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Brobian
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posted August 08, 2014 11:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was pondering my thoughts and a thought came to my mind. I'm curious to; what is the odds of having a child born on a Cusp? I have three children and each of the three were born on a Cusp.

Does anyone have multiple children born on Cusps?

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posted August 08, 2014 11:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chiemi     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hmm, me and my sister are Cusp babies though it was *kinda* planned and just luck lol.

I'm September 20th and she's September 24th, 3yrs apart.

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Brobian
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posted August 08, 2014 11:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Chiemi:
Hmm, me and my sister are Cusp babies though it was *kinda* planned and just luck lol.

I'm September 20th and she's September 24th, 3yrs apart.


My eldest is May 23rd (Taurus/Gemini), my middle child is January 21st (Capricorn/Aquarius), and my youngest is November 24th (Scorpio/Sagittarius). No wonder raising them has given me so many gray hairs!!

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Kannon McAfee
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posted August 09, 2014 12:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kannon McAfee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Brobian:
I was pondering my thoughts and a thought came to my mind. I'm curious to; what is the odds of having a child born on a Cusp? I have three children and each of the three were born on a Cusp.

Does anyone have multiple children born on Cusps?


"Cusp" needs to be defined precisely to answer your question. We cannot use that term to refer simply to a day on which the sun changed signs.

The sun is half a degree in width from geocentric perspective. The position of the sun is located at its center. So "cusp" for the sun refers to the last quarter degree (0*15') arc of one sign and first quarter degree of the next. Therefore there is a 1.67% chance of any given person being born with the Sun in such a cusp area.

[ 12 sign cusps / 360 degrees; 0.5 degree cusp/sign = 6 degrees of total cusp space; 6 / 360 = .016666... ]

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Brobian
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posted August 09, 2014 01:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Kannon McAfee:
"Cusp" needs to be defined precisely to answer your question. We cannot use that term to refer simply to a day on which the sun changed signs.

The sun is half a degree in width from geocentric perspective. The position of the sun is located at its center. So "cusp" for the sun refers to the last quarter degree (0*15') arc of one sign and first quarter degree of the next. Therefore there is a 1.67% chance of any given person being born with the Sun in such a cusp area.

[ 12 sign cusps / 360 degrees; 0.5 degree cusp/sign = 6 degrees of total cusp space; 6 / 360 = .016666... ]


With all due respect, I don't believe that the scientific aspect is needed here. I have explored many webpages and the cusp's, on an average, is usually described as being between the 19th day and 23rd day of every month. The cusp, of course, would be determined by the pair of Zodiac's which the Sun is crossing through.

I have done a large portion of natal chart readings within my time and, I assure you, the individuals born between these dates are typically effected by the energies of both constellations, which definitely holds true with my children. Trust me, I know my children quite well, I mean I am the one who has been raising them for the past 18 years. If you spent a year with them, you'd know what I'm talking about.

I do thank you very kindly for your opinion on this topic though.

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posted August 09, 2014 01:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for DeepFreeze     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree with kannon on this.
Yes, you will find many websites supporting this but the more that you consult personally with professional astrologers, they will say that there are no cusps (more or less - like kannon said)
Kannon's explanation is simply taking into account the diameter of the sun, when it very literally is touching two signs, which is briefly.

It's in one sign or the other.

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Brobian
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posted August 09, 2014 01:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by DeepFreeze:
I agree with kannon on this.
Yes, you will find many websites supporting this but the more that you consult personally with professional astrologers, they will say that there are no cusps (more or less - like kannon said)
Kannon's explanation is simply taking into account the diameter of the sun, when it very literally is touching two signs, which is briefly.

It's in one sign or the other.


Have you ever spray painted an automobile? I've done this a time or two in my day. I always predetermine where my spray line, the spray of the gun, should approximately land. However, that durned over spray always hampers me. I'll think it's only going to over spray a certain amount but then it squirts out twice as far as I had anticipated. It's so hard to determine just how much of that paint will spray out because it seems to change on a whim.

