Sun in Gemini

Two hands at once is the image Alan Leo 1899 reaches for here. He says the sign governs the hands and arms, and that people born in it like to keep two tasks going and often leave them unfinished. This is his account of the Sun in Gemini, since he reads the Sun through his sign chapters.

Heindel 1918, on a narrower case, leans the other way. With the Sun rising in Gemini, the book says, the nature settles and grows more persistent. Raphael's Guide of 1877 mentions neither restlessness nor steadiness and, in an entry whose planet symbol is missing from the scan and which is placed here only by his usual order, speaks of an affable person with a taste for science.

Gemini is a house of Mercury, and Lilly 1659 allows the Sun only the last ten degrees of the sign as a face. Mercury can never get far from the Sun, so the two often sit in the same sign or next door. Modern sun-sign writing tends to make curiosity the whole story.