Traditional
Gemini Traits
Adaptable and versatile
On the dark side....
Nervous and tense
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 labour 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-centred 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 They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn or nervously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.
Geminians 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 labour 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 Geminians
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.
Geminians 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 Geminians 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.
Communicative and witty
Intellectual and eloquent
Youthful and lively
Superficial and inconsistant
Cunning and inquisitive
