Does a person's soul move along? It seems that this is what the progressed chart shows and describes.
My current progressed chart is ridiculous. I've got Taurus rising with progressed Venus in Libra. This is nice! I'm simply pleasant. But this nice veneer conceals more trouble than you can shake a stick at!
Specifically, my progressed Sun, Moon, Mars, and Neptune are all in Scorpio. I slither while no one is looking! Okay, I help and heal people as well, but you get the picture. I'm false advertising walkin'.
Recently, I've been thinking about progressed charts, probably because mine is so extreme. I feel I am still me, my natal chart. I'm playing with the idea that the progressed chart shows what I'm doing in this time period.
It's interesting to consider a progressed chart from this perspective. You start at one point - your birth. You can look ahead twenty or thirty or even forty or fifty years and see that your story and your circumstance are going to change. If you have any affinity with Jupiter (the future) at all, you have to admit it's intriguing.
Recently, someone asked me how often they need a progressed chart report. Not often at all!
These changes take place slowly. The progressed chart is something to meditate on, deeply. It's not a superficial, fleeting thing.
Consequently, I recommend you get a new report when your progressed Moon changes signs (every 2.5 years).
If you're curious and want to view your life through this lens, you can get a (meaty and satisfying)