I was born at the end of July.
Conventionally I am a Leo
But I was alive when I was born so technically, I was conceived in November.
This means I am actually a Scorpio or early Sagittarius.

My sister once told me I am a cusp?
Cancer-Leo cusp.
If I go by conception I am a Scorpio-Sagittarius cusp.

I find it interesting that people signify importance to birth but not conception. Conception is the moment that you first exist.
Birth is just when you came out. You already existed before you were born. Wouldn't you think the moment you first existed would have higher significance?

I'll never know when I was actually conceived. As far as I know, I had a normal gestation period so, figure 9 months before my birth is when I began.

This changes everything.
I have a birth stone AND a conception stone.
I have a birth sign AND a conception sign.

What's more. if we are considering significant life events, I have a puberty sign, a manhood sign, a parent sign and a midlife crisis sign. Eventually I will also have a death sign (since I have already died once, I also have a weak death sign).
Then there are the major life changes like marriage, divorce and a whole slew of other events that changed who I am.
Birth is significant, yes, but it not the only significant event in my life.

Dangerously fair librarian!!!

Really intresting Tom..
I had a palm reader check my lifelines and she saw I had died twice. I was shocked as I didnt tell her about that fact. She counted my children, including one tgat had not been born yet. She said that I reincarnated into this body when the original passed out of my body. She said Im living 2 lives! This one and my original life in another existence! Did I mention she was a very old palm reader!!!

I'm also a cusp T3 or weak level 3 Taurus. Cusp people are really intresting, because they flow over the original and their cusp signs....very deep people!

Lol, I'm hip baby! That sound is like out of it! Sorry about that...I just flashed to the seventies, bellbutton blue jeans and all! Yes Jan, I agree! It is passé, but some folks might old school it just for fun!

Nice Jan! My younger brother is a Virgo!! We are such close buds! Cusps are very cool, but I think until they understand they are cusp, they might be a little uncomfortable in their skin, no???

It’s a fun topic. I think men only used that line as a joke by the time I was dating. So I was just giving one back to them. Hehe!

I have a whole written philosophy on alternate lives. Has to do with multi-dimensional splitting. Like a big bag of marbles.

It could be that your significant life experiences align to a certain plane. Most people don't track them. For instance I remember when my shoulders popped and I started walking as a man with my shoulders back. I don't remember the date.

It could be that the dates line up to a primary sign. I know I share common traits with most of the signs. I also share traits with a lot of the Chinese Zodiac.
If I read my birth sign only, the Leo in me aligns with the OX (1961) but I also align with the other signs in the OX. Yet I also align with the Rat (1960) when I was conceived. I also align with the Horse (1990) which was the year I died in a car accident and was revived by the paramedics. It happened in January on icy roads and I align with Capricorn.

The fact that I don't have dates for all of my life events makes it hard to get an exact bearing on my alignment but I have alignment with nearly all signs. This makes me compatible with nearly every sign.
So much compatibility that the designations become irrelevant.

My Ex husband was a compatible sign, and there was chemistry and excitement. But we weren't good together in committed relationship.

I don't go by signs in dating.

No, not true. Your body was conceived at that point in time, but you don't necessarily already descend into it. In other words: the moment your soul reincarnates is not at that moment, usually is later on. Sometimes a soul hops in and out even. If the soul decides for whatever reason to 'leave' and not come back, the mother will have a miscarriage.
Which is not to say that a miscarriage means that there was never a soul. Sometimes a soul chooses to experience the time in the womb for whatever reason, but not to incarnate in that body and/or setting (parents & environment).
That is all Divinely orchestrated by the way... I know I had a very early miscarriage myself before I got pregnant of my daughter. And I also know this soul wasn't my daughter.

As for the rest, astrology and stuff, I think it's about when you take your first breath more than when you were conceived.
If you take the concept of "I was already alive" then you'd never be able to draw up a horoscope, but we are eternal beings. We've all had many lives before this one. But the starsign is about you in THIS life. Each sign comes with certain traits and characteristics and lessons. And I've read that you not only choose a setting to incarnate into (parents, lessons, environment) but also the starsign, because that will also cater / support the lessons you choose to learn this life.
ANd I believe that. I mean, a typical Leo will deal with a specific situation totally different from a Libra. An Aries will deal with things much different from a Pisces. Many say it's BS, but in actual fact our starsigns -and the rest of our charts- tell us all about who we are and how we deal with things.

Interesting indeed! That is called a "Walk-in". This happens more often. Doreen Virtue among others wrote about that. Living more than one life is also not uncommon, happens quite often. Then you live a life here on Earth and in another Dimension/planet/world.

I never gave my sign any notice until my daughter starting sending me my daily horoscope a few years ago. They never seemed right, so I looked it up and noticed I had some Leo traits but just as many Virgo. Haha! I don’t mind being a staddler. I think I have most of the better traits of two worlds really.

I'm Capricorn and seem to get along well with Taurus, Scorpio, Virgo and Aries.
The overall stereotype description for Capricorns seems to fit me well enough but the details do not. I don't read horoscopes, those are too general to be considered accurate and I prefer numerology, it's much more personal and accurate.

I remember being in my mother, not memories like now, memories of sensations. I can't tell how long I experienced those sensations but I do feel they had significant duration and some of the time was unpleasant. I know I was alive before I was born.
Nearly everyone has the capacity to recall the sensations they felt before they were born. Even birth itself. It takes meditation but I know it can be done.
I have specific personality traits that align with my birth sign. I also have specific personality traits that align with other star signs.
I've gone thru many personality changes during my life. My baseline personality still aligns with Leo but I have multiple sign deviance overall.
I'm also a Tuesday child, born during the morning sun.
I'm also a north eastern United States child.
My position on the Earth was 41.4045° N, 80.3912° W.
All these things also affect my star sign.
They aligned to who I was at birth.

There have been 20,680 days from the day i was born up to today.
I am not the same person I was at birth.
I am who I am right now because of the significant life events that I experienced. Each one changed me from who I was before the event. Reborn to a new me everytime.

While I don't believe in reincarnation I do believe there are multiple versions of me in different dimensions. I split off by cause and effect. Like a fractal. There are even versions of me that are female.
The dimensional shifting started just before I was conceived.
There is a dimension where my egg did not fertilize. There are more where it did but did not survive. Then there are thousands of dimensions where all sorts of things happened during incubation.
Every life decision, every spontaneous change initiates more versions of me where I did and didn't do.
As versions of me in different dimensions die off the remaining versions absorb those essences back into themselves. I will not actually die completely until the very last version of me in the very last dimension dies. Think marbles in a bag and a few marbles disappear sporadically until only one marble remains.
All marbles generating from a single marble, then two, then four and so on. Some marbles touch and others do not but as the marbles disappear, they start to touch again. Everytime a marble touches a different marble there is a life experience.
I can see it, feel it, but its really hard to explain.
Similar to but not exactly like the movie The One.
The opposite of the TV show Sliders.
Much more complex tho.

Gemini/Monkey