I used to enjoy collecting when I was a kid. Probably it is something I have outgrown to some degree, though I still like getting hold of science-fiction classics or horror classis if I can. Perhaps that has also something to do with the fact that such things could seem a little sad, though I would not lie and go on about loving tennis and all kinds of socially-orientated sports either.

I used to collect seashells along with one or two other things and I would say the collecting bug was inherited, my mother did too. Last time I saw her, she wanted to know if I would like her seashell collection once sheis dead and gone. She also collected small/ceramic cats at one time. My father used to collect bird's eggs, probalby a hobby that would be frowned on a lot these days and tends to be a hoarder, never throwing out old photographs, books or cuttings, that kind of thing.

Blame it on Mercury-Saturn exchanges, my father has a sqaure, my mother has a conjunction between these two and so do I. Maybe it is more a Virgoan thing than a Taurean one, or maybe not, though my Midheaven at 29 Libra could have gone into Libra, but my mother has Virgo rising. M brother is the only one who does not seem to collect much and he has no Mercury-Saturn aspects at all.

i wonder if natal retrogrades have anything to do with it . . . just wondering.

I'm Gemini with Sag rising and I do collect information, much of it in books and computer files, I also collect rocks and crystals

My Husband is Aquarius and I have not been able to find his birth time so I have no rising But He is a collector of so many different things we say he collects collections . I have known several different Aquarius who were extraordinary collectors
My spouse collects coins, Military miniatures, romance novels, history books . military history books, board games , Movie and Tv DVDs
( and several thousand vcr tapes ) Olympic pins and Law enforcement pins, lps and much more . Not counting cats, birds and strays in general ). He also encourages every one else to collect , so my Virgo kids have assorted collections too . Once upon a time my oldest child ( at about age 7) had a huge mess of candy wrappers on her floor Mike was scolding her to pick up the floor, and she looked up and said " but its my collection " he said O.K. and left the room.

Other Aquarius Collectors I've known included a Social Science Professor with several houses full of fine art and sculpture , An artist who not only had thousands of paintings he had false walls around his entire apartment to conceal several years supply of canned foods . I knew an Aquarius in San Bruno California who opened a store for rare records mostly as an excuse to amass record albums and rock and roll memorabilia
Another thing about some of these Aquarii? is that not only do they collect, they let go, The Professor in Sacramento just walked away from all the stuff, invited friends to help themselves and moved to Kenya where I'm told he has begun a new collection. My spouse lost his waltz trophies and an number of other treasures in the Loma Prieta Earthquake and was completely cool with it

Any way in my experience the really intense collectors are often Aquarius types.

i think material objects can be symbols for different things. i have known aquarius's who collect things as well. things that are subtle, rare objects that we may not notice as having value in the status quo.
cancer i can see collecting objects which symbolize communal societies like dutch, russian folk art materials, quilts.

i think looking at the modality could also help with this.
i dont know if this relates but if you're talking about sharing, I've known a lot of scorpio and aquarius's who love to share wisdom and advice and things but seem really stubborn when those things come back to them because they dont want to be changed.

The biggest packrat I know, Moon aquarius 12th house, libra sun, mercury and mars, venus virgo, jupiter pisces, saturn cancer, neptune sag, uranus scorpio.

I'm a pisces and I collect unicorns :)
I have stopped collecting them and gotten a unicorn tattoo cause I was like the lady on dogeball with the unicorns all over her living room.

I delved into collecting a little in the comic book area and novels. I was pretty much, a "stuff guy". Part of traveling details was, where to store things? One day I got sick of this energy. I now save nothing unless it has immediate value. If I have three or four items that are the same, little used, cooking utinsel, for example, I trash everything but what I can use. I like attics, but only for getting fresh air.

The only thing I tend to collect and never get rid of are emails and cards??

Every year I clear out my closet and donate to Good Will
I am quick to give away things I have to others in general
I don't collect anything
Even when I played collectible card games like MTG or Pokemon, I didn't collect them at all. I just played the game and am still happy to just dig through somone's "unwanted cards" and make a deck to beat them with :P

I have taurus intercepted in H12
chiron in taurus

I think the emails/letters thing is probably due to the 2nd house moon. I literally horde these.

gemini mercury and sun, aries moon. i have saturn and mars in libra 2nd house and venus in taurus in 9th

the only thing i collect are books (cant stop on this one). abit music scores and instruments. i don't 'collect' per say. but i tend to keep things and not throw them. until recently, i have given in to the act of purging and started with leeching friends and then cleared out my room. i still have alot of things in my room but all orderly. ok i mean, it gets messy but i will pack it all up once i cant stand the clutter.

My grandfather has the most severe form of collecting-mania I've ever seen,or heard of...he's been collecting stamps since before WW2,and continues to do so,just as avidly,now,at the age of 84.He also had huge collections of coins,postcards,medals,and badges.But he's "closed" those years before...he just keeps all the items,as memories,now.
Unfortunately,I don't know he's exact time of birth,but I do know he has his Sun,Mercury,Venus,and Saturn in Libra,with Sun conjunct Mercury,Sun conjunct Venus,and Mercury conjunct Venus.He also has a Taurus Moon,which forms a trine with his Virgo Mars,if that says anything to you...