serafin5 I think we can agree that finding the reasons for a person's appearance is one of the most intriguing areas of astrology and I was not offended by your remark. Instead I thought readers of this thread may be interested to view some video showing Asians, Africans, Native Americans and many other ethnicities with blue, green and grey eyes.
I understand what you mean when you say that in general "any sign can have any eye colour"
- however, IMO we need to be very clear regarding the likely reasons why a particular sunsign Aquarian may have different eye colour from another sun sign Aquarian.
I think what you may have intended to say to Rebel Uranian is that a person's eye colour is not always solely determined by the sign the sun occupies in their natal chart and I would agree with that. Other factors are involved such as for example the Ascendant Sign, the Ascendant Decan, the Ascendant Degree and their rulers and whether or not they are in any aspect to the ascendant and/or each other. Also the sign the rulers occupy and so on.
Another important consideration is that the tropical zodiac is a mathematical construct that is detached from the 'Images' or constellations and detached from precession also. Therefore often a person's tropical sun sign is different from their Sidereal sun sign. i.e. although some people have the same sun sign in both tropical and sidereal, other people have two different sun signs depending on whether the astrologer is using the tropical zodiac or the sidereal zodiac
So one Aquarian's eye colour being different from another Aquarian's eye colour may also be explained by examining their sidereal zodiac sign to check whether their Sun is in Aquarius in both Tropical and Sidereal - or not
Here's some research you'll find interesting! Several years ago I read an article claiming that until approximately 10,000 years ago everyone had brown eyes.
The following paragraph is a QUOTE from Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Copenhagen University: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080131_blueeyes.htm
“Originally, we all had brown eyes. But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a 'switch', which literally 'turned off' the ability to produce brown eyes. The proof that all blue-eyed people have a common ancestor comes from the fact that whereas eye colours ranging from brown to green are caused by relatively large differences in the amount of melanin in the iris, controlled by 'considerable individual variation' in the area of the DNA responsible for melanin production, the variation in iris melanin levels across all blue-eyed individuals is very small. From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor. They have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA.”
Great post! Next question? Define "blue eyes"? Because I can say with certainty that I and all three of my children are (for identification purposes) said to have "blue eyes." Yet, we don't. They are neither blue, nor green, nor hazel, nor grey. About the only thing we can say about this eye color is that they are not brown....Rebel, have you read anything about that?
For the record, I have (all tropical) Sun in Libra, on child has Sun in Capricorn, the next has Sun in Cancer, and the last has Sun in Virgo...but we are talking about sidereal vs. tropical, right? So my Sun is Virgo, child one is Sagittaruis, child two is Gemini, and child three remains Virgo (boy, that kid is
really virgo, too) Rising signs are supposed to be able to describe appearance? Okaaayyyy. Tropically I have Libra rising, child one has Virgo, child two Leo, and child three Aries. Sidereally they are: me Virgo, child one Leo, child two Cancer, and child three Pisces. I can't find a correlation between astrology and eyecolor, but I can say that all four of these charts make better sense from a natal delineation in the sidereal zodiac.
Edit to add: If astrology is supposed to be able to determine eye color, how come it can't tell skin color?