Gemini and Aquarius compatibility

Love and romance is the second highest facet, 85. The trine carries the largest weight here and counts in full; the ruler input, at its middle value, is the one part of this facet that does not.

Ptolemy writes that “the trine and the sextile are each called harmonious, because they are constituted between signs of the same kind”. He places both signs in one triangle: “The third triplicity is composed of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, masculine signs.”

Alan Leo has a marriage sentence in his Gemini chapter: “These persons would do well to marry those born in the airy or fiery triplicities.” He names triplicities there, not Aquarius; noting that Aquarius is an airy sign is our step. The sentence is a view of signs quoted as history, not advice about a relationship. Of Aquarians Alan Leo says: “They are faithful in their love until the end, the love generally living in the higher mind.”

Trust is the lowest of the six at 75. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle in this facet, and a fixed sign with a mutable one brings it to half.

In Ptolemy the signs that come straight after a tropical or an equinoctial sign “are termed fixed”, and the bicorporeal signs come after those: “they participate in the constitutional properties of both”. Aquarius comes after Capricorn and Gemini after Taurus; naming them under his rule is our step.

William Lilly’s quality lines, written for judging a chart and not as portraits of people, give Aquarius as “diurnal, sanguine, fixed, rational, humane, masculine” and Gemini as a “common or double-bodied humane Signe”.

Alan Leo writes of Aquarians: “They are persons one feels one can depend upon, and they inspire trust by their equable dispositions.” Of Gemini people Alan Leo says that “they are always the best persons to rely upon in an emergency”. Set side by side, which is our doing, both chapters have a sentence on being relied upon.

Communication scores 83, level with shared activities. The elements have the largest weight in it and count in full, while adaptability sits at half.

Alan Leo calls Gemini people “quick-witted and mentally impulsive”. Of Aquarians he writes: “the Aquarian individuals are born character-readers, and they are rarely mistaken in their judgment”. Our reading of the two sentences as a pair: a quick mind in one portrait, a reader of people in the other.

Emotions is the highest facet, 88. The elements weigh more here than in any other facet, and two air signs give that input its full value.

In Lilly’s lines Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Aquarius “an aierial, hot and moyst Signe”.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people that “they are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”. Of Aquarians, Alan Leo speaks of “the intense and fixed love nature of the fixed signs combined with the refined mental quality of the airy signs”. Our reading is that each sentence joins feeling to thought, in its own words.

Values comes to 78, the second lowest. Steadiness counts again, with less weight than in trust, and the elements weigh most.

Alan Leo gives Aquarians a cause, under a condition: “When fully individualised, they have a great love for all humanitarian undertakings and concerns that produce harmony for the many”. Of Gemini people Alan Leo says: “They are conservative and progressive, and altogether quite dualistic subjects, which makes them difficult for others to understand.” A love for the many in the first sentence and a double nature in the second: the contrast is drawn by us.

Shared activities scores 83, the same as communication. Adaptability counts here too, with a smaller weight, and it is at half.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people: “They love change and diversity”. Of Aquarians: “They seem to readily take to strangers, and rarely consider that others are in any way strange to them”. Next to each other, by our choice, the sentences show a taste for variety and an ease with new people.