Love and Relationships
Geminis bring their natural garrulousness and brilliance into their love life and social life as well. A good talk or a verbal joust is an interesting prelude to romance. Their only problem in love is that their intellect is too cool and passionless to incite ardour in others. Emotions sometimes disturb them, and their partners tend to complain about this. If you are in love with a Gemini you must understand why this is so. Geminis avoid deep passions because these would interfere with their ability to think and communicate. If they are cool towards you, understand that this is their nature.
Nevertheless, Geminis must understand that it is one thing to talk about love and another actually to love – to feel it and radiate it. Talking about love glibly will get them nowhere. They need to feel it and act on it. Love is not of the intellect but of the heart. 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.
Horoscope for 2013
Major Trends
You’ve had many years of sudden, dramatic changes. One minute things are a certain way and then, all of a sudden, life is completely different. Many have experienced these kinds of things, but for you it has been non-stop. Things have settled down a bit the past two years – Uranus has moved away from its stressful aspect to you – but you’ve learned by now how to live with insecurity, and this was the whole point. Nothing on this earthly plane is ever permanent and we need to learn how to handle impermanence.
Last year two important transits happened. Neptune made a major move from your 9th house into your 10th house of career, and Jupiter moved into your own sign. Both of these affect finance and career. Jupiter’s move into Gemini in June 2012 initiated a two-year cycle of prosperity. So the year ahead is prosperous. Neptune’s move into your career house indicates more idealism in career matters. You tend to be idealistic about your career anyway, but now even more so. You will be known more for your charitable activities, your spiritual attainments, than for your outer career achievements. There are more details about this later.
Saturn moved into your 6th house of health and work last year and will be there for another two years. It indicates a need to work harder and in a more disciplined kind of way. The job situation seems difficult to handle, and many of you have changed jobs. This also had an impact on your health and health regime. More on this later.
Geminis of child-bearing age are more fertile this year. Weight in general needs more attention. However, love is blooming this year. It was good last year too, but this year it is perhaps even better. See later for details.
Your most important interests in the year ahead are the body, image and personal pleasure (until June 27); finance (from June 27 onwards); health and work; sex, occult interests, personal reinvention, past lives, life after death; career; friends, groups, and group activities. You have many interests this year; be careful not to disperse your energies. Try to select the most important things and focus on them.
Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are the body, image and personal pleasure (until June 27); finance (after June 27); health and work.
Health
(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, these perspectives were identical. But now there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)
Health is vastly improved compared with the previous few years. This year, there is only one long-term planet stressing you out – Neptune – and this is not enough to cause major problems. Health should be good. Sure, there will be periods in the year when your health is less easy than usual, but these things are caused by short-term planetary transits, and these are temporary and not trends for the year; when they pass your normal good health and energy return.
Saturn in your house of health all year shows many things. One, you are more focused on health this year. You are willing to take on disciplined, tough health regimes. Since health looks good, I read this as working to maintain good health. It also indicates a need to give more attention to the spine, knees, teeth, bones, skin and overall skeletal alignment. Pluto, your health planet, is in the sign of Capricorn all year (and for many years to come) and Capricorn rules these same areas. Regular visits to a chiropractor or osteopath would be a good idea. The vertebrae need to be kept in right alignment. Yoga, Alexander Technique, Pilates and Feldenkrais are excellent for the spine; regular back massage would be wonderful too. Give the knees more support when exercising or playing sports. If you are out in the sun for a long time, use a strong sunscreen – your skin is more sensitive than usual.
Reflexology
Try to massage the whole foot on a regular basis, but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’, as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and top side of the feet.
Saturn rules your 8th house of transformation, and Pluto, your health planet, rules surgery on a generic level. So surgery seems indicated in the year ahead, although it doesn’t seem for life-threatening kinds of things. It may be recommended to you and should you choose this route, it seems successful. However, you also benefit from detox regimes. Often these achieve the same ends as surgery, only they take longer.
There are two eclipses in your house of health this year. There is a Lunar Eclipse on April 25 and a Solar Eclipse on November 3. These will tend to produce health scares, but with your overall health so good, they are likely to be only scares and nothing more. Often these eclipses indicate important, fundamental changes in the health regime and diet, generally for the better. These changes have long needed to be made, but the eclipse gives the needed push.
With Jupiter in your 1st House since June 2012 you need to watch your weight, as we mentioned. Basically this is a happy transit. It brings sensual pleasures, the fulfilment of carnal fantasies and desires. The main danger healthwise is excess – too much of a good thing. Enjoy all the pleasures that Jupiter brings by all means, but try not to overdo it. There is a price to be paid for this. Listen to your body – it will tell you when enough is enough.
Your most vulnerable health periods this year will be from February 18 to March 20; August 23 to September 22; and November 22 to December 21. These are times to rest and relax more and in general pay more attention to your health.
Home and Family
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