Gemini and Libra compatibility

Love and romance scores 85. Angle and elements together carry most of the weight in this facet and both are full; the rulers, at the middle value, keep it short of the top.

Ptolemy says 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 triplicity, which “is composed of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, masculine signs”.

Alan Leo’s Gemini chapter has a single sentence on marriage: “These persons would do well to marry those born in the airy or fiery triplicities.” Libra is an air sign, so by our reading the sentence covers it without naming it. We quote it as a piece of history, one writer’s view of signs, and not as advice about any relationship. Of Libra people Alan Leo says they are found “expressing the Venus side of their nature more than any other”.

Trust is the lowest of the six, at 68. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle in it, and this pair has only a quarter of the steadiness two fixed signs would have.

William Lilly’s lines, which list qualities for judging a chart and do not portray people, call Gemini “common or double-bodied” and Libra “Moveable, Equinoctiall, Cardinall”. Neither line has the word fixed.

Alan Leo writes that Gemini people “are always the best persons to rely upon in an emergency, as they can instantly respond to the requirements of the moment”. On Libra he has a sentence with a condition attached: “When working along personal lines these persons live more to the form-side of life; they then become exceedingly approbative and very sensitive; they are rather impatient and inclined to be somewhat careless”. Putting the two sentences next to each other is our choice.

Communication is the highest facet, 89. The elements have the largest weight and are at full value, the angle is full, and adaptability stands at three quarters.

Alan Leo’s two portraits touch at one idea. Gemini people “seem to draw a great deal on what is really an inspirational nature”. Libra people “seem to be able to weigh and balance all things mentally, as though they were inspired”. One sentence has the word inspirational and the other inspired. That is our observation; in the passages we use he does not compare the signs.

Emotions comes to 88, level with shared activities. The elements weigh more here than in any other facet, and two air signs give that input everything.

Read side by side, which is our doing, Lilly’s two lines use nearly the same temperament words. Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Libra “aeriall, hot and moyst, Sanguine”.

Alan Leo calls Gemini people “very sensitive”. Of Libra he writes: “It is the aim of the individuality working through this sign to seek equilibrium, and this causes them to love harmony so much”. The same sentence adds that they “feel exceedingly sensitive” until that balance is reached. The shared word is our observation.

Values is the second lowest facet, at 71. It counts steadiness too, with a smaller weight than trust gives it, and the full element value does more of the work.

Alan Leo says Gemini people “can be generous and also somewhat careful and near”. Of Libra people he says: “They are sensitive so far as the personality is concerned, when not fully self-conscious, but they are always just and generous.” Pointing to the shared word generous is our doing.

Shared activities scores 88, the same as emotions. Adaptability counts here, at three quarters, beside the full angle and elements.

Alan Leo says 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.” For Libra people he says the Venus side of their nature “makes them courteous, agreeable and very pleasant persons”. A restless portrait and an agreeable one, paired by us.