Gemini
21 May – 20 June
Mutable air — everything here becomes information, and information wants to move.
- Element
- air
- Modality
- mutable
- Ruling planet
- Mercury
- Keywords
- curiosity · language · restlessness
Gemini takes in the world by naming it. A planet in Gemini works through words, comparison and exchange: it wants two of everything so it has something to hold each against, and it would rather understand a thing than commit to it.
Mercury rules it in its daylight, talkative mode. The cost of the wiring is depth — attention that moves this fast leaves before the slow part of a subject arrives — and the gift is that almost nothing is unlearnable. Gemini placements are where a chart stays teachable long after the rest of it has made up its mind.
The other air signs are Libra and Aquarius. Its meaning echoes in the third house, which covers the same ground as an area of life rather than a manner.
Where Gemini actually falls in your own chart — and which planets are standing in it — takes about a minute to work out, free and without an account.