Re: Inspected Vs Aspected Planets
Just because your sun and moon don't aspect doesn't mean they don't aspect other planets. If a planet actually doesn't aspect anything else, if I remember correctly, the planet acts out or over-asserts itself, while at other times completely dead. It's rare for planets to not aspect anything else.
I wouldn't say that it's a free-for-all. A fire Sun and water Moon would still create some kind of a problem. Your fire sun might drive you to do things that make your water moon uncomfortable and vice versa.
For example, I have a Leo Sun and Virgo Moon, so they don't aspect each other, but the problems it creates are obvious. My Leo Sun can throw me into the spotlight, but my hypercritical Moon will find a way to avoid it or criticize it. And also, you can't look at just two planets; you gotta get the full picture. If you add in my Saturn, that adds a whole new dimension. My Saturn is in Taurus trines my Moon, but also squares my Sun. So I'm really great at sabotaging or criticizing myself to the point that I give up on the spotlight that I naturally want. If I reflect too much, I back out of a lot of things that I should go for. While at the same time, I do things that constantly make me feel unstable or disorganized.
Many astrologers do consider planets aspecting merely by sign. In vedic astrology, planets in the same sign regardless how wide the conjunction, are still considered a conjunction. It kind of depends.
Although the tighter the actual aspect, the more prominent and powerful.