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Originally Posted by Alan @ CIT

Also, if you can find me some info on the variations you mentioned, I'll adjust this script to work with them. My knowledge of the zodiac is zero, so when creating it I just copied the Signs / Dates out of the horoscope section of the newspaper

The problem only comes in with people born on the Cusps, like me. The Cusps are when the borders of two signs meet, ie. December 23rd is right between Sagitarius & Capricorn. Futhermore, a person cannot be born "just on the Cusp", because they are always in either the preceeding or succeeding sign. The only way to determine exactly which they were born on is by knowing the exact time & place of birth, and comparing the exact position of the Earth with the exact position of the constellations. www.astro.com does this. I don't believe that such functionality would be easy to emulate.

Maybe an override option would be handy: so that persons born on a different side of the cusp could override the script's guess. I'm not sure though, as a lot of users probably would be confused by the description text for such an option.
Alternatively, it could be made an Admin Feature, but that becomes an annoying amount of work for admins, at times.

*shrugs*

The Chineese zodiac is sooo much easier.

[edit] I suppose that they could be labeled Sagitarius-Capricorn Cusps, etc. But then you would also have to break every sign into the recognized three periods: each week of each sign is considered a period. In this fashion, each sign has three periods, plus a cusp; ie. LeoI, LeoII, LeoIII, Leo-Vigro Cusp. This is a much more accurate way of looking at the zodiac, because LeoIs are almost completely different from Leo-Virgo Cusps. A great resource for generally-accurate dates is: http://www.lesfemmescafe.com/horoscopeprofile.html

I am working on the code that would determine sign & period (incl. cusps), as I mentioned. I'll post it here for your use -- if you'd like -- when I am done.