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Perhaps the oldest of the three methods involves relocating the natal chart angles and houses, which is as simple as casting a chart for your birth day and time, but for another locality – a different place.

While the angular relationships between the planets (planetary aspects) do not change using this technique, the chart angles (Ascendant, Midheaven, Vertex, etc.) and the house cusps do change. The result is that using this method, you get differing relationships to the angles and particular planets can appear in houses other than in the standard natal chart.

In other words, you can alter house and angle relationships to the planets, which may enhance and make a particular configuration more prominent or it may de-emphasize a configuration, perhaps putting an inauspicious planet two more to the back burner and away from center stage. Here is a simple example:

Suppose I have Saturn in the 7th House, the house or marriage and public recognition. I may not want Saturn there. By relocating the angles by moving to another town or city, I may be able to push Saturn into the 8th House, where it might be a little more at home, freeing my 7th House up for an easier marriage or what-have-you?