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Aries23Degrees
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posted August 09, 2014 08:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aries23Degrees     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From a sibling point of view? No.

But I, as a cusp guy 21 Decemeber - tend to attract or be attracted to cusp born people

At some point, at a flat I was sharing, I was living with the following;

Gemini -21 June
Cancer-21 July
Scorpio-21 November
Libra-22 October

It was pure madness. A lot of talking all around. A lot!

I was closest though, to the 21 June born Gemini. Sagittarius/Gemini seem to ALWAYS just "click".

My bf is also a cusp Virgo/Libra September 24

I think,from a soul level,cusps attract each other.

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Brobian
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posted August 09, 2014 10:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Aries23Degrees:
From a sibling point of view? No.

But I, as a cusp guy 21 Decemeber - tend to attract or be attracted to cusp born people

At some point, at a flat I was sharing, I was living with the following;

Gemini -21 June
Cancer-21 July
Scorpio-21 November
Libra-22 October

It was pure madness. A lot of talking all around. A lot!

I was closest though, to the 21 June born Gemini. Sagittarius/Gemini seem to ALWAYS just "click".

My bf is also a cusp Virgo/Libra September 24

I think,from a soul level,cusps attract each other.


It is interesting that you bring this up. I was reading up on Information regarding the cusps, just the other day. I came across a web page, I'm drawing up zero recollects as to it's name, that was centered around cusp compatibility. In a nutshell, it stated that a cusp born individuals most compatible other, would be another cusp born individual.

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posted August 09, 2014 11:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for starmoon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by DeepFreeze:
I agree with kannon on this.
Yes, you will find many websites supporting this but the more that you consult personally with professional astrologers, they will say that there are no cusps (more or less - like kannon said)
Kannon's explanation is simply taking into account the diameter of the sun, when it very literally is touching two signs, which is briefly.

It's in one sign or the other.


i agree w/this. if someone wants to insist on cusp, then the day before, but no sooner. a 4-day span isn't a cusp imo, it's the other sign completely.

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Aries23Degrees
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posted August 09, 2014 01:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aries23Degrees     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Brobian:
It is interesting that you bring this up. I was reading up on Information regarding the cusps, just the other day. I came across a web page, I'm drawing up zero recollects as to it's name, that was centered around cusp compatibility. In a nutshell, it stated that a cusp born individuals most compatible other, would be another cusp born individual.

I couldn't agree more.

Cusp attractions are very real. I could be in a room, full of strangers, and it is most likely that the person I attract to me and spark a conversation with, is a cusp-born person.

3 of my ex's are cusp born ;

1.Aries/Taurus
2.Leo/Virgo
3.Virgo/Libra

The last cusp seems to be " the main attractor". I don't know how may people I have attracted born on that cusp-its ridiculous.

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posted August 09, 2014 03:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yellowelevator     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think the cusp is real. I'm on the Leo/Virgo one (August 22). Before I got into real Astrology and only knew my Sun but knew about cusps, the Leo/Virgo resonated with me way way way more than just Leo. Back then I figured that was the reason I never felt as 'Leonine' as other Leo Suns I knew. The descriptions I've read for this cusp before fit me to a T. Of course now that I know and am into actual Astrology you can say that this is because of taking in the entire chart itself with all its different components, but looking back on those descriptions for that Sun cusp I still believe they are a thing. Just my two cents!

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Kannon McAfee
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posted August 09, 2014 08:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kannon McAfee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Brobian:
With all due respect, I don't believe that the scientific aspect is needed here. I have explored many webpages and the cusp's, on an average, is usually described as being between the 19th day and 23rd day of every month. The cusp, of course, would be determined by the pair of Zodiac's which the Sun is crossing through.

