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ELA Map is constantly improving

Everything we ship, as it lands — new features, refinements, and fixes, shaped by what you tell us.

September 9, 2026

New

Find a moment — ask the sky when

Pick a place and ask when a planet will rise, set or culminate there. Every moment lays out on a timeline with day and night marked; tap one and the map casts to that exact minute, with one tap back to now. Works on phones, opens straight from any line card, and paid searches now reach 90 days ahead.

New

Timing for your own chart, at any place

From the relocated chart, ask when the moving sky reaches your own relocated angles at that place. Answers arrive as windows — when the influence begins, peaks and fades — shown in the place's local time, and each window can cast the map at its exact moment.

New

Tap a city or place name on the map to open its location summary

Place names on the map are now selectable. Tapping one opens the same location summary you get from tapping the map itself — photo, quick facts, and how your lines relate to that place — anchored to the place you actually named rather than the pixel you happened to hit. Works on desktop and mobile.

New

The chart page: your full chart, one dedicated space

Every chart now opens into its own full-screen page: the wheel, the bodygraph, and a new mandala view, with a reading for anything you tap. Overlay the current sky, compare two charts, cast a Davison relationship chart, step through time or press play and watch the sky move, and compare house systems side by side. Works on phone and desktop.

New

Team Map: see your whole group's Human Design at once

Add 3 to 5 people to a chart and see how the group's Human Design connects — a spine view of shared functions, a plain-language summary of what's open and what's covered, and highlights where members' gates cross. A preview is visible free; the full read is included with Premium.

Improved

Show or hide the mandala's I Ching and zodiac rings

The chart mandala's settings menu now has toggles to show or hide the hexagram (I Ching) band and the zodiac band, so you can simplify the view to just what you want to read.

Improved

Heatmap now explains why it pauses with 3 or more charts selected

Previously the heatmap panel just went blank once you had three or more charts selected, with no explanation. It now shows a short message explaining why the heatmap pauses at that point.

New

Antiscia, harmonics and draconic charts joined the Chart Lab

Three more professional techniques now paint on the chart wheel. Antiscia shows where each planet reflects across the solstice axis, and harmonics and draconic recast the whole chart into a different frame — a transform rather than an overlay, so the positions themselves change.

New

Moments you find on the map now open as charts — and your chart can tell you when

Find a moment on the map and open it as a full chart, cast for the place you found it for, so its angles are the ones you are planning around. The Chart Lab also gained a timing tab: pick a moving body and one of your own planets, and it tells you when they meet, to the minute. When nothing lands inside your window, it says when the next one is instead.

New

The technique shelf: fixed stars and hermetic lots drawn on your chart

The full-screen chart gained a quiet shelf of professional overlays. Turn on fixed stars to see the named stars ringing your wheel — sized by brightness, with the ones touching your planets and angles called out — or hermetic lots to place the classical lots on the wheel itself. Up to three overlays combine, and hovering one dims the others so you always know which mark is which.

New

Traditional timing arrives: profections, firdaria and zodiacal releasing

Three classical timing systems joined the chart page as their own tabs. Profections highlight the activated house right on your wheel for any year of life; firdaria lay out the planetary periods of a lifetime; and zodiacal releasing — a technique most professional software doesn't offer — charts life's chapters and their turning points from the Lot of Fortune or Spirit.

New

See who rules whom: the dispositor tree

A new chart tab draws the chain of rulership among your planets as a living diagram — which planets answer to which, where mutual receptions bind two together, and where a chain ends in a planet standing in its own sign.

New

Aspect patterns light up on the wheel

Grand trines, T-squares, yods, grand crosses and stelliums were already detected in your chart's overview — now they draw directly on the wheel as an overlay, thickening the chords that form each pattern so the shape is seen, not just named.

New

Notes on your charts

Premium members can now write notes directly on a chart in the chart page — observations, questions, things to revisit — kept with the chart itself.

New

Export your chart as a polished image

The chart page can now export the wheel as a clean, high-resolution image — square for the wheel alone or tall with the reading alongside. Pro members export at double resolution without the watermark, and practitioners with white-label branding get their own logo and practice name on the card.

New

Your chart is now always one tap away on Today

Today now carries your chart itself — the wheel, or your bodygraph when you read in HD — as a badge on the page: beside the headline on desktop, in easy thumb reach next to Go deeper on your phone. Tapping it opens the full-screen Chart Lab.

New

Know which lines to start with, and what supports them

The Dignity filter gains a Dispositor option that isolates the planets your chart's rulership comes to rest on, so there is an obvious place to begin instead of a map of equal-looking lines. Select one of those lines and the panel now says why it carries extra weight, in plain language rather than a number you have to trust. On the chart wheel those planets are marked, and clicking any planet walks its chain of rulership hop by hop so you can see what answers to what.

New

Tap anything on the chart and it explains itself

Every part of the chart now answers a click. The four angles, each planet row in the positions list, the gates and centres on the bodygraph, the variable arrows and the I Ching ring — all of them open a reading where some were silent before. Readings also open shallow and go deeper on request, so the panel stays quiet until you ask it for more.

Improved

The bodygraph is easier to see and easier to hit

Open centres and inactive channels now carry a themed edge so the shape reads at a glance, gate numbers are larger, and every gate and channel segment has a padded target you can actually tap on a phone. Tapping one flashes it, so you know the tap landed.

