Gemini and Sagittarius compatibility

Love and romance scores 58. The angle has the largest weight here and sits at half; the elements lift the facet above that.

Ptolemy writes that “The opposition and quartile are considered to be discordant”, and his reason is that such signs are “of different natures and sexes”. In his chapter on the triplicities, though, Sagittarius is one of “three masculine signs”, and the triplicity of Gemini is also made of masculine signs. Setting those lists beside his reason is our doing, and the passages we use do not comment on it.

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.” Sagittarius, in William Lilly’s line, “Is of the fiery triplicity”. Alan Leo’s sentence is a view of signs from an old book, quoted as history, not advice about a relationship.

Trust is the lowest facet, at 40. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle in it, and by the formula’s measure a pair of mutable signs has none.

Lilly’s lines list qualities for judging a chart and do not portray people. They call Gemini a “common or double-bodied humane Signe” and Sagittarius “Common, bycorporall or double bodied”. Ptolemy says of the bicorporeal signs that “being thus intermediately placed between the fixed and the tropical signs, they participate in the constitutional properties of both”. Treating an in-between place in the season as a lack of steadiness is our formula’s step, not his.

Alan Leo writes of Gemini people, under a condition: “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. His summary of the Sagittarian individual has the words “loyal to whomsoever he becomes attached”. Putting the two sentences together is our choice.

Communication is the highest facet, at 71. The elements weigh most in it and count strongly, and adaptability, at its full value, adds to them.

Alan Leo says Gemini people “are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive”. Of Sagittarius people he writes: “They have a decisive way of expressing themselves which can never be mistaken”. Our reading of the two chapters together: one portrait is of a quick wit, the other of a decisive speaker.

Emotions comes to 61. The elements have their largest weight in this facet.

In Lilly’s lines Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Sagittarius “fiery, hot, dry, Masculine, Cholericke”. Read side by side by us, hot stands in both lines, and moist stands against dry. The shared heat is what our data counts for air with fire.

Alan Leo gives Gemini a double temper: “They can present a bold front and assertive attitude, and yet be timid and highly nervous.” Sagittarius people, in his chapter on that sign, “are always looking forward with a bright, hopeful, and happy disposition”. Nerves behind a bold front in one chapter and hope in the other: the contrast is drawn by us.

Values scores 45, the second lowest of the six. Steadiness counts again, with a smaller weight than in trust, and the elements weigh most.

Alan Leo writes of Gemini people: “They are conservative and progressive, and altogether quite dualistic subjects, which makes them difficult for others to understand.” Of the other sign: “Being lovers of liberty, they can recognise the law of order and harmony”. Our reading is that each sentence holds two things at once, the old with the new in the first, liberty with order in the second.

Shared activities is the second highest facet, at 69. Adaptability counts here with a smaller weight than in communication, and this pair has all of it.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people that they “seem to delight in having two things in hand at the same time”. Of the opposite sign he writes: “The Sagittarians make splendid characters when allowed perfect freedom.” Variety in one portrait and freedom in the other, placed next to each other by us.