I have done a large portion of natal chart readings within my time and, I assure you, the individuals born between these dates are typically effected by the energies of both constellations, which definitely holds true with my children. Trust me, I know my children quite well, I mean I am the one who has been raising them for the past 18 years. If you spent a year with them, you'd know what I'm talking about.

I do thank you very kindly for your opinion on this topic though.


Brobian,

It was you who asked 'what are the odds?' which is a 'scientific' question involving mathematics in order to be answered.

So why did you ask such a question if you are already expert enough to reject a factual and accurate answer?

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Brobian
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posted August 09, 2014 08:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Kannon McAfee:
Brobian,

It was you who asked 'what are the odds?' which is a 'scientific' question involving mathematics in order to be answered.

So why did you ask such a question if you are already expert enough to reject a factual and accurate answer?


Mr. McAfee, I would like to start this post of by sending out an apology too you. With all due respect and with all honesty, I can just tell that you are firm in your understanding of this topic. I also know that you have every right, both as a human being, but also as a citizen of these United States, to express your beliefs or teach your knowledge. You will have to forgive my, my good sir, for my mind sometimes acts faster then my soft heart and, within those seconds, I will have reacted in a way that is not of me or my character. If you would, Mr. McAfee, ease accept my humble apologies for my hasty responses to your post. This was wrong of me, for it is absolutely within your right to express your knowledge and beliefs and it is not within my rights, in any way. I feel that you have a lot of earth within your chart, I sense this from your firmness towards this subject. I can also sense an emotional signature within you, you have insecurities of yourself, however, they are into rely baseless and unfounded because they are only seen within your own minds eye. None other on this earth see them.

I have had an amazing years this year, like none ever before. I honestly had not even believed in astrology until this past January, when some very interesting factors occurred which made me succumb to my dominate mind and follow my heart. Shortly after that I had a spiritually awakening that would, not only effect my life, but immediately touch the lives of hundreds of people. I have a new found passion to learn astrology and to learn it on my own. Something within me is telling me, that you will make a far better friend, then a enemy.

Mr. McAfee, please accept my complete and unconditional apology.


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posted August 09, 2014 09:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brobian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Brobian:

Please excuse my absentmindedness. I'm currently camping with my family and were are having a few drinks and singing karaoke. This iPhone isn't wanting to cooperate with me.


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posted August 11, 2014 12:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Celestica     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm in the camp of people who don't really "believe" in cusps, if you will. When you look at a natal chart the sun is at a specific degree of a specific sign, not just freely inhabiting some weird limbo. IMO the reason cusps have any sense of validity in people is because both Venus and Mercury swing around a very limited space of the sun, Mercury will only ever be in the same sign as the sun, the sign directly behind it, or directly in front of it. I.e. if you have your Sun at 28 Leo (which lots of sites would tell you is the cusp) your Mercury is prooobably going to be in either Leo, or Virgo. Having a Virgo Mercury would give you some qualities that would make you go "Hm I'm not totally a Leo, I have some Virgo qualities, ergo my Sun is on the Leo/Virgo cusp"

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posted March 31, 2015 07:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Odette     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi Kannon, I was just wondering - Do you have an article on cusps and the cusp-area for each planet? Or, if not - Are there any online sources you would recommend?

I'm very interested in this topic because in the space of less than 5 min both my ASC and Venus change signs. My ASC goes from 29' Gemini to 00' Cancer... and my Venus goes from exactly 29'59 Aries to 00'00 Taurus (also conjunct my NN at 00'01 Taurus).

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posted March 31, 2015 09:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AscTaurus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Let's put this whole "cusp' thing to the test.

We are right now on the "cusp" of transiting Mars in Aries/Taurus.

Anyone feel a little "edgy" ?

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posted March 31, 2015 05:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Aunt Anomalia     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Kannon, I would appreciate your opinion on this: geocentric Moon at 29.53, topocentric Moon at 0.25 in the next sign.

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posted March 31, 2015 05:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was born on a cups but never thought about cusp people. This is interesting.

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