The dominant Gemini personality trait is not duplicity nor even adaptability. It’s thought speed.
Whatever the cognitive destination, Geminis get there before you do. Your “I just heard about this.” is their Seven Hours Ago. Your Tomorrow is their Yesterday. Their renowned enigmatic smile is often because they’re sick of repeating “I heard it already.”
They’re Meme Queens and Kings. Sometimes it seems as if Geminis are the internet, so swift is their uptake of fresh info and breaking news. And before the internet, they were the grapevine.
They are expert at speed-reading wordy documents or articles and extracting the pertinent point. That point is then put into a broader matrix for future reference. The fine print? That’s what Virgos are for. A related Gemini personality trait is their ability to more or less astral travel when having to hear outdated information or something they know already.
They Don’t Need You To Finish Your Sentence
People get annoyed when Geminis rapid-scan people as well. They don’t need you to finish your sentence. They quickly parse your presenting data, auto-complete your thought/statement, grab the headline or a pull quote and slam it into a cultural context.
It can seem insensitive but it’s not really. A Gemini comparing your drinking problem or strange relationship to those of Britney Spears or a Game Of Thrones star is not being uncaring. And if they transmit the information, it’s not malicious. They’re Mutable Air, like the wind. Wind, by definition, is always moving. They’re breezy no matter what the subject matter.
They’re Breezy No Matter What The Subject Matter
Their consciousness does not allow for judgment and nor can you guilt a Gemini. Try if you like but they’ll turn it into a meme or an amusing aside. They don’t just collect info and skim-read things; Geminis make fantastic neural leaps.
When you’re talking to someone who effortlessly segues from their sympathy for Sharpay on High School Musical to international diplomatic policy, you know you’re talking to a Gemini. They know that Aesop’s fable about the Hare and Tortoise was propaganda, spread by the slow.
Really, the fastest way to wow a Gemini is to tell them something they don’t know already. But keep it concise. Long-winded explanations mess with their consciousness.
Thoughts?
I am Gemini rising. And am still trying to figure out what that means. But I do relate to this. ONG I do. The teacher in me is incredibly fast thinker always ahead of everyone else in the room. I used to put it down to ‘that’s my job’. But am always so ahead of the pack with thinking.
My parents literally named me after a family friend so they could nickname me Breezy because they thought it was adorable.. and I’m a Gem moon 😳
(Gemini sun, Jupiter, Venus, mercury, nn, all in n12th house here). . whew!! Wow. Hilarious. “Grab the headline and slam it into a cultural context”. Booyah! Lol. ” don’t neecd u to finish sentence” before I get it and want to interrupt with where this chat goes from here. Yeah. And I’m an old ny’er, and Italian, so interrupting is already part of my gene structure, to turbo the stars input. Like really wow to read. Mm, you are so ON in so many ways, on so much. I’m also well past my Chiron return and agree on the reset, and not wounding. . . that said, the wound is available for reset, (which, for the record is one hell of a tall order, perhaps cuz I’m packing the 12th house? Anyway, you’re consciousness is flying above all the astrology memes and crusty paradigms that have always buggerd me so, I am thrilled to have found your site. You must have some Gemini in you also, no? Love you to share your chart if you are down with that. Thanks!
Gemini rising and Saturn in the 12th and I adore this! Thanks Mystic ♥️
This just popped up in my FB feed and it is soooo on point…. I just spent 2 weeks on biz travels and this explains my frustrations to a tee —-“They don’t need you to finish your sentence ” … “Long-winded explanations mess with their consciousness.” I “got it” 5 minutes into the visits / meetings and didn’t need them to explain it to me again for 20 minutes …….
my son once said I need to slow down – folks couldn’t keep up with my thought process …. now I get it!
Thanks MM – this is so helpful and I might have to keep it to show folks who don’t get me 😉 (Gem rising, mercury, venus in 1st house)
gemini sun, mercury, venus here and yeah this is pretty on point!
thats a desciption of me, and all i have in gemini is chiron.
on top of that, people with gemini emphasis in their chart trigger me.lolz
Mystic! Where do you have gemini? This was so appropriate and on point for us! Takes a gem to know a gem 🙂
North Node!
Spot on! Our ability to parse info and then stitch it back together in a cohesive package tailored for the current audience is also a plus. Gem sun, mercury, venus and saturn all in the first house. *sigh*
Ha ha! So classic! So true! I shouldn’t let it happen but when someone is speaking to me and they have already taken far too long to get to where I already knew they were heading, I get frustrated when they ask, ‘Does that make sense?’
