Gemini

If you want to know how a Gemini ticks, sidle up to the one you're trying to puzzle out, start up a chat, and then listen very carefully. Above the twinkling tones of the Twin twittering on. you may hear a weird whirring, combined with a couple of clicks. Yes? Well. congratulations, my dears, you have just heard the Gemini brain cells in action. And they are what make every Gemini tick.

The more astute Twins will actually admit to being aware of their Mercurial minds working. They can feel themselves thinking, just imagine all those neurons neoning away inside their noodles. Geminis think so quickly that they leave some of the other signs standing. Everything they see and hear will pass through that brilliant brainbox and be stored away for future reference in the Geminian filing system.

If you're meeting a Gemini for the first time, you'll notice how nervously and quickly he or she moves. Even if the Twin is sitting talking to you, his or her eyes will be taking in everything in the room, and everything about you. Even the egg stain on your tie and the fascinating fact that you're wearing odd socks.

Geminis have a very low boredom threshold, and you'll soon know if you've made them cross it. Their peepers will be poring all over the place and rarely popping back to you. (Apart from your egg stain, of course, because they'll be dying to ask you if it was boiled or fried.) Their fingers will begin to tap out tunes on the table, their feet will jiggle up and down, and they will become fantastically fidgety. This is a danger sign. and unless you can suddenly turn the conversation on to a different, more scintillating subject, to ignite their interest again, you may as well give up and go home. Otherwise you'll be written off as being too boring to bother with.

All Geminis have an elfin appearance, and look like potential pixies. It's rare for them to look like hobgoblins, because this is a very attractive sign, both mentally and physically. The typical Twin male or female is incredibly pretty in a boyish way, with alert, shining eyes and fine features.

Most Twins have a very fast way of talking, and may even start to stammer when excited. That may sound strange when you consider that Geminis are so glib and garrulous. and graced with the gift of the gab, but actually sometimes their minds move faster than their mouths, and you get a right old scramble coming out! Geminis love puns because it means they can play about with their favorite toys words.

Every sign has its good and bad side, and Gemini is no exception. Positively, Geminis are incredibly lively, witty people, extremely articulate and natural communicators. But the reverse of that is the Twin who uses communication in the wrong way, and tells terrible lies (like Matilda's, they make one gasp and stretch one's eyes). Some Geminis like to bend the truth into real reef-knots: they can be real Uri Gellers with words.

A lot of Geminis say to me 'Oh, I'm two-faced, because I'm a Twin', but I think they've got it wrong. The popular myth is that all Geminis are raving schizophrenics, or Jekyll and Hyde characters, being sweet as sugar one minute and ravening beastles the next. You have to look at Gemini's ruling planet, Mercury, to work this out As it spins about the solar system, one side of it is always in darkness, and the other is always light. And it's the same with the Twins. When we talk of dark and light in a personality, we can mean a true schizophrenic, with two personalities in one mind, or simply someone, like a Gemini, who experiences a tremendous variety of emotions within one personality. Geminis can certainly have extremes of character, and on one level be alert, bright, chatty and chirpy, and on another, be so depressed they can't even find the words to describe how miserable they are.

Very often. Geminis can be desperately disappointed with the world. It can be such a dull place, full of such dreary people that Twins have to invent their own, brighter world to cheer themselves up. Geminian memories of events are always a slightly different version of what really happened!

If you understand this it'll help you to appreciate the Twins you know better. You should even feel a bit sorry for them, if you think about it. People who live in their heads that much are bound to be lonely, at least some of the time.