (from the Mississippi River to New York to Florida) and the many events

in his life which is a one-man-validation of icon-astrology if there ever was

one.

 

Perhaps that Italian astrologer's name was Ciro Disperelli or something like

that. Amazon.com should be able to locate him. His book was about $30 as I

remember, probably available in used format for much less. He had several

I-can't-believe-that claims relative to transiting planets in houses and in

contact with natal planets, where they were strong and weak, what the houses

meant that were quite striking in terms of their going against the current

astrological grain. After the book work, I'm going to have to contact him and

see just what he uses for a combined astro-business software package. He has

lots of books that he has published, it's just that they are in Italian or

French, only one or two in English.

 

I use several software packages, primarily Halloran and Riyal32. This latter

package is very mathematically sound in terms of providing Sidereal charts.

Riyal is freeware offered by Juan Revilla of Costa Rica, one of the best in the

field in terms of positional astrology. As I understand it, Solar Fire rounds

off many of its progression features for Sidereal charts and is not very

accurate. It's one of those packages that offers extensive bells and whistles

but the bells are slightly out of tune. This has been relayed to me by others

so one has to take these statements with a cautionary note. However, the charts

that others have offered to share seem to sustain this reported view. Yet,

there have been so many versions of this software package that one has to be

cautious as to what one claims.

 

Dave