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Gemini
For entertainment
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Which one are you?
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Nothing yet. Readings you open are listed here.
Two of something, and the lists always pick the wrong two. It is not deceit. It is that you are sincerely interested in both sides and nobody believes that.
The basics
Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac, mutable air, symbol the Twins, ruled by Mercury. Mutable air is thought that will not settle, which is why the sign is drawn as two of something rather than one. Its opposite sign is Sagittarius.
When the Sun is actually in Gemini
The Sun enters Gemini on 20 or 21 May and leaves for Cancer on 20 or 21 June. Two possible days at each end rather than one. The Earth does not take a whole number of days to go round, so the crossing slides later each year until February gains a day.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 20th in 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2028, 2029 and 2030; the 21th in 2022, 2023, 2026 and 2027. In 2026 the crossing was at 21 May 00:37 UTC.
Taurus comes before it and Cancer after. Born on the 20th or 21st of May, or the 20th or 21st of June? A table cannot tell you. Those are the days the boundary actually lands on, and the year moves it.
What Gemini is actually like
Mercury rules Gemini, and Mercury moves things between places: words, information, messages, versions of a story. You collect and you pass on, quickly enough that people assume you are not serious. Some of them are right and most of them are measuring the wrong thing.
Mutable air means you adapt by changing what you think rather than what you do. You can hold an opinion sincerely on Tuesday and a different one sincerely on Friday and have meant both. Fixed signs find this intolerable and read it as having no position. You read their consistency as having stopped looking.
You are better in company than alone and you know it, which is why you have arranged a life with someone always available to talk to. The thinking happens out loud. An unspoken thought is, for you, an unfinished one.
The part the lists leave out
The restlessness is real and it is not boredom with people, it is boredom with the pace. You leave conversations, rooms and occasionally relationships at the point where they slow down, and you tell everyone including yourself that you were bored. Underneath it you are often avoiding the part where something gets difficult and slow, which is where you are weakest.
The two faces thing has a kernel worth being honest about. You present differently to different people, accurately each time, and you do not experience that as lying. Anyone who sees two of your versions back to back does.
Gemini in love
You need to be talked to. Not complimented, talked to. A partner who is interesting will hold you considerably longer than a partner who is kind, which is a fact about yourself you may not enjoy.
Your risk is leaving at the first slow patch. Every relationship has one and it signifies nothing. The question worth asking is whether you are going because it is wrong or because nothing new has happened in six weeks.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If half of this fits and half of it reads like somebody else, that is the usual outcome and the reason is structural. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
Your Rising sign, which is what people meet before they know you, changes roughly every two hours. That is why no list organised by date has ever produced one. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
Gemini presents differently to different people and means it each time. That is adaptation rather than deceit, although it looks identical from outside if you happen to see two versions in one evening.
Why do Gemini talk so much?
Mercury rules the sign and the thinking happens out loud. An unspoken thought tends to feel unfinished until it has been said to somebody.
What are the Gemini dates?
The Sun is in Gemini from 20 or 21 May to 20 or 21 June. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 20th or the 21rd of May has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Gemini?
Sagittarius. The axis runs between the detail in front of you and the larger frame it sits in, and a Gemini Sun collects the first faster than it builds the second.
