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Lerena
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posted February 22, 2019 06:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lerena     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Dull is subjective. There are people I'd consider dull, but there are others that would find that person pleasant company. In a similar way, some people think I'm boring and others think I'm interesting and fun to be around. To me, it's a matter of personal taste, not much else.

Of course, this being said, too much Earth in a chart can make someone dull. This is probably why some people might label me as boring. On the other hand, I have to keep the most interesting aspects of my life and personality under lock and key. While I'm easily anything but boring, I differ from societal norms in certain ways that make it dangerous to talk about perfectly harmless parts of my identity and this results in my life being somewhat hidden and I'm able to see why this would influence someone's opinion of me.

If someone doesn't have enough in common with you, you'll either think they're dull, too "out there," or just not your cup of tea.

Chiron in 1st house can make someone boring too. This woman I know is the most dull, boring person I've ever met. She has no hobbies or interests to speak of and it results in identity issues, problems with unhealthy amounts of isolation, and the need for constant attention. She's been losing friends left and right, because she has barely any personality beyond her non-stop negativity, victim mentality, and her making herself the center of every discussion. She's selfish too and gets angry over the dumbest stuff. I think the fire and water placements are in constant conflict and contribute to her explosive temper. She never has anything good to talk about. It just gets old fast.

I think people with too many fire placements are dull, because our interests clash and I have nothing in common with them, so the lack of common ground fails to mentally stimulate my Gemini Moon and I become bored. It depends on the person, of course, but I would be very surprised if someone with a ton of prominent fire placements spent a lot of time at home and it wasn't forced upon them by a physical disability.

I consider the mainstream definition of "not dull" to be, in fact, dull.

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posted February 22, 2019 07:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aamhz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Perhaps the ASC in one of the aforementioned dull signs without any planets aspecting it is something to consider. I consider the ASC the "outlet" of all a person's planetary energies, so if nothing has an immediate pathway through that small hallway and the ASC is all that gets external expression perhaps these individuals might be called such. Of course, as has been repeated many times already, the whole chart needs to be taken into account - a person with many serious Mars aspects will feel frenetic so the Mars energy will leak [or explode] out regardless of whether there is a connection to the ASC.

I think Aries23's comments about the 8H is also underlooked. I think with 4/12 the 'interestingness' is only not evident if you aren't looking hard enough/properly, but with the 8H there's an intense secrecy so these individuals may appear "dull" because they've simply stonewalled the outside world.

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posted February 25, 2019 02:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mercmercy99     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Lerena:
This woman I know is the most dull, boring person I've ever met. She has no hobbies or interests to speak of and it results in identity issues, problems with unhealthy amounts of isolation, and the need for constant attention. She's been losing friends left and right, because she has barely any personality beyond her non-stop negativity, victim mentality, and her making herself the center of every discussion. She's selfish too and gets angry over the dumbest stuff. I think the fire and water placements are in constant conflict and contribute to her explosive temper. She never has anything good to talk about. It just gets old fast.

This is the kind of person I was thinking about when I made this thread haha. Do you know her d.o.b.?

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posted March 03, 2019 12:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vickymadness     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Mars-Saturn
Cap mars
Water moon
Too much cap or pisces

Please don't come to my fellas taurus they're the funniest I've met

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SoulOfABird
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posted March 06, 2019 12:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SoulOfABird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Plut0nian2:
I would say lack of fire and water generally.
I find heavy air charts to be very boring and earth charts very heavy. Don't get me wrong I don't mean that generally those signs are like that. But a few of the most boring, dull almost like lifeless people I've known have heavy Capricorn/Virgo (they are so serious and earthy) charts and Gemini/Aqua which makes me feel like they are emotionless and they are bored to death because of their inabillity to "feel". I find it particularly true if Moon is in one of the above mentioned signs and the rest of the chart doesn't help.

You have a very biased opinion a lot of the time on here it seems. Like you only like water and fire, and it shows in your responses.

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posted March 06, 2019 12:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SoulOfABird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by TaurusVenusGirl:
No way are Gemini/Aqua moons dull and boring!! Everyone I've meet with this at the most fun loving, humorous people I know!!

Thank you (: finally someone says something positive about air moons!

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posted March 06, 2019 12:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SoulOfABird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It really depends... like someone else said on here what is dull is subjective.

But Ive met fun people in all signs, really. I don’t get how people can really point out any sign specifically because it all differs. I always poke fun at Taurus moons because the ones I know don’t like to go far from home, and don’t like to do things spontaneously. They are homebodies and for me, I find it boring but that is subjective. However the ones I know are talkative and funny, and I actually tend to make good friends with them because I can communicate well with them.
Someone on here said earth signs but I know a lot of humorous and fun Caps and Virgos.
Air signs are fun people to talk to, they can talk to almost anyone from all walks of life.
& I usually feel pretty comfortable around Earth signs and also water moons...specifically Cancer moons, these people make me LAUGH

Im Pisces dominant with Aquarius 2nd dominant. My chart is mostly made up of both signs with a lot of 12th house placements. I always feel boring to people. At school I wasn’t the go to person to hang out with. I can see how Im boring. I don’t open up easily and I don’t talk much. But my family surprisingly seems to enjoy my company. I guess because I can open up more and say weird things that makes people laugh. And I usually go with the flow so maybe that makes it easier to hang out with someone also Pisces-Aquarius? However Im sure some people find me boring. I think Im pretty boring. Especially if I don’t open up I can be boring as heck and someone I think once described it like pulling teeth to get me to talk.
So you see what is “dull” is subjective.

