And the moon sinks low in Scorpio

[venta]

This is something I've been meaning to experiment with for ages, but never got round to. I've just been reminded of it, because someone posted on a thread elsewhere with the assumption that "birthdays are randomly distributed" - which I've always assumed they're not. For a start, there's always a bit of a clump of birthdays round February/March, which I've always blamed on people having early summer holidays in June.

Now, I'm assuming that unlike, say, musical taste, incidence of birthdays among my friends list will at least be representative of the population as a whole. If not, then we're into the suggestion that being born in a particular month predisposes you to particular behaviours and that smacks of astrology, so I don't like it.

(Yes, I know there are other non-astrological factors which might be relevant, but let's give it a whirl, shall we?)



You're getting no tickyboxes for this, dammit, it's radio or nothing. I refuse to allow people to be born in more than one month.

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Comments

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think being ealry makes a difference, too. I mean, I think people often get married in June, and so there are lots of march birthdays, ut they wouldn't show up if you have a lot of friends ho were five or six weeks premature.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Does that really happen much [people starting a family the moment they are wed, that is]? I would be quite surprised: even if you assume the traditional "get married _then_ have family" premise, a newly married couple is likely to be thinking of buying a house and so on before starting a family. But even if it did happen that way, I would have thought that the fact that it usually takes several months "trying" to conceive would be a far bigger factor than premature births.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of romantic wedding anniversary sex, and 'oops, there's a baby' rather than planning that way. Also, we're not really talking about now, but thirty years ago, no?

(Alternatively, yes, people really do do the honeymoon baby thing. My fiance and I, for example, mean to, um, not exactly start trying, but stop not trying, on our wedding day.)