The following is shared from cafeastrology.com
Thursday, JULY 7
The Moon spends another day in relationship-centered, gracious, and fair Libra. This Moon is balanced and compromising, and its trine to Saturn this afternoon is steadying and clear-headed. Harmonizing is more important to us than usual with this Moon. Its square to Pluto tonight can mean our fear of betrayal, whether from the universe or a person, can lead to distrust. We should watch for swinging from a desire to be fair to suspicion, which can be confusing.
The void Moon occurs from 9:04 PM EDT, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a square to Pluto), until the Moon enters Scorpio the next day, Friday, July 8th, at 1:15 AM EDT.
The symbols are described at astro.com
I’d like to look more closely at George Ivan “Van” Morrison’s mostly unaspected Sun. I’ll post what I can find about this below:
Do you have any unaspected planets in your birth chart? The qualities of a planet are exposed in potentially constructive ways. There are two theories about unaspected planets (those that lack any Ptolemaic aspect [i.e. conjunction, sextile, square, trine, or opposition] with any other planet in the birth chart). One theory is that the unaspected planet has difficulty expressing some of its qualities. It sits in the chart without any major connection to other planets. The other line of thought is the interpretation preferred by noted astrologer Noel Tyl, which is the preferred interpretation these days. Being unaspected can make the planet a more powerful force, as it screams for attention among all of the other planetary aspects. The individual might not realize its expression in their behavior, but others recognize it unmistakably. Unaspected planets can function as strong talents. They can also express as excessive, over-compensatory habits.
Transits will make aspects to the unaspected planet at times, which can excite and stimulate it into action. The individual can have a hard time controlling the unaspected planet's traits at those times.
Unaspected Sun
With an unaspected Sun in the natal chart, both its strengths and challenges can increase. The person's charisma is strengthened and this can facilitate success. The Sun's negative features can also prevail. These include social maladjustment, paralyzed willpower, unawareness of one's rude behavior, self-centeredness, egoism, and vanity.
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In general, the ten planets of the chart are connected to other planets by major or minor astrological aspects. It is owing to those ties that the planets' energies can manifest in the chart owner's personality and play out within safeguards according to a specific tonality.
It seldom happens that in a natal chart, a planet is totally disconnected from the nine other planets. Why does such a phenomenon rarely occur? It is because the aspects, or links, among planets are given some margin, referred to as orb in the astrological jargon. For instance, a trine between two planets shows that they are separated by an angle of 120 degrees. But the general practice is to accept a discrepancy of approximately 8 degrees, which means that two planets separated by a distance between 112 and 128 degrees are considered to form a trine. Thus, after having looked over all possible aspects, the probability of having a planet forming no aspect with the other planets is very low.
Astrologers have observed that when such a case occurs, the person feels the energy of the unaspected planet in quite a singular way, very jerky and powerful at the same time. Thus, for instance, the famed astrologer Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche wrote that "an unaspected planet heralds that something strange or extraordinary will take place regarding the meanings of the house in which the said planet is posited" (source : l'astrologie selon Morin).
Other astrologers, such as Dane Rudhyar and Alexander Ruperti, explain that unaspected planets bring about more freedom to the people having them in their natal chart, with all its potential danger as well as with all its qualities and forces. The principle of the "wild horse" is often mentioned by most authors in this regard, because the unaspected planet is left to its own devices and can unleash its full power without any limitation. Numerous astrologers have expressed their opinion (Geoffrey Dean, Evangeline Adams, Moore, C.E.O. Carter, Grant Lewi, Bill Tierney, Janis Huntley, Bernard Crozier, etc.). Although their different experiences do not yet allow in the 21st century to decide how unaspected planets should be exactly interpreted, there are nonetheless very interesting common points that must be taken into consideration in order to fine-tune the analysis and interpretation of the natal chart.
