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Mars in Gemini – Promote Your Own Brand

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Guitarist/Songwriter & co-founder of the Rolling Stones Keith Richards has Mars in GeminiRolling Stone magazine credit Richards with creating ‘rock’s greatest single body of riffs’ After over 50 years as a band the ‘Stones’ headlined Glastonb…

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Sun in Gemini – Head to Head Fascinations

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Iconic Actor Johnny Depp has Sun in Gemini
In Depp career he has played many outcasts. for the role of Tonto he drew on his Native American heritage. 
(Depp’s co-star in the Lone Ranger is Armie Hammer)

As it does every month, on the 20th May 2013 the Sun traveller, moved country darting hither and thither in a whirlwind of excitement and fascination around the Air space of Gemini and exited 21st June. During that time it felt good to change and experiment, to try stuff out and decrease all the previous attachment in Taurus. We all had a chance to try and stretch out into our minds, move on the wind and surrender to our whims. After all, how can we really know something until we try it, until we take a taste and nibble at the edges of the unknown before alighting once again onto the next attention-grabbing interest? Ah! Variety, it is so fascinating.

Actor Josh Pence has Sun in Gemini
Played Tyler, one half of the famous Winklevoss twins in The Social Network Armi Hammer played the other twin, Cameron but the finished film superimposed Hammer’s face over Josh Pence’s body to play both.

During Gemini the Twins time, our core purpose, the Sun would have been analysing and distinguishing, by activating the delicate art of tasting and we were all called to partake, at some level of our being, in something either mental, physical or spiritual. So many delicacies, so little time, just as well we could split ourselves into two in order to catch up with ourselves! We needed to spread ourselves out and diversify with Gemini, stretch our boundaries and on the way pick up a little bit of this, a little bit of that, scrunch them all together and Voila! Something entirely novel may have emerged. Of course this ‘something novel’ may be have been entirely inappropriate, unfit for purpose, exactly perfect or merely mildly invigorating. The point is that this is all irrelevant, the point is to keep trying and keep on trying and that is the purpose. It may not be the slogan.

Chairman of the British Conservative Party Maurice Saatchi has Sun in Gemini
Born in Bagdad to a Jewish-Iraqui family co-founder of the 1980’s most famous advertising agency,
 Saatchi & Saatchi with his brother. Most famous for the Conservative Party slogan ‘Labour isn’t working’ with a picture of a long dole que. They brothers have a joint fortune of £120 million.
‘If you cant reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument’. Brother Charles Saatchi reduced his argument even further by publicly physically silencing his wife, celebrity TV chef Nigella Lawson, she moved out, he announced their divorce, 7th July 2013.
Mars in Aries – The Primal Punch

The Sun, our purpose, found itself extremely favourable to our efforts to learn, connect and gather during Gemini time. It supported our efforts to change, to increase variety and exercise curiosity and by consequence discovered new pathways. We needed to resist rigidity to increase our potential, there is always more to reach for, just flex, stretch and relax. We were encouraged to direct our energies into exploring apparently random, unrelated strands of interest only to find ourselves surprised at the fresh perspective and unanticipated results. Fascinating. There was a shift to the imaginary, the mental, the more ethereal, as were drawn to things that transcend or defy the tangible. There is always other alternatives, other possibilities, other truths, various versions and sliding scales. 

Celebrity Solicitor Baroness Fiona Shackleton has Sun in Gemini
Wanted to be a doctor, not deemed ‘clever enough’, after getting a third at university trained to be a 
Cordon Bleu chef, her mother’s family owned famous Lyon’s corner-house tearooms empire and her cousin is celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, who she will be representing in her divorce from Charles Saatchi.
Known as ‘Steel Magnolia’ Shackleton. The Telegraph newspaper reported that Shackleton had been ‘overcharging’ clients, sometimes by hundreds of thousand pounds, she admitted being ‘a bit slack with time sheets’ to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, privately remarking in an e-mail about another ‘over-charge’ and eventual payment from Madonna,‘This is good news as I was worried that they were cross about the bill,” she wrote, adding: “We obviously shd have asked for more?!!!!! F x.
( before/after ‘wet look’ photo above, after Heather Mills poured a jug of water over her head in court)

