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

85 replies

Nonoanddefintelyno · 05/09/2025 17:34

In my mind Sep 22 will always be a Virgo, Aug 22 will always be a Leo and Nov 21 will always be a Scorpio. Please comment your birthday if you're on a so called "cusp" and say which sign you feel more like

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Butchyrestingface · 06/09/2025 11:05

Having said that, I've just checked the personality traits for my star sign and the two on either side and it all seems a bit ... vague.

🔮

Millytante · 06/09/2025 11:01

LhudeSingCuccu · 06/09/2025 08:04

I’ll never not be surprised that people believe in astrology. It’s even more daft to me than believing in ghosts or gods.

Quite. I’d have thought believing this cusp business isn’t any more ludicrous than giving credence to star signs in the first place.

Butchyrestingface · 06/09/2025 10:48

Well, I've never heard anyone say "you were born on the cusp of..." I also have no idea what the cut offs are and I've never looked because astrology is a load of shite.

So why should it matter?

Shite + more shite ≠ < shite.

fairycupcakes · 06/09/2025 10:34

Born just into Scorpio but by far fit the Libra traits more with just an added bit of spice from the Scorpio influence 😅 I guess that’s the cusp you would be referring to OP!

HarrietBond · 06/09/2025 10:34

I know from back in the day that my combined star sign (one of the possibles) and Chinese year make me an incredibly charismatic and powerful person. I fail daily to live up to my potential sadly.

PestoHoliday · 06/09/2025 10:31

HarrietBond · 06/09/2025 08:05

I think it’s in total bullshit but in the days of teen magazines it meant I chose whichever horoscope looked the cheeriest. (Sadly didn’t result in a charmed life and that boy I liked rarely understood he was fated to look my way.)

I don’t actually have any idea what star sign I supposedly am as the magazines couldn’t agree. And I haven’t really thought about it since then.

I know the only horoscope that matters - I was born in the Year Of The Chicken. Therefore it's essential I get another couple of hens for my flock, because the correct number for Chicken people is n+2
(That's what I tell DH, anyway)

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 06/09/2025 08:36

I suppose it depends on the kind of thing that being born under a birth sign actually is.

If it is something like, say, nationality, then cusp-hood is balderdash: You aren't 'a bit German' in virtue of being a French person who was born close to the border with Germany. Your legal rights, status, etc will be just like any other French person.

But if the stars affect us more in the manner of, say, the weather, then the French person born near the German border might have more in common with a German than a French person from the sunny south of France.

So, to establish whether cusp-hood is bullshit we need to work out the mechanism by which the stars control our life. Simples.

HarrietBond · 06/09/2025 08:07

InterestedDad37 · 06/09/2025 08:06

Making an instant coffee yeaterday, I didn't realise there was already a teabag in there. Tasted like a mixture of the two. It was a cusp of coffee ☕

A toffee. Or a key.

InterestedDad37 · 06/09/2025 08:06

Making an instant coffee yeaterday, I didn't realise there was already a teabag in there. Tasted like a mixture of the two. It was a cusp of coffee ☕

HarrietBond · 06/09/2025 08:05

I think it’s in total bullshit but in the days of teen magazines it meant I chose whichever horoscope looked the cheeriest. (Sadly didn’t result in a charmed life and that boy I liked rarely understood he was fated to look my way.)

I don’t actually have any idea what star sign I supposedly am as the magazines couldn’t agree. And I haven’t really thought about it since then.

LhudeSingCuccu · 06/09/2025 08:04

I’ll never not be surprised that people believe in astrology. It’s even more daft to me than believing in ghosts or gods.

PestoHoliday · 06/09/2025 08:01

It's exactly the same amount of bollocks as horoscopes generally. If you're going for horoscopes, the cusp stuff is part of it as when the sun moves into that constellation isn't a set date and time.

It's like saying about Christianity "I believe Jesus healed lepers and rose from the dead, but that water into wine stuff is just implausible."

CurlewKate · 06/09/2025 07:54

As I said, I enjoy being on the cusp. Particuarly as a Leo/Cancer cuspan it’s interesting to consider how being born a day earlier would have given me an entirely different personality type! You’d think there’d be a bit of taper……🤣

NoCommentingFromNowOn · 05/09/2025 21:40

Left · 05/09/2025 18:13

I don’t get to use the word cusp enough. Thanks OP.

But yeah, it’s all nonsense.

*does very best Miranda impression

CUSSSSP

CUSPPPPP

mmm I like it

CUSSSPP

CalzoneOnLegs · 05/09/2025 21:39

Horoscopes are utter bunkum

TyroleanKnockabout · 05/09/2025 21:32

IfHeWantedToHeWould · 05/09/2025 18:08

It’s all bullshit. The cusp of what? Being a gullible sucker.

Edited

Just a bit of fun innit.

Well some people do actually believe, then I suppose it’s no less silly than other religions really.

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 05/09/2025 21:30

All horoscopes are bollocks. So yanbu, but yabu to think cusp does or doesn’t make any difference

Laura95167 · 05/09/2025 21:28

EuclidianGeometryFan · 05/09/2025 18:39

The sun changes sign at a different time of day each year. So to know for sure, you have to know the time you were born (to about 5 minutes or less sometimes), and look up exactly when the sun changed signs the year you were born.

Astrologers disagree about cusps - some say you have the "influence" of both signs, some say this is not a thing and you are either one sign or the other.

What about the ones who say theres a 13th sign?

Rightandwrong · 05/09/2025 20:02

Left · 05/09/2025 18:13

I don’t get to use the word cusp enough. Thanks OP.

But yeah, it’s all nonsense.

I can safely say I've never used the word cusp in my life. In fact I've never heard anyone use it in real life.

Hoppinggreen · 05/09/2025 18:46

I think that Horoscopes are pretty much bollocks BUT when I was at school one Christmas one of our group bought the rest of us horoscope books and I read the one that was supposed to describe me and it was not like me at all.
Then I read the book aimed at the sign I missed by a matter of days and it was a LOT like me!

nomas · 05/09/2025 18:43

If I’m going to believe in the bollocks that is astrology, then I may as well go the full hog and believe being on the cusp.

And I am on the cusp, and I do have the qualities of both signs Grin

EuclidianGeometryFan · 05/09/2025 18:39

The sun changes sign at a different time of day each year. So to know for sure, you have to know the time you were born (to about 5 minutes or less sometimes), and look up exactly when the sun changed signs the year you were born.

Astrologers disagree about cusps - some say you have the "influence" of both signs, some say this is not a thing and you are either one sign or the other.

WellMaybeYouShouldntBeLivingHeeeeeeee · 05/09/2025 18:33

IfHeWantedToHeWould · 05/09/2025 18:08

It’s all bullshit. The cusp of what? Being a gullible sucker.

Edited

😁

KrisAkabusi · 05/09/2025 18:30

All horoscopes are bullshit!

Justwanttotravel · 05/09/2025 18:19

23rd October- Scorpio