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posted March 06, 2019 12:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for kani     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by vickymadness:
Mars-Saturn
Cap mars
Water moon
Too much cap or pisces

Please don't come to my fellas taurus they're the funniest I've met


Pisces are far from dull, they are usually very witty and funny and gregarious (when they want to be). I know cause I am one lol
And Taurus can be funny. My bf is one and we make each other laugh all the time.

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posted March 06, 2019 02:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
When I thought I was dull, I wasn't. I am now, but that's due to a lot happening, plus depression. I'm not a lot of fun anymore. Actual trauma just sucked the life out of me, but I have good days.

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Randall
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posted March 10, 2019 08:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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PiscesVenus
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posted March 11, 2019 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PiscesVenus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think, I come across as dull to many people. I have a T-square between 5th house Saturn- 11th house Chiron and 8th house Mercury. It explains well. I can't stand chitchat and just leave conversations or I am not talkable at all. It is how it is and how i come across. Sad but I couldn't change it so far.

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posted March 11, 2019 01:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mercmercy99     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by PiscesVenus:
I think, I come across as dull to many people. I have a T-square between 5th house Saturn- 11th house Chiron and 8th house Mercury. It explains well. I can't stand chitchat and just leave conversations or I am not talkable at all. It is how it is and how i come across. Sad but I couldn't change it so far.

I have Mercury in the 8th as well. I find chitchatting to be so tedious; but as a Libra Mercury, I know it's an important aspect of socialization, so I probably give off a vibe of anxiousness AND dullness. Not sure. I guess I haven't chitchatted enough with others to draw out their true opinion about me lol

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posted September 07, 2019 10:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Leo-Cancer98     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Mannequin:
I'm extremely dull and boring at work. I have a lot of planets in the 6th house, which makes me very focused at the task at hand and less into showing or developing my personality. Once I'm outta there, my Libra sun and Leo moon kicks into play, my Scorpio venus starts to flirt, and my Virgo mercury hands out the witty, dry humour I'm known for. But at work, yeah .. I bore myself truth be told.

Me too! I have Moon & Pluto in the 6th House. When I'm at work, people always tell me: "Why are you so serious?"; lol, I can't really randomly smile at myself, soo ...

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Randall
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posted September 12, 2019 06:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted September 15, 2019 01:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AriesLilith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The perception of dullness may depend on the eyes of the beholder as well. For example I take a long time to fet warmed up to someone and show them my inner colors. Probably many people are like me. I'm an introvert too.

To extroverts I'm probably boring, mysterious at best. Yet I may as well find some of what may be considered as extrovertion as boring or dull.

I have Aries stellium but also Virgo AC squared by Saturn. I hardly get warmed up, bubbly or chatty and I often don't have witty comebacks when teased. Also no a good conversionalist. These I only show when I feel quite comfortable with someone.

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posted September 15, 2019 05:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dons2angelss     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think I'm pretty boring. I don't go out often and have never been a partier. I'd rather stay home and watch a movie. I also like it quiet and hate loud crowds, I don't even go to big family functions lol. I have a sun and venus in taurus 12H and moon, Pluto, saturn, and Mars in scorpio 6H. Jupiter and Neptune are in capricorn, mercury in Aries 12H and uranus in sag 7H. I'm air void except for ascendant in gem and mc in aqua. I rather like being boring 😁

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posted September 15, 2019 08:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sleepthan     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree with everyone saying "dullness" is subjective. I also think someone being introverted, averse to small talk, or not exciting on first meeting is not dullness. Dullness can be kind of like having a boring or shallow personality in general.

And I think one potential sign of a boring or shallow personality can honestly be libra sun. (I say this AS a libra sun who likes and has had great experiences/friendships with other libra suns.) Of course it can be offset by other aspects/placements/etc like anything, but a libra sun along with personal planets in libra and no counteracting aspects can potentially be such an uninteresting person. It's like the personality can be so measured that they don't have any intense positive or negative traits. I think this has much to do with the fact that the sun is at fall in libra.

When talking to another libra, I enjoy myself, but I'm also thinking, "jeez, we are so boring" lol.

Different aspects and placements of the sun can also produce this kind of effect (or its opposite). Saturn aspect sun may make one kind of "hold in"/"repress" their personality sometimes, like with strangers and whatnot. Etc.

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Originally posted by Lerena:
Chiron in 1st house can make someone boring too. This woman I know is the most dull, boring person I've ever met. She has no hobbies or interests to speak of and it results in identity issues, problems with unhealthy amounts of isolation, and the need for constant attention. She's been losing friends left and right, because she has barely any personality beyond her non-stop negativity, victim mentality, and her making herself the center of every discussion. She's selfish too and gets angry over the dumbest stuff. I think the fire and water placements are in constant conflict and contribute to her explosive temper. She never has anything good to talk about. It just gets old fast.

Also, I find this interesting, because I have Chiron in the first house. I wonder if I share any of these traits... I hope not. At least I have almost infinite hobbies/interests hahaha. (and few fire/water placements)

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posted September 20, 2019 12:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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