Astrocartography is an insightful new tool, pioneered by the late Jim Lewis in the 1970s which was based on ancient forms of locational astrology.
The astrology community is up in arms at an unseemly attempt to trademark Astrocartography for sole commercial use by one French and one American astrologer. What has always been regarded as a generic term for locational astrology should not become the property of individuals.
Jim Lewis, 5 June 1941 9.30 am New York, had an 11th house Sun and Venus in Gemini; with a full career 10th house of serious, disciplined Saturn in Taurus, a pioneering Uranus in Taurus and a lucky Jupiter in Gemini.
His Sun was square Mars in Pisces in his 8th giving him depth of understanding as well as an impatient streak. His Jupiter was in a confident sextile to Pluto also in a hidden house, his 12th. Uranus and Saturn were both in an inventive, helpful trine to Neptune.
He died of a brain tumour in San Francisco in 1995. Prior to that he was struck in the mid 80s by a vehicle while crossing a road in Sydney, Australia, which is on his Mars Ascending line.
The French astrologer applied successful for a trademark on 14 November 2025 though it is at present under review by the EU.
That gives a creative (not always realistic) Water Grand Trine of a determined Scorpio Sun trine Saturn Neptune Scheat trine Jupiter, formed into two Kites by Sun opposition a defiant Uranus and a pushily-confident Jupiter opposition Pluto.
One can but hope that Scheat does his worst to sink the project.
What cheek of those two men. Such arrogance, I hope French astrologers fight him and petition the government.
Both women I believe
Jim Lewis came to our area at some point in the 70s and did my own and my husband’s astrocartography charts. He was not a personal friend (I only met him once), but he was acquainted with people in a wide circle of astrologers who did workshops and he liked to travel. So he met a lot of people and was keen to ‘try out’ his method, for which he charged a very modest sum despite doing a detailed job.
He was an early user of computers and I recall we got paper copies of our charts by mail afterwards (not sure). I got the impression Jim’s work was highly experimental at that stage. He had printouts from a dot matrix printer from his program but also did parts of the analysis by hand. Everybody did charts from scratch by hand then, by using an ephemeris and interpolating the planet positions, and the computer data was an add-on.
He might have had a commerical product in mind from the start, but at that early stage he just seemed keen to try the tools he was inventing (and I believe there were others working with him, but don’t know any more than that). He did not strike me as a businessman, so perhaps he did not bother to protect his work. Maybe he did not expect to patent or make real money off his discovery (I have no idea). But he seemed to be a very nice, energetic and outgoing man, but you could tell he might get impatient or even bored. He was very quick to pick up on things.
He advised my husband to avoid Alaska as it had a bad cartography line intersection for him. My husband never worked or hunted or fished in Alaska, but the one and only time he drove all the way to the far north he went with a friend in a howling -40 blizzard and nearly froze in a car with a broken heater. That story seems about right for what Jim told him.
Using the Aries Ingress and Astrocartography lines for ASC, Desc, MC and IC
weather patterns can be described for different regions of the world map.
For example if the Saturn_IC lines runs through London, expect cold temperatures.