Gemini THE TWINS May 21 - June 20

Adaptable and versatile Communicative and witty Intellectual and eloquent Youthful and lively The darker side.... Nervous and tense Superficial and inconsistent Cunning and inquisitive

The twins birthstone is the Moss Agate. This stone has been shown to be helpful to the health of Geminis who are plagued with circulatory problems and has shown to be an aid in fine tuning your intuitive feelings, as well as aid in easing depression. Another gemstone used for the Twins is the Emerald, but the Moss Agate vibrated to the levels of Mercury, your ruling planet, thus making it more helpful to you.

Geminis have an intuitive, sometimes dazzling intelligence and love intellectual challenges. Sometimes their concentration, though powerfully intense for a while, does not last. The twins bore easily and want a new stimulation and varying challenges. Their mental agility give them a insatiable appetite for knowledge from a very early age and continues throughout their life, even though they dislike the labor of structured study. Their mental dexterity allow them to grasp almost anything requiring intelligence easily, and are frequently able to join manual skills to their qualities of mind. Geminis are strongly analytical and are so good at seeing both sides of things that they sometimes find it hard to choose one side over the other, leading them to be indecisive. But their superior intelligence sometimes allows them to bring together the duality of their natures into the a most efficient unit. When faced with challenges, Twins tend not to worry about the problem until a solution is found - they like to pick the brains of others.

Being true to their sign, twins are dual-natured, complex and contradictory. On one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness or flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of children. When they are good they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like the young, they are lively and happy, when circumstances are right for them. To them life is a game which must be full of fresh moves and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine.

In love the Gemini is fickle, not intentionally so but because of the basic inconsistency of their emotional nature, which has an amoral aspect to it. There is a side to the twins which can become deeply involved emotionally, and another that is hostile to sentiment, which detaches from a romantic situation, laughing at it and the people in it, including themselves while analyzing it intellectually. Geminis take nothing too seriously. So in love, in spite of their temporary depth of feeling, the intensity of involvement lasts only while it is new. They tend to be superficial, light hearted, cool, very flirtatious, and unimaginative to the pain they may cause others. They love the excitement and intrigue of the chase, but once the prey has been caught, they tend to lose interest and look around for the next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make wonderful, witty and entertaining companions. Even at their worst they are seldom dull - there is playfulness below the surface and they make brilliant conversationalists - but they can also become quarrelsome, boasters and cheats.

Gemini rules the arms, shoulders, hands, lungs and nervous system and they need to beware of diseases and accidents associated with the upper body, as well as nervous and pulmonary disorders. Geminians are also prone to taking unnecissary risks and wind up harming themselves or others in the process. Sometimes pursuing pleasure to vigorously can also qualify as risk taking.