Your Current Changes in Depth

What Arroyo says about Saturn is brought to bear on your own chart in Your Current Changes in Depth. Roughly every seven years transiting Saturn forms a conjunction, square or opposition to natal Saturn; the report first works out which of these stages you have now reached, then explains, following his account, what this stage asks you to adjust. He says the year Saturn first enters a house is the heaviest, and that as it nears the end of the house some event often gathers up the previous years, so the report also calculates which of your houses transiting Saturn is now in and in which year it crosses into the next, letting you see where the heaviest stretch lies and when it will close.

The report also calculates which house your progressed Moon is in and when it changes houses. Arroyo says its cycle neatly complements that of transiting Saturn: one is where your mind is drawn, the other where you are asked to put in effort. Which of your natal planets Saturn and the three outer planets will touch over the next five years is covered one by one, with all the dates calculated precisely by software. It reads these years of change through Saturn and the outer planets; for the full picture of a person's character, you need to go back to the whole chart.

In his last chapter Arroyo says that a birth chart is not finished once it has been done; it is a map that accompanies a person in coming to know himself. Only when you read the stretch you are living through now does the map really become useful.