Notable Astrocartographers Working Today

My first astrocartography reading came from another astrologer. I paid for it. Then I asked my questions and the answers came back thin. So I went and learned the technique myself instead. Every published book in the field, and the field holds only a handful of them. Then every video course I could find. Several software packages, bought and compared against each other.

Fifteen years of that leaves a person with opinions about who else does this work. Julian Lee. Dan Furst. Clarisse Monahan. Dara Dubinet. Helena Woods. Moses Siregar. Different methods, different prices, different levels of agreement about what a planetary line even is. Below is where each one stands, written by someone who prints maps rather than sells hours.

Jim Lewis Came First and Everyone Knows It

Hand-drawn maps went out by mail order starting in 1976. Lewis branded the technique Astro*Carto*Graphy and ran full-page ads in the astrology magazines of the day. He died in 1995, at 53. Every practitioner below inherited his four-lines-per-planet method, whether they credit him or not.

Two things about Lewis still get argued. He never trademarked the plain word astrocartography. Only the stylized form, and even that lapsed years ago. His book with Kenneth Irving is still the reference text in this field. My longer reading list sits on the books and courses page.

Julian Lee Astrocartography and the Rejected Map

Searches for Julian Lee astrocartography land on two different websites, both of them his. The man behind both of them is Julian C. Lee Mickunas, working out of Montana. He advertises more than 30 years of experience and over 10,000 clients, with 27 of those years spent on relocation work alone.

Here is the part the other round-up articles skip. Julian Lee does not use astrocartography maps. His own words are that he has not touched a linemap in over 20 years. He moved once on the strength of an Astro*Carto*Graphy map. Then he decided the format hid more than it showed and switched to full relocated natal analysis instead.

So he calls himself a location astrologer rather than an astrocartographer. That distinction is real, though. A relocation chart recalculates your entire natal chart for the new coordinates, houses and aspects included. Two charts for one person, in effect. The two can disagree. Lines are one slice of that picture. Worth understanding before you book anybody, because the two approaches answer different questions.

What a Julian Lee Location Astrologer Reading Covers

His main locational reading runs $150 to $175, depending which of his two sites you land on. Shorter pieces sit lower. Commentary on your current location, $50. A compatibility reading, $75.

Two commitments there stand out. He refunds most of the fee when he judges the timing wrong for a move. That call goes against roughly 30 percent of the cases reaching him. He also guarantees satisfaction after the move or the money comes back. No other astrologer I know of puts cash behind a relocation call. Whether the 95 percent happy-mover figure holds up, I cannot verify from outside. Still, the willingness to stand behind it is unusual on its own.

Dan Furst Astrocartography and Finding Your Best Places

Finding Your Best Places came out of a working life that started nowhere near astrology. Acting came first for Dan Furst. Then singing, then producing theatre and music. Thirty-eight years as a professional astrologer followed all of that. New York, Japan, Hawaii, India, Egypt, Peru.

His book teaches the map by direction rather than by house language. Planet glyphs sit inside triangles pointing up, down, east or west. Up reads toward the soul. Down toward the body. East for individual goals, west for relationships. That directional shorthand is the clearest beginner framing anybody has put in print for the four angles. I have watched it click for people who bounced straight off the AC and MC labels.

Clarisse Monahan Astrocartography Went Mainstream

Soho House keeps a resident astrologer. That is Clarisse Monahan. Born in Ireland. Living in Germany. She travels their houses reading astrocartography, London through to Mexico City.

Her 2025 book with Penguin Random House carries the subtitle An Astrologer’s Guide to Where You’ll Thrive. It went straight to number one in the category. Marie Claire has run her. So have Condé Nast and the Evening Standard. She also founded Venus In Retrograde, which does consultations alongside corporate work.

Coverage like that does something useful for a field this small. It also flattens it. A book written for a general reader hands the same Venus paragraph to everybody. That is where my disagreement with the format begins. Not with her.

Dara Dubinet Astrogeography, Same Sky Different Word

Astrogeography is Dara Dubinet’s word for it. Same planetary lines underneath, different label on top. She came up through raw food and wellness video, then built an audience around location work. Now there is a 17-video intro course alongside one-on-one sessions.

She studies your natal chart ahead of a session, then marks the challenging places against the supportive ones. One phrase of hers I have quietly stolen. Armchair astrogeo travel. Reading your own lines for cities you have no intention of visiting, purely to calibrate what each planet means for you specifically. That calibration habit is the most useful thing on this page. It also costs nothing.