Rules for detecting an unaspected planet
Astrologers do not agree on the aspects that ought to be taken into account when identifying an unaspected planet. There is a broad consensus that aspects formed by a planet to the angles of the chart are to be dismissed7, but whereas several authors consider only major aspects, some others include all the eleven usual aspects (major and minor).
Among all the testimonies that we have reviewed to this day, based on our experience, we tend to agree with American astrologer Janis Huntley who accepts seven aspects, which involve the zodiacal twelve sections of 30 degrees, and neglects the semi-quintile (36 degrees, very rarely used), the quintile (72 degrees, slightly favourable and allowing a very tight orb), and the bi-quintile (144 degrees, same meaning as the quintile), the semi-square (45 degrees, slightly unfavourable), and the sesqui-square (135 degrees, slightly unfavourable too).
The aspects to be considered are the conjunction (0 degree, cooperation or tension), the semi-sextile (30 degrees), the sextile and the trine (60 and 120 degrees respectively, aspects of cooperation), the square and the opposition (90 and 180 degrees respectively, tensed aspects), and the quincunx (150 degrees, slightly tensed).
Thus, a planet is said to be unaspected if it forms no conjunction, semi-sextile, sextile, square, trine, opposition, or quincunx with one of the nine other planets of the natal chart, within the orbs of those aspects.
How should this unaspected planet phenomenon be interpreted? After having made the synthesis of our personal experiences and those of astrologers who have published their conclusion on this topic, we provide here its most likely meaning for the ten planets.
Interpretation for the ten planets
The house where the unaspected planet is posited is particularly prone to those cyclic contrasts, which need to be taken into account. But the most important thing to do is to take note that this peculiarity marks, or tints, the whole personality and not only the area of life involved.
This rule applies to all planets. Indeed, an unaspected planet brings about its share of tremors over time, and the person has a hard time controlling its immense forces, which could be almost described as chaotic. In most cases, he can but acknowledge their influences, or adjust to them when he is mature enough, usually in the second part of his life.
It is also useful to cautiously remind that an astrological chart forms a whole. The meaning of any peculiarity of the chart, such as in the unaspected planets topic, constitutes only a facet which does not rule out the possibility that the personality or the destiny of the chart owner is different from the theory indicated. For instance, Louis Pasteur does not match the interpretation given for his unaspected Moon in Gemini in the 8th House, at least as far as his public image is concerned. His relatives and friends are the only people who could give a reliable opinion.
Unaspected Sun : interpretation
When the Sun is unaspected in the natal chart, its characteristics, both assets and weaknesses, are increased. The person's charm, magnetism, and charisma are strengthened and facilitate his success in society. See the example of the Sun-King, Louis XIV, who had the Sun unaspected in Virgo (with an orb smaller than 6 degrees for his sextile to Neptune), or Vincent Van Gogh.
However, this principle may be inverted under the influence of transits or progressions. At such crucial times, the Sun's negative features prevail, in which case social maladjustment, paralysed willpower, unawareness of one's rude character or behaviour, self-centredness, egoism, and vanity erase the natural benefits of the Sun left to his own devices.
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What is an Unaspected Planet?
Aspects form a vital component of the interpretation of the natal chart. They link the planets that are the active and dynamic factors of the horoscope. Each link means that a piece of our psychic energy is making contact with another part, and that these parts not only influence each another and can work together (or work against each other), it is also particularly true that they see each other and experience each other consciously. This makes it possible for us to get to know ourselves.
It does, however, happen that one or more planets do not receive or make any major aspects. They stand apart, and are therefore unintegrated. They have no direct influence on other planets (or psychic dynamics), and are themselves also not influenced, so they can exhibit extremes in their effects. We notice this particularly in an all-or-nothing attitude: quick to exaggerate, or precisely the opposite: not responsive in the least. In any case, whether a planet is unaspected depends particularly on the question of how large an orb we use. If we allow very large orbs, then there is little chance of having unaspected planets. If, however, we allow very small orbs, there is in fact a greater chance of having one or more unaspected planets. So, if we want to involve unaspected planets in our interpretation, we will first need to think about the question of orbs. And with this issue, unaspected planets can be of service to us.
