8.61% of population (~1/12)
SUMMARY: Acute nervous system. Speed, rhythm, variety (dispersion). More reason than belief. Courageous. Rejects forced stratification: “What’s expected” often makes no sense to them. Play, youthful; needs affection, connection; feels loneliness deeply, often alienated. Music, arts, business. Mechanical, technical.
SUN IN GEMINI, the Twins
- Two traits seem at the root of all core Gemini behaviors. (1) A hyper-acute nervous system. (2) Innate rejection of external expectations and stratification as alien (or at least a bother).
- HYPER-ACUTE NERVOUS SYSTEM, much nervous energy, physically active quick thinkers. [Gauquelin: energetic, powerful mind]
- Speed shows diversely as a theme.
- Keen sense of rhythm, mental and physical quickness, physical and psychological agility.
- Versatile talents. Danger of dispersion, distraction, inattention, thus seeming irresponsible.
- Substance abuse. Alcoholism, smoking, and other substance abuse to manage this acceleration.
- Driven by reason or, rather, by reasons, marked by their own logic, justifications, and explanations (their distinctive modeling of facts).
- Intuitive. Gets a conclusion first, and then mobilizes facts to substantiate it. Uses logic to sustain a point of view rather than acquire one.
- Truth-driven rather than reason-driven.
- Irreligious, amoral. “Doubting Thomas,” skeptical, thus more “scientific” than “religious.” [STATS: Significantly infrequent for 2,492 eminent clergymen (Bradley) and 7,012 clergymen (Tobey).]
- Courageous. Courage of convictions. Speaks truth unhesitantly, even defiantly (as if serving as truth’s own warrior). [Gauquelin: courageous.]
- Socially pluralist, inclusive, and democratic. Rejects social stratification, aristocratic entitlement, or other standards of intrinsic human inequity. Accepts pomp and pageantry to respect tradition, but not as a privilege of rank. [STATS: Significantly high for 5,022 politicians below the Federal level, but low for the 4,985 members of Congress in the comprehensive Duncan study.]
- Alienation: Hard for Gemini to live and function within other’s conventional frameworks. “What’s expected” often makes no sense to them.
- Gratefully accepts praise and appreciation (it feels like acceptance). Feels judgment as meanness.
- When judged or wounded, many withdraw as if in exile. (Some accept actual exile or expatriation.) [Gauquelin: secretive.]
- Others, hearing Gemini’s point of view, often wonder, “In what reality does that make any sense?” (Gemini may wonder the same about the world.) [FN: Gemini is one of two Sun-signs statistically significant in the Eysenck study of schizophrenics. Not all Geminis are schizophrenic, of course, though they do have healthy traits that are mildly schizotypal. Each sign has distinctive healthy behavior that, if mental illness develops, anticipates its likely form.]
- Feelings are a “sore point.” Harder to understand or deal with, more likely to break down their internal logic.
- Youth. Has the most clear-cut orientation to youthful-ness and embodying a child-like nature. [FN: The fundamental archetype relating to children is that of Twins (see Jung et al.). These twins are nearly always “children of the Sun.” ]
- Playful sense of humor helps convey youthfulness.
- Retain sense of youth into advanced age. [“Old age they chase with song, and when late death o’retakes them they are young.” (Manilius)]
- Particularly good at balancing humor and seriousness: No hard line between work and play.
- Athletics, especially basketball, boxing, track, cross-country, tennis. [FN: Significantly high for 350 U.S. professional basketball players (100% sample) and 1,113 professional boxers (from The Ring Encyclopedia).]
- “TWO” THEMES. Duality-themes appear throughout their lives and reputations. Many are known best as part of a couple, team, or other pair. {FN: Cf. the binary and associative functions of the human brain and digital information storage.}
- COMPANIONSHIP. Feels loneliness deeper than any other sign, like a child that has lost its playmate. Needs affection, connection, and attention. Generally functions best in partnership.
- Music. Most musical of all constellations (especially vocal and instrumental, especially drummers; usually instrumentally versatile). [FN: Gemini’s musical gifts were well documented by ancient astrologers.] Diversely connected to the arts, especially painters. [FN: Significantly high in one study of 2,982 artists.]
- Occupations. Moves information and forges communication to drive business. Instinct for free enterprise, trade. {FN: Significantly common for 5,047 businessmen from Who’s Who and 5,738 “young men of achievement.”} Good at mechanical and technical things. Many engineers, information scientists, and educators. [FN: Significantly high for 2,842 engineers.]
- Tends to hypersexuality including a major pleasure-pain or discipline-control component. [FN: Surprisingly, this is implied in the early 1st Century writings of Manilius, who, almost passingly, said of Gemini that, “even their pains are pleasure.”]