Please! i’m a Gemini!
Not only does it make sense you could have explained it in one sentence.
If you’re having a conversation with a full blown ‘gem’ and they seem agitated and ready to move on while you’re filling in the unnecessary details of your story, it’s because we are. No offence intended!
This piece was so great!
https://www.elitedaily.com/news/politics/donald-trump-embodies-gemini/1690102
my gem friends sounds like amy sherman palladino on speed. it’s so great
I did a meditation just on the Gemini new moon because I knew I had to. So a lit candle, cup of tea to relax. As I was making my tea my departed dad came to me to help me relax because the meditation had no structure. It wasn’t meant to. Spontaneous Gemini.
Any sway I did relax but was very alert.
It retrospect I felt like I was sitting at a round table where my departed dad, mum. Auntie Rosie and Lucy. And then my very Saturn like Uncle Tommy came in the end to tell me about time and structure in the way only he can.
The most illuminating message was the one from my auntie Lucy. She will help open and illuminate those parts of me: blindspots, where I too readily give away compassion to others when I really need it myself.
I loved how idiosyncratic the messages are and how I felt the silent transmutation of love.
Sun Gemini in the 4th house.
moon in gemini. guilty. moon square pluto. i know what you’re feeling.
Holy Moly this Taurus Moon is definitely feeling the dark moon purge. I just woke fromi a dream. I totally howled and cried out my fear and grief. The release was enormous. This always seems to involve public transport. This time a tram and the train system.
The movement must help. Fall out from the body work last week. Gee the dream was 10 times better than a therapy session. And Dr Neptune bulk bills. ha ha.
Anyway I’m walking on sunshine today.
My Gemini Sun is welcoming the new moon tonite.
Thanks for listening peeps.
They are turning 31 this month and I have to say it has been a joy watching them grow and mature into adulthood.Always lively ,never boring.
Congratulations & how cool that they’ve clearly navigated their Saturn Return so well!
Enlightening information about my twin Gemini sons. Can you imagine trying to mother those two.
I was having a lively conversation about a complex theory that I understood relatively quickly with some researchers last year. The conversation turned from excitement to them warning me not to become arrogant with this new interpretation because researchers in the field will make it hard for me. Lucky for them I’m about to do a PhD on it.
Gem Sun, Moon & Venus
Not about Gemini but Oracle 11 was mentioned below so went to see and voila answer exactly what i diary wrote last night about upping nutrition for mental clarity. Yes the visuals are enticing and yes, love the symbolism. Magic Mystic :-).
Do love me a Gemini of course they are my polar astro opposite, so there is an affinity.
Dearest Gemini people, how I love you so. I’m Aqua Sun, Asc, Mercury, Mars ….. ….. but Gemini moon. I seem to have a serious Gemini people lack in my life atm though. It’s depressing. Fly your flag high my beautiful airy cousins!!
Basically. Yes 😉
The high speed intellectual grist ohhhh so satisfying
And the mimicking. The gem tunes into the Thing that makes a person or a thing what they are… A tone of voice, an inflection, a posture, a facial expression. Then suddenly for just a moment they Are that person, for better or worse. Think of it as a sketch.
Yasssss!! I love that
Yes this Gemini can do that.
OMG mystic, suddenly I understand my rising sign of Gemini. You just described so much of me.
As a teacher those traits are the fundamentals of my career and work life. I can study something the night before by speed reading it and then confidently teach it the next day carefully connecting it to the rest of their practice and worldly knowledge. It’s a very unique skill. It makes people think I have an old soul and full of worldly knowledge. Yet, for me, it’s always the ability to think and assimilate knowledge so quickly and relate it to the big picture.
Am sun in cappi and Moon in Leo. I never understood my accendent before nor that Gemini part of me. Thank you.
I LOVE Geminis, have so many wonderful ones in my life. And I have to say, people ignore the CHARM of a Gemini in full flight! They give Leo a run for their money. Straight up. Geminis can make anyone love them, if they care to.
Ha! The astral travel is so accurate! It makes me wonder, is there an astrological placement that could fuq with / block that mental escape route? There are a few peopIe I have known that can trap my attention even when I’m bored AF by what they’re saying. How do they do it?