The one and only was less of an option, more like the many and the multiple. This would have been most welcome after the all the deliberations and contemplations of the Sun traveller’s environment in Taurus, as we changed to adopt a more inquisitive and flexible eye upon what was, or apparently was, in front of us. Things may not have seemed quite as solid, dependable or convicted as they were during the Taurus month, and our curiosity was peaked and we wanted to break out of certainty and move into the less substantial, after all we needed to be light to fly and flitting off would have seemed mightily attractive. We would have been less inclined to be weighted or burdened down, wanting to be ready at a moments notice to shift and move.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has Sun in Gemini
Born in Greece to Danish Royal family and exiled from Greece as a child, sometimes known in the Uk as ‘Phil the Greek’. Consort to Queen Elizabeth, William & Kate’s baby is their third great-granchild.
The Prince is known for his clangers and ‘gaffes’ that can often be offensive, stereotypical or just blunt and rude, for example, whilst looking at a fuse box in a factory he remarked, ‘Looks like its been put in by an Indian‘, later correcting himself with ‘I meant cowboys’ ‘Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I’ve practised for many years.
He was also linked to conspiracy theories over the tragic death of Princess Diana.

As we all journey with the Sun, we will all have moved into Gemini and it’s facility to learn and be lighter. It has as it’s symbol the Twins so it is no surprise that ‘two-ness’, the concept of duality, will feature strongly. Just as light is knowable only because of the darkness and visa versa, so too does Gemini carry opposites so artfully they actually appear as one unified symbol. Ironically we may have felt as if we were eternally looking for the lost part, something irks and itch’s so we needed to hunt out the missing X factor, there is always one more piece to find. Strangely we may not feel unified or whole, when in fact we are just that, perfect and unified just as we are.

Greek/American Actress Olympia Dukakis has Sun in Gemini

Cult status as a gay icon ‘The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her..

Here are a couple of Geminian secrets: 1) they will ALWAYS keep looking and 2) they just long to rest. This is a combination of course, of abstraction and humanity, body and mind, most welcome to ‘Gemini&Gemini Sun Inc’. These issues and behaviours would have been all around us, whether we liked it or not, whether we pondered or not, answered deliberately, evaded everything, debated, at some level we were destined to met them face to face and sometimes head on and sometimes from the past. 

The legendary original Lone Ranger’s partner Tonto Jay Silverheels has Sun in Gemini

As Gemini energy poured down to us through the Sun’s rays how did it effect us all, indoors, outdoors, sleeping or waking, we were saturated in its far-reaching power. We could have been more buzzy, more active and a touch hyper-active! We could have been constantly intrigued and enticed, prone to sudden ideas alternating with moments of torpor as we attempted to catch up with our restless selves as they moved in and out of all the various activities they got caught up in. We may have felt that we had to be always observing, to always be on the look-out. After all even butterflies must be on the watch for the net.

Paul McCartney has Sun in Gemini
Famous Songwriting partnership with John Lennon. Famous marriage partnership with photographer Linda Eastman. With her he became a high profile vegetarian, once writing to the Dalai Lama asking him why he still ate meat and also practicing TM (Transcendental Meditation). Yet he was described by Ringo Starr as ‘pleasantly insincere’ and George Harrison ‘very selfish actually’ and being told by 
John Lennon ‘you’re all pizzas and fairytales’. 
His famous reaction to being told of John Lennon’s murder was ‘It’s a drag’

The zone’s/houses in our charts presided over by Gemini in our lives will have undergone their annual restless shifting and sorting. If you have planets ‘tuned in’ to receive Gemini energy then they will have vibrated easily to this energy. If you are Venus in Gemini the way you relate and how you receive love and money will have got a boost. If you have Mars here, the way you marshal your troops to attack or defend will have rushed to the frontline. You may well have been called up to put your ideas to the test to even amend and adjust them so that they can morph into something new.

Sun in Gemini time, the end of May into June was about shape shifting and stretching, experimenting and fresh fields. It was about sticking our necks out or to discover that we were where we wanted to be along. Ah sweet, sweet eureka! It was right here for us after all, now maybe we have turned over another couple of leaves as a result. Hard to get all these ideas out of our heads.

Head to Head with Kylie Minogue who has Sun in Gemini
Sainsburys advert couldn’t get unknown Megan Wylers version out of our heads, perhaps less is more.

credits: firstpost & guardian & telegraph 
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Sun in Gemini – Head to Head Fascinations

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Iconic Actor Johnny Depp has Sun in GeminiIn Depp career he has played many outcasts. for the role of Tonto he drew on his Native American heritage. (Depp’s co-star in the Lone Ranger is Armie Hammer)As it does every month, on the 20th May 2013 th…

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Mercury in Gemini – Postcards From An All Court Mind

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British Tennis Champion Andy Murray has Mercury in Gemini
 Wimbledon Champion Men Singles 7th July 2013. 
Has he got it covered after 77 years waiting for a British Champion at Wimbledon?
Oh yes he has!!!