- OTHER STATISTICAL STUDIES of various qualities show results of interest yet of less reliability than those cited above. In these, Gemini was found commonly among university scholars, and uncommonly among actors, labor leaders, and a small collection of scientists.
- NOTE: The fundamental archetype relating to children is that of The Twins (see Jung etc.). Furthermore, they are always, or nearly always, Children of the Sun. When they are not of paired gender, the dual gender or non-gender (pre-pubertal) motif is indicated such that the child is the neuter third member of a triad.
PARANOID PERSONALITY STYLE
Every astrological type has distinctive forms, or styles, that it assumes in psychologically unhealthy individuals. No sign is, itself, inherently unhealthy. Some are more instructive to discuss and their forms are better identified. Healthy expressions of the signs routinely bear the same underlying traits – in healthy expression – that feed a distinctive pathology in the unhealthy.
The four Spoke constellations share the sibling patterns of
paranoid and
obsessive-compulsive traits. Gemini and Pisces tend to express a paranoid personality style, though they flip to O/C with a sufficiently pronounced Saturn influence. Virgo and Sagittarius tend primarily to obsessive-compulsive, but flip to paranoid pat-terns with a sufficiently pronounced Neptune. Both styles are characterized by hyper-attentiveness and keenly laser-selective perception, among other perceptual and cognitive factors.
Common Gemini traits mobilize differently to compose the pathological form. Mental and physical acuity mobilize the entire body-mind system with rigidity, caution, edginess, and defensiveness that cut one off from spontaneity, feelings, and creative expression. As this happens, one
loses touch with oneself, becoming acutely self-conscious. A
fear of subjugation takes form as one’s on increasingly frail sense of autonomy (weakness of will) leads to being overly conscious of others’ will.
In the early 18-sign Babylonian zodiac, Gemini was "The Great Twins."
Some Garth Allen pieces on Gemini:
http://www.solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1981
- GAUQUELIN CHARACTER TRAITS: Courageous, powerful mind, secretive, not minute, family ties, energetic, not innovator.
- POLITICS: Significantly high for 5,022 politicians below the Federal level, but low for the 4,985 members of Congress in the comprehensive Duncan study. Of the four Gemini U.S. Presidents, three were Republicans, and the fourth was a member of the opposition party to what became the Democrats immediately after; as a group they were among the weakest, most ineffective Presidents in U.S. history, notwithstanding some substantial contributions outside of the Presidency.
- OTHER STUDIES: Low in Gauquelin military and military musician samples.
- OTHER LINES TO EXPLORE & DEVELOP: The "conveyor (or link) of a tradition." A "real American" (so-called), "born on the 4th of July," etc.
Garth Allen, AAM 9/56 wrote:...both Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (dig that Geminian "II"!) are natives of this constellation... Perhaps the reader has observed the tendency toward pairs where Gemini is concerned, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Apart from music, note that the best known couple of our time, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, are Sidereal Gemini natives whom a whole empire could not prevent standing side by side! We don't know the birthdates of their partners, but mull this over: P.T. Barnum, Gower Champion, Stan Laurel, and Peter Lind Hayes are Gemini-born people whose names are popularly linked, in the same breath, with others in the tradition of "Castor and Pollux" (Bailey, Marge, Hardy, and Healy).
Far and away the most interesting "twosomeness" of Gemini we've run across, however, is what appears to be author James Cain's fixation on duality. Geminian Cain, notable for his musical background, wrote "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice." We thought nothing about this two-ness until we learned that the original title for his finest work, the music saturated story now labelled "Serenade," was, "Two Can Sing!"
OTHER STATISTICS (of various qualities):
SIGNIFICANTLY HIGH: 13,183 university scholars. 2,982 artists.
SIGNIFICANTLY LOW: 1,552 actors. 432 labor leaders. 6,813 famous men. 429 scientists.
A study of 40 supercentarians had the Sun in Aries 1, Taurus 6, Gemini 8. It is not clear whether the Taurus-Gemini pile-up is a nonzodiacal artifact. It is interesting that the Moon was 6 times in Gemini (about double the expected value).
U.S. PRESIDENTS: John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush
(The last three were Republicans, and Adams was a member of the opposition party to what became the Democrats immediately after. Of course, the Adams-Bush pattern stands out for Gemini. As a group they were among the weakest, most ineffective Presidents in U.S. history, notwithstanding some substantial contributions outside of the Presidency.)
OSCARS: Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII), Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle), Olivia De Havilland (To Each His Own; The Heiress), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday), Yul Brynner (The King & I [!]), Susan Hayward (I Want to Live), Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer [!]; The French Lieutenant's Woman), Kathy Bates (Misery), Tom Hanks (Philadelphia; Forrest Gump), Frances McDormand (Fargo), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
