Gemini is a mutable sign. There is a longing for movement and an extreme restlessness prevails among individuals highly influenced by this sign. In Gemini it reveals its airiness and mutability through a constant change of mind and ideas.
Gemini is always on the move, trying to match up its immediate physical environment with the thoughts literally pouring into its own mind.
How to recognize Gemini
If there are times when a Gemini person makes you think you’re seeing double, don’t run out and change your glasses. Just remember that Gemini is the sign of the twins, and there are two distinct sides to his changeable personality.
Now you see it, now you don’t.
The mercurial changes of a Gemini’s expression are as fascinating to watch as the psychedelic lights in a discotheque. It’s hard to tell where reality ends and illusion begins. They blend – then the separate.
He may be one place today and somewhere else tomorrow. Suddenly, too. A Gemini can change his clothes, his job, his love life or his residence as fast as he changes his mind, and that’s pretty fast.
Mercury people also have that nasty habit of reading the last page first. Gemini like to skip back and forth in a book, a pattern they also prefer when it comes to things other than reading.
Man or woman, Gemini is impatient with conservative stick-in-the-muds, or with people who can’t make up their minds where they stand on particular issues. Gemini knows where he stands, at least for the moment.
There’s an eagerness about Geminis, an immediate, sympathetic, friendliness, and usually quick, but graceful movements.
It’s always a mistake to try to pin Geminis down to either one place or one idea. It’s always a mistake to challenge them to a battle of wits, because they can talk themselves in and out of situations with the greatest ease. They think fast on their feet (or in any other position); they can be sharply satirical and they’re cleverer than almost anybody.
They can do two things at once with less effort than it takes most of us to do one. The secret is in the Geminian duality.
Any kind of routine can make a typical Geminian feel like a droopy bird in a cage with his wings clipped. These people resent drudgery and monotony almost fiercely. Usually they are not the most punctual souls in the world. The typical Gemini, however, always arrives late, not because he forgets the time, but because something caught his interest on the way and sidetracked him. The restless Mercurial nature demands constant excitement and change or the spirit becomes dejected and morose.
There’s a deep seated need in all June people to disguise their true motives. Like the Pisces they feel a compulsion to behave in a way exactly opposite to their real desires. But this amazing Gemini versatility and facility of speech makes them terrific politicians, not to mention experts in the field of human relationships. A Gemini knows how to swerve you from your most stubbornly held convictions.
There’s a strange thing about Geminis and writing. The Sun sign itself rules writing. Therefore, practically every Mercury man or woman can turn a clever phrase and string words together intelligently. Very seldom will you find the Geminian writing his own life story. And it’s extremely rare to find one who likes to write personal letters.
The typical Gemini hates to answer correspondence. He’ll procrastinate for weeks. They hesitate to put their thoughts on paper because they instinctively know that what they believe today, they may not believe tomorrow – and they don’t want to be committed in writing.
Almost every Gemini speaks, understands or reads more than one language and French is the favorite. He can sell ice to the Eskimo or dreams to a pessimist. With their manual dexterity, if they pick a pocket, forge a check or counterfeit a sawbuck, at least they’re neat about it and seldom get caught.
As promoters, all Mercury people are absolutely superb. They have no equal, not even Aries. At heart every Mercury-ruled person is a salesman.
Geminis need to rest their busy brains with twice as much sleep as anyone else. Unfortunately, since they’re so susceptible to insomnia, they rarely get enough. Nevertheless, they should try hard to achieve rest, rest and more rest, to heal those jangled nerves and renew the over-active brain cells. The odd thing is that the Gemini can suffer an emotional breakdown more easily from boredom and confinement than from over-activity.
Deep inside his searching, impatient nature, the Gemini seeks an ideal, and his chief problem is in recognizing what it is. It could be anything, since his imagination knows no boundaries. Money, fame, wealth, love and career are never quite enough. Mercury calls Gemini higher and higher – on and on – above and beyond, with a seductive promise of something always just a little better.
The grass always looks greener just across the road. The sky is bluer over another ocean. The stars shine brighter in a distant place. What is it he seeks? Perhaps some hidden, undiscovered continent within himself. Gemini is the mental explorer.
His eyes are sharp and his talents are multiple. He has a brilliant humor, tact, diplomacy and adroitness – yet he lacks persistence and patience. He throws away the precious old too quickly for the untried new, and then lives to regret the instant disposal. In spite of all the people around him, he shares his deepest emotions only with his one constant companion – his other twin self.
The Gemini Man
Being in love gives you a nice sense of warm security. There’s that heavenly comfort of always knowing someone is going to be there when you need him – that you no longer walk alone. All the doubts you knew before just melt away.
That is, unless you’re having a romance with a Mercury man, which might take the edge off that “warm security.”
In fact, you’ll adjust much better to a Gemini if you send him out for a loaf of bread on Monday and don’t expect him back until Thursday. Never look for him until you see him coming.
Once you’ve schooled yourself to accept his restless, unpredictable spirit, there’s a good chance of making it work. It’s true that when you‘re in love with a Gemini, you won’t walk alone. You most certainly won’t. You’ll have at least two people to walk with you – and both of them will be him. The dual nature of Gemini combines two completely different personalities.
If you meet him first at a social affair where he’s performing his fascinating multiple personality act, you haven’t a chance. You’ll be convinced he’s the most exciting, interesting, intelligent man you’ve ever come across. No one could quarrel with that analysis. He probably is. It’s no wonder you’re excited and impressed. But before you let him change your name, be sure you’re capable of tackling an uncertain future with a man whose whims may change with the wind, and whose goals in life may shift drastically before the honeymoon is even over.
He’ll be impatient, critical and petulant. He may criticize your shoes, your lipstick or your literary taste, and have some pretty cutting doubts about the possibility to your happiness together. Either all this, or he’ll be sullen and troubled, his mind far away, distant and aloof. No use asking why, you won’t get an answer that makes any sense.
If you’re an incurable romantic, seeking perfect harmony, you’re in more than a little danger.
No matter what the rest of his natal chart says, if the Sun was in Gemini when he was born, this man will not remain tomorrow what he is today, nor will he have any lasting memory of yesterday. In one way or another, he will change.
Granted, the changes may always be for the better and he may consistently aim higher. But the element of change is always there.
Loving a Gemini is easy and fun, if you don’t try to get too close. There’s an inner core that belongs only to him, that he’ll never share with another human being, even you. Keep things cool and light, and don’t be overly passionate or dramatic. Don’t bore him, always excite him and your Gemini romance can be very special.
Geminis tend to discard old friends for a new ones, but not because they’re heartless. Their own personalities fluctuate and advance so relentlessly, it’s only natural for them to seek those who match their interests at the time.
In financial matters, the duality takes over again. A Mercury man may be at first fabulously generous, then abruptly turn miserly.
Will he be faithful to you? In his fashion, yes, he will. There are a thousand answers to that question where Mercury is concerned. He likes to converse and he likes to mix. He’s also strangely attractive to women, so there may be occasions for whispers and suspicions. But you can count on this: It’s a rare Gemini man whose deeply ingrained sense of fairness will let him be dishonest in his actions if you have faith in him.
To expect your Gemini not to smile back when someone smiles at him, whether it’s a child or an adult, a man or a woman, is to expect the sun not to shine. His cheerful, friendly nature seeks companionship constantly.
His imagination may run away with him, and cause him to make an occasional statement he can’t back up.
You’ll have to make him see the importance of keeping his word.
Jealousy is something you may never have to worry about with a Gemini husband, because possessiveness is not a typical Gemini trait.
The typical emotional coldness of Mercury can be warmed considerably if you both hear the same music and dream the same dreams. He must experience a total blending of the mind and the spirit before the physical passions catch up in intensity. A Gemini needs two loves. Not necessarily two women. That’s a riddle. If you truly understand him you’ll know the answer to it.
The Gemini Woman
Have you always secretly thought Brigham Young had a sensational idea when he advocated several wives for one man? You needn’t resign yourself to romantic daydreams. Just marry a Gemini girl. That way, you’ll be guaranteed at least two different wives, and on occasional weekends, as many as three or four.
It’s hard to get her to settle down long enough to take passion or anything else very seriously. Her mind is always traveling, and she keeps up a pretty good running commentary simultaneously. Somewhere, hidden among the several women who make up one Gemini female, is a romantic one – one who is capable of intense passion, if you can manage to make the mental, spiritual and physical blending complete. How to develop her and still enjoy all the other women bottled up inside the Geminian personality may create a problem. One Gemini girl equals several women.
Her age will be an important clue to what you can expect, because until she matures, romance is only a game to her. She can be fickle and unpredictable to an incredible degree. First she’ll be ecstatically carried away by your smile and your voice, even the way you walk. Then she’ll reverse her ecstasy and criticize everything from your socks to your haircut, and she usually does it with such clever, sharp sarcasm, you may need iodine for your wounds.
Their active imaginations create many fantasies. Romance is the easiest way they can express them, and Gemini's have at least twice as much to express as other women. A Gemini man can be a producer, a singer, a sailor, a lawyer, an actor, a salesman and the chairman of a few of boards of directors all at once – and express himself ad infinitum.
The Gemini girl needs your pity, not your anger. It’s painfully difficult for her to really commit herself to one person at a time.
She’s a lively and gay companion. Most of the time (when the mood is on the up-swing),she’ll sparkle with a vivacious personality, amuse you with her clever, witty remarks, and converse intelligently about any subject under the sun. No woman you’ve ever met will delight you with more imaginative ways of loving you and such appealing charm.
If you think this is an exaggeration, remember the late Marilyn Monroe. Every man she ever knew, from Carl Sandburg to her hairdresser, saw her as a totally different person than the other men who thought they knew her.
She finds a different perfection in each man she meets, as she restlessly searches for the one man who has all the qualities she needs for happiness.
You’ll find here a great pal. The Mercury girl will go along with you do anything from scuba diving to speed racing – bicycling or badminton. As long as you don’t demand consistency from her, she’ll be completely fascinating.
It’s only fair to warn you that this girl can sincerely believe she’s in love, and find other men attractive at the same time. Unless she’s near you all the time, she can forget you quicker than a woman born under any other sun sign.
It’s her nature to accept change, even seek it. Until she learns to control her devoted courtship of constant activity, neglecting to cultivate patience and stability, the Gemini female can make quite a mess of her life and yours.
You’ll have several wives when you marry your Gemini.
Wife Number One will be able to adjust to anything you require of her. If you require faithfulness, she can manage that, too, providing you’re interesting enough to have won her real love.
Wife Number Two will be moody. You might just as well expect it.
Wife Number Three will be bored and depressed with housekeeping routines.
Wife Number Four will be a gay and laughing mother. She won’t let the children restrict her, because she’ll probably have too many projects going constantly to smother them with over-protectiveness.
Wife Number Five will be a beautiful hostess, an expert at the whole candlelight, flowers and sterling silver routine.
You can bring anyone, from your boss to the Governor home to dinner, and she’ll be so gracious and charming, they’ll never want to leave.
Your Gemini woman will never take a train when she can fly.
She’ll never be silent when she can speak.
She’ll never turn away when she can help.
And she’ll never walk when she can run.
Her mind is full of so many thoughts and her heart is full of so many hopes.
She may seem to need a computer to sort it all out.