            
Mercury moved country on the 15th May 2013 from the sure and certain terrain of earthy Taurus in order to briefly flit on the airy and changeable winds of Gemini for a brief few weeks, moving out on the 1st of June 2013. Gemini and its ruler Mercury enjoys things brief, short and sweet and varied therefore a quick fling with this sign for a few weeks will have suited it admirably. After all why bother to labour a point if it can be made succinctly, despatch adroitly and then dispassionately leave behind in order to give air space for something new, perhaps. 

Spanish Tennis Champion Nadal has  Mercury in Gemini
French Open Mens Singles Champion 2013

Mercury in Gemini can bring in, carry around or trade directly in information. Sound bytes within bites, chunks and slices of data scrambled and mixed into a variety of and diversity. Evolution is achieved by minute adjustments and amendments, flexibility and adaptability giving the evolving entity the edge. To quickly shift direction, to catch the change before it catches up with you, to anticipate, premeditate and out maneuver what could potentially annihilate, are just some of the attributes that can ensure survival – or at least give a fighting chance so that progress progresses. We look for the upper hand, and indeed, Gemini and its ruler Mercury have the hands, arms and shoulders as part of its symbolism.

Serbian Tennis Champion Novak Djokovic has Mercury in Gemini
World No1, Runner up Wimbledon Mens Singles final 2013 & Runner up French Open Mens Singles 2013
‘Pressure is a privilege in a way and a big challenge for every professional athlete..It’s just a matter of understanding it, and maturing as a player and getting that necessary experience to use it at the right moments to cope…It’s a privilege because it means that you are doing something that counts. And all my life I have been dreaming to be the best in what I do and my dreams came true.’

The roads in this land may sometimes seem meandering, and may appear to go ‘off piste’, with many side roads to choose and with no one clear obvious path ahead but instead what faces us are multiple choices and varied options, all offering signs of attraction and fascination. We may have found that there was just not enough time to do all justice, some may have been only briefly explored and then discarded, some may have held us longer than we may have wanted, however all would have had us in their thrall and we would have been grateful for that no matter what the eventual outcome. 
This is a time that generates so many questions, quite a few answers, and all the wonderful variants in between. Communications, conversations and connections would have sped up and lit up many more branches of investigations, things could not have been ‘just as they are’ instead things would have been ‘more than what they are’. It would have been in our best interests to have kept our minds, hearts and palms open to even the slightest movements and changes constantly taking place. A butterfly is as light as a feather but holds up and opens out wings of saturated colours. The more we look the more we find and with Mercury in Gemini we most definitely want to look more, the list can be endless and so can the results. 

German Tennis Champion Steffi Graf has Mercury in Gemini
Graf retired in 1999 after 107 Singles titles, 11 Doubles, a Golden Slam – 1988 French Open,
1988 Australian Open, 1988 Wimbledon Championships, 1988 Olympic gold medal, & 1988 US Open
has been playing a role in supporting and sending good luck messages to German 2013 Wimbledon Ladies Finalist, Sabine Lisiki  ‘It’s not easy for anybody to come back and play the next day after such a big victory but Sabine Lisicki stayed focused, played smart and truly seemed to enjoy herself as she continued her winning streak at Wimbledon’ Graf wrote on Facebook after Lisiki beat Serena Williams on her way to the final. Lisiki responded with ‘I am overwhelmed….I am just so happy. I was just fighting for every single point. I fought my heart out. Becoming the first German in the final since her has not really sunk in yet and winning Wimbledon would be a dream coming true’ Unfortunately Lisiki’s nerves meant she was runner up to the 2013 Ladies Champion the beautiful, unique Marion Bartolli of France.

This is the air space and territory of Gemini in which we all occupied for a few weeks, as we do every year and it was to this language we became acclimatised. Whenever Mercury changes sign, we need to learn a whole new language and adapt to completely different customs to the ones we have become used and familiar. Mercury affects the way we process and deal with information. In other words, how we talk, think, chat, twitter, blog, text, write, read, listen and learn and Gemini is a curious sign. Much like Alice in Wonderland, we can get lost in the array of choice. True gemini is clever and dexterous but can also be seen as dispassionate and superficial, at worst. When given the facts Mercury in Gemini will just add more facts, more information, more pieces still and moving. It all becomes so jangled and dizzy the answers may simply be just stare at the centre employ our best peripheral vision and wonder at what appears next.
                                       
