"I was born between two signs. Whenever I look at the date ranges to see what sign I am, I always get different answers. I'm having an identity crisis - please help."
Ah yes, the old Cusp Conundrum. (heh heh, all astrologers admire a lot of alliteration... ok, cut it). Each year, the earth enters each sign at a slightly different time, so for every year, the cusps are slightly different, perhaps even resulting in being a day or two off.
The only way to know your true sign is to get hold of your birth chart, note your time of birth, and then consult an ephemeris (a book noting all the placements of the planets, Sun, and Moon) for your day and year. Better yet, ask your friendly astrologer (Hey! Over here!) for a free chart. You're either one sign, or the other. No one is half and half.
Still, do you sometimes feel like a combination of both? If you're born close to the cusp, your sun may be in the "early degrees" of the second sign - which many astrologers consider to be a weak placement. So you may have attributes of both signs, depending upon other influences in your chart.
Now hold on just a minute there, I can hear you saying. What was that horse-crapola about "the placement of the Sun??? Last time I (and the rest of the educated world) checked, it stayed in one place."
Well, yes, but ... more on that next month.
