AIBU to think that saying you are "born on the cusp" is total bullshit?

You don’t have to believe in something to find it interesting.

Hence my picking up loads of absolute bollocks from religions. I mean talking snakes ? Men dishing out celestial favours ? Do me a favour !

What value does it have, other than reduce the agency people believe they have over their own lives?

If nothing else it would help someone learning English as a second language practice.

I guess there are those that have imagination, and those that don't. Although it's odd that a sceptic of astrology does, and another sceptic doesn't. Maybe it's all down to our starsigns ?

You don’t have to believe in something to find it interesting.

I am 24th September, so always a Libra - a day earlier would have been the cusp (sometimes the first day of Libra is 23/09 and sometimes 24/09 I think). I do have quite a Libran personality - but I know this is just coincidence.

What value does it have, other than reduce the agency people believe they have over their own lives?

Some charlatans make money out of it, they get value, that’s hideous though.

Which is not to say it has no value.

Magnetic fields? Affecting a baby's developing brain? What the actual fuck?

It is a pointless thread.

Astrology is pointless.

I have three children aged 16-22. I could honestly not tell you what their star signs are.. All nonsense.

A really unkind comment. I was contributing something about astrology to a thread about astrology, instead of saying "It's total bullshit" like most of the other comments. What a pointless thread it would be if every single post said that.

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I don't believe in astrology. I'm a Sagittarius: we're very sceptical.

Horoscopes are nonsense. But "cusp" literally means the edge or transition point. Since the earth travels round the sun an extra quarter of a day every year, the sun may not actually have risen in the 'right' constellation on the day of your birth if you were born around the cusp which is why 'professional' astrollogers need to know the date, local time and location of your birth for a chart, so that they can swindle you accurately.

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Apparently I'm on the cusp. I have no idea of the qualities of either of the star signs, so I have no clue which one I am more aligned with.

If you knew your exact time of birth you could look it up. Astrologers have charts with this stuff but it's bound to be on the net somewhere. Then you'd know for sure, if you were interested.

I understand that in Scotland they have the time of birth on the birth certificate and in England if you're a twin, triplet etc.

I’m “on the cusp”. As a child I was always listed as the later star sign, but at some point it changed by a day so then I was the classed as being in the earlier star sign. A couple of years ago I came across something that had my birthday listed in the later star sign again so thought it was going to change back but I haven’t seen anything else since. I was born at 1am so I was only ever just the later star sign even when I was supposedly in that group. I believe the stars have actually moved since it was first worked out so we’re all using the wrong dates anyway. I also believe it’s complete nonsense. You can find plenty of traits to convince yourself you fit any of them.

Well it's all bollocks really, but I do know someone's who is born on the 22nd, and makes a point of pointing out that they're on the cusp literally every time. So instead of having to sit through the bollocks of one horoscope read out, I'm stuck listening to them read out two, then discuss at length which bits of both might apply to them.

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Did you know that the trend for having a daily horoscope in the newspaper started when Princess Margaret was born? The papers had to fill pages and there really wasn’t much to say, so one paper had her horoscope done. People loved it so they started running daily horoscopes as a regular feature.

Back when people read newspapers everyone knew their star sign, I wonder if younger people do now.

I was born on the cusp. Glad I don't believe in such things as my mother couldn't remember when I was born. She knew it was 12 o'clock, but not whether noon or night! She was the best mum ever by the way.

This is interesting to me as the only way I can see that horoscopes could actually be a thing would be if the position of the planets somehow affected a baby's developing brain in utero (magnetic fields or something 🤔). You would then have babies born early or late who had more traits of the preceding or next sign.

Oh, no. It has it's uses. Just not what people would usually think. Learning is never wasted.

So a whole make believe world of absolutely nothing?

Why ? There is a whole world of woo out there. Houses, aspects, ascendants. The role of the outer planets (which had to be shoehorned into the millennia old science after they were discovered).

Then there's horary for getting stolen fish back.

Worse ways to spend wet weekends in the 70s.

I have a birthdate "on the cusp". I could never find a definitive list of exact dates. Sometimes my birthdate has been listed as one star sign, sometimes as another.

I don't personally believe in any of it so dont care which star sign I am supposed to be, but there are certainly some dates which are not clearly defined as one or the other.