Shared places
Use AstroCarto shared-place research to investigate destinations for two people. Start with the question you have now: find candidates, examine one destination, compare alternatives, or turn findings into a shared plan. This guide helps you choose the next step and identify what you should have when that step is complete.
- Choose the research type
- Choose a city workflow
- Resolve your next question
- Check your inputs
- Continue after choosing a city
Are you asking about a relationship or about places?
Use shared-place research for “Where could we both investigate living?” Use a relationship chart for “How do our birth charts relate?” You can explore both questions, but they produce different kinds of answers.
| Question | Start here | Answer you are looking for |
|---|---|---|
| Which destinations deserve investigation for both of us? | Prepare shared-place research | Shared city findings and each person's support or cautions. |
| How do our two birth charts interact? | Synastry chart calculator | Inter-chart aspects, orbs, and house overlays. |
| What pattern does our relationship form as a whole? | Composite chart calculator | A midpoint relationship chart with planets, houses, and aspects. |
Synastry's shared-city option can examine relocated ascendants and house overlays; it does not change the natal aspects or discover a shared city shortlist. If your immediate decision is between destinations, begin with the location question.
Which guide fits the stage we have reached?
Keep the same two birth records and agree on one priority for the research. Then choose the route below. You do not need to complete discovery before checking cities you already have in mind.
| Where you are now | What to bring | Guide to use | What completes this step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither person has a shortlist | Both birth records, a shared priority, and a feasible region or country | Discover shared candidates | A provisional list from the supported search pool, with a reason to investigate each retained city. |
| You have one concrete option, such as a possible job location | Both birth records, the full destination name, and the priority | Check one city for both people | That city's shared assessment plus each person's benefits and cautions. |
| You are choosing among realistic alternatives | Two to six distinct cities, the same people, and one priority | Compare your selected cities | Relative tiers and the differences to discuss for each person. |
| You have results but no agreed next action | The city findings and both people's practical requirements | Build a shared moving plan | A retained shortlist, conditions for keeping each city, and a practical check assigned to a person. |
For example, if Edinburgh and Bournemouth are already realistic options, go directly to comparison. If Lisbon later becomes a possible work destination, check it for both people, then add it to the comparison if it remains worth considering. An existing option need not appear in discovery before you can investigate it.
What should we do when the result does not give us one obvious choice?
A useful shared result can leave more than one candidate. Choose the next step according to the unresolved question, rather than repeatedly running the same comparison in search of one winner.
| What is unresolved? | What you can already conclude | Next step |
|---|---|---|
| Two candidates share a tier | Their relative priority is close; their personal findings can still differ. | Compare which themes matter to each person, then use the shared planning guide to assign work, housing, or routine checks. |
| A shared benefit appears alongside one person's caution | Both statements belong in the discussion; a common benefit does not remove the personal caution. | Use the shared and individual reading example, then write the condition that person needs resolved. |
| You disagree about the main priority | You have not yet agreed which question the order should answer. | Discuss Overall Fit versus the focused Career, Relationships, or Home priorities. If you run another goal, keep it as a separately labelled result. |
| No candidate meets your necessary conditions | A promising astrological result has not made the practical move workable. | Reconsider the feasible places or constraints, then research a revised shortlist. Preserve the reason a city was excluded. |
In the synthetic example used by the shared-place tutorial, Edinburgh and Bournemouth both occupy Tier 1. The second person's strongest theme is career in Edinburgh and home and belonging in Bournemouth. Lisbon has shared career support but a career caution for the first person. That distinction leads to a discussion about whose needs each option serves; it does not require inventing a unique winner or a combined compatibility percentage.
The function tutorial teaches where those findings appear and how to read them. The moving-plan guide carries them into a worksheet with responsibilities. Use this page to choose between those two needs: understand the result or organize what to do about it.
What needs to be ready before we use these paths?
The first person's map supplies their birth input; add the second person's details separately. Check both identities, birthplaces, and times. For repeated research, store and reuse each person's birth details. Applying stored input and generating a shared result are separate steps.
If a time is unknown, follow the workflow-specific birth-time limits. A specified city may retain information for the person with a known time, but that is not a complete shared recommendation. Likewise, Your Preview shows a limited first-person reading and a shared hint; the full findings described in the guides require the relevant access. Keep an input limitation separate from an account-access message.
What should we carry forward after choosing a provisional city?
Keep the city, selected priority, shared finding, each person's main condition, and the next practical check together. That is enough to start an informed discussion or plan an ordinary trial visit. Check work arrangements, housing, daily routines, and responsibilities using real information, and bring those findings back to the shortlist.
If your question becomes when to move, use the move-timing guide. It studies one person and one destination, so keep that reading separate from the calendar both people must agree. A stored birth record or a restored form does not save the shared discussion worksheet; retain that note yourselves.
Generate the first person's map, then follow the route that matches your current question.