Features
Choose an AstroCarto feature by the question you have now. Inspect a location on the map, check a named city, discover or compare candidates, explore planetary pairings, or continue into shared places, timing, reports, and saved records. The guide below explains what to bring and what each step should leave you with.
- Map and one city
- Candidates and comparisons
- Shared places and timing
- Reports and explanations
- Keep your work
Do I want to inspect the map or check a city by name?
Generate the intended person's map first. Keep their birthplace in the birth form; put a destination in the city tool. If the birth information needs correcting, use birth data and time zones before interpreting another result.
| Your question | Use this guide | Finish this step with… |
|---|---|---|
| What does this point or visible line mean? | Use the interactive map | The selected coordinates, visible evidence, and a qualified reading of that point. Moving or filtering the map changes what you inspect. |
| What is near a particular city? | Check a city | The correctly identified destination and its nearby visible lines, angles, distances, and strengths. This does not rank it against every other city. |
For example, a point you clicked near Paris and the named Paris destination are different selections. Use the city workflow when the exact destination matters; use map exploration when you are following a line or investigating an area.
Do I need candidates, a comparison, or a planetary pairing?
Choose from your actual starting point. A city you already care about can go straight into a check or comparison; discovery is useful when you need ideas.
| You have… | Use this guide | What the output answers |
|---|---|---|
| A goal and a region, but no shortlist | Find best places | Candidates from the supported search pool, with support and cautions to investigate. A missing city is not automatically unsuitable. |
| Two to four realistic destinations | Compare cities | Their relative order and trade-offs for one person's selected goal. Keep the city set and goal with the result. |
| An interest in two planetary influences working together | Where Planets Work Together | Goal-related pairings, a Paran latitude band, and representative cities near it. The list is not a full city-fit ranking. |
“Paris or Lisbon for career?” fits Compare Cities. “Where do two relevant influences combine on my map?” fits planetary-pairing exploration. The place-selection guide explains how these paths connect when you want to build a shortlist.
Is my question about two people or a moving date?
These workflows change the object being studied. A relationship goal in one person's chart does not supply a second person's reading, and a promising city result does not supply a moving date.
| Your task | Use this guide | Input and useful result |
|---|---|---|
| Investigate destinations for two people | Research shared places | Both birth records; complete shared research needs reliable times. Discover, check one city, or compare alternatives, then read the shared and individual findings together. |
| Investigate when to move to a chosen city | Find a time to move | One person's accurate birth time, one destination, and one goal. Read the timing windows alongside real work, housing, and travel dates. |
Use the shared-place guide when you need to agree a research path, or the move-timing guide when you need to connect a result to a calendar. A single-person timing result is one input to a shared moving plan.
Do I need a report or an explanation of a result?
Choose a document for the question it covers. A Personal Report provides a broader portfolio; full Best Places and City Comparison reports belong to their discovery or comparison workflows. The report selection guide helps you choose among them.
| You need… | Use this guide | What to carry forward |
|---|---|---|
| A broader reading across places and life themes | Generate and read a Personal Report | The overall and theme conclusions, supporting evidence, trade-offs, and practical questions for selected places. Check the original input and report scope. |
| Help understanding a specific result or report | Ask AI about your results | A checked explanation of a named ambiguity. Include the city, goal and relevant findings; verify the report attachment when present and check the answer against the original result. |
Opening an AI conversation, generating a complete report, and downloading a file are separate actions. Read the access message for the action you choose; a credit balance alone does not establish every entitlement.
What should I keep so I can continue later?
Decide what you want back before leaving. A stored person supplies input, a saved city supplies a destination, and a report retains its own conclusions.
| What you want to keep | Use this guide | Completion check |
|---|---|---|
| Birth details for the same person | Store and reuse birth details | Find the saved person, apply the record, and check the filled-in input before calculating. Editing it does not rewrite old results. |
| A shortlist of destinations | Save and revisit places | Reopen the saved cities and their goal/status labels. A label is your organization, not a calculated recommendation. |
| A local map, report, or conversation file | Export maps and reports | Open the correct PNG/JPG, PDF, or TXT and verify its contents and input version. |
| An existing report or other account record | Save, reopen, and find results | Locate the correct object and confirm the same input, cities, goal, and date where applicable. An open map is not proof of an account archive. |
Keep your own research note with the result: the finding you want to retain, its main caution, and one next check. Work, housing, and an agreed moving plan are not automatically stored by saving a city or birth record.
Generate your map to start a location task, or choose the tutorial above that matches the result you already have.