Skim read the lot of you in normal warp plus infinity speed. So good to be in Gemini time again
Yes yes yes
And they make fantastic real estate agents.
YES! (Sun + mercury Gemini) Nailed it. Mine moves so fast I will leave out words when I’m typing. People are like what?! I’m like cmon clearly I store potatoes salad is CLEARLY I went to the store to get potatoes to make potato salad. Duh! Like I don’t even have time for conjunctions and transitions! Also yup totally bored if I already know what you’re going to say. I’m a cancer rising so I’m gentle about it but lots of times in my head I’m like thinking about something else because I have already processed. But it’s a cool skill because you can jump right back in even though you weren’t listening haha. My partner is a Virgo so you beat he calls me out on that bs but also has the means to keep up with me haha.
I’ve tried writing this three times and I’m bored with my own words. That’s the challenge with thought speed. I’ve already moved on. lol
Once you’ve had the conversation with yourself, the idea is as good as finished bleh where my coffee
I was quite LITERALLY, this instant, thinking about Gems and how damn near every rapper is one.
I mean, 2pac, Biggie, André 3000, Kanye West…
There’s even a dude who’s stage name is Sage The Gemini.
Virgo = psychopomp Hermes, Gemini = messenger Hermes.
Kendrick Lamar, a personal fave
Wooooo!! Just loving all these comments so dang much!!
I agree Iris…
Great observation
Quad Virgo and psychopomp Hermes.
Spot on, actually never thought about separating Hermes’ characteristics before…
Never a truer word has been written! This is everything – the answer, the response, the footnote. Thankyou.
Gemini quadruple (MC, Saturn, Sun, Mercury) + Virgo rising with Pluto in the first house.
So this article above is my bio – portrait.
Don’t forget to mention this turns us Gemini into very lonely people, because there are very few people who can surprise us and not get us bored to death.
Don’t lose Hope Dee…
Thought I was past being surprised by anyone or anything…
Well the Multiverse changed that…
Got a wonderful new Scorpio man, appeared out of the blue, and absolutely floored me when he turned up at my place wearing the underwear I left in his bed as a surprise…
I laughed so hard I nearly fell over…
Have fun Gwendolyn.
Thank you
It’s complicated…
Of course…
But we have a pact to enjoy every second we share together and live in the eternal now!
I know my shoes are safe lol
This sounds awesome. I could totally dig someone like your Scorpio.
My therapist kept saying
You never know what’s round the corner
Yeah yeah
Happy to let her be smug…
I also might add I wasn’t looking
We met
Scan, analysis, oh not a sheep
Go back, review
He did the same…
I’m mercury in Gemini and mars in Virgo. It’s all about the information. Keep buying the substandard local rag to skim for vital bits. With Venus also in Gemini, can’t help but send handy bits of info to my current love interest
Yes and yes. My ears literally tune out long descriptions of a thought especially if the conclusion is extraneous and unproductive.
-Gem sun/Scorp asc/Aqua moon
“Especially if the conclusion is extraneous or unproductive” – yes and yes, seconded. My Scorpio Mercury (and maybe also my Gemini Desc) agrees: I can and will make my own mind up, thanks.
I’ve Mercury in Gemini & Virgo Rising, I totes get the neural leaps, except mine are always pieces of a much larger puzzle being painstakingly put together & analyzed with the relevant metrics via Virgo Vision, then vetted thru sun cancer intuition & zapped by a Uranian moon. If it sounds exhausting you’ll understand why I don’t sleep a lot.
I’m scrolling back to experiences of Geminis I’ve known and they’re either stunningly intelligent that I’ve no idea how they even do what they do, or they’re like refurbished hi-fi stereos glitching bad messages everywhere (case in point Trump). I do know an icky Virgo who likes to interrupt & attempt thought/sentence completion, but that’s more of a power thing on her part & it never really works in terms of actual problem solving so much as an attempt at noise to make herself look busy and important.
Is it possible to out-Gemini Geminis?
Out-Gemini Geminis is very possible. Depending on how far your awareness, understanding and mapping of your mind is.
This is dead on…I totally astral travel when I have to listen to something I already know…and I get called out a lot for interrupting people. It’s not out of rudeness, it’s because I’m afraid I’m going to forget what I wanted to say!
