December
Best Days Overall: 9, 10, 18, 19, 27, 28
Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 25, 26, 31
Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31
Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 6, 13, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26
Best Days for Career: 7, 11, 12, 17, 26
Though you’re not in a yearly love and social peak, the love life seems active and positive this month. Venus is now moving forward and will spend almost all month in your 7th house of love. Pluto, your love planet, is going forward too. So the social confidence and judgement is good. Venus in your 7th house signals much social popularity. You’re there for your friends and the beloved. You put their interests ahead of your own. You’re very devoted to your existing relationship. This tends to popularity. Good social skills (and you have them now) are not only important in love but in finance as well. Mercury is also in your 7th house until the 13th.
Mercury resumes forward motion on the 6th, so your naturally sound financial judgement returns. This is a positive for finance. On the 13th Mercury moves into your 8th house again. This, as we have mentioned, is good for tax and estate planning (for those of you of appropriate age), for paying down or making debt (according to your need), and for focusing on the financial well-being of others. It is good for attracting outside money to your projects – in the form of either investors or credit.
Taureans tend to be hoarders. They take in, take in, take in. This a good month to detox your possessions – to get rid of the things that you don’t need or use. Use should be the criterion. The things you use, keep. What you don’t use, either sell or give to charity. Too many things clog up the internal system. You need to make room for the new and better things that want to come in.
On the 21st the Sun enters your 9th house and starts to travel with the ruler of that house. This signals foreign travel, foreign lands call to you. Spending the holidays with the family in some foreign spot seems a good idea. This is also a good aspect for college students. They seem more disciplined and more focused on their studies.
Mars, your spiritual planet, travels with Neptune from the 5th to the 7th. Pay attention to your dreams during this period as they seem significant. You could feel the effects of this aspect even before the 5th. It will bring spiritual breakthroughs. More spiritually minded friends will come into the picture.
Personality Profile
GEMINI AT A GLANCE
Element – Air
Ruling Planet – Mercury
Career Planet – Neptune
Love Planet – Jupiter
Money Planet – Moon
Planet of Health and Work – Pluto
Planet of Home and Family Life – Mercury
Colours – blue, yellow, yellow-orange
Colour that promotes love, romance and social harmony – sky blue
Colours that promote earning power – grey, silver
Gems – agate, aquamarine
Metal – quicksilver
Scents – lavender, lilac, lily of the valley, storax
Quality – mutable (= flexibility)
Quality most needed for balance – thought that is deep rather than superficial
Strongest virtues – great communication skills, quickness and agility of thought, ability to learn quickly
Deepest need – communication
Characteristics to avoid – gossiping, hurting others with harsh speech, superficiality, using words to mislead or misinform
Signs of greatest overall compatibility – Libra, Aquarius
Signs of greatest overall incompatibility – Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces
Sign most helpful to career – Pisces
Sign most helpful for emotional support – Virgo
Sign most helpful financially – Cancer
Sign best for marriage and/or partnerships – Sagittarius
Sign most helpful for creative projects – Libra
Best Sign to have fun with – Libra
Signs most helpful in spiritual matters – Taurus, Aquarius
Best day of the week – Wednesday
Understanding a Gemini
Gemini is to society what the nervous system is to the body. It does not introduce any new information but is a vital transmitter of impulses from the senses to the brain and vice versa. The nervous system does not judge or weigh these impulses – it only conveys information. And it does so perfectly.
This analogy should give you an indication of a Gemini’s role in society. Geminis are the communicators and conveyors of information. To Geminis the truth or falsehood of information is irrelevant, they only transmit what they see, hear or read about. Thus they are capable of spreading the most outrageous rumours as well as conveying truth and light. Geminis sometimes tend to be unscrupulous in their communications and can do both great good or great evil with their power. This is why the sign of Gemini is symbolized by twins: Geminis have a dual nature.
Their ability to convey a message – to communicate with such ease – makes Geminis ideal teachers, writers and media and marketing people. This is helped by the fact that Mercury, the ruling planet of Gemini, also rules these activities.
Geminis have the gift of the gab. And what a gift this is! They can make conversation about anything, anywhere, at any time. There is almost nothing that is more fun to Geminis than a good conversation – especially if they can learn something new as well. They love to learn and they love to teach. To deprive a Gemini of conversation, or of books and magazines, is cruel and unusual punishment.
Geminis are almost always excellent students and take well to education. Their minds are generally stocked with all kinds of information, trivia, anecdotes, stories, news items, rarities, facts and statistics. Thus they can support any intellectual position that they care to take. They are awesome debaters and, if involved in politics, make good orators. Geminis are so verbally smooth that even if they do not know what they are talking about, they can make you think that they do. They will always dazzle you with their brilliance.
Finance
Geminis tend to be more concerned with the wealth of learning and ideas than with actual material wealth. As mentioned, they excel in professions that involve writing, teaching, sales and journalism – and not all of these professions pay very well. But to sacrifice intellectual needs merely for money is unthinkable to a Gemini. Geminis strive to combine the two. Cancer is on Gemini’s solar 2nd house of money cusp, which indicates that Geminis can earn extra income (in a harmonious and natural way) from investments in residential property, restaurants and hotels. Given their verbal skills, Geminis love to bargain and negotiate in any situation, and especially when it has to do with money.
The Moon rules Gemini’s 2nd solar house. The Moon is not