Expert: Scott Petullo - 9/30/2008

Question
Hello, it's me again!. You've been very very helpful and you made many things clear for me.
I have an other question. When a planet does not form many aspects, that means that the planets energy is more genuine?
For example, my sun forms a quincux and a sextile. Does this make me more scorpio? My venus forms many aspects, squares, conjuctions etc. That means than my libra-venus is taking elements from the other planets and is not a genuine libra?
And another -related- question. I understand that mercury f.e, when forming an aspect with mars f.e,its mercury that is beeing "colored" with the mars characteristics. What about jupiter and sun etc? Is there some kind of "order" from the strongest to the weakest planet?
thank you again for your time and patience
k


Answer
Hello Kate,

I wouldn't call a planet's energy more genuine if it doesn't
form many aspects. If a planet doesn't form any aspects at
all it may have a stronger symbolic impact related to the
visible personality. It may stand out more (e.g.,  Mars in
Aries making no aspect to other planets = aggressive
personality). But that planet's placement, such as in an
angular house (1, 4, 7, 10) or not makes a difference of
course, as do other considerations.

I wouldn't say your sextile, etc. makes you more of a Scorpio.

Your Venus in Libra is still genuine, don't worry. But it
could be burdened if your Venus is making a hard aspect
to a malefic like Saturn, for example.

I wouldn't say there is an order from the strongest to weakest
planet. It totally depends on how each planet is dignified and
strengthened (or not) by sign, placement, etc. Sure, Jupiter
and Sun can "color" other planets through Ptolemaic aspects,
just like any other planet.

In each person's charts there exists a dominant planet, and
it's often times not the Ascendant ruler. It can be any
planet, based on many variables.

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