Zodiac Signs: Gemini
mutable, air, maleopalescent, mercury, agate
- Communicator
- Changeable
- Questioning
- Versatile
- Nervous
- Dual nature
- Inquiring
- Two-faced
- Quick-witted
Gemini is the sign of the twins, the sign in which the solar journey reaches the stage at which life’s different options can be identified. It explores fresh possibilities and reveals new answers to old problems. Gemini also represents duality in all areas. In morality, good comes into conflict with evil. In religion, gods battle with demons. In psychology, conscious choices compete with unconscious instincts. Gemini weaknesses are its tendency to be pulled between irreconcilable options and its inability to put its ideas into action, but its strengths are its skill in resolving contradictions and its flexibility.
Astrologers describe Gemini as a mutable Air sign, Mutable means changeable and it is said that people born under this sign are infinitely adaptable, constantly fitting in with changing circumstances. And, as ‘air’ suggests, Gemini is supposed to be as free as the wind, flitting first one way and then the other. All this talk of adaptability and personal freedom sounds marvellous, but the downside of it is that Gemini people often duck and dive and cancel arrangements at the last minute if it suits them, regardless of the inconvenience to others.
Air does only signify freedom, thought. It can be seen as a metaphor for the mind and for the lively curiosity and communication skills that Gemini possesses. The typical Gemini individual adores facts, loves finding things out, going places and seeing new things, can be a voracious reader, has a brain as sharp as any computer and is happy to talk to anyone. Gemini loves to analyse the world and explain it – to itself and to others. It is a writer, a teacher, a traveller – a sign that will go to any length to satisfy its curiosity. Not surprisingly, it can be entertaining company, but it always needs variety and if it has to settle for a life of routine responsibilities, it always needs to have an escape routine.
Gemini’s symbol – the twins – embodies its dual nature. This makes Gemini well suited to reconciling opposites, resolving contradictions and juggling competing claims on its time and affections. But a weakness is its tendency to spread itself too thin, to be endlessly sidetracked and to promise much but deliver little.
Through its ruling planets, Mercury – the Roman god Mercury was a mischievous, spontaneous character, labelled ‘the trickster’ by psychologist C. G. Jung – Gemini is also linked to the psychological archetype of the puer eternus, or ‘eternal youth’. In other words, Gemini sometimes, just like Peter Pan, simply refuses to grow up. While the other signs are often attracted to Gemini for its youthful charm and playful manner, Gemini may exploit this by choosing partners who unconsciously play the ‘parent’, taking charge of important things in life and leaving Gemini free to indulge its whims.