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

[Nonoanddefintelyno]

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

How is it fun?

That's a pretty low bar for fun.

Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor etc.

it’s something said to elevate oneself above the bog standard.

Funnily enough my DH is exactly the same, and he's far more of a Libra than he is Scorpio. I'd never realised that before.

I've read that the stars align at conception, not birth. But since for most of us this is unknown, horoscopes use birth times and dates, which aren't always 40 weeks from conception, of course. So that would explain the 'few days out'.

I am “cusp” but I went for a chart once and they picked one sign over the other based on birth time and location

yes I know its bollocks though…

It used to be more people knew their starsign than their blood type.

Well I do have a pretty low bar.

I don't think you are a twat for using it.

It's just never been part of my vocabulary.
Probably a generational thing.

At which point during conception? It’s a multistage process!

Normally I encourage people who read,
but in your case I suggest you stop.

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.

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.

So a whole make believe world of absolutely nothing?

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

True

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.

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