Happy Birthday, Gemini!! -- It's time to celebrate your time of the year! -- Part 3
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Under too much pressure, Gemini energy become nervous, inattentive, strung out and spread too thin to be effective. It also becomes closed-minded, argumentative and the know-it-all everyone loves to hate.
At its worst, it is gossipy, shallow and infuriatingly chatty while having nothing to say. Gemini stressed can be cynical, dissembling and downright dishonest. (Those people who call it "two-faced" have a point as far as it goes.) As with the other signs, the downside of this one can be pretty ugly -- without meaning to be that at all.
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The polarity sign -- the "other end of the scale" -- for Gemini is Sagittarius, the Mutable Fire Sign ruled by Jupiter which deals with expansion. Gemini gathers facts in bits and pieces ... and deals extensively with variety and diversity. Gemini's knowledge is wide-ranging and eclectic ... embracing enormous amounts of trivia on completely unrelated subjects. But it may not have much depth to offer on any of them.
It's like the collection of odds and ends you keep in a drawer, or a box, or in an entire room -- for some of us, or out in the shed or the garage. It's the jumble of unrelated little treasures from which you someday may scrounge just the right item to fill the bill on a job at hand.
Gemini's data is a collage ... and the more heterogenous, the better, as far as it is concerned. Gemini is first and foremost a collector, but it knows scads of places to find the specific knowledge it needs.
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Sagittarius deals with knowledge, too, but it wants complexity, expertise, and authority in one or several closely inter-related fields. Sagittarius deals with wisdom, theory, philosophy, codification, and academic information. And it wants to gather these things from different cultures and different viewpoints, assimilate the diversity into a unified expression of Truth with a capital "T" ... and then apply this learning to the greater social order.
If Gemini is the perpetual student, intellectual butterfly, and raconteur, Sagittarius is the scholar, the social commentator and critic, and the teacher ... passing knowledge on to others both to make it more useful and to keep the process alive.
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Both deal with gathering and disseminating knowledge, data, and information. Both are essential to the proper functioning of the other. Gemini is the gatherer ... harvesting everything he finds. Sagittarius decides what's important and what goes together ... and organizes it all so others can learn.
Gemini spirits who've made their mark on the world include: Ian Fleming, John F. Kennedy, Anne Frank, Lillian Hellman, Marilyn Monroe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Laurence Olivier, Joyce Carol Oates, Oswald Spengler, Jean-Paul Satre, Stacy Keach, William Butler Yeats, Richard Wagner, Rosalind Russell, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Thank you for the reminder. I too have a birthday soon!
My husband is a gemini and I he is a handful :) With so many things to enjoy about him. I will have to show him all of these posts about geminis you wrote. I hope he learns something or at least gets a new perspective lol
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