posted March 30, 2014 05:13 AM
Both.If we have a someone's planet in our house via overlay, the way we experience that person influencing this area of our lives is shown by the way that planet aspects our chart. If the planet doesn't aspect our chart we may hardly feel it even if it's in the 7th house.
The houses a partner's planets fall into show the areas of our live that they influence for us. The aspects the planets make show the style of influence. Hard aspects are intense and confronting, soft aspects are soothing and agreeable. Conjunctions crate a potent area of focus in the relationship. It's also interesting to pay attention to how house rulers aspect each other. For example, one person's 3rd house ruler is trine the other person's 7th house ruler. Perhaps the 3rd house person finds the 7th house person's way of relating interesting, and they like to talk to them about relationship issues.
Interpretation involves taking into account several different factors.