The characteristics of an unaspected planet are very specific. If a planet in its expression also bears the characteristic of an unaspected planet, then it is likely that it is not, in fact, making any aspects. If you allow large orbs, for instance of 10? or more, as was still occasionally customary some time ago, then this planet may possibly still make one or more aspects, which would not exist using a smaller orb. However, if the planet is working as an unaspected one, we will obviously need to use smaller orbs. On the contrary, it is likewise true that if a planet is unaspected when using very small orbs, but the person in question doesn't reveal the characteristic expression of this in practice, we know we will have to allow somewhat more leeway in orbs. In studying aspects, I have looked at both major and minor aspects. Whenever planets made exclusively minor aspects, they seemed to work like unaspected planets. This is why, in my experience, a planet is unaspected if it makes no major aspects. The minor ones evidently do not play a part in this.
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Characteristics of Unaspected Planets
If we have an unaspected planet in the horoscope, it is very likely that we aren't really very aware of all the things we do with it and how strongly we bring this planet to expression in daily life. An unaspected planet manifests itself unmistakably though! However, just to clear up a couple of misconceptions right off the bat: an unaspected planet is not weak, not insignificant, and not bad. On the contrary, many people who have achieved extraordinary things turn out to have had help in doing so from an unaspected planet in the horoscope. With unaspected planets, the question is not, therefore, whether we can achieve anything with them, because we definitely can. Instead, the question is how we go about it and how that feels inside.
In Search -- Preoccupation
An isolated planet has to do everything by itself. At first it even seems like the other subject matter inside us doesn't see this piece of us. That's why we don't get to know it very quickly. Somewhere, though, deep inside, we do know it's there. This isn't so much a conscious knowing, but more an implicit knowing. It makes us tend to keep searching for that piece of ourselves, that planet. To our feeling, it is a "faraway" given, and if this concerns a skill or activity, we'll have the idea that we aren't ready to do it by a long shot and "maybe never will learn," without there being any demonstrable proof of this. That inner feeling is usually pretty strong, and if one little thing goes wrong, we tend to lend it a lot more weight than necessary.
So, we go off in search of the subject matter of that planet. Some domains that are appropriate to that planet even hold a sort of magical or mysterious kind of attraction. Once I met a boy with an unaspected Mercury who, at a very early age, was fascinated by pencils and pens (objects appropriate to Mercury). Whenever his parents couldn't find any, all they had to do was go to his room and that's where they would find just about all the writing utensils they had in the house! He simply couldn't keep his hands off them. No matter what his parents did -- from asking in a friendly way to leave the pens where they belonged, to giving him a big set of his own pens, to punishing him -- nothing worked. Each pen had its own fascination. Mercury can, of course, also entail lots of other things, so a fascination can also lie in other Mercury domains. For this boy, it was pens.
Precisely because of this fascination and our "being in search of," we will be preoccupied with an unaspected planet, but won't ourselves be aware of it at all. The problem is, namely, that there are no other planets that provide any contact with this isolated planet, so that at first we don't see all the things we do with it. We simply don't recognize it, and aren't able to place it, like the boy with his pens. He simply didn't understand that he had a few too many of them in his room. It's as if everything we do with that planet somehow or other isn't to be fathomed, knows no moderation, or isn't to be controlled. This, by the way, doesn't have to be the case forever.
Over the course of life we will have several chances to gain insight into this: other planets will naturally start creating aspects with it in transit and progression, and in those periods will make contact with that subject matter. Then we suddenly take a big step forward and see what we're doing, or come closer to deeper longings and character traits. And the unaspected planet itself will start creating aspects in progression and transit as well. So there will be plenty of chances to learn moderation and to figure ourselves out. Initially, though, things will be tough. However, it seems as if our unconscious wants to help in every way to start seeing the subject matter of that unaspected planet.