New

Solo an aspect, and read the transit picture separately

Selecting an aspect now dims its partner distinctly rather than treating both ends the same, and a new Solo setting keeps just the selected planet's aspects on the wheel. The reading separates what the moving sky is doing from what you have pinned.

Improved

Chart Lab controls, hierarchy and navigation

The wheel zooms and pans, and snaps back to fit. Controls are grouped by what they do rather than where they were added, contrast was raised across the tier ladder, the transit bar was resized, and the mobile dock wraps instead of running off the edge.

Improved

The chart export card carries your positions

The shareable chart image now includes a positions summary, and optionally the major aspects, in the canonical body order — so the picture reads on its own instead of needing the app beside it.

New

Today tells you which location it is reading for

When your device location and the city you chose during setup disagree, the Today page now names both and offers a one-tap switch, instead of silently picking one.

Improved

Today leads the dispositor read with your strongest chain

The dispositor narration on Today now opens with the chain that carries the most of your chart, rather than the first one it finds — so the first sentence is the one worth reading.

Notice

Hermetic Lots now use the same houses as the chart they sit on

The Lots were resolved against a different house system than the chart drawing them, so a Lot could be reported in the wrong house. They now inherit the chart's Campanus houses.

Notice

Account deletion works again

Account deletion was failing for every user: two of the records it erases were never linked to the account, so the deletion could not complete. Both are fixed, the client signs out properly, and there is a plain exit page confirming it happened.

New

Find a moment, from wherever you are asking

The timing search now has a cue on the pages where a "when" question actually comes up. Daily Conditions carries it beside the date stepper — the stepper asks what a place looks like on a given day, and this asks the inverse — and Today carries it in the tools cluster. Both hand the search the place you are already looking at, so you never pick it twice.

Also fixed — Chart Lab: fixed a clipped mobile header, an off-screen upgrade prompt, and a keyboard trap on the hidden chart face · Fixed the misspelled "Davidson" chart type — now "Davison" everywhere, including saved charts · The World transit chart opens as its own view on the map, with a new animated icon on mobile · Birthplace search: major cities no longer buried under local same-name towns · Fixed the 4th chart overlay silently disappearing from chart comparisons · Fixed two spots where a free plan's chart limit wasn't checked until the end of the flow · Fixed the compare chart dropping out of the page URL a couple seconds after adding it · Location scoring got a major accuracy pass — rankings now reflect deeper classical astrology · Team Map is now included with Premium · Zenith and nadir orbs, finished: split-colour midpoints and per-lot glyphs · Chart page polish: grouped tabs, a fixed reading card, and a way back to the map · Place descriptions on location cards now appear instantly · The mandala is now a view inside the map's Human Design panel · Today desktop polish: wheel size and seating, legend defaults, a steadier setup row · Tapping a wheel on Today opens the Chart Lab, not the small lightbox · The Discover deck is centred and wider on desktop · Higher contrast on the Conditions sky, and a wider scrim behind the text · The Today loading bar lands instead of snapping to full · Shift and the ELA logo summons the constellation field, anywhere in the app

August 12, 2026

New

Mobile map panel: three resting positions

On phones the map's bottom panel now snaps to peek, half, and full heights — and no longer gets stuck minimized.

New

Today page improvements

A redesigned chart & bodygraph card, a full-photo view of what's around you, smoother loading, and simpler access to the almanac, week-ahead transits, and weather.

New

A sky strip you can explore

The live sky band on the Today page is now interactive — tap the zodiac to reveal each sign, tap a planet for its position and aspects, and open deeper detail with one touch.

New

Auto light & dark

ELA Map can now follow your device's light/dark setting automatically — or stay pinned to the theme you choose.

Improved

Location Summary improvements

The location panel now counts exactly what's on your map, shows what kinds of lines are active nearby, and includes your relocated Ascendant and Midheaven signs on every plan.

New

Eclipse paths on the map

Solar eclipse paths of totality now draw directly on the globe — including today's August 12 total eclipse.

August 10, 2026

New

See where your rising sign would be, anywhere on Earth

Rotate your chart wheel to any rising sign and the map lights up the exact band of the globe where that sign would be rising for you — move the wheel and the highlighted region follows in real time.

August 9, 2026

New

The /today page: rebuilt around one flowing read

The Here & Now page got a ground-up redesign: the daily reading, sky snapshot, and companion map now sit in one continuous flow instead of separate widgets. The map band gained on/off toggles for parans, HD channel lines, aspect lines, and body groups; the Between You compatibility card, the identity summary with a Today bi-wheel, and a Week Ahead preview are all new; and a quiet day now opens its reading by default instead of hiding behind a teaser.

New

Chart drawer: aspect grid, angle aspects, and two new points

The chart drawer now shows a native aspect grid alongside the wheel, and aspects between planets and the Ascendant/Midheaven angles are calculated and shown for the first time. The Vertex and Black Moon Lilith were added to natal charts, and a South Node display bug that conflated it with another point is fixed.

New

New: a public /updates page

There's now a page at /updates that lists what's shipped, plus a small marker on /today when something new is worth a look.

Improved

Zenith Lines are now free, in both astro and Human Design mode

Zenith Lines no longer require a paid plan — they're available to every account in both astrocartography and Human Design views.

Improved

HD geodetic gates and zenith orbs are now free

Human Design geodetic gate lines and Zenith orb rings no longer require a paid plan.

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