In developmental psychology, Gemini is the stage where a child begins to label its reality. Your sign is able to see and explore reality through multiple perspectives. You are a disseminator of information, able to take complex ideas and simplify them so that everyone understands. As the air version of Mercury, you are highly adaptable in nature and this is both a gift and an aspect of you that requires conscious awareness.
You can perceive and hold multiple points of view and yet, part of your journey is in the gathering of information and then channelling that information through the flavour of your own individual mind. It’s not about gathering information for the sake of it, it is about what you do with it. What do you do with your storehouse of intel?
Gemini is both an oracle and a trickster. Able to gather intel in the mortal and divine realms as well as the underworld, you have likely been told the phrase, curiosity killed the cat. Be aware of your insatiable desire for information as your sign is highly, highly absorptive and it is important for you to curate your own boundaries as far as what you do and do not allow into your own field. Ask yourself what your motivation is in seeking to know something. Discernment is your friend and ally. Your sign could be a great spy or a double-crossing agent and all the while the main intent would be in gathering all of the information for yourself, having all points of view at hand.
This is where the trickster archetype comes into play. You need variety in life, stagnation is death to your sign. If bored, your energy may want to get some action happening and it may delve into its lower expressions of needless gossip. It is important to identify, what is the vehicle through which you apply your heralding nature? It is vital for you to have one (or many), in this way you naturally create direction for your sponge like abilities.
What is your relationship to responsibility? Your free spirit may view responsibility as a constraint and yet, somewhat paradoxically, there is so much more freedom that comes when you stake your claim in the world, ground in and take responsibility for it. Your sign soars when it applies its will and is stimulated by its work and environment.
You are gregarious and versatile and it is your capacity to receive and express information that sets you apart. With a mind as agile as yours, it is worth applying it in areas and ways that support your need for variety and call upon your capacity as a herald and communicator.
HEALING BALM
Lean into the the higher expressions of your opposing sign, Sagittarius. For one, being more experiential in your learning. This balances out your intellectual understanding through having your own lived experiences with said information. The equation would look something like information + lived experience = knowledge.
POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS
Curious
Open Minded
Logical
Highly Perceptive
SHADOW EXPRESSIONS
Duplicitous
Indecisive
Shallow
Gossipy
MUTABLE | AIR | MERCURY
THE CURIOUS ORACLE
Want to learn more about the other signs? Look to our comprehensive guide on the personality traits of all the zodiac signs.
TIFFANY & CO. BROOCH.