If we are preoccupied with the energy or domain of that planet, the chance that various things will start getting through to us is better, of course, and we will also begin to recognize this kind of planet sooner that way. But a long running start is still needed for this, and in the meantime we are not aware to what extent those around are confronted by this unintegrated planet. Our emphasizing it means those around us will already have experienced the full weight of it and will have to endure more before we have even the slightest inkling of what we're up to. In fact, if we hear remarks or criticism about it, we will in all honesty not have a clue what they're talking about.
For example: A client has a son with an unaspected Mars. He is an extremely lively and active little boy, so maybe the description "the height of restlessness and energy" would be better. He sleeps little and is always nearby making lots of noise. He is a radiant child who is clearly enjoying life. He (still) isn't aware of how much difficulty his parents are having with this. They are understanding and patient (and love their peace and quiet!), but often he's too much for them. They were unable to grasp that even after years of asking him if he couldn't just sit still at the table, he still always kicked, danced, and knocked things over due to the restlessness of his movements. His mother told me once that her son, while yelling, was drumming on the table with his silverware, barely missing his plate, and thereby creating a situation where his parents were unable to say a single word to each other. Mars was clearly active. When she finally exclaimed, "Now, can't you sit still for just one minute?" her son looked at her in utter surprise and even denied that he had made any noise or done anything.
This is a critical problem for children with unaspected planets. Every parent who knows something about unaspected planets will know that a child doesn't really see what he or she is doing, and the boy in this case may honestly be totally surprised at his mother's remark. It is very possible that he felt he hadn't even begun to drum and shout. It unmistakably remains a fact, however, that he was already at it and producing a barrelful of noise. Most parents would react with some form of annoyance after all, why is the child denying this? Does the child also want to be contrary? And why does the child keep denying it? After all, it's obvious he is doing it! Sure, for outsiders it's clear that he was doing it. He is the only one who doesn't see it.
The fascination that an unaspected planet exerts on its "owner," coupled with an orientation toward the domain of that planet, largely contribute to the development of the talent that particular planet promises. Unnoticed, we develop many facets of this energy by continually being preoccupied with it, but as soon as we start understanding and recognizing this energy a little more, it holds even more potential. The fascination and the quest give us focus on -- and at the same time an orientation toward -- a particular domain. Frequently, people choose the domain of the unaspected planet as their profession, or otherwise use the energy of this planet in their daily lives. This is certainly possible, and can be done with great joy and very consciously. I once saw a sports teacher (she has an emphasized 5th house) with an unaspected Venus finally change profession: she became a cosmetologist.
Insecurity and the Unaspected Planet
Another hallmark of unaspected planets is that they are often accompanied by feelings of insecurity. This insecurity is connected to a number of things. In the first place, the idea of "being in search of," that often expresses itself in a kind of restless feeling, I sometimes try to describe as a feeling of "hunger," or "yearning," or "being unfulfilled" in the area of that planet. A longing, too, but for what we don't know. It can't be described; it is diffuse and vague, and we can't really make anybody see what it's all about. Even if we have everything our heart desires, this feeling can still be there. So it has absolutely nothing to do with external circumstances or with whatever we've achieved in life.
An unaspected Moon, for instance, can have a deep longing for security and a profound need for warmth, and even run the risk of not seeing the warmth that is there (but this is not on purpose!) because of a gnawing feeling that overrides it.
Or, to give an example of Venus: A couple of years ago a couple consulted me and asked for an astrological analysis of their relationship. They had been married almost thirty years, but the woman was in a kind of crisis. She didn't know if she loved her husband, or if she had ever loved him, and claimed she didn't really know what love actually was. Her husband didn't take this personally. His commentary was simple and honest, "We've gotten along very well together all these years, and I just know she loves me, and I love her. So something else must be going on, and that's why we're here." His wife, however, had gotten hold of the nagging thought that she didn't know what love was, and therefore also didn't know if she loved her husband.
