We Got Twins!

June will soon be busting out all over and for my money it will be the summer’s summer. Here in the northeast of the United States it is the seasonal cycle during which the greens are at their verdant best. The air is warm, clear, light and sensual. Flowers and trees and even lawns are redolent with color and vibrancy. There is an eternal beautiful youth to the earth during this seasonal cycle and just as it is said that Taureans and Geminis are the most beautiful people of the zodiac, it is easy to see why this is true from simply observing the months of May and June during every blessed year we are allowed to experience them. True beauty seems to have an ageless freshness to it and though the human object of beauty may be seventy years old – if the septuagenarian is a Gemini then that sense of adolescent vitality will still flow from every pore of this human. My grandfather looked poised and kind throughout his golden years and I think as a Gemini he exemplified this sense of graceful aging perfectly. My new grandma through marriage is also a well-preserved Gemini and she works hard at remaining youthful.

As a double Libran, it is said that I am attracted to Gems and I would have to say that in my former musical projects I have worked well with male Gems and in my past romantic life there have been some female Gems. Ironically, my Cancerian wife is attracted to Gems as well, but from what I understand of astrology, Geminis slice and dice Cancerians with their sharp words and deeds, so I am not sure if this is a good thing for her. I think that the Libra-Gemini pull is very much about talking incessantly about all kinds of nonsense with the end result being a lot of nothing, in fact, I did this for an entire relationship some years ago. Nonetheless, I love to talk, so it is easy for me to hang out with a Gemini and to shoot the breeze endlessly in the early summer sun.

On the flipside of the ebullient and chirpy Gemini is their depressive alter ego that surfaces again and again and it is deep and penetrating and it will darken the world around them. How is it possible for a person to be able to fall from that energetic adolescence into a kind of blackness of late adulthood? Well, it is possible. The Geminian will become depressed like no other sign (OK – today we may call this bipolar disorder) and much mud must be swum through before the cheery and bright Gemini may emerge again into the sunlight. Sometimes this process may take a very long time indeed and I pity da fool who has to be supportive to the Gemini native during this process.

Much has been said about the Gemini being the sign of the twins and I would have to agree that this is so. I would add to the mix that one of the twins is always the darker half. When this figure emerges all other folks should run for cover for the Geminian black spector is no easy quick fix, and frankly, only the Gem can fix it if he or she cares to.

It seems necessary to mention Elliot Spitzer now, the former governor of New York. Yeah, he is a Gem. Without understanding anything about astrology the duality within his life is easily recognizable. Upstanding politician and family man by day; by night his alter ego took over and only expensive prostitution could relax his existential unease and the nervousness that is the Geminian experience. While this behavior has a Scorpio vibe to it … I get mostly that duplicitous Gem scent from it all. Though I feel sorry for his family, I am not a hundred percent sure that even a team of therapists could have healed his darker twin. Gemini is all about the duality – it can’t just be fixed – it is the very nature of the sign. Eliot Spitzer is more than one persona … probably he is more than four personas; maybe he is eight personas. To separate all of these identities is just not possible, nor is it desirable. Geminis make great politicians because of all those personas. Where was the astrologist when the Spitzer’s needed one?

Gemini rules things like butterflies, monkeys, the metal mercury and the nervous system. These kinds of phenomena are forever in panicky movement going to and fro and are not meant to keep still. Bob Dylan is a Gemini – has he ever stopped touring? Has he ever stopped exposing different selves to the record buying public? Miles Davis was a Gemini – again, showing side after different side to the public and never running out of sides to expose and explore.

This is a Gemini at their finest creating any number of connections at a frenetic pace. In this they excel far more than any other sign. Gemini is the ultimate tour guide.

Some beautiful female Gems come to mind and first on the list we should put Marilyn Monroe. So much has been written about her. Hers was the nervous and comical sexuality – she was the smart flirt. Three marriage partners were had by her until her untimely death at 36. Hers was a young spirit, though. Should she have reached seventy or eighty or ninety? My sense is that her freshness was great indeed and Hollywood exacted its toll – perhaps 36 years was just the right amount for her. It is worth watching her films – there is a wit and wisdom about her if not a true warmth. Air signs don’t really do the warmth thing that well anyway -- it takes one to know one.
Finally, if you have a friend or relative who moves around a lot … please inquire as to whether or not they are a Gemini for it is the Gemini who really enjoys a change in scenery, partners, jobs and religions. Just because so-and-so isn’t Siamese doesn’t mean that there isn’t a whole other brother or sister right underneath their raincoat.