The Influence Of Nature Vs. Nurture Debate

Science proves both biological and external factors contribute to our personal human behavior, but it’s still questionable on which plays a more significant role in our development. The ongoing nature vs nurture debate should be explored from a different perspective, from an astrological standpoint. Astrology can help characterize personalities “given” at birth depending on how the stars and planets align with your birth place and time. But, how do astrological readings and genetic inheritance, in other words pre-destined characteristics, account for the differences of identical twins in the United States? Does being born in the same place, minutes apart, really seal them with the same fate? Does pre-wired genes have more influence than their surroundings and experiences after conception for determining their personality or how they “choose” to live their lives?
Jeff Lawer gives a little insight about how there are fast-moving patterns that account for the differences in personality that could take place in the minutes between a pair of twins being born. He explains in an online journal that “the most common [factor] is the Ascendant, also known as the Rising sign. This is the point rising in the east at the moment of birth, one that plays a significant role in shaping the way a person looks and presents herself to the world. [It] is based on the Earth's rotation on its axis, so that each of the 12 zodiac signs will rise during some two-hour period of the day.”(Lawer) So using this understanding, it is clear that twins that are being born several minutes apart could have different rising signs and therefore differences in the outward portrayal of