Gemini and Scorpio compatibility

Love and romance is the lowest facet, at 35. It gives the angle more weight than any other facet does, and the angle is where this pair is weakest.

Ptolemy’s reason for calling such signs inconjunct is geometric. Parts of the zodiac that lie five signs apart, he writes, “are also considered inconjunct, because they divide the whole circle into unequal parts”. He calls signs with no familiarity between them “inconjunct and separated”.

Alan Leo writes of Gemini people: “They love change and diversity”. Of Scorpio people he says “They have remarkable powers of attachment”. A love of change and a power of attachment: he wrote the two phrases in different chapters, and the contrast is ours.

Trust scores 39, a little under the highest facet. Steadiness counts in it, and one fixed sign with one mutable sign gives half.

William Lilly’s Scorpio line has the words “fixed and North”, and his Gemini line has “common or double-bodied”; these are qualities for judging a chart, not portraits. Ptolemy says certain signs “are termed fixed” because the season “is then more firmly established”. He speaks of weather there, and taking it as a trait of people is our reading.

Alan Leo is critical of each sign in a different way. Of Scorpio people: “Their somewhat suspicious nature causes them to be distrustful”. Of Gemini people, under a condition: “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. Placing distrust beside unreliability is our doing, and the second applies only under the condition he states.

Communication comes to 38, level with shared activities. The elements weigh most and count in part; adaptability, at half, moves the score little either way.

Alan Leo describes Gemini people as “quick-witted and mentally impulsive”. His sentence on Scorpio is about judgment: “Those who are individualised in Scorpio are remarkable for their keen judgment; they can criticise perfectly and impartially, and they are able to give their judgment in a decisive and clear manner.” Elsewhere he sums up Scorpio people as “very determined, reserved, tenacious and secretive”. Our reading of the passages together: a quick wit in one chapter, a reserved and decisive one in the other.

Emotions scores 37. The elements carry the largest weight, and air with water counts only in part.

In Lilly’s lines Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Scorpio “a cold, watry, nocturnal, flegmatick, feminine Signe”. Read side by side by us, hot is set against cold, sanguine against flegmatick.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people: “They appear to be unable to stand any worry or anxiety, which quite unnerves them”. Scorpio people, he writes, “seem to contain in themselves the silence of Pisces and the tenacity of Cancer, Scorpio’s companion watery signs”. Unnerved in one portrait, silent and tenacious in the other; we set them side by side, he does not.

Values is the highest facet by a narrow margin, at 40. The angle has its smallest weight here, and steadiness, at half, is counted.

Alan Leo’s two chapters differ on this point. “The Scorpio character is somewhat decided and unmistakable, being rarely, if ever, vacillating or feeble.” Of Gemini people he 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”. Decided against indecisive is our comparison, not his.

Shared activities scores 38, the same as communication. Adaptability weighs slightly less in it and the rulers slightly more, and both sit at the midpoint.

Alan Leo says Gemini people “seem to delight in having two things in hand at the same time”. Of Scorpio people: “They are generally marked for their very dignified manner, and though always affable and courteous, they are ready at any moment to stand upon their dignity.” One portrait is busy and the other dignified, a pairing we make.