GEMINI

I'm returning to Ingrid Lind's Astrology & Commonsense (1962) for her take on this Airy, Mutable, Positive sign, ruled by planet Mercury. Sun is in the zodiac sign Gemini from (give or take a day) 21 May to 20 June each year.

In Gemini primitive man has progressed through the settling-down stage and discovers he has a mind. This is indeed an enormous discovery: and he goes to extremes of rationality, cuts himself off from the intuitional, heart-qualities that served well in Aries and Taurus, abondons what he will call childish things and decides that the important thing is to KNOW.

People with an overdose of this Sign can only appreciate, and will only accept, what has been ratiocinated and 'proved'. Everything must be talked over, argued (if necessary anyway), as it were demonstrated or abolished verbally. Gemini will sit up all night, if he can find another Geminian, splitting hairs. Aries, we may say, is primeval Fire, Taurus primeval Earth, Gemini primeval Air, in which element man gets his feet off the ground and experiments with the freedom and expansiveness of thought.

With the average man or woman, where Gemini is found strong in the chart, need for communication is the keynote. They have an urge to impart whatever they learn by speech or writing and it is a necessity with them to feel they are 'in the know'. The symbol for Gemini, the Twins, pictures the deep need for communication, if only with 'the other half' of the personality. The duality is also apparent in the Geminian gift, if it is a gift, of many-sidedness, in versatility and the ability to live a double life.



Geminian Qualities
Intellectuality
Variety of Interest
Understanding (in the sense of a quick grasp)
Agility of mind, hand, foot.
Expressiveness.

Geminian Faults

Superficiality
Curiosity
Cunning
Argumentativeness
Verbosity.

That summary will apply to some - perhaps the majority of people born when the Sun was in Gemini, but in many cases there will be modifying factors, or another layer of characteristics. These will come via personal planets (Mercury and Venus at least) in the neighbouring signs: Cancer and Taurus, as well as additional characteristics inherited from Moon's sign and rising sign. So, what Ingrid Lind wrote is only part of the complete picture.

I've met Sun Gemini people whose personalities were far from what astrology leads us to expect. I recall a boyfriend from my late teens, nice enough guy, enjoyed that pastime beloved of Englishmen "having a pint" down at the pub, and watching a game of soccer. I joined him for both on a few occasions. Though we had few interests in common, we did manage to get along quite well, in a pedantic, uninspired kind of way. I suspect he had some strong Taurus impacting his Gemini - ouch!!

Then again, I've met some who might have been "made to order" to fit the above description and any other Gemini description in any astrology text book. My maternal grandfather was one such, and a female workfriend.... and my husband's son-in-law is another - possibly the most true-to-form Gemini-type I've met so far.....oh I'm forgetting our good blog buddy R.J. Adams, I don't know him personally but will hazard a guess that he's pretty true to Gemini form.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, b. 22 May 1859.