If you want to know how a Gemini feels about love you should not listen to what he or she says but rather observe what he or she does. Geminis can be quite generous to those they love.
Geminis like their partners to be refined, well educated and well travelled. If their partners are more wealthy than they, that is all the better. If you are in love with a Gemini you had better be a good listener as well.
The ideal relationship for the Gemini is a relationship of the mind. They enjoy the physical and emotional aspects, of course, but if the intellectual communion is not there they will suffer.
Home and Domestic Life
At home the Gemini can be uncharacteristically neat and meticulous. They tend to want their children and partner to live up to their idealistic standards. When these standards are not met they moan and criticize. However, Geminis are good family people and like to serve their families in practical and useful ways.
The Gemini home is comfortable and pleasant. They like to invite people over and they make great hosts. Geminis are also good at repairs and improvements around the house—all fuelled by their need to stay active and occupied with something they like to do. Geminis have many hobbies and interests that keep them busy when they are home alone.
Geminis understand and get along well with their children, mainly because they are very youthful people themselves. As great communicators, Geminis know how to explain things to children; in this way they gain their children’s love and respect. Geminis also encourage children to be creative and talkative, just like they are.
Major Trends
For many years now, your challenge has been in coping with dramatic and sudden change—and this trend is continuing in the year ahead, especially for those of you who are born late in the sign of Gemini (June 15 to 21). The cosmos is not punishing you, but liberating you—breaking many negative kinds of attachments—so that you can pursue your true life path. Yes, the changes have been quite dramatic, but in the end you will see that the barriers to your good—to your happiness—have come down. You will enter your personal promised land with ease and grace.
Last year was a highly sexually active kind of year and this year you are toning it down a bit.
It was also about exploring many of the deeper things in life: past lives, death, life after death, reincarnation, resurrection and ascension. Great progress was made here. And with all of this knowledge under your belt, you are ready—in the year ahead—to go deeper into religion and philosophy and understand them better.
This year, 2009, is also a year for foreign travel, and especially for religious-type pilgrimages. There are many wonderful educational opportunities coming too—and what Gemini can pass this up?
Family life could have been better these past few years and the good news is that the difficulties are just about over with; by October 29 things at home will get better.
Last year was not an especially romantic year (it was sexually active but not romantic—there’s a difference) and the trend continues in the year ahead.
Health could also have been better these past few years, but rejoice: things are improving on that front after October 29 as well.
Your major areas of interest this year are career (this has been so for many years); religion, philosophy, higher education, foreign travel and ministry; occult studies, death, rebirth, past lives, reincarnation, personal transformation; home and family (until October 29); children, creativity and fun (after October 29).
Your paths of greatest fulfilment in the year ahead are religion, philosophy, higher education, foreign travel and ministry; and occult studies, death, rebirth, past lives, reincarnation and personal transformation (after July 27).
Health
(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, both of these perspectives were identical. But in these times there could be quite a difference. For the medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health professional.)
Health has been a stressful area for the past few years. Two major long-term planets were stressing you out—Uranus and Saturn—neither of which you want to trifle with. And while you still need to be very careful with your overall energy, there are improvements happening, as we mentioned.
First off, Jupiter is moving into a very harmonious relationship with you. He is giving more help than he was last year. Second, Saturn will move from a stressful aspect to a harmonious aspect after October 29. You are going to see dramatic improvements in overall health this year, but especially after October 29.
The main problem was energy levels. When two long-term planets are stressing you, it is as if you are walking uphill. You need twice the amount of energy to travel the same distance. And because energy was not what it should have been, you could have been hit in your vulnerable organs, which is what tends to happen.
If you have been having health problems you will see miraculous types of healings after October 29. The healer or doctor will get the credit (and perhaps this is as it should be) but the truth of the matter was that your own life energy—now expanded—merely manifested its natural perfection. (If we could just get out of the way of our own life force, our bodies would always be healthy—but this is easier said than done.)
The other problem was that your 6th House of Health was empty (for the most part) for the past few years (and is still basically empty in the year ahead). Thus, at a time when it was important to focus on health, your tendency was to ignore it. And this trend continues in the year ahead. There is a need to force yourself to focus on health, though you don’t feel like it. You will have to find the motivation within yourself; it is not being supplied by the cosmos. (The good news though is that Pluto, your health planet, recently changed signs—now he is in the disciplined Sign of Capricorn—which makes it easier for you to muster up the needed discipline, both in diet and daily lifestyle.)
Pluto is your health planet. In the physical body he rules the colon, bladder and sexual organs. Thus these organs always need more attention. Last year was a sexually active year and you could have gone overboard and forgotten moderation; if so you are paying the price for it these days. Not only is sexual moderation important, but so is safe sex. It is important for everyone but especially for you.
Your health planet spent many years in the Sign of Sagittarius, which rules the liver and thighs, and these organs were ultra important until this year. Now with Pluto in Capricorn, the spine, knees, teeth, bones, gall bladder and overall skeletal alignment are very important. Regular back massage will do wonders for you. Seeing a chiropractor or osteopath on a regular basis will be a good idea; it is very important that your vertebrae are in proper alignment. Yoga is very wonderful for the spine and you should spend more time with the postures that focus on the spine. The Alexander Technique and Feldenkreis method are other good therapies for the spine. If you are doing vigorous exercise give the knees more support. Make sure you are getting enough of the minerals (calcium and Vitamin K) that keep the bones strong.
Reflexology Try to massage the whole foot on a regular basis, but pay extra attention to the points