Has anyone had the experience of a Gemini who doesn’t really act like a Gemini? The II I’m dating exhibits no duplicity, despises social media, is introverted and unlike any II I’ve ever met., not that witty or chatty, or even airy. I get that he has Moon/Mercury in Cancer but I expect to see his Sun/Venus in the twins shine through in some way…
I think the water moons are really powerful at overshadowing the signature. My partner is Gemini stelliumed to the max, he is active and quiet, musical and logical. but his Cancer Moon! He is a big foodie and not a gossip at all. Ethical and loyal.
Myself I am Asc Gem and my water Scorp Moon makes me intense, obsessive, cynical and inclined to see flaws. But that is way underneath – most people see the Sun Leo and Asc Gem and don’t really understand me at all.
His Sun Venus in the Twins is holding all the heavier elements of his chart lightly. Not necessarily doing much else?
I think I can place the moment when my Sun-Conj-Mercury in the 1st House, Mars-in-Gemini bf decided we need to be together. I told him something, he went quiet for a while and then said, “I didn’t know that” in the tone of someone who’s unwillingly impressed. Also, this whole article was so apt and made me laugh so much – I was thinking of a Gemini friend (who actually studied Chinese propaganda methods at uni, how Gemini is that) the whole time.
My daughter Ruby has her Gemini Sun on the 8th house cusp and Circe 1 degree away also Gemini and she pre-pre-anticipates everything at warp factor 111. She loves writing Uni summaries to clarify what the lecturer really meant. At four she would pick up a shopping bag and hold the door open for us to make it easier. Such a gem.
So cute.
I’m a natal Gemini Sun in the 4th house. I get the enigmatic smile. But I’m Neptune ruled and I think my Taurus Moon balances me out more. I do love words and writing. I also love the origins of sayings. I think that speaks of my Gemini house placement.
p.s. I love the new Oracle 2. The words are beautiful. They inspire growth.
Argh! Oracle 2 is available! Yay! How did I miss that?!
What a surprise hey! When I snuck in last night and saw it was working I just had to try. Such exciting answers.
Yes! I also snuck in last night. Exciting answers indeed!
Mutable…didn’t even know i “snuck in”! It was just there!
Oh i wanted to jump in to any current blog to say how amazing Mystic and her team are for the visuals, the stylish format and the wisdom! I checked out the symbols for pattern repetitive responses, and it is absolute Oracle, no lock-in loops. Beautiful: subscribers treated and gifted! 🙂
Not my experience of Geminis.
Me too TBH. About 10 yrs ago I somehow dated a handful of Geminis in a row and they were all angsty and terrible at communicating. Breezy is not a word I would ever conjure when I think back on them. Maybe there was some kind of transit affecting Geminis that year that I was unaware of at the time but it was enough to turn me off Geminis as lovers for life. Duplicity and brooding narcissism is more what I’d expect from a Pisces like myself (Mercury ruled quadruple Pisces) so it could also be that I was projecting. LOL.
10 years ago was Uranus late Pisces opposite Saturn in virgo. T square for their Gemini suns…
According to astrotheme Tamar de Lempicka was a Taurus with Venus conj Pluto in Gemini. That Gemini/Scorp combination is obviously so powerful. It brings to mind a girl who was sun Gemini, moon Scorpio. I was in awe of her at school. Mind like a steel trap, breezy and intense in turns. Way ahead of the pack in pazzazz. And you can’t tell them something they don’t know. Honestly, they know everything. I do recall her saying that she married her husband because he was the only one who never bored her. He, of course, was an Aquarian architect.
Thanks Mystic. Of course, Neptune otherworldly. Actually many of her works seem to contain elements of the comic/cartoon/animation.
I’m multi-Gem and my husband is one person that will never bore me. He’s Virgo with Jupiter Aries in the 9th.
Agreed, and yes, you can’t guilt a Gemini. They just revert to guile or acting clueless. I’ve had a run of Gemini partners over the past 15 years. No more of them!!!! But one of my favourite girlfriends is a Gemini in spades. It’s just a shame medication over decades has dulled that fascinating and highly intelligent mind to now merely using Gemini charm to get her own way. Still luv her.
What kind of medication?
Probs not so much of import. If one wants to self medicate for dulling purposes, it could be hooch, repetitive gym and dieting, or following a fake guru, as much as a blend of class As and ever present compulsions. The desire to escape can always find a quick release valve. It’s the compulsion, not the means so much, love xx
Yes. I love to be told something previously unknown-well and quickly.