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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Ooh, She's Got Started...

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Yup! being a November child and starting in September, I remember, as a 5 year-old, feeling somewhat scathing for a bit about the babies who came in after Christmas and at Easter. Or maybe that was just the policy at Mowden?

In my Mum's day, back in Fife, the school year started in January, which would have made me a baby.

My poor boyfriend went through Hampshire where they made him, as a September birthday, go up a year every Summer term and then back down to his usual year in the Autumn, all through Primary School. He could keep up alright, but it seemed pointless even then.

I guess that the development thing is important when you are 4 or 5, certainly for some children who might be more babyish or not furnished with the desire to read or tell the time etc., which is a lot of what the first school year is about. Mostly I would say that it is about getting confidence and socialisation. Later on, well, two of the cleverest people in my year had late August birthdays and one of the least able was an early September. Anomalies?