The dominant planet in a chart can be determined through several ways
- A planet that is in conjunction to the 4 cardinal angles ( Asc, Dc, Ic and Mc )
- A planet that is in its dignity ( Sun in Leo, Moon in Cancer , etc ), or an exalted planet can also be considered dominant
- A planet that recieves the most aspects from other planets. The more aspects, the more complicated and sophisticated the energy of that planet.
- When several planets ( preferably at least 4 ) fall into a certain sign, particularly when they form multiple conjunctions , for example Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars fall in Scorpio, the planet that rules Scorpio, that is Pluto, will exert its influence over those planets and becomes very dominant.
- A planet that rules the rising sign, Libra rising, so Venus is the ruler of the chart ( but this depends on the conditions of Venus ). Nevertheless, the ruler of the rising sign is like a god that resides over one's birth, and is there throughout their entire journey in life.
An unaspected planet is primitive , it is not " socialised " and " civilised " and stay in its original shape and form, it is simple and not " sophisticated " , and its energy is not harnessed by any other planet. Imagine an unaspected planet as , say , a person that is living in the basement of a family yet nobody know he exists, and nobody has come in contact with him. In the same way, unaspected planet is often unconscious , it tends to manifest itself in a more compulsive kinda way without the individual knowing. The unaspected planet, therefore, is capable of producing its purest energy ( be that good or bad ) when a heavy transit planet hits it ( Uranus will zap it to sudden awakening, Neptune would leak it and spread its energy to the entire house - kinda like corrosive acid , Pluto might even send it sit and seethe for a while and let it erupt all at once ). So in this case , yes, when the unaspected planet has finally awaken, its power would be high and often unfamiliar, and for a while, this unaspected planet might take over the entire chart.