Your Generational Imprint and Turning Points in Depth

Tarnas holds that to judge this view seriously, you must in the end be able to read your own birth chart and transits, and test them against your own experience over the years. Your Generational Imprint and Turning Points in Depth takes over from here: the book tests against Galileo, Schopenhauer and Melville, and the report tests against your own chart. The part of the report closest to Chapter 14 of the book concerns the two clocks of Saturn and Uranus: which stretch you have reached now and in which year the next threshold falls, with the dates calculated precisely by software. The era of your birth is another focus: which outer-planet aspects were in the sky in the years around your birth, and how the undertone of that era has stayed with you. Then come the aspects your Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars make to Saturn and the three outer planets; whichever ones you have are the ones it reads, and through them the imprint of the era settles on you in particular.

On which points in your chart Saturn and the outer planets will touch in the coming years, and which major aspects are still to come in the sky, the report keeps to Tarnas's sense of proportion: it describes the archetypal atmosphere of those years and the themes you may face, and does not pronounce on what will happen on a given day. It reads Saturn and the three outer planets, and the aspects they make to the planets in your chart; houses are only marked as placements, and the affairs of each house are not discussed, which is also consistent with Tarnas's choice to weight planets and aspects. A full portrait of the character of the whole chart lies outside its scope. Go back to Chapter 14 after reading the report and those pages on the Saturn and Uranus cycles will mean more to you, because you will already know where these two clocks have reached in your own life.