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I’m a bit astrologically stoooopid when it comes to degrees so please be patient with me.



I have a 0 degree Taurus rising. I’ve dug around a little and found out that had I been born just a few min. early I’d be an Aries rising. So…… does this mean that I’m on the cusps? Is there such thing as a cusps when it comes to rising signs?



I know Paul has explained this to me a little so forgive me Paul for being repeating myself and don’t get after me like a redheaded stepchild …. even though I am a redhead. hehehe



The thing is with my chart I have a hard time identifing with anything but Scorpio. I’d LOVE to explore the few other placements in my chart. I have a little bit of an understanding of my Mars in Cap but other then that………. I’m pretty much all Scorpio baby ; )

I try and try to identify with my Taurus rising but …. it’s just not there. I’m more quick tempered and impulsive but I often wonder if that’s not some aspects of Scorpio bubbling through yet again. *sigh* Or maybe it’s the Aries cusp rising?



I’m clueless…. blah

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My Scorpio Ascendant sits right at 29 degrees, 59 minutes. I’ve had one astrologer tell me that since this is the case, I actually have Sagittarius rising. I honestly don’t know which makes more sense, because I identify a bit with both. However, my Sun is in the 9th house, so the Sag flavor might be coming from there.



Do you think the astrologer was right? At that advanced degree, does it “count” as the next sign?



Or, should this be treated as a cusp situation? Do more of you think that you are either one sign or the other with no grey areas, or do you allow for blending?

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Michel Gauquelin was probably the foremost researcher of astrological phenomena in the 20th century. A highly trained statistician and astrologer he gathered, with his wife Francoise, extensive data on birth dates and times of people who had acheived success in different areas of life, along with the positions of planets at the time. He particularly found that the placement of planets in what became known as the “Gauquelin sectors” indicated a likely prominence in particular fields. These sectors roughly corresponded with positions near the Angles (Ascendent, Midheaven etc.): 12th, 9th, 6th and 3rd houses, as well as small portions or the 1st, 10th, 7th and 4th. Saturn in these sectors for example tended to indicate scientific success; Jupiter- political or acting, and Mars- athletic or military.



Looking at charts of Olympic gold medal athletes in particular I found that this “Mars effect” as Gauquelin called it holds true- though not so much with swimmers or ice skaters though, from what I saw. There seemed to me to be other factors involved though: Gauquelin did not look at signs as the traditional meanings for him did not stand up to research. I found in many charts of athletes for instance that Taurus, Gemini and Sagittarius were prominent which would make more sense in the context of Sidereal signs (yeah I know… it’s a pet obsession of mine!) in which they would roughly correspond with Mars ruled Aries and Scorpio, and physical Taurus. It is actually an area he became interested in shortly before he died in the early ’80s, but he never got to see it through.



Is anyone interested in looking into this some more? If so here is a link to charts of Gold medal athletes which I think generally show a clear correspondence:

http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Special:Search?search=olympic+gold&go=Go

(or go to http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Main_Page and search under “olympic gold medal”)



For a further explanation of these ideas you can also download one of Gauquelin’s books for free here:

http://www.astrologer.ru/rarebooks.html.en

Be warned, it’s heavy reading!

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