Her Venus created no aspects whatsoever! After I had explained what an unaspected planet meant in general, and how an unaspected Venus works in particular, something finally clicked in her. She understood that the unfulfilled and searching feeling was inside herself and had nothing to do with her marriage. "If I look back at it that way," she said, "then we have in fact gotten along very well together all these years, and I wouldn't want to be without my husband." There was a moment of silence, and then she said, "Maybe that's what love is. Maybe I shouldn't be getting myself so worked up about it anymore, and accept that I can't catch or grasp it all." This is a nice example of how, with an unaspected planet, we can run the risk of misjudging a situation because with all that "searching" we begin to mull and fret. Just as often, though, all that searching has yet another result, namely the idea that we "aren't there yet," or can't do certain things. In the case of the unaspected Venus, this can express itself in a feeling that others don't think we're nice, or that we weren't cut out for love, or that we feel inferior because of our looks and/or emotions. In every instance this feeling does not corroborate the real situation or talents and capabilities. Once again though, the fact is that we don't see it at first. And even with an unaspected Venus, we can be very sweet, mediate very well, and have a finely tuned sense of harmony! Hidden in an unaspected planet like this is a great talent waiting to be discovered.
Relating to the Energy
When we have an unaspected planet, we need to learn to relate to that energy, which means seeing that energy in relation to ourselves. This is absolutely essential. As long as we don't do this, and also don't see how we behave, our unconscious will confront us with the theme, and that means that we will encounter it by projecting it on others, as well as experiencing it in the circumstances and events of our lives. I even ran into this very literally, as the following example will illustrate.
Mars has traditionally been associated with everything that is sharp. Wasps also fall under Mars. In my practice I have had various clients with an unaspected Mars, and they have all had some problem or other with wasps. A couple of them turned out to have a wasps' nest in their homes. One had a nest hanging in the attic and he discovered this because he kept hearing a strange soft humming noise. The nest had to be removed by local exterminators -- it was one of the biggest ones that had ever been found in a private home in the Netherlands!
So, with unaspected planets it takes longer before we see what our needs and what we are doing. This will entail quite a few problems from the point of view of raising children. Children with unaspected Jupiters will have a strong tendency to exaggerate on all fronts. If given a piece of candy, they will usually ask for another one right away, as if they think that they didn't get enough. However, asked why they want another piece of candy, they won't be able to answer. This is not a question of greed or of feeling shortchanged. The unaspected Jupiter seems to want to multiply everything, including the number of candies the children get.
For parents, it is difficult to understand what's really going on, because they keep seeing that the child wants more. If we know nothing about unaspected planets or what they do, the obvious conclusion is that the child is greedy, or is only thinking of himself or herself, and so on. So the parents decide to approach the child about this behavior, because it's not appropriate. If their efforts turn out to have no effect, and the child simply keeps up the old behavior, the parents won't understand that the child's not doing this on purpose. After all, it is abundantly clear what's happening! And so the child is placed under more and more pressure and gets into trouble, when the child has no clue about the issue. This is not only very confusing for the child, it can also have harmful consequences farther down the line.
Just imagine the world of experience of that child. The child doesn't see what he or she is doing, and so can't understand the scolding. The child feels misunderstood. If punishments follow because "the child just doesn't want to listen," the child will feel rejected, and there is a big chance that he or she will begin to feel unsure, misunderstood, and insecure. Many problems that we have as adults with unaspected planets are not so much locked up in these unaspected planets as such, but derive from what we experienced around their themes when we were young. We can't, however, blame or find fault with the parents for what went wrong. After all, they honestly tried to civilize their child to protect it from social problems later on. And where that polishing seems to succeed with other children, it won't catch on or much less so with the child who has an unaspected planet. For this child, the situation arises where he or she may feel desperate under all that polishing, because he or she doesn't have a clue, while the parents feel equally desperate because they can't do a thing with this child. Insight into unaspected planets can help us stay out of this spiral.
