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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

OP posts:
FourEyesGood · 05/09/2025 17:35

It’s all bollocks.

Jammiesdodger · 05/09/2025 17:35

Cusp is 23rd September no?

StrangerOnline · 05/09/2025 17:35

Hope you’ve girded your loins… I’ll be the first to say it

all horoscopes are bullshit

Katemax82 · 05/09/2025 17:37

My son is on the cusp. Yes it's bollox

ProfoundlyPeculiarAndWeird · 05/09/2025 17:46

Genuinely keen to find out how you decided that 'born on the cusp' is bullshit but 'born Leo/Virgo/Pisces etc' is not bullshit.

marshmallowfinder · 05/09/2025 18:00

21st December. Sagittarius but with Capricorn traits.

IfHeWantedToHeWould · 05/09/2025 18:08

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

CurlewKate · 05/09/2025 18:11

I like being in n the Cancer/Leo cusp. Obviously it is all complete bullshit, but it’s more fun saying you’re on the cusp. You can justify practically anything!

hungryduck · 05/09/2025 18:13

I mean, horescopes in general are total bullshit so your not wrong.

Left · 05/09/2025 18:13

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

But yeah, it’s all nonsense.

Justwanttotravel · 05/09/2025 18:19

23rd October- Scorpio

KrisAkabusi · 05/09/2025 18:30

All horoscopes are bullshit!

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

😁

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.

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

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!

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.

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?

OnlyMabelInTheBuilding · 05/09/2025 21:30

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

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.

CalzoneOnLegs · 05/09/2025 21:39

Horoscopes are utter bunkum

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

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……🤣

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."

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.

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