Gemini and Gemini compatibility

Love and romance reaches 83. The angle weighs most in this facet; the elements and the rulers share the remainder equally, and both are strong for a doubled Gemini.

In the passages we use, Ptolemy names four configurations, “the opposition, the trine, the quartile, and the sextile”, and each one joins two different signs. A sign beside itself is not among them, so the value of this angle comes from our data and not from him.

Alan Leo’s Gemini chapter has a sentence on partners: “These persons would do well to marry those born in the airy or fiery triplicities.” William Lilly lists Gemini as “of the aery triplicity”, so a second Gemini falls inside the group Alan Leo names. That step is ours; his sentence speaks of triplicities and not of this pairing. It is a view of signs quoted as history, not advice about a relationship.

Trust is the lowest of the six, at 58. Steadiness has the same weight in it as the angle, and here steadiness is nothing. The angle, the shared element and the shared ruler supply all of the score.

Lilly’s line for Gemini calls it a “common or double-bodied humane Signe”. He is listing qualities for judging a chart, not describing people.

Alan Leo gives the sign a sentence that speaks for reliance and one that speaks against it. The first: “They love change and diversity, and they are always the best persons to rely upon in an emergency, as they can instantly respond to the requirements of the moment.” The second carries a condition: “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. In a same-sign pair each sentence would describe both partners alike, which is our reading and not his.

Communication is the highest facet, 90. The elements weigh most in it and adaptability holds a quarter of the weight, and a doubled mutable air sign has both in full.

Alan Leo’s portrait is of a fast mind: “They are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive, and they seem to draw a great deal on what is really an inspirational nature.” Another of his sentences is about being understood: “They are conservative and progressive, and altogether quite dualistic subjects, which makes them difficult for others to understand.” Whether a second Gemini would follow the first more easily, the passages we use do not say.

Emotions comes to 86. The elements carry the largest weight here, and one element is all this pair has.

Lilly’s qualities for the sign are “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine”. A doubled Gemini has only this one line, and our data gives the elements their full value.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people that “they are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”. He also writes: “They can present a bold front and assertive attitude, and yet be timid and highly nervous.” Doubling the sign doubles both halves of that sentence, the bold front and the nerves behind it. That inference is ours.

Values is the second lowest facet, at 64. Steadiness counts again, with a smaller weight than in trust, and the elements, which weigh most, keep it above trust.

Alan Leo writes that “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”. Our reading is that two people of the one sign would at least recognise that way of working in each other.

Shared activities scores 89, just under communication. Adaptability counts here with a smaller weight, and the elements weigh most.

Two of Alan Leo’s sentences bear on this, in our reading. “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.” And: “They can very quickly adapt themselves to surroundings or environment and they are remarkable for their versatility”. Two people so described, in our reading, would have four things in hand between them.