However, insight into a child's unaspected planets will also create new problems. If we have an understanding of the expressions of the child's unaspected planet, we will tend to tolerate the extremes in behavior a lot more. We understand what's involved, and want to give the child safety and security above all. Certainly if we understand that a child can experience these crazy contradictions regarding an unaspected planet -- on the one hand great joy and pleasure, on the other the frequently arising insecurity - we will try to give the child a feeling of security and stimulate it in the area of the unaspected planet. What will happen? The child will (unintended and unconsciously) start to exaggerate that planet even more, and we'll have a lot of trouble on our hands. As a parent, we will encounter new dilemmas.
In this way, a child with an unaspected Sun can manifest itself very powerfully, pretty domineeringly even, and in a way that doesn't leave much room as an adult. At the same time, the child will often feel unsure and won't be aware of his or her behavior. So, if, as a parent, we give a child extra attention and try to develop self-confidence, he or she will unconsciously behave even more domineeringly, and can then start sucking up all the attention. This can easily happen at the expense of other children, or lead to unpleasant situations, such as when many adult family members come to a birthday party for one of the parents, and the child turns out to dominate the entire atmosphere. This will certainly result in commentary from the rest of the family. Result: the child feels a split-understanding on the part of the parents, and rejection on the part of a number of family members. An unaspected planet is very sensitive particularly to these kinds of experiences! And if we try to redirect the child a little at that party, there is the chance he or she won't understand what's going on, and so feel misunderstood anyway, by the parents as well. So, a dilemma in raising such children!
Unaspected planets require patience and understanding on the part of parents. Time and again parents will need to explain the child's behavior to the child. Camcorders are a big help here! If a child who is a bit older looks at scenes taken years before, he or she can see objectively the behavior in question. I have witnessed at various times that children slowly began to understand from this what was going on. But don't start filming troublesome situations on purpose, that will only elicit more stress! Explaining and talking, over the course of years, will really help a child with one or more unaspected planets on its way. In the meantime, though, the child will still feel jerked around a lot, and no matter what we do as parents and no matter how good our intentions are, we simply can't get around this. So it makes no sense to feel guilty about it. Realize that the child has a number of exceptional talents, but needs to be patiently guided to create a safe basis from which those talents can develop. The more we help the child to connect with that "loose piece," the sooner he or she will be able to develop these natural talents in a conscious way.
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Unaspected Sun
The Sun is our identity. If one had to be defined by one planet, it would be the Sun. That is why the Sun is easiest to guess.The moon is our deepest heart. Venus is our love nature. Mars is our drive. The Sun is the you of you. One’s Sun is one’s ego.
The term ego can be used in a negative way, but it is not negative. One must have a healthy ego.If one’s ego is too weak, one is self doubting. If one’s ego is too strong, one is arrogant. The struggle to find a right sized ego is a hard one. What happens to the Sun in the chart is a picture of the assaults to our ego.
The Sun represents one’s father. The aspects to the Sun show the relationship with one’s actual father. The unaspected Sun is a unique animal. More Hollywood stars have an unaspected Sun than any unaspected planet. It is the sign of the star. However, there is one caveat. The native must bring it up from it’s buried condition. This is the same for all unaspected planets. They are buried treasure. They can stay buried. They can be unearthed, as well. The unearthing is not easy.One will be called to be an intrepid explorer because it is a solitary journey.
The unaspected Sun must learn what it means to be a unique and independent person. He must learn what is his to claim and what is under his control and to learn what is not. His ego may be weak until he learns the secrets of harnessing it. He must learn them by putting himself out into the world, feeling weak and incapable, perhaps, but persisting.
