I recently read an article about how Jennifer Aniston opened up in an interview about her past romantic relationships. It caught my eye because I saw the phrase “…challenges in her own relationships”. As an astrologer I know my most challenged area in my chart is relationships and I know exactly why. I also know how to alleviate said challenges, but I am not ready, yet.
I looked up Jennifer’s chart to see if the planet responsible for her challenges was the one I was guessing it was and yep, it was. Luckily her chart has an apparent accurate birth time through Astro Databank’s astro.com, otherwise this technique wouldn’t work. Every chart has a planet that works in their favor or best planet (makes specific life areas easier to manage) and a planet that creates obstacles and challenges, difficult planet. If you are born during daytime hours the challenging planet will always be Mars. If you are born during nighttime hours the planet will always be Saturn. For daytime hour charts Jupiter is always the most favorable planet, nighttime hours has Venus as the most favorable.
Summary:
Best Planet
Born during daytime - Jupiter
Born during nighttime - Venus
Difficult Planet
Born during daytime - Mars
Born during nighttime - Saturn
My and Jennifer Aniston’s charts are nighttime charts, the most challenging planet is Saturn. The marriage area of my chart is ruled by this planet (Saturn controls it). Jennifer has Saturn actually located in the marriage area of her chart. She also happens to have the planet that works in her favor, Venus, located in the marriage area. She has both her most difficult planet and her best planet in the marriage area. This alone can easily explain why she has been married for a significant amount of time, divorced and again married to a long time boyfriend.
One way to alleviate this type of positioning in any given chart is to use Astrocartography. You can relocate your home; move to a different city, state, or country. You can turn a nighttime chart into a daytime chart by moving. How is this possible?
In the 1970s astrologer Jim Lewis created a systemized method of placing planets from a birth chart onto a map. If a person is born at night then at that same moment there are also daytime hours happening in another part of the world. In my chart, for example, on the west coast it was nighttime when I was born, but on the east coast the sun was rising, it was daytime. If I relocate to the east coast my chart turns into a daytime chart.
First caveat, this new relocated chart is another layer to your birth chart. The new chart won’t replace the original, your birth chart is still the “OG”. The new chart will allow someone to work with the new energies of the changed planetary placements. The most challenged planet will be in a new area of the chart and so will the best planet.
This leads me to the 2nd caveat, to improve the marriage area of a chart a move to another city can bring about great opportunities in relationships, but now a different area of the chart contains the most challenged planet. The energies will feel different because of the new planetary configurations in the relocated chart; it will be felt in all areas of a person’s life, not just the one being remedied.
Where could Jennifer Aniston move to create an easier time in relationships? The most south eastern part of Italy makes her marriage area much better. Interestingly, any city in Greece (her ancestry is part greek) makes this part of her chart much better as well. This new chart is a day chart and has the best planet for daytime (Jupiter) in the marriage area of the chart. The area that describes her as an individual has the second best planet (Venus) located there as well as Saturn which is much easier to deal with in a day chart.
There is another possibility for her, Kaua’i, Hawaii. This chart is still a nighttime chart, but the rising sign changes which means all of the planetary positions in the chart change as well. In this chart the ruler of the marriage area is the second best planet (Jupiter). No planet is located in the marriage area and the most challenging planet (Saturn) has moved into a different house, a more “out of the way” location of the chart.
Relocating one’s life is a huge undertaking! There are many other factors that can and should be taken into account before relocating. Is the person ready? Can one handle a long distance support system for the first year? Does s/he have the financial means to move their belongings? Is learning another language needed? These are some questions anyone considering relocation needs to answer for themselves.
I, personally, am still working on my answers to the questions on my list. Luckily, I can see when my chart is favorably activated for a move of this magnitude. I am confident the timing will be right for me.
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