Born On The Cusp Between Two Signs
The beginning and end of each sign fluctuates slightly from year to year. So, if you were born on the cusp between two signs, it depends on your year of birth which one of the Sun signs involved represents the main one for your present lifetime. Checking this out properly before reading my observations is always worthwhile if you wish to find a better understanding of the difficulties you are likely to struggle with. People born on the cusp often feel like somewhat split personalities. They have what is known as ‘one foot each in two different camps’. The energies of neighbouring signs are always of a very different nature to each other. They are not usually compatible at all. Because of each sign’s unique approach to life, those born into two neighbouring ones often have great difficulties coming to terms with them.
If the outgoing sign relates more to the learning and realities from the past, other lifetimes, whereas your chosen and therefore pre-destined main pathway for this lifetime is decidedly that of the incoming sign, an inner struggle between these two parts of your being may ensue. It is well worth your while to pay special attention to this. Because you have not quite finished learning the lessons of the former, your soul has chosen to master the difficulties created by having to devote sufficient time to attend to those of both signs. However, try not to spend too much time looking back, but aim to always move forwards on the energy of the incoming sign.
Incidentally, the energy at the end of each sign is always at its strongest, whereas at the beginning of a new sign it is at its weakest and also still contains much of the energy of the previous sign. The energies of two neighbouring signs being such a profoundly different one, you alone can tell which one is affecting you and your life more strongly. For example, if you were born on the Aquarius/Pisces cusp, you would have to deal with the conflicting approaches to and perception of life of these two signs within yourself. You would constantly have to do justice to and find the necessary balance between the Air and the Water element, and that is difficult.
In the first place, you would have come into this lifetime to repeat some of the lessons of airy and intellectual Aquarius. Having been born on the outgoing cusp of this sign, it is likely that you did not complete them, during your previous lifetime. This is your opportunity for repeating them, whilst at the same time aiming to move forward into the next sign, watery and emotional Pisces. In spite of frequently feeling more like an Aquarian, you would still mostly be walking the Piscean pathway. Should you have been born on the cusp of Pisces and Aries, the Fire sign, the pull of both these signs and their energies would be very strong within you. You would often feel as if the watery energy of laid back Pisces was pouring a bucket full of water over the enthusiasm, the push, drive, initiative and urge of the fiery nature of Aries. Having one foot in two camps of such a different nature is never easy to live with. And you alone know how well you have mastered their lessons thus far.
Having said all that, it needs bearing in mind that we do not always remain mostly under the influence of the sign we were born into! For example, had you started this lifetime in two degrees Aries and if you were already sufficiently aware of the energies operating in your life, you would feel at about age twenty-eight that they are changing from fiery Aries into earthy Taurus. You would notice how you and your whole outlook on life are becoming more grounded and stable. At age fifty-eight your energies would change into airy chatty and talkative Gemini, the communicator and the butterfly of the zodiac. And so on. These changes are due to the progressions of the Sun, which move forward by one degree per year. Or if by now you were in the Cancer consciousness, in spite of having been born into another sign, your whole life could by now be completely focused on the experiences of this sign and of home, hearth, mother, family, ancestry and so forth.
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The above is a chapter from ‘The Astro Files – Technical Aspects’.
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