Venus in Gemini

Raphael's Guide of 1877 describes a mild and kind temper in a person generally loved and respected, the warmest of the four lines on Venus in the part of his book read here. Gemini is Mercury's house, and Lilly 1659 gives Venus degrees 15 to 20 of it as terms and nothing else. The placement rests mostly on what the natures of two planets make when mixed.

Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) keeps Venus near the Sun and Mercury nearer still. Those limits mean the three bodies can occupy neighboring signs, and a Venus in Gemini always sits within two signs of the Sun.

Alan Leo 1899 gives the sign a talent for doing two things at once, and Sepharial 1920 says Venus confers gentleness and fine feeling. Modern astrology's usual line about flirtation and love of talk is a later combination of these ideas.