Place Finder

Before You Start

To rank cities you need:

• a saved birth chart
• a Place finder goal
• body and angle filters that still leave lines for that goal

Without a saved chart the map and atlas tools don't load, and with General inspection selected there is nothing to rank.

Place Finder Goals

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1. Birth chart, with Refresh
2. Saved chart
3. Map lines: Natal or Transit
4. Inspect city
5. Inspect
6. Place finder goal
7. The goal's group and family

The goal isn't cosmetic: it changes how candidates are ranked.

Goal lists General inspection and the goals by family: Education, Love, Work, Money, Home, Partners, Beliefs, Friends, Career, Sex, Personal, Communication, Conflict and Protection. Some families have a specialist variant beside the core goal, such as Love Commitment, Money Stable Income, Home Retreat or Career Public Profile.

Under the list, two small labels confirm the choice: Core goals or Specialist variants, and the goal's family.

Goals are weighted from the sources the app follows: Jim Lewis and Ariel Guttman first, then Dan Furst. A planet that is weak in your birth chart (in its fall or detriment, combust, retrograde, or under hard aspects) helps less on its lines, and a badly placed one can turn its line into a mild caution. Line crossings count on any pair of angles, and so does a city on a crossing's latitude band.

Model B Goals

The list also holds model B goals, such as Love (model B) or Money (model B). Instead of ranking the atlas, a model B goal shades the whole world map by score out of 100 and lists the best catalog cities.

• Hover the map to read the score under the pointer; over a city dot, the dot's own label gives that city's exact score.
• Click a city to see the factors behind its score.
• When you switch to another model B goal, the old shading clears straight away and the new one appears when it is ready.

Set The Search Scope

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1. Goal
2. Goal group and family
3. Search atlas, with the number of candidates
4. Keyword (optional)
5. Country code (optional)
6. Region filter
7. Search resolution
8. Rank candidate cities

Search atlas has four scope controls:

• Keyword (optional): a city or country keyword
• Country code (optional)
• Region filter: All regions, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania or South America
• Search resolution: Coarse, Standard, Fine or Ultra

The window describes each resolution:

• Coarse: fastest scan; cities of 500,000 or more, plus capitals and first-level administrative centres
• Standard: balanced scan, a good default for normal Place finder work
• Fine: denser scan, adding more mid-size cities and a deeper shortlist
• Ultra: deepest atlas scan, using the full catalog and live query augmentation

Start broad. Narrow the region or raise the resolution when the first list is too weak or too wide.

Run The Search

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1. Search atlas
2. Region filter
3. Search resolution
4. Calculating…
5. The current step and percent complete
6. Stage and candidate count
7. Ranked candidates: waiting for the result
8. Birth-time accuracy

Rank candidate cities starts an atlas search session. While it runs, the button reads Calculating… and a progress bar below it shows the current step, the percent complete, the stage and how many candidates are being scored, so the window stays responsive during long searches.

If your body and angle filters remove every line the goal needs, the search is refused. Don't prune the map too far before ranking.

Birth-time accuracy explains how certain the birth time is. Uncertified times are sampled a few minutes either side, and the ranking is marked provisional.

Read The Ranked Candidates

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1. Place finder goal
2. Goal group and family
3. Search atlas
4. Keyword (optional)
5. Region filter
6. Search resolution
7. Rank candidate cities
8. Astrology-only notice
9. Ranked candidates, with the resolution and how many cities were ranked
10. Astrology rank, country and population
11. Model signal and score
12. Inspect (and Add)

Each candidate shows:

• the city and country
• its astrology rank, and its regional display order when nearby cities are grouped
• population, when known
• the lead factor, such as Sun ASC
• rank stability: how much the rank moves across likely birth times, shown only when enough of them could be scored
• the model signal and a score
• Inspect and Add

Inspect opens the city in the side inspector and anchors Intersections, Local space and Report to it. Add puts it in the comparison list. With Ranked candidates turned on, the map shows the candidates as pins.

Above the list, the search detail shows the resolution and how many cities were ranked. A city must clear the goal's minimum score to be listed, and for goals that measure pressure (such as accident or health), a city with no pressure at all is a good result and can rank first.

Ranking Versus Inspect City

• Rank candidate cities ranks the atlas for the chosen goal.
• Inspect city scores one place you already have in mind.

The ranking is astrology only. It doesn't assess personal safety, healthcare, living costs, employment or visa requirements.

Practical Workflow

1. Choose the saved birth chart.
2. Choose the bodies and angles that matter.
3. Choose a Place finder goal.
4. Start with Standard resolution and a broad region.
5. Click Rank candidate cities.
6. Inspect the strongest city in the list.
7. Open Intersections, Local space or Report once one city is selected.

Notes

• Ranking is goal-driven, not a general place search.
• A saved birth chart is required before the map and atlas tools can run.
• Body and angle filters affect the ranking, not just the map.
• Ultra is the deepest search and takes longer than the others.
• The map stays central; the ranked list feeds inspection rather than replacing it.