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It comes from the Latin cuspis, a point, spear. OED gives as the first definition (which I suspect means the oldest; the citation they give for that definition is the oldest at 1585) the beginning or entrance of a 'house', where 'house' refers to an astrological house. Your usage is obviously a generalization of this definition.
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