DIVINE INFLUENCE: " I THINK "
MESSAGE: " I think, therefore I am. "
KEY To Understanding Gemini: Perception
ELEMENT: Air
QUALITY: Mutable
RULING PLANET: Mercury
The Command of Mercury:
"Look ~ God's truth is everywhere!"
Welcome to Gemini. Note the glyph of Gemini like a Roman Numeral Two. This is quite appropriate for Gemini is commonly called "The Twins". The Twins in question were named "The Discouri" by the Greeks and were called Castor and Pollux. They were thought either to be brothers by Zeus and Leda, Queen of Sparta, or half brothers by Zeus and King Tyndareus. Either way they remain as Twins. It is their brotherly devotion that marks their story and which is said to have immortalized them in the heavens. Instability is their great weakness, but their devotion tempers this shortcoming.
This talk of Twins, while appropriate enough, and meaningful to the sign (most Greek Myths are appropriate to something), it does not suggest the true origin of the glyph of Gemini, however. To find the origin we must go back before the great Greek Culture to its precursor in the Age of Gemini after 6,000 B.C. During this era the great nations of the Celts dominated all of Europe North of Macedonia and was administered by the Druids, or "The Priests of the Groves." This was a lovely time, for the religion of the Age gave people a mission that commanded them to grow and keep the world as a garden. Hence the groves of trees, especially the Oaks were revered. It is these forests, standing with their feet in the Earth and their heads reaching skyward that are represented in the glyph of Gemini.
During this era Europe was cleared of all thorns and the continent was planted in fruits and nuts. It was a time when the Celtic tribes were nomadic, following the seasons according to the direction of their Druid priests and priestesses. As they wandered and lived from the fruit of the land they observed the religion of Gemini by planting the seeds of the trees and shrubs as they went until all of Europe was covered with this beautiful bounty. It was during this time that writing evolved with the Ogham script, and the wheel was developed to aid them in their nomadic roaming.
One cannot help but feel that this must have been a wonderful time. People wandered wherever they might, talking and teaching one another, turning the earth into a garden of sustenance as they went. It must have been a time of vast spiritual advancement, for out of it grew the great civilization of Greece's Golden Age, producing some of the greatest thinkers the world has known. The last phase of the Age of Gemini produced the great teacher, Hermes Trismegestrus, who became the "Messiah" for the Age of Taurus when he brought the Greek Wisdom to the temples of Egypt. His "Hermetic Principles" are the basis for modern metaphysics.
Thinking is an elusive phenomenon and efforts by psychologists to nail it down first began with viewing it as a function of the brain. While true enough, this approach was not very productive for they do not understand the true nature of the brain. Next they defined thinking as something that produced behavior and overlooked many of the higher functions re lated to the act of thinking. Finally they realized that the key to people's thinking is their perception. How we see it is how we think, and how we think determines our behavior.
Thoughtful people, these Gemini’s, and loyal are they too, but a certain instability marks their nature and is their lesson to learn. As with all the signs they have their weaknesses to overcome but from them we can learn so much.
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November 2007 
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