What your birth chart says about where you should travel this summer

Welcome back from your bank holiday weekend, your Pentecost, your Whitsun weddings. And welcome to Summer. It is after this magical late-May threshold that we pass into the world of custom-woven linens in bespoke Belgian flax and drowsy afternoons at the office pretending to optimise market positioning while secretly researching summer vacations along rugged Nordic islands dotted with minimal modern retreats – or Amalfi Coast evenings, where we imagine ourselves among friends in flowing silk jacquard beneath lemon trees and candlelight.

But what if you’re making summer plans for places that may not align with your locational astrology – also known as astrocartography, the increasingly fashionable art of mapping one’s ideal places on Earth according to the stars? What if, in other words, neither the Amalfi Coast nor its austere Nordic brethren is truly aligned with your cosmic compass, despite your best intentions and deepest lemon-tree fantasies? We’ve all been on those sad vacations: so ripe in the imagination, so strangely deflated upon arrival. But, to this I say: do not fret, because astrocartography can help explain these geographic incompatibilities – and how to avoid them – allowing you to plan your summer according to your birthchart for a cosmically personalised itinerary.

Now, admittedly, astrocartography is a bit of a mouthful, but its principles are easy to digest. It combines “astro” (relating to stars) and “cartography” (the study of maps). Taken together, the study of “star maps” gives us a nice working definition.