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Planet lines today
Where each planet is rising, overhead, setting and underfoot right now, drawn live on the globe. Add your birth details to see your line of the day and which of your lines are in focus.
What the live lines show
Your birth map freezes the sky at one moment. The dash-dot lines on this page are the same kind of lines for the sky right now: along a planet's MC line it is overhead at this minute, along its IC line it is underfoot, and along its AC and DC lines it is rising or setting.
The Earth turns 1 degree every 4 minutes, so these lines slide west all day, about 15 degrees of longitude an hour. The map redraws them every minute while the page is open. Use the arrows in the Today tab to see any day up to a year back or ahead, at the same clock time.
Your line of the day
Once you have drawn your lines, the Today tab picks one of your 40 planet lines (10 planets on 4 angles) for the day, with its short reading, the largest city close to it, and a link to the full page about that line. Tomorrow brings another one. It is a simple way to get to know your own map one line at a time.
Without a birth chart, the line of the day comes from the sky itself, with the city it runs near right now.
Your lines in focus
Astrologers say a planet's lines on your map come into focus when a moving planet passes over that planet in your birth chart, a conjunction. The Moon is the fastest mover: it passes each of your planets about once a month, so on most days one or two of your planets get a pass. The Today tab lists the exact times in your time zone, plus slower planets within 1 degree.
Each pass has a button that shows only that planet's lines on your map, so you can see where they run. Read it as a theme for the day, one input among many, not a forecast.
Your places today
Add your home and up to three other cities. For each one the Today tab lists when every planet rises, is overhead and sets there today, in that place's local time. A rising time is the moment the place sits on that planet's AC line in today's sky; overhead is its MC line, setting its DC line.
The times are geometric: the planet's center on a flat horizon, with no allowance for the bending of light by the air. Almanac times include that allowance, so their rising times are usually a few minutes earlier and their setting times a few minutes later. See how we compute the lines.
Come back to it
Tick "Open my map on Today when I come back" and this browser keeps your birth details, so the map opens on your lines and the Today tab next time. Nothing is sent to a server; untick it to forget them. Your places are kept the same way. See the privacy page.
New to the lines? Start with how to read your map or the guide to every line.
Are today's lines the same as transit lines?
Yes, in the plain sense: they are the lines of the planets as they are now, drawn the same way as your birth lines. Some astrologers read them against your birth map, others watch where your own planets are being passed. This page shows both.
Why do the lines move while I watch?
Because the Earth turns under the sky, 1 degree every 4 minutes. A planet that is overhead in one city is overhead about 15 degrees further west an hour later.
Do I need my birth time for the Today tab?
The live sky lines and your places need no birth details at all. The line of the day and your lines in focus use your birth chart, so they need the date, time and place.
Is my birth data stored?
Only if you ask. The map is computed in your browser. If you tick the option to open on Today, your birth details are kept in this browser's local storage, never on a server, until you untick it.