Gemini and Virgo compatibility

Love and romance stands at 47, just under the two highest facets. The angle weighs most here and it is weak; the shared ruler, at full value, makes up part of the difference.

Ptolemy explains why the quartile was held to be discordant: it joins “signs not of the same kind, but of different natures and sexes”. He writes that the third triplicity “is composed of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, masculine signs” and says of Virgo’s triplicity that it “consists of feminine signs”. Fitting his general reason to this one pair is our step, not his.

Of Gemini people Alan Leo writes: “They can present a bold front and assertive attitude, and yet be timid and highly nervous.” His summary of the other sign runs “retiring, ingenious, discriminative, active and mercurial”. Timid in the first, retiring in the second: the likeness is our reading of two separate sentences.

Trust is the joint lowest facet, level with values, at 32. Steadiness has the same weight in it as the angle, and two mutable signs bring no steadiness at all.

William 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. His Virgo line, as we have it, carries no word for this quality; our data counts both signs as mutable.

Alan Leo’s portraits share a word. Gemini people “can be generous and also somewhat careful and near”. Virgo people “are careful and cautious, and usually act somewhat methodically, or with much apparent forethought”. That the word careful occurs in both is something we noticed; the passages we use do not connect them.

Communication is the joint highest facet, at 49, level with shared activities. Adaptability counts in it and is at its full value. The elements, which carry the largest weight, hold the score down, and the shared ruler has the smallest weight of the four inputs.

Alan Leo says of Gemini people: “They are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive”. Of the Virgo type he says “they always seem to have their wits about them, and are generally self-possessed”. Quick wits in one chapter and wits kept at hand in the other; setting the two phrases together is our doing.

Emotions comes to 41. The elements have their largest weight in this facet, close to half, and air with earth counts for little.

Lilly’s quality lines show the gap. Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Virgo “earthly, cold, melancholly”. Hot stands against cold, and sanguine against melancholy.

Alan Leo’s two chapters each speak of analysis. Gemini people, in his words, “are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”. Virgo people “are self-analytical, and seem to be always taking themselves to pieces”. Reading the two as people who examine what they feel is our inference.

Values comes out at 32, the same as trust. Here the elements weigh most and steadiness counts again, so the two inputs on which this pair does worst are both present.

Alan Leo calls Gemini people “conservative and progressive, and altogether quite dualistic subjects, which makes them difficult for others to understand”. His Virgo people “are very industrious, persistent, and tend more toward the practical than the ideal”. One portrait holds two outlooks at once and the other keeps to practical work; the contrast is drawn by us.

Shared activities scores 49, level with communication. Adaptability weighs a little less in it and the rulers a little more, and for this pair both are at full value.

Alan Leo happens to use one verb for both signs. Gemini people “can very quickly adapt themselves to surroundings or environment”. Virgo people “can so readily adapt themselves to the requirements of those around them that they make excellent entertainers and splendid social companions”. The match of words is our observation.