Cusps

As a departure from my previous entries, I’ve been thinking about astrology today. I can’t remember if it came first in my interests or the tarot, but I know I have the most books on the two of them in my personal library. Well before I was pregnant I picked up a book about astrological compatibility between children and parents (specifically mothers). I wasn’t trying to conceive at a certain point in time to have a baby that would be most compatible with me, but babies come when they want so it probably wouldn’t have gone according to plan.

I like my birthday, personally. That might sound weird because, really, who doesn’t? I just mean that I like the symbolism of it. My birthday is June 21^st. It makes it hard to read a horoscope if you don’t know your natal chart because June 21^st is right on the cusp of the signs of Gemini and Cancer, so much so that some sources end Gemini on it and others start Cancer on it. For the longest time I read both and analyzed my day in the evening to see which more lined up with the day’s events. Finally, I had my natal chart done and read an ephemeris.

My baby was due on September 5^th, a nice, easy date for determining a Sun sign, but if you recall the first paragraph of this entry, babies come when they want. I have to confess, I was a little nervous about having a Virgo baby because I sometimes feel like I’m the antithesis of a Virgo. I knew there was nothing I could do, but hope I could make it work. I worried for nothing. My baby girl arrived a month and a half early: July 19^th.

Cusps can be a controversial topic in astrology. With an ephemeris and a natal chart that explores the sign every planet was in at your birth, the cusp is not technically a thing, but I believe there is something to be said about being born so close to two Star signs (I definitely feel I have traits of both Gemini and Cancer). It’s also interesting to note many of my family members are born on the cusp of two signs—my mother, my sister, and now my daughter. Even my husband (who wouldn’t touch astrology with a ten-foot pole) is born close to the cusp of Scorpio and Libra.

If my girl possesses Cancer traits, Leo traits, or a combination of the two has yet to be seen, but I know she’ll be amazing.

Peace and balance,

Erin