Gemini and Capricorn compatibility

Love and romance comes to 28. The angle carries the largest weight in this facet, and the quincunx has a low value in our formula.

Ptolemy gives a geometric reason for setting such signs aside: “all parts distant from each other in the space of five signs are also considered inconjunct, because they divide the whole circle into unequal parts”.

Alan Leo wrote one chapter for each sign. Of Gemini people he says: “they must have diversity; this may make them appear to their friends very fickle and indecisive, but it is their particular way of working, therefore perfectly legitimate to them.” Of Capricorn people: “when fully individualised they are very contemplative, reserved, deep and profound”. A need for diversity beside reserve: the pairing of the two sentences is ours.

Trust scores 27. Steadiness and the angle have equal weight in it, the largest, and both are low for this pair.

William Lilly’s quality lines, which describe signs for judging a chart and not people, give the two modalities. Gemini is a “common or double-bodied humane Signe”, common being his word for mutable. Capricorn is “Solsticiall, Cardinall, Moveable”.

Alan Leo’s Capricorn sentence on constancy has a condition in it: “The Capricornians, when individualised, are impartial, just and accurate, aiming to be precise, exact and constant, fulfilling all things with a persistent, persevering and industrious nature.” His hard words on Gemini are conditional too: “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. Each sentence keeps its own proviso, and reading one against the other is our doing.

Communication is the highest of the six, at 35. Adaptability counts in it and stands at three quarters. The elements, which weigh most here, hold it down.

Alan Leo on Gemini: “They are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive, and they seem to draw a great deal on what is really an inspirational nature.” Capricorn people, in his words, are “ever enduring with a calm, earnest patience, and a grave reflective demeanour”. Our reading of the two chapters: a quick mind in one portrait, a grave manner in the other.

Emotions is the lowest facet, at 25. The elements have their largest weight in it, and for air with earth they count for little.

Lilly’s lines name the qualities. Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine”. Capricorn is “Nocturnal, Cold, Dry, Melancholly, Earthly, Feminine”. Hot stands against cold and moist against dry, with no quality shared; that comparison of the two lines is ours. Ptolemy says of Capricorn’s ruler that Saturn “is cold and inimical to heat”.

Alan Leo says Gemini people “are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”. Of those born under Capricorn he says “their virtue lies in patience, contemplation and reflection”. Sensitive in one chapter and patient in the other, set side by side by us.

Values comes to 26. The elements weigh most, and steadiness, at a quarter, adds little.

Alan Leo writes of Gemini: “These persons are rarely content with a single occupation or pursuit, and seem to delight in having two things in hand at the same time.” Of Capricorn people he says they “possess both ambition and endurance”, and also: “They make the most of all their opportunities, and being self-reliant they accomplish their ends.” Our reading is that the first portrait spreads across several pursuits and the second keeps to its ends.

Shared activities is the second highest facet, at 34. Adaptability counts again, with a smaller weight than in communication.

Alan Leo says Gemini people “can very quickly adapt themselves to surroundings or environment and they are remarkable for their versatility”. Of Capricorn: “They are always more or less ambitious, and in some way or other are ever seeking to display their independence.” Versatility beside independence is our comparison, not his.