Mercury in Gemini June 11-June 26, double talking double timing.

Hendrik Goltzius, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mercury’s are mercurial which makes them terribly charming but also irritating as hell. They use words and ideas concepts and messages as their medium. Mercury or Quicksilver is a toxic metal. Are you a Quicksilver Messenger service fan? Mercury is a major component in ALCHEMY.

Gen Z hates Gemini’s these days and Libra i might add. But they love their music. see list of musicians below.

Mercury rules Gemini, and every time Mercury returns to his daytime sign the planet/ Messenger God is incredibly happy. Mercury governs two signs Gemini and Virgo.

Gemini is the fleet-footed, and winged hatted and sandaled messenger of the Gods, he is the Ancient UPS, and a form of Amazon, the Internet, every salesperson, FTD Florists, the Mercurial trickster God. MERCURY, known as HERMES to the Greeks and THOTH to the Egyptians. 

Mercury in the Tarot is the Magician #1 because Mercury symbolizes our consciousness, thinking, analysis and communications.

Mercury’s metal is Mercury or QUICKSILVER like Gemini energies MERCURY used to be in thermometers, and in dental fillings. Mercury’s properties made it hard to pin down, which describe Gemini energies perfectly. Quicksilver is a toxic poison and an Alchemical metal as well. The Quicksilver Messenger Service were a band in the 60’s.

Mercury is a PSYCHOPOMP. I love that word. It means he can travel between the three worlds. This third dimensional world he can go visit Hades/Pluto in the Land of the Dead, Hades or the Underworld and return to the land of the living. Very few Gods even had this power. Shamans have the power to travel between the worlds as well.

Mercury’s symbol is like the caduceus.  Modern and ancient Medicine uses the caduceus to signify the healing profession. The caduceus was originally employed by Chiron and Asclepius as snakes were used to help heal people in Ancient Greece and snakes were used in the Oracles at DELPHI. These reptiles are magical animals of the Earth Goddess since always, two snakes entwined around the central staff or spine also symbolizes Yogic KUNDALINI sexual energy.The caduceus is an ancient symbol of DNA;  the twin poles of consciousness, balance and the combining of opposites in ALCHEMY to produce something entirely new. This symbol is a deep psychological image associated with GEMINI and mental health. Which is not usually what we think is associated with this sign. This also symbolizes the power of our minds to create our health as in modern Positive thinking or intention setting.  As Gemini follows the first earth sign Taurus it also symbolizes Mind over Matter. I just had an epiphany and got this while Mercury is in Gemini since yesterday!

Gemini is a dual AIR sign, and they never get old if their minds are stimulated.  Mercury is the frequent flyer and chief communicator between Mount Olympus, the above, the Conscious and the below.

Unconscious, Mercury/Hermes is a mediator, a listener, an eavesdropper, a go-between. In modern days, a MERCURY ruled person, and we all are, is a compulsive twitterer or FB junkie whose iPhone never leaves their body.

Mercury in the TAROT  is  the # 1 symbol, THE MAGICIAN /TRICKSTER

 #1 The Magian from The Muse Tarot

famous as COYOTE wisdom in Native American legends.

When your mind plays tricks on you…guess who is to blame?

HERMES is a hermaphrodite; His name means HERMES & APHRODITE Mercury is both male HERMES and a female VENUS/APHRODITE. 

The sign’s ruling planet comes HOME- when a planet is at home it feels, relaxed, in its own element, STRONG. Mercury in Gemini  stimulates nanosecond thinking, uber talking- hope you have a great chat plan during these Gemini times.

 PETER PAN is GEMINI’s God

Peter Pan is a symbol of what Psychologists called PEUR mentality. A childlike, fun time, curious and non-committal.  There may be much mental Ado about not much during Gemini times. Gemini loves to play devils’ advocate.

But ya gotta love ’em, they are very charming and move too fast for you to pin them down. Yes, social butterflies those Gemini’s are…

Their main thrust during GEMINI season is to gather information, move like the wind, gather info, be mentally stimulated, ever young, upbeat, charming as hell.

Mercury is the God of merchants, the word Mercury is contained in that word, Thieves, pirates, travelling and snake-oil salesman,  Gemini’s are actors,  open, changeable, quick-witted, exciting, philanderers, shysters,

so, can’t make up your mind between Frank, Harry, or Justin?   or which job to take? or which school to go to or which….or that old friend/ lover enemy, frenemy just re-entered your life again, what to do about that? or what to do…

 If only they/we can get over the tendency to do one or the other ANGEL or DEVIL  DUALITY is their thing, But the TWINS are not opposites but complementary pairs. 

In the TAROT the symbol of GEMINI is associated with THE LOVERS

and the opposite sign of GEMINI is SAGITTARIUS which is associated with ALCHEMY again back to HERMES/ MERCURY.

There are many famous GEMINI’s.

TOP of the list. Paul McCartney, DONALD TRUMP

 WRITERS:

Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer and artist Maurice Sendak, William Butler Yeats, Ian Fleming, Salman Rushdie

ARTISTS: M.C. Escher, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin

ACTORS and ACTRESSES 

Mary Kate and Shelley Olsen real twins, Natalie Portman, Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Courtney Cox, Octavia Spencer, Isabella Rossellini, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter, Brooke Shields, Annette Benning, Lucy Hale, Zoe Saldana, Kate Upton. 

Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg,  Morgan Freeman, Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Ian McLellan, Shia LeBeouf, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael J. Fox, John Goodman, Liam Nelson, Colin Farrell, Mark Wahlberg, Tony Curtis, Christopher Lee, Russel Brand, Errol Flynn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price,  Sir Laurence Olivier, Jay Silverheels, 

 MUSICIANS, SINGERS

Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Prince, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Tom Jones, Lionel Richie, Lenny Kravitz, Barry Manilow, Dean Martin

Peggy Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Miles Davis,  Judy Garland, Idina Menzel, Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morrisette, Kylie Minogue, 

COMPOSERS: Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky,

COMEDIANS:  Mike Meyers, Bob Hope, Gene Wilder, Billy Wilder, Animator of Looney TUNES  Mel Blanc, Joan Rivers, Amy Schumer

Politicians:

John F Kennedy, Harvey Milk, Newt Gingrich, Henry Kissinger, George Bush Sr. Benazir Bhutto, Muammar Qaddafi, Peter the Great, Che Guevara, Wallis Simpson, Rudy Giuliani, Poncho Villa.

ROYALTY: Queen Victoria, Prince Philip,

DANCERS: Isadora Duncan,  Josephine Baker 

PHILOSOPHERS: Jean-Paul Sartre, Blaise Pascal

and a few more-  Venus Williams, Jackie Collins architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Dr. Ruth, Naomi Campbell,:

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