He must learn the lessons of the ego, by “doing”.There is no substitute for doing. Somewhere in the process, he will discover his unique voice, his unique light, as he has one that will allow him to shine above others. He was made to shine. Then, we, all, can admire him for the beautiful star that he is.
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There’s no doubt that the Sun is important in relationships. But it’s such a major player (to the point of being a cliché) that it’s sometimes disregarded in favor of the Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn, etc. But don’t be put off by its association with Sun sign astrology. The Sun represents your purpose, ego and conscious will. It will always be a primary player in relationships. The aspects that your Sun makes to your other planets describe how you integrate its energy. Sun conjunct Venus suggests an abundance of charm with the primary desire to love and be loved. Sun trine Saturn suggests a steady flow of sober responsibility and commitment. But what if your Sun is unaspected?
Who Are You?
Technically, an unaspected planet makes no major aspects to any other planets. “Major aspects” are defined as conjunctions, squares, oppositions, trines and sextiles. Aspects to Chiron, the asteroids and the Nodes are not counted. In her book Aspects and Personality, Karen Hamaker-Zondag also discounts aspects to the angles (AC, DC, IC, MC). She states that although the unaspected planet will find an outlet through the angles, this won’t integrate its energy into your psyche. And this is what aspects do: they create pathways between the energy of a planet and the rest of your psyche. When your ego (Sun) is disconnected, there is an all-or-nothing effect. You have extreme doubts about your purpose in life. At the same time, this insecurity pushes you to focus on yourself, to the exclusion of others. One minute it’s all about you, and the next you’re not even sure who you are. The unaspected Sun is the unrefined ego of a child.
In a woman’s chart, an unaspected Sun suggests difficulties relating to men, beginning with the relationship to her father. Men in general (and male partners) may be a source of discomfort, mistrust or inconsistency. In a man’s chart, an unaspected Sun indicates that the template on “how to be a man” is missing. The father is the son’s first example of manhood, and an unaspected Sun suggests that this example is absent or damaged. In both cases, relationships can be trial-and-error. The unaspected Sun person swings from one extreme to the other in their choice of partners (weak or controlling) or in their approach to relationships (passive or authoritative). It’s incredibly difficult to be yourself with another person when you don’t know who you are.
Having said this, know that an unaspected Sun does not guarantee a lifetime of troubled relationships. You can view it as your vulnerable area that also has the potential to become your greatest strength. The upside of unrefined ego and conscious will is, if properly directed, an unstoppable sense of purpose. Once you figure out who you are, you become a force to be reckoned with.
Your Partner is Your Outlet
This is where synastry can make all the difference. If you have an unaspected Sun, chances are your most important relationships will feature a partner whose planet(s) aspect your Sun. You’re drawn to the energy of someone who promises an outlet for your unclear purpose. While these contacts are hugely significant, much depends on the planet aspecting your Sun.
For example, if your partner’s Venus (how they give and receive love) conjuncts your Sun, they find your essence very attractive. This is the classic “love you for who you are” contact. But since your Sun is unaspected, their love is extra potent for you. Here is someone who finally accepts you and loves all the qualities that you doubted you even had. And, the Venus person helps you express your purpose. The hallmark of an unaspected Sun is a unique talent (defined by its house and sign position) that has the potential to bring you tremendous recognition, and sometimes fame. To the Venus person, this talent is obvious, and they gently encourage it by boosting your ego. The brighter you shine, the more they’re drawn to your light. Would you have uncovered this talent without them? Maybe. Transits and progressions to an unaspected Sun can have the same effect. But it’s not a coincidence that you’re attracted to the Venus person.
But let’s say your partner’s Saturn (rules and limits) conjuncts your unaspected Sun. You feel bonded to the Saturn person, almost beyond reason. Perhaps your partner acts as your missing father figure, giving you the structure and focus that you’ve been missing. But at the same time, your partner’s authority is so strong that they inhibit you. And you kick against their parental rules as your ego flares up with childish displays of rebellion. A Sun/Saturn conjunction in synastry is about authority, but your unaspected Sun is vulnerable. So you may end up giving your partner far more authority than you would have if your Sun was integrated. Over time, if you’re both aware of what’s happening, this contact can push you into maturity. But it won’t be gentle.
