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✦ Astrocartography — on the globe

your lines drawn where they actually live — on the round Earth
Prototype

A flat map has to tear the Earth open to lie flat, and it distorts your lines worst exactly where they bend hardest. Here they are drawn on a sphere — the rising and setting curves wrapping the globe seamlessly, the meridian lines running true pole to pole. Drag to turn it in your hands; scroll to zoom. The founding chart is shown by default.

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Local time
51.5074°, -0.1278°
Tap a planet in the legend to toggle its lines. All lines are drawn equal-weight in this prototype (the field-coupled bold/faint weighting still lives in the flat renderer).
✦ building the globe…
drag to rotate · scroll to zoom
Planets — tap to toggle
MC / IC — meridian lines (overhead / underfoot), run pole to pole ASC / DESC — horizon lines (rising / setting), curve around the Earth
What this is. Astrocartography is exact spherical astronomy: the four angular lines (Midheaven, Imum Coeli, Ascendant, Descendant) for each body, projected across the Earth from your birth moment. The line meanings are the traditional astrocartography layer, held as correspondence — a map of place, never a forecast. The globe shows the same geometry the flat map does, drawn without the distortion a flat projection forces on it.