Astrolium's astrocartography city finder is a practitioner search tool. Feed in a client's chart, pick a life area (career, love, money, health, home, eight others), and the calculator scans 200+ candidate cities and returns the ten that best match that need. Use it when the consultation question is "where on Earth supports this specific theme in my chart," not when the answer is already in hand.
The search uses the /v3/astrocartography/search-locations endpoint, which scans a curated set of 200+ candidate cities worldwide and runs each through the same astrocartography math the map calculator uses. Line orb is read out to roughly 700 km on the strongest contacts. The cities returned are the top 10 for the life area requested. Practitioners use the result as a shortlist to drop into the compare tool or score one by one in the calculator.
What you get
Each ranked city returns:
- Rank and overall score — 1 to 10, with the score on a 0–10 scale (Astrolium's API normalises here for readability). Cities above 7.0 are unusually strong supports for the area you queried.
- City, country, and timezone — useful for narrowing by visa or work-hour overlap before reading further.
- Relocated highlights — a short list of the life areas where the planetary geometry at that city is strongest. A city queried for "career" may also flag relationships, communication, or wealth if those areas happen to land well there.
- Primary planetary influences — the three strongest planetary lines acting on the city, each with the planet, line type (AC, MC, IC, DC), distance in km, strength, and a one-sentence meaning.
- Summary — a one-paragraph read of the dominant contacts and what they tend to produce.
The top choice — the highest-scoring city — appears as a callout at the top of the results.
Choosing a life area
The eleven life-area options are not interchangeable. The cities that support career and the cities that support love tend to be different cities, because the planets that govern each area (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon) sit on different angles around the globe.
Career and finance — searches that prioritise Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn near the MC. These often surface cities in different countries entirely, because the MC longitude where Jupiter sits depends on birth time and is rarely close to home.
Love and relationships — these search for Venus and Moon contacts on the DC and 7th-house geometry. The two are related but not identical. Love optimises for romance signals; relationships rates partnerships of all kinds, including business.
Home and roots — searches for Moon and IC contacts. The cities that score well here often feel emotionally familiar on arrival, even on a first visit.
Identity and spirituality — searches for AC contacts (Sun, Moon, Mercury) and outer-planet harmonies (Jupiter, Neptune). Cities that score for identity often produce a clearer self-presentation; cities that score for spirituality tend to support inner work.
Overall — a balanced score across all areas. Useful when you have no specific reason to optimise and want the cities the chart supports broadly.
Run two or three searches with different purposes. The overlap matters: a city that appears in your top 10 for both career and home is a stronger relocation candidate than a city that ranks first for one and nowhere for the other.
Minimum score and excluding challenging
The advanced options control how the search filters its candidates:
- Exclude challenging — skips cities where the dominant contacts are hard (Saturn near AC, Mars on MC, Pluto on DC). These cities can still produce results, but score low for ease. Turning the toggle on narrows the list to cities where the chart's support is more cleanly positive.
- Minimum score (0–10) — sets a floor. If you only want cities scoring 5.0 or higher, the search will return fewer than 10 cities if the chart does not support that many at that level. Leave blank for the default behaviour, which always returns the top 10 regardless of absolute strength.
Searching by line type
Practitioners often phrase the brief in line-type shorthand. The search supports those framings inside the life-area picker.
Love line. Pick the love or relationships purpose. The search prioritises Venus and Moon contacts on the DC and AC, with Jupiter as a softener on the 7th-house axis. The cities returned are where the romance signal sits closest to the angles. Different from a flat "Venus line" scan because the search weighs the actual configuration, including hard contacts from Mars or Saturn that would pull the rating down.
Career line. Pick career or finance. The search reads MC contacts from Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn, plus AC-side reinforcement when the chart supports it. A high-scoring career city usually puts Jupiter or Sun within 2 degrees of the local Midheaven. Saturn on MC scores well too, with a "demanding" note: paran-grade pressure, not ease.
Money line. Use the finance purpose. The search weighs Jupiter and Venus on the 2nd-house axis and any benefic reinforcement on MC. Money cities and career cities overlap but are not identical; running both purposes side by side often surfaces a useful split.
The line-type shorthand is a way into the same engine. The underlying scoring treats each city as a full configuration, not a single line.
After the search
The search is the start of a relocation read, not the end. Use it to surface candidates, then drop the top three into the compare tool for a head-to-head, or score them one at a time in the calculator.
Related practitioner tools
- Astrocartography Map — visual scan of all planetary lines on one world map
- Astrocartography Calculator — score a single location against the chart
- Astrocartography Compare — head-to-head ranking of 2–5 candidate cities
- Astrocartography Power Zones — top 12 line crossings and paran zones
- Relocation Chart — full relocated chart for any city
- Local Space Chart — directional lines from the birth place
For deeper interpretation, see the astrocartography hub guide. For the timing layer over the next 12 months, pair the search with the transit report and the profections calculator. For the natal foundation, run the natal chart report.