More and more people are contacting me these days for an astrology reading because they want a new lease of life. That new lease could include a better place to live, starting a home business, earning money, or retiring.

Sometimes they are simply fed up with the area they live in, the people they work with or associate with, themselves from staying there too long, the quality of life or the lack of it, and they want to get out of Dodge NOW.

Astrology is a perspective to find your best city, location or place here or abroad. It’s not the only one. I want to point that out. Checking your daily horoscope for entertainment is one thing, making a major life change, that’s another story.

This article is from notes taken recently from a conversation between relocation astrologer Cait Benten, that’s me, and my friend Christine Troward.

Cait, what can people expect from a relocation astrology reading?

When you contact me, I know that you want to find your best city or location to work in, have a successful career, maybe start a home business, raise your family safely or retire and therefore one of the first questions I have. I am usually asked, “What is relocation astrology? What do you do?”

What information do you need to do a relocation astrology reading?

The astrology of relocation begins with your natal chart, what we astrologers call your natal chart. Where were you born? What was the EXACT time of your birth? Check your birth certificate. I spend many hours moving your birth chart to find what appear to be your best places in the world to live. It’s a long, demanding, and tedious process, and it takes many hours to find the best spots that match your natal chart.

What about those cheap computer programs? What are its limitations?

A computer program is not going to find what I am looking for when I work on your astrological chart. There are too many variables and computer programs are not intuitive. That is why I interview you and ask you what you are looking for in your life, all this happens before starting your astrology reading that I record and send you. Listen, then we continue with a session where you ask me all your questions.

As I understand it, your astrology readings don’t tell people that they have to move to a certain place to be successful.

I’ll tell you up front that even your most favorable location will present its own unique set of challenges. Oh that life was perfect! Before you visit or move to a certain location, I encourage you to count the costs.

Relocation astrology is not about packing up and moving simply because I tell you “This seems to be your most favorable location.” I encourage you to COUNT YOUR COSTS before moving in. Are you ready for what will be a great life change? Every move I have made has required a period of adaptation and adjustment and I am sure this will be true for you as well.

Moving takes a lot of planning and thinking before you pack your things and go somewhere, doesn’t it? Moving becomes even more complicated if you move abroad, although more and more Americans are retiring abroad.

You have moved now! Settling in your new area is just the first phase of many new things to deal with, including a decision that may include buying a home, registering your vehicles, finding where the schools are located, and it is much easier if, when you move. , you already have a job ready, unless you are retired. If you are retired, how much will you miss seeing your children or grandchildren? Some handle this problem better than others.

Do you use relocation astrocartography or Vedic astrology in your work? I realize that a lot of people like to do the astrocartography chart.

I know both systems, but over the years I have incorporated the best techniques I have come across. However, I trust my intuition and higher wisdom when I see a difficult board. That is the only way to overcome what seems like an insurmountable obstacle in a person’s astrology reading.

Have you ever had the feeling that people want you to make the decision about what to do for them?

I won’t do that and neither will any other big-name relocation astrologer. Check out my disclaimer page at http: www.astro-earth-relocation.com and you will see where I am honest in telling you that “WHEREVER we move, our EMOTIONAL SELF travels with us.” Some people, more than others, will need medical, financial and emotional advice and I urge you to use these professional resources if your life situation requires such help.

The other day a woman told me: “I want you to send us to a place where my husband no longer uses drugs.” I had to tell her nicely but firmly, “Your husband makes his own decisions in life. I refuse to be responsible for whether or not your marriage works.”

As a relocation astrologer, I will tell you that our lives, no matter where we live, become what we determine to do with them. How wonderful an area is depends on you and how you treat others as much as how they treat you. Wherever I go, there you are.

However, a new location can give you a new lease on life. Maybe it’s time, after all these years, to get out of Dodge City and find a place that you appreciate and where you are appreciated.

Do you find that some people are determined in their own way and resist any suggestion, which is what they are, just suggestions, that you see as a good placement on your chart?

When you call me for a relocation astrology session, I will use everything I know to help you find your best place or city. I’ve had a handful of clients who, after searching and searching for days to find a match for them based on the movement of their birth chart or natal chart, say, “I don’t like that place.” “My kids won’t like it.” My husband says that the people of Tucson are not friendly. “I’ve heard people make judgments about places they’ve never been, a case of being too stubborn about areas they know nothing about.

It is strange to hear a relocation astrologer admit this, but there have been a handful of people that I have done astrological charts for and there is NO better place for them to live and I have told them that. Maybe there is a second or third place where they can have a very good life, so I know that I will be honest with you about my findings.

If I tell you that Santa Barbara looks favorable based on your natal chart or natal chart and you say, “No Santa Barbara” or “Oh no, not Austin, Texas,” then after you’ve pointed out all of your best geographic areas, I’ll say “So use your intuition. There are no other places I know of to send you. “

Why do you think relocation astrology is a valuable tool, even though you’ve told me on other occasions that it is just one of many tools that could be helpful to a person looking for the next place to call home?

Although I am a bit more expensive than other astrologers, I have been incredibly busy since I started Astro-Earth-Relocation five years ago, so I no longer solicit or advertise to clients.

Reputation is everything?

It helps, but you only build a reputation by doing great work for your clients. Most of my business is now word of mouth recommendations from former clients.

Do you tell people that they must move to find success or love, earn money or be happy?

No. Nor do I tell them that they have to make this move before this or that date. I tell my clients to ask themselves, “What if you were happy now and didn’t move? Would that disappoint you?” Some people are uneasy about change. That is not a good reason to move. Happiness is an inside job; you have to provide your own interior cabin pressure no matter where you live.

I’ll close my article on relocation astrology, which I hope you are curious enough to try, just to experience this kind of unique astrological reading, with a quote from my friend James Clayton Napier that he uses to open his wonderful Business & Career article. : Meet your ruling star, which you can read on the web:

“Meet your ruling star. A man [or woman] it is better received by one nation than another, or it is welcomed by one city than another. He finds more luck in one position or position than in another, and all this despite the fact that his qualifications are the same or even identical. Let each man know his luck and talents. Follow your guiding star and help her without mistaking anyone else for her. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with which one must cross their borders to make their worth felt. “

– Balthasar Gracian, (Spain, 1600)