Swedish Tennis Champion Bjorn Borg has Mercury in Gemini
World No1, 11 Grand Slams singles, 5 consecutive Wimbledon singles & 6 french Open singles.
One of the Classic greatest matches pairing with great rival John McEnroe.
When Mercury passes through such a fliberty-jibberty sign we can expect a kaleidoscope of information, and this would have been exactly what we got, we may have needed a lie down in a darkened room as a result, but such dreams are made of these images gathered! Sleeping is not something Mercury in Gemini indulges in especially, after all how can you keep count of all those sheep and animals coming into the ark unless you are fully conscious? Sleep can come later when our counting is done, when Mercury moves into the waters of Cancer, maybe. In Cancer maybe can we allow the unconscious some more room.
Mercury is travel, trade, exchange, communication and busy activity and here in ‘what else is new?’ Gemini it can appear to send itself into a veritable spin. Gemini is an Air sign and as such flourishes in movement, freedom of expression, space and room. Stagnation is not an option. Breathing in and out is a highly complicated operation, which is done without a thought, generally and keeps us alive whether our minds are ‘on it’ or not. The more attention given to this precious process the deeper our awareness will travel on all levels but it is not necessary to be so acutely aware of it just to go about our daily business of living.
It is possible that whilst Mercury was previously in deliberate and stable Taurus many of us noticed that we became more sure and reliable in our thinking as we thought a bit more deeply about things. However, just as we got halfway used to this style of speaking and thinking we suddenly found ourselves in what appeared to be a foreign country where everyone asked us to speak quicker and try new things.You will have noticed the difference from Mercury in Taurus to Mercury in Gemini as you know the difference between the earth and the sky or mountain and meltemi whatever your tasks, vocation or habits.

US Tennis Champion Andrea Jaeger has Mercury in Gemini
She reached both the French Open & the Wimbledon singles final and was World No2 at 16, coached by her reportedly abusive father there were many teenage temper tantrums and she was known as ‘the brat’. Her career ended early due to shoulder injuries and she has complained subsequently of the competitive pressure she endured, the offers of steroids and cocaine and the attitude of the more mature players. She briefly became a nun, Sister Andrea but has since left her order.

 You and others around you, remember we all felt this Mercury’s shift, will have seemed to be that much more flighty and flirty. We may have become more light hearted and fancy free, open to trying different options and tasting unknown fruits. We could have got bored easily and craved that blade of grass outside our boundaries.
All of us, our children, our friends, on Twitter, or Facebook, our partners, teachers, bosses, neighbours, the person sitting next to us on the bus and the our leaders will have been a lot more chatty, or a lot more scatty, a lot more curious and inventive. With this Mercury in Gemini our communications will have got much more varied, for good or bad. Whatever symbols we use we will want to say or stand for something.
                                      
British Tennis Champion Fred Perry has Mercury in Gemini
He was the first player to win four Grand Slams singles titles and also won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships 1934/1936 and was World No1 for 4 years. He was the last British player to win the Wimbledon Mens Singles Championship,and was the last British player to win any Men’s singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the US Open in 2012.
Whilst we all felt this change, this mental shift, how, you may ask, how did it affect me specifically? Well, the sign of Gemini sits somewhere in your birth chart, even if you do not have any planets in this sign. You always have Geminian County somewhere in your psyche. It is this Gemini zone which had Mercury as a house guest. This is where you would have had to be more accommodating, where you would have been wise to shake out the duvet and put out a vase of fresh flowers to make this energy welcome and feel at home so it can do what it needed to do whilst feeling excited about new prospectsIf you know where your ‘Geminian Country’ is then be prepared for the anti to be upped. It is here that you may be trying to exercise dexterity and versatility. Take your time and respect the issues affected in that part of your chart. For instance, Gemini may be in your 2nd house of ‘Money & Resources’, in which case Mercury here will probably prompt you to think about and plan changes which impact your bank balance. 

Belgian Tennis Champion Justine Henin has Mercury in Gemini
Known as JuJu she was known as the ‘Lioness of Liege’. Her mental toughness but also the variety of her all court game, her footspeed and footwork are all acknowledged as her talents, Her one-handed backhanded stroke has been described as ‘the best single-handed backhand in the women’s or men’s game’ by John McEnroe and ‘the player I most like to watch’ She has a tennis academy, Justine No1 pronounced like Henin in French.

Personal Issues including her failed marriage were cited as the reasons for her initial retirement.

Or if Gemini covers your 7th house or zone of ‘Partnerships’ your plans could be in for a major overhaul concerning your significant other. Making the adjustments will now probably go smoothly. Or is Gemini pulling at your Venus, if so maybe these few weeks will get you thinking about deepening, or severing, your commitment to what you have previously valued. Lets hope you were able to make the most of your facility to think things through rapidly, and make connections previously ignored. Apply your insights and experimentation with consideration. Take a few moments to breathe consciously in an out. From the 1st of June you are about to taken to some very different looking terrain, the Water space of Cancer, where things are will be very different, as quite literally you will be neither in nor out, water or air breather but amphibian between security on rock and the vast ocean so the cleaver thinking done when Mercury was in Gemini may just provide the occasional makeshift life raft.

