Gemini

What is Gemini like?

Gemini is quick, funny and endlessly curious. They can talk to the bus driver, the professor and the toddler, and each will walk away thinking they have made a friend. A conversation with a Gemini is a tour of six subjects, a joke and an unexpected fact about octopuses.

They think by talking. A Gemini may argue one side of a question on Tuesday and the other on Thursday, and mean both, because they are working it out as they go. This confuses slower signs. It is less a matter of being two-faced than of enjoying more than one point of view.

They stay young, too. Plenty of Geminis are still learning a new language at seventy, and still texting at midnight about something they read.

What are the weak spots of Gemini?

Follow-through is the classic one. The first week of anything is thrilling. The third week has paperwork in it. Gemini may leave a trail of half-learned guitar chords and nearly finished novels, and feel a little guilty about each.

They can also talk past a feeling. When something hurts, a Gemini may make a joke, change the subject or send you a very interesting article. It works for a while. Sooner or later a friend will wait in silence until they say the actual thing.

And there is the nerviness. A mind this busy finds it hard to switch off, so sleep can go missing during a stressful week. A notebook by the bed does a lot of good.

Who does Gemini get on with?

Gemini usually gets on best with the other air signs, Libra and Aquarius, who like to talk until the small hours. Aries and Leo are good company too, as fire brings the excitement and Gemini brings the words. Sagittarius, the opposite sign, can be a great match: both are restless, and each knows something the other wants to hear.

Earth and water signs may want more staying power than Gemini gives at first. Those pairings can still be lovely, and a Virgo shares Gemini’s ruling planet and its love of detail. A sun sign is a small part of the story. The compatibility pages go further.

What is Gemini like at work?

Gemini shines wherever words and variety meet. Journalism, teaching, sales, marketing, translation, radio, and any job with lots of people and lots of small problems tend to suit them. They are often the best person in the office to explain something, or to find out who actually knows the answer.

Repetition is the enemy. Give a Gemini the same task every day and they will quietly invent a new way of doing it, just to stay awake. They do well with two or three projects on the go, and with a colleague who likes finishing things.

How does Gemini handle money?

Gemini tends to treat money as one more interesting subject. There may be a clever plan, a second plan and a spreadsheet that was abandoned in March. Small spending adds up: books, gadgets, coffee with friends, a course they started. Many earn from more than one source, because one job has never been quite enough to hold their attention.

What does the Gemini symbol mean?

The symbol is the twins. In Greek myth they are Castor and Pollux, brothers so close that when one was lost the other asked to share his immortality, and so they spend half their time among the gods and half below. The glyph looks like the Roman numeral two. The constellation’s two brightest stars carry the brothers’ names and sit side by side in the winter sky.

Mercury is the ruling planet of Gemini, the planet of talk, travel and quick thinking. When Mercury appears to go backward, Geminis often feel it first, in the form of lost keys and crossed messages. The Gemini horoscope keeps track of this for you. To see where Mercury was on your own birthday, try a free birth chart. It may explain why you talk the way you do.