posted January 25, 2017 01:43 PM            

I grew up in a middle class family. I was neither poor or rich; I was lucky for I was able to get a lot of the things I wanted but my family also had trouble financially at times. We moved twice, once when I was a baby and once in 2007. We have a lot of material possessions as a family and are currently remodeling the house.

posted January 25, 2017 03:26 PM            

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Originally posted by bananaz:
Just for my own research can you tell me the sign on your IC, if you had any planets conjunct there, and whether you grew up in a poor or rich family? Thanks!

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My IC is in Scorpio. I have Pluto (in Scorpio) on my IC. They are not conjuncted.

posted January 25, 2017 10:51 PM            

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posted January 26, 2017 12:25 AM            

I grew up extremely poor. I literally searched dumpsters for food in order to survive. The good news is that poverty was an excellent motivator when it came to taking school seriously.

posted January 26, 2017 06:50 AM            

Leo IC - Mars in the 4H
(square Sun, Moon, Venus, NN and Jupiter in 6H)

I grew up in a well-off family. We were never really rich but we weren't poor either. Let's say middle-class. This is mostly because of my mother - she is the entrepreneur and ambitious one in the family. All the "family wealth" comes from her. My father is unambitious (dare I say lazy) and has never been about making money. He can satisfy himself with the bare minimum and what he makes he keeps for himself. There is this annoying quality in my family (which is a major gripe for me as a principle) where my mother's money is "shared" and my father's money is "his" - like the 2H/8H axis.

In the past few years (after I became an adult/after 18) I think we climbed the ladder a bit because from time to time I would bring in my own money and my mother would receive larger paychecks. I still think we're middle class or at least barely upper-middle.

posted January 26, 2017 08:39 AM            

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Originally posted by Astra:
My IC is in Aries. I have no idea how to tell what planets aspect the IC. Astro.com wasn't any help.

I grew up extremely poor. I literally searched dumpsters for food in order to survive. The good news is that poverty was an excellent motivator when it came to taking school seriously.

I've worked my way to the upper middle class.

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posted January 26, 2017 03:50 PM            

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Originally posted by Astra:
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I grew up extremely poor. I literally searched dumpsters for food in order to survive. The good news is that poverty was an excellent motivator when it came to taking school seriously.

I've worked my way to the upper middle class.

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You are a living inspiration for everyone!!!.

Your also a Cappy Ascendant so I can see how it all fits together.

Your also forward thinking.

posted January 26, 2017 04:28 PM            

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Originally posted by hypatia238:
To me well-off is not middle class. To me that term indicates atleast middle upper class but I would even say I associate well off with been rich.

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I would tend to agree. The problem is middle class is hard to define and varies from location to location.

Which makes it difficult to plan what kind of social services should the working poor/ vulnerable members of society to receive and how to properly tax everyone else.

I know your in the US so my example may or may not be similar. But in Canada it varies greatly a family of four living in Toronto or Vancouver has an average household income of $100,000 and is therefore considered middle class.

But compared to the rest of country a middle class is a household income is considered above $75,000 or what would be considered lower-middle class income.

So based on that classification scheme anyone who is middle class living in Toronto or Vancouver is considered wealthy to other places in the country.

Which I wouldn't agree.

My IC is in Taurus.

I don't consider myself wealthy, but I do consider myself fortunate.

My mom is really good at finance, budgeting and banking.

My dad is a spender, so its a constant battle between my mom and my dad.

My Dad wants to spend without thinking the consequences and my mom always finds ways to finance them.

In the end since there both Cancers so they always want to provide the most they can.

The problem is when they hold preconceived or wrong ideas of what I need and require (Aries Moon Child) then it turns into a waste of money.

For example all I ever wanted was for my school to be completed and with a bit of determination be on my way.

They provide everything else and even go beyond that, bought me a new car, but its my schooling I really require not tangible things that aren't meant to last.

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Gemini Sun,
Capricorn Rising
Aries Moon
Gemini Mercury
Venus Taurus
Mars Cancer

posted January 26, 2017 04:51 PM            

Short story: very rich, very poor

Long story:

Mom came from an indigenous/self-described "white trash" background (sorry for the slur, that's what I heard growing up from her). She grew up in a foster home run by her mother and stepfather, who were not extra awesome all the time. I haven't seen my maternal grandmother since i was 12...

My mom looked after the other kids and they often didn't have things like good shoes, she says. She found respite in school with teachers who inspired her, etc. She now has a grant to write a semi fictional autobiography. She's a university professor and is awesome. Still struggles with money, generous to a fault...

My Dad was a lawyer and much more frugal.. much more wealthy also. I loved him. Still do.

His Mom was a Gaunt, descended from duke John of Gaunt (the great great grandfather of King Henry VIII I hear?).. My Dad's Dad was descended from Mayflower people, both his father and mother actually. My grandad was a neurosurgeon, infamous for being strict. I guess uh have to be if you're operating on brains. This makes me think of my Virgo South Node. My gran went to finishing school and died with Alzheimers disease. She was very kind to me always, graceful and lovely.

I grew up in a mansion by the river half time, with my mom in an apartment the other half.

The mansion is torn down now.

Jupiter is in my 8th conjunct vertex, and rules my second house by interception.

posted January 26, 2017 05:44 PM            

I grew up in a working-class family. After my parents divorced, my mom, my older sister and I moved several times and struggled financially, but we always had a roof in our heads and food on our table. Things improved with time and now we're something between low middle class and middles class, that is from an "in development country" perspective.

posted January 26, 2017 06:22 PM            

Each of my siblings have grown up in different ways. I feel like our descriptions of growing up would vary. Some are dependent while my brother and I had to kind of figure life out for ourselves, must be a Capricorn thing. I think we grew up comfortable, middle class. We always had what we needed for the most part, my parents always figured out a way to do that...A lot of times the bills were late. We moved a lot. No matter where we moved though, it always felt like home.