In general, an unaspected Sun is raw ego and purpose. Although it’s most often experienced as unclear or absent, it will flare up sporadically. Either way, when your partner’s planets aspect your Sun, they have a profound effect on you. The usual impact of any synastric contact to the Sun is intensified. If your unaspected Sun is your childhood energy that never had a chance to develop, your partner can offer an accelerated learning curve.
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Liz Greene says:
When a planet is unaspected in a chart, it is a kind of unconscious pocket in the psyche. It is a drive or impulse which does not really relate to anything else in the person’s life. Often he doesn’t even know it’s there, until it is triggered by a transit or progression or by something in someone else’s chart. It is though there is a god who has no ordinary outlet in the life of the individual, so that it cannot accommodate itself to external life in a gradual way. It remains primordial and unpolished, full of tremendous energy which has no outlet. It just sits there and builds up steam. An unaspected planet is very raw and archaic. It has no social graces, but behaves as though it has just been let out of prison. Often there is a kind of blank space, and the individual is sometimes very ignorant of that side of himself until it erupts. Anunaspected Sun in the birth chart, for example, can suggest that it will take longer to find the Sun inside, because the relationship with the father may not be solid enough to allow the archetype to be embodied. Father as a real person does not have to be perfect. He just needs to be human enough for the child to glimpse the Sun in him, have it mirrored back and say, “This is what I admire, ” or, “This is the opposite of what I want to be.” An unaspected Sun doesn’t indicate that there is no father. But it can describe a certain absence of contact. When the relationship with the father is tenuous, the solar principle cannot be mediated easily, and it is difficult for the Sun to be internalized and rooted in everyday life. The connection with him is not humanized into ordinary life and the relationship is usually a poor one, and usually very unconscious. There may be a sense of complete disconnection from him, resulting in a lack of a sound inner image of father to mediate the godlike power of the Sun. Then there are likely to be many problems with authority, with fathering, and with one’s perception of masculinity in general. The Sun is also the sense of individual reality, and this may also be very unconscious. Then the person may not feel real unless there are other people around mirroring him or her. The self-generating power of the Sun is not easily expressed when it is inspected so one wanders about asking everybody, “Tell me who I am.”
Howard Sasportas says:
Unaspected planets may give rise to a subpersonality. If a planet is unaspected, it doesn’t mean that it is not important. Unaspected planets have a way of acting independently of the rest of the planets in the chart. If you have an unaspected Moon, for instance, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have feelings. It does mean, however, that your feelings are not tempered or modified by other planets. There may be times when you act totally without feeling – because the Moon is not connected to anything. Conversely, there may be times when you only act from your feelings and nothing else, because the Moon doesn’t pull anything else along with it. It has been said that unaspected planets can act autonomously.
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“It’s as though the sitting tenant in the basement would really like to be included in the household but she’s inarticulate and just doesn’t know how to get upstairs, so she starts dropping bottles with messages in them out the window. Other people pick up the bottles and knock on the front door. So you are indirectly pushed into discovering the thing which has been hiding. Unaspected planets will always, sooner or later, receive an important aspect from a transiting or progressed planet, or they will be activated through relationship, by the planets in someone else’s chart. An unaspected planet doesn’t stay unaspected. Life provides aspects for it. A planet may begin as a very unconscious and unconnected point in the horoscope, but the moment one gets involved in a relationship with another person, the planet will start finding avenues of expression in the context of the relationship…It can prove immensely creative, and gives one a chance to get acquainted with what has previously been a deeply unconscious dimension of the psyche. The Horoscope in Manifestation: Psychology and Prediction
More about unaspected “planets” can be found here.