Are You Vulnerable Or Defended, Natally?

Sometimes I look at a chart and see profound vulnerability.  Things like tremendous sensitivity or crippling of some sort.

Other charts are spectacularly defended.  A Cardinal grand cross on angles would be an example. The person is a fortress.

Then these are people like me who are both.

What does your chart show in this regard? What aspects suggest a person is vulnerable and/or defended?

Do you think a person can compensate for these signatures? Or will they always constellate?