In this article, you will learn everything you need to know about the Gemini Archetype (from the Zodiac archetypes).
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What is the Gemini Archetype?
The Gemini Archetype represents youthful versatility, mental perception, and disseminating knowledge. People that have a lot of Gemini influences in their charts are usually highly curious, preferring to delight in information and to communicate their ideas. The Gemini is also a sign of a shape-shifter or the Clown.
Extremely adaptable, intelligent, and versatile, Gemini can be compared to a style representing precise thought. This is a sign that governs communications along with rapid thinking, just like a computer. Unfortunately, these computer feelings can also manifest. This is an archetype that forms a basic “genesis” for all languages, which is explained as abilities to mentally process experiences and to provide them with meaning. The variety-seeking nature of the Gemini has made it a primary archetypal image representing the informant that is always on a quest for knowledge or information.
Gemini dominates commerce, journalism, trade, and the overall flow of ideas. Awareness of cyclic changes tunes the Gemini into the “cosmic rhythm”. With a Gemini as your guide, you can guarantee that something is always going to happen next.
Mercury and Gemini symbolize an experience that involves communing with an external presence that occurs through words and thoughts shared with other people. It is also a sign of a writer and the scribe, aspiring to learn, think, and perceive from experience. The curious Gemini gives you the inspiration to distribute ideas and seek awareness in the life experience field that shines dominantly into your chart.
The house where Gemini is on the cusp is when you should be the source of comedy, logic, adaptability, trivia, and knowledge. This also applies to the house containing Mercury, one of the ancient messengers to the gods. It is within these realms that you will be able to direct in a similar way to a wise guide or teacher, with knowledge, and ideas that are authentic and educate others by leading by example on how to live life spontaneously.
Gemini governs the nervous system. lungs, hands, and arms. Geminis are known for talking with their arms and hands and they can become somewhat nervous if they do not slow down occasionally to take a breath and relax. Their hands are used as an expression of skill along with writing.
When the energy of the Gemini is misdirected they can become robotic and cold. This can include meaningless jargon where they are unable to make “the forest for the trees”. When the shadow side of the Gemini emerges it can cause the person to become childish, nervous, irresponsible, and confused. The words that start coming out of their mouths are just noise, yet inside they start feeling scattered and distracted.
Knowledgeable is the keyword that is displayed on the dark and light sides of the Gemini. There is a stark difference between possessing valuable facts and knowing skills that will serve others. But once the mind becomes cluttered with knowledge and ideas that are not backed by feeling or useless trivia, something has definitely gone wrong. For example, knowing the right way to bake the perfect cake can be valuable, but the skills to build something dangerous like an atomic bomb are usually too much, particularly when this knowledge is squandered and misused.
Another shadow side of the Gemini is dishonesty. There are always 2 stories that play out for the dark side of the Gemini. They either make for great liars or excellent fiction writers. The Greek Mercury known as Hermes was the God of Thieves.
It is possible to learn how to overcome your shadow side when you express Sagittarius which is the opposite sign associated with gaining meaning, inspiration, and faith.
For a Gemini, the pen will always be stronger and mightier than a sword. The people that have command of Gemini planets within their charts are typically drawn to games involving strategy and chance. They enjoy using their minds for these pursuits even in basic games such as Scrabble. For the Gemini, the dimensions of thoughts, words, and the mind is an attractive reality. One of the problems with this is that they often remain stuck there.
The Gemini spiritual principle is explained as a spontaneous being via conversation. This literally means an action that involves “turning with another”. The universe is a word that shares this same root which means the “turning of the One”. For Gemini, the conversation that is the most courageous is what will drive this person through life. In some cases, this conversation won’t even be with an actual person, but rather an eternal being. Through communication and talking, Gemini includes its vibration that advances civilization and culture, whether through post offices or libraries.
The glyph of the Gemini is a symbol of two pillars that represent knowledge and a dual essence representing cyclic interplay. It takes two to achieve communication which includes the receiver and the sender. Gemini is a blessing to the world when it comes to questions and curiosity, similar to an innocent kid. There are also many pathways back to Spirit for this particular archetype. The twins serve as an accurate metaphor for Gemini which symbolizes Yin and Yang, which means to stand apart, but still united by lines that represent earth and heaven.
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