Gemini (The Twins )

May 21 to June 21

  Positive Traits: 

 Adaptable and versatile

 Communicative and witty Intellectual and eloquent

 Youthful and lively

  Negative Traits: 

 Nervous and tense 

 Superficial and inconsistant 

 Cunning and inquisitive

Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and
contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and
on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked
with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects
tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good,
they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for
being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, happy - if
circumstances are right for them - egocentric, imaginative and restless.

They take up new activities enthusiastically but lack application,
constantly needing new interests, flitting from project to project as
apparently purposelessly as a butterfly dancing from flower to flower.
To them life is a game which must always be full of fresh moves
and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine.

Since they lack the quality of conscientiousness, they are apt to fight
a losing battle in any attempts they make to be moral (in the widest sense
of the word). Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them.
They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards
the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from
expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and
comforts.

They quickly learn to use their outward attractiveness to gain their
own ends, and when striving for these they will use any weapon in
their armoury - unscrupulous lying, cunning evasiveness - escaping
blame by contriving to put it on other people, wrapped up in all the charm
they can turn on. In their better moments they may strive to be honest
and straightforward, but self-interest is almost always the victor.
If things go against them, they sulk like children. Also like children, they
demand attention, admiration, and the spending on them of time, energy
and money, throwing tantrums if they don't get what they want.

They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and
can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered
if circumstances force them to struggle in any way. If the conditions of life
become really adverse, their strength of will may desert them entirely.
They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn or nervously
excitable worriers, sullenly discontented, hard and irritable, with
Self looming ever larger in their struggles. On the other hand their versatility
can make them very adaptable, adjusting themselves to control the world
around them by means of their inherent ingenuity and cleverness.

Geminis have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and
they love cerebral challenges. But their concentration, though intense for
a while, does not last. Their mental agility and energy give them a voracious
appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike the labor of
learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and
mental dexterity and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities
of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical and sometimes gives them
so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and
find it hard to take decisions.

But their intelligence may very well be used to control and unify the duality
of their natures into a most efficient unit.  If faced with difficulties,
they have little determination to worry at a problem until they find a
solution - they will pick the brains of others.  In their intellectual
pursuits, as in other departments of their lives, they risk becoming
dilettantes, losing themselves in too many projects which they follow
until they become difficult.

In love they are fickle, not intentionally so but because of the basic
inconsistency of their emotional nature, which has an amoral aspect to it.
Their is a side to Geminis which can become deeply involved emotionally,
and another, hostile to sentimentality, which stands back from a romantic
situation, laughing at it and the protagonists in it, including themselves,
and analyzes it intellectually. Gemini subjects take nothing seriously.

So, in love, in spite of their temporary depth of feeling - for the intensity
of involvement lasts only while it is new - they are superficial, light-hearted,
cool, flirtatious and unimaginative in the understanding of the pain
they may give others. They like intrigue, the excitement of the chase, but
once they have caught the prey, they lose interest and look around for the
next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make witty,
entertaining companions, good acquaintances rather than friends.

Even at their worst they are never dull - there is usually playfulness below
the surface, and they can be brilliant conversationalists - but they can also
be quarrelsome, prattlers, boasters, liars and cheats.

Geminis can be successful in many walks of life though their general
characters tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators
of language, in speech and writing, and may be debaters, diplomats (though
in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators,
preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors and poets,
journalists or lawyers. In business any work which combines
quick-wittedness with change of surroundings suits them - working
as a travelling salesperson, brokerage work or dealing of any kind.

Because they are dispassionate, logical, rational and analytical they
make good scientists, especially medically, astronomers and mathematicians.
They can also make excellent members of the Forces, for they take danger
no more seriously than anything else and can earn themselves a reputation
for devotion to duty and heroic acts. In the arts they may excel in music,
painting and sculpture. They make good psychical researchers of a sceptical
kind. Negatively they can degenerate into confidence tricksters, thieves and
even adepts in the black arts.

Physically Geminis often appear youthful, even childlike. They have tall, thin,
but strong and active bodies, with long arms and legs culminating in short,
fleshy hands and feet. Their faces are also inclined to be long and sallow,
with large, piercing hazel eyes, often in contrast with dark complexions.
Their hair is often dark, almost black. They use their hands and eyes
expressively - they are great gesticulators - and their movements are
quick and active.

Gemini rules the arms, shoulders, hands, lungs and nervous system and
its subjects need to beware of diseases and accidents associated with
the upper part of the body, as well as nervous and pulmonary disorders
such as catarrh and bronchitis. Their mercurial nature may also affect
a constitution which is not strong if it is put under strain.