Helena Woods Teaches More Than She Reads

Woods travels full-time and reads astrocartography from wherever she happens to be that month. Her one-on-one work books out about a year ahead, in three to six month blocks. Most of the business now runs through teaching, though. Her locational astrology course sits alongside a natal course, the Cosmic Compass podcast and a twelve-month certification program. I have a longer look at her work on the Helena Woods review page. Short version, our models barely overlap.

Moses Siregar and the Volume Argument

Twenty thousand client relocations studied. More than 30,000 locations analyzed over two decades. Moses Siregar has practiced professionally since 1994 and went specialist on locational astrology in the early 2000s.

He holds an ISAR certification plus a separate Astro*Carto*Graphy certificate through Jim Lewis’s Continuum foundation. Western and Vedic astrology get weighed equally in his work, which is rarer than it sounds in this corner of the field. Thousands of case histories behind a reading do change what a person notices. I would not pretend otherwise.

What None of These Astrocartographers Have

Nobody licenses this work at state level. No independent board sets a standard for what a competent astrocartographer knows. Certificates do exist, though. Continuum still trains people in Jim Lewis’s method, and Helena Woods issues her own after twelve months. Both are private. Neither is accredited by anyone outside the school that grants it.

I hold none of them. Fifteen years of study. Every book in a field that holds only a handful. The maps I develop and print myself. That is the whole of my claim, and I would rather state it than dress it up. Anybody selling you a badge in astrocartography is selling their own badge.

Where I Sit Among These Astrocartographers

Sessions are what most of this list sells. Hours of somebody’s attention, priced by the hour. I sell an object instead.

A printed map runs $269 at 24 by 36 inches. Digital sits at $179. The bundle pairs local, global and domestic maps at $449 with shipping included. Hand-written custom reports happen when somebody arrives with a specific question. That is the closest thing here to a consultation. No calls. Nothing billed by the hour.

Why the printed format matters to me is a real disagreement with the reading model. A screenshot dies in your downloads folder inside a week. The thing on my wall gets looked at on a Tuesday morning, with an actual decision sitting in front of me. Seven months I spent trying to book a barber on my Venus line in Calgary. The map is what kept that question alive that long. Printed and digital maps both sit on the Astrotopographer home page, and the wider framework runs through my astrocartography guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Julian Lee the location astrologer?

Julian C. Lee Mickunas, working out of Montana. He claims over 30 years in locational astrology and more than 10,000 clients, 27 of those years on relocation work alone. His practice is readings only. He sells no maps.

Does Julian Lee use astrocartography maps?

No maps at all. He states he has not touched a linemap in over 20 years and works from a full relocated natal chart instead. That places him outside the astrocartography method proper, even though the searches keep bringing people to him for it.

What does Dan Furst cover in his astrocartography book?

Finding Your Best Places walks the astrocartography map by direction rather than by house language. Planet glyphs sit in triangles. Up points toward the soul, down toward the body, east toward personal goals, west toward relationships. Good first book for anybody.

Which astrocartography book is the current bestseller?

Clarisse Monahan’s 2025 title through Penguin Random House. It hit number one in the category and reads well for somebody who has never opened a chart before. Broad by design, so do not expect it to answer a question about your own Saturn line.

How does astrogeography differ from astrocartography?

Same technique under a different name. Dara Dubinet says astrogeography, some astrologers say astrolocality, Lewis stylized his own as Astro*Carto*Graphy. Planetary lines projected onto a world map in every case. Pick whichever word your teacher uses.

Is anyone a certified astrocartographer?

Certified by a private school, yes. By an independent body, no such body exists. Continuum runs a program in Jim Lewis’s lineage and Woods runs a twelve-month one. Neither is accredited outside itself. I hold neither.

How much do astrocartography readings cost?

Roughly $50 to $250 covers what these practitioners list publicly. Julian Lee posts $150 for his main reading. Helena Woods works in three to six month private blocks rather than single sessions. I sell no readings myself, so treat that range as observation rather than a quote.

Which astrocartographer should a beginner read first?

Dan Furst for the map itself. Monahan if you want something readable on a plane. Lewis and Irving once the basics are behind you, though that one asks more of a reader. Two books before you pay anybody anything.

Can ChatGPT explain my birth chart?

It paraphrases chart data. That is all. No lines behind it. Zero case notes. I tested it properly on my ChatGPT astrocartography page.

The Thing This List Cannot Settle

Nobody here wins the argument about whether the lines mean anything. Astrology is not science by official labels. Julian Lee thinks the map format misleads people. Moses Siregar has 30,000 locations of case notes saying otherwise. My own evidence is a coffee shop on Kensington Road where my Venus and Sun lines cross. I met my former fiancée inside it. Do not believe any of us. Go and check your own map against your own life, because that part costs nothing.