Muse Singer Matt Bellamy has Mercury in Gemini

credits: marc aspland & the times & tennis.com & wikepedia
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Venus in Gemini – The Power of Choice

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 WindFarms, Windfalls or Windbags June 2013The Conservative/Liberal Democrat UK Coalition Government are showing us both sides of their weakened coin and throwing in their very different hands, fuelling growing tensions in their energy debat…

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Venus in Gemini – The Power of Choice

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 WindFarms, Windfalls or Windbags June 2013
The Conservative/Liberal Democrat UK Coalition Government are showing us both sides of their weakened coin and throwing in their very different hands, fuelling growing tensions in their energy debates. They appear to be putting forward measures to give local communities more of a say and more powers to block the development of onshore wind farms whilst at the same time offering greater incentives in the form of subsidies and reductions in energy bills for embracing them.

Tasting the honey, chewing the cud, taking the air and feeling the breeze against her skin was just a few sensual of the delights and gifts Venus enjoyed with her stay in the earthy sign of Taurus the Bull. From the 9th May 2013 until the 3rd June 2013 Venus began to dodge and dart around into the flibbity-jibberty style of Gemini. The Mutable Air sign Gemini is the sign of The Twins and everything could have appeared as double-barreled, two pronged, with mixed messages, dual meanings, general truths tied up as apparent nonsense, or just puzzles in a mixed media delivery format. 

             
Australian Activist, founder of controversial website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has Venus in Gemini. 
He made available secret information and classified media gained from whistleblowers and anonymous news sources. WikiLeaks became well known or infamous, depending on your point of view, internationally when it published U.S. military and diplomatic documents and media. Proponent of free speech or a dangerous maverick, both Gemini twins are often cited in descriptions of Assange. The Swedish police have requested assange to appear for questioning in a sexual assault inquiry but he absconded the British governments intention to extradite him by staying inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since the 19th June 2012.
Mars in Aquarius – Idealistic Battles & Contradictions Assange has praised the latest serious whistleblower of the covert NSA Prism surveillance Edward Snowden, calling him ‘a hero’  and someone who has revealead ‘one of the most serious events of the decade, the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state’ 10th June 2013
Simply put, which is never easy with Gemini involved, Venus during her quick visit here would have loved the word play, loved some flowery language, and loved to ‘mix it up’ by thowing in the odd communication or two, some very odd communication indeed.We may have expected the rhetoric to flourish and with any flourishing rhetoric perhaps also the chance of some confusing speech, disguised as simple and simple speech disguised as complex. When Venus is playing in Gemini, whether natally, those of us born with this position, or at the time of the year when Venus rushes by just passing through….

Tennis Wimbledon Champions American Venus Williams & French Amelie Muresmo have Venus in Gemini
Venus and her sister Serena, currently World No1 in singles tennis came up the hard way ‘straight outta
Compton‘, downtown Los Angeles, notorious for its gang violence, gansta rap/hip-hop and crack cocaine. They both encountered racial prejudice early on in tennis and were coached by their father Richard.
A protester, waving a lit flare, bare chested and masked ran onto the court at the Mens single final at Roland Garros, Paris 9th July 2013 and was restrained by security with two men holding a banner accusing France of trampling on children’s rights earlier. These protests were against the legalisation of gay marriage in France. The director of the French Open condemned the protests as ‘pathetic’ and did not want to give them any more publicity. A sporting heroine of France, Muresmo came out as gay in the full glare of the press aged 19.Her Twitter account proclaims ‘It’s me! Nowhere and everywhere’ As France’s Fed Cup Captain she  supported Wimbledon Women’s Singles Champion Marion Bartolli 2013

A word about Venus Venus Come Out Of Your Shell basically she likes to indulge herself by feeding the body, anointing it, making it look, smell and feel special is what she is about. Venus loves beauty in all it’s many forms, and she has an appreciation of the finer things in culture, art, music, social bonds, relationships and devotions although we have to accept that not everyone loves in the same way or indeed the same things.

Jailed Pussy Riot Prisoner of Conscience Maria Alyokhina ‘Masha’ has Venus in Gemini
A 4th year student of Journalism and Creative Writing in Moscow she was jailed for ‘hooliganism and religious hatred’ after a protest performance in a Moscow Cathedral and as been recognised as a political prisoner since. (Other prisoners Nadezhda Tolokonnikova & Yekaterina Samutsevich)
An HBