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The most remarkable factor, and the key concept you may need in order to appreciate the particular quality of the local space chart is to know that every object in the universe—whether celestial or mundane—has an equal and valid position in this chart. Not only the planets and stars, but on an equal basis, cities, countries, and even the local water tower or the neighbor’s house can be represented. All that concerns us here is the direction of any object in space—not their distance. In other words, the celestial sphere and the mundane or geographic sphere exist side by side and are interchangeable! A star is a city is a neighbor. We can walk toward, write letters to, or get up and move into—for instance—our 7th house. Even more startling, we can travel toward our natal planets, since they also represent a direction on the globe in the chart of local space.