Taurus and Gemini compatibility

Love and romance scores 28. The angle has the largest weight in this facet, and it is one of the pair’s two weak inputs.

Ptolemy does not count neighbouring signs among his configurations. Signs “which contain between them the space of one sign only” are, in his word, “inconjunct”. Taurus and Gemini are such a pair.

Alan Leo wrote one chapter for each sign. Taureans, he says, “may be contrasted with the Aries types by the fact that they are more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”. Of Gemini people he writes: “They are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive, and they seem to draw a great deal on what is really an inspirational nature.” Putting the two sentences together is our doing.

Trust is the highest facet, at 34, and it is still low. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here. Taurus, the fixed sign, counts in full, Gemini, the mutable sign, counts for nothing, and the average is half.

Ptolemy’s name for the mutable signs is bicorporeal, and his description suits Gemini’s place after Taurus: “The bicorporeal signs severally follow the fixed signs; and, being thus intermediately placed between the fixed and the tropical signs, they participate in the constitutional properties of both”. He is writing about seasons there, not character.

Alan Leo’s two chapters each have a sentence that bears on trust, in our reading. Taureans “make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance”. Gemini people “are always the best persons to rely upon in an emergency”, yet “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. Setting loyalty in one chapter beside quick response in the other, with its condition, is our doing.

Communication comes to 29, level with shared activities. The elements carry the largest weight in this facet and are the pair’s weakest input; adaptability, at half, does more for the score than they do.

Alan Leo gives Taureans a manner of speech: “they usually speak with a quiet, firm, inflexible and almost authoritative tone”. His Gemini chapter has a sentence on being understood: “They are conservative and progressive, and altogether quite dualistic subjects, which makes them difficult for others to understand.” Reading the two together is our choice.

Emotions is the lowest facet, 25. Nearly half of it rests on the elements, and earth and air have neither quality in common.

William Lilly’s quality lines show why. Taurus is “Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy”, and Gemini “an aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” sign. Cold against hot and dry against moist. Lilly is listing qualities for judging a chart, not describing people.

Alan Leo’s portraits differ along a similar line, though the comparison is ours. Of Taurus he says that “as the sign belongs to the earthy triplicity, it is more often physical and objective than subjective feeling”. Gemini people “are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”.

Values reaches 32, the second highest of the six. Steadiness is a quarter of this facet and stands at half, which lifts it above the facets that have no steadiness in them.

Both chapters happen to use the word “conservative”. For Taureans “it is quite natural for them to be reserved, conservative and secretive”; Gemini people are, in the sentence quoted above, “conservative and progressive”. Alan Leo does not connect the two uses; we do.

Shared activities scores 29, the same as communication.

Here the two portraits are furthest apart, in our reading. “The Taureans are slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons”, Alan Leo writes. Gemini people “are rarely content with a single occupation or pursuit, and seem to delight in having two things in hand at the same time”. “They love change and diversity”, he says elsewhere in the chapter.