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Astrology cusps, huh? I went looking for information.

Astrology cusps,  are you really torn between two sun  signs? Let's work this out. 

Each of the constellations is 30 degrees in measure. We number  the celestial longitude distance in a zodiac sign 0 to 29, with  30 degrees becoming 0 of the following astrology sign.  

So  which sun sign are you if you were born on an  astrology cusp? That space or time where 30 degrees  becoming 0.  The only way to know is to check out an  Ephemeris  and find the placement of the Sun on the day  and year you were born.  

Having said that, I will explain why it's a myth;   it's not because it doesn't exist or never was but  because people really believe, they are two signs at once  equally. We read this in Astrology books and articles along with  a flimsy excuse as to why a person may feel pulled between  two signs because they are ?in fact? two sun signs. 

Astrology cusps- why a singular answer is not enough

The transitions between one sign and another are called  astrology cusps. These are some of the legendary facts about  astrology cusps. 

 Astrology books and written articles  say:


*Someone is born on a cusp  if he or she is born within 5 to 5 days on either side of when  one sign converts to another.

 Others will say:


*You are a cusp baby only if  the Sun is actually touching the line that marks off the  zodiac signs with the caveat that this occurs within 12 hours  of either side zodiac signs. 

Still others say that: 


* There really isn't a true dividing line  between the signs they mostly run into each other.  So if you are born at the minute and second of transition, you  are a cusp.

Many will tell you that: 


*When you are born on a cusp  Your sign is precarious and so you take on characteristics  of the next sign.

 Still others wax esoteric saying: 


*That if your soul is born at the end date  of one astrology sign you have fulfilled all the lessons  in that sign, If you are at the beginning date of the  next sign you are wide-eyed and bushy tailed ready to take on  the new lessons.



All this reads like hypothesis and esoteric philosophic  theories, it isn't helpful when you are trying to find out  what's what and it does not do any favors for Astrology. This is  one place that skeptics will zone in on if they are worth  their salt.   

I believe that  whether you were born in the first  degree of a sign or its last degree leading into a "cusp"  of the next sign, you are  still   that Sun sign because you will feel  that sign the most. That is your sign, you just  have tendencies of the next sign  that seem to  come and go. 

It may be that the people who profess to be astrology cusps  signs really wish they were another astrology sign, when all  they really have are tendencies of one sign mixed in with their  actual sun sign. 

Having said that,  all of us are a mixture of zodiac  signs that make up our characteristics in totality. At  times, we may all feel as if we are on a cusp, depending on the  situation at hand.  

Example; personality of a Sun in Sagittarius with the thinking  and communication of Mercury in Scorpio. In everyday terms, you  will find that this Sagittarian will speak to you and think like  a Scorpio.  I am not trying to tell you that being born on a cusp is just  like having  any other birth date. I am not saying the previous answers of when someone is born on a zodiac cusp or not are all right or all wrong.

I am saying  I have researched these divergences and what it comes down to is that there is a little bit of truth in each answer.  

But, I am also sayingyou are either one sun sign or another,  not both. On the bright side, there are a few arguments for why you may feel like you are straddling two sun signs. 

One reason is zodiac progressions. 

Your birth chart advances one degree each year, so if the Sun is one degree away from the adjacent zodiac sign the forward motion will put the Sun into the following zodiac sign by the time you are a one year old. 

By the time, you reach your teenage years this second zodiac sign will be showing in your character substantially, the Sun will stay in this second sign until your late 20?s to early 30?s. 

This is a reason for you not feeling you are the actual sun sign  you were born under and feeling more affinity for the  following zodiac sign. 

 Another explanation for your feelings of being two  zodiac sun signs is because of the planet Mercury. 

Mercury travels close to the Sun; it's usually before or after  the Sun. So let's say that you were born at the end degrees of  Gemini so your Mercury slipped into Cancer. The Sun dictates  your ego your raison d'?tre, it's very potent and apparent in  your personality. 

However, Mercury shows how you think and express yourself and  it's also potent. So it's easy to see how you could feel as if  you are two zodiac sun signs when the Sun is in Gemini last  degrees so you are so open to ideas you often change your mind. 

But your mind (Mercury) is in Cancer and you can be glued so  firmly to your ideas that people would call you small minded,  what a contradiction, right?  

 If neither the first nor the second explanation  works for you here is a third, and it?s my final answer. ;)

Find an ephemeris check for your ascendant or rising sign and  locate where your other planets and their zodiac signs are. You  may have several planets inside the same zodiac sign; example, I  am a Sag, Mercury (Scorpio), Mars (Scorpio), Venus (Scorpio).  

Even though I am not born on a cusp, Scorpio is so prominent in  my chart that I feel it as much and sometimes more than my sun  sign, but other people experience me as a Sagittarius. But I  digress; when you locate those planets the House it rules or the  ruling planet of that zodiac sign may be powerfully  aspected.

Alternatively, you may have a powerful planet aspect in a  certain zodiac sign. On the other hand, the planets may all be  in a House that another sign rules. One last thing to check for  is your mid-heaven. 

From what I have gathered People born in astrology cusps signs  should think of themselves as having a sun signs with tendencies  of other zodiac signs. 

 Be a zodiac sleuth and you will find the obvious reason why you  feel like your living with two sun signs at once in a world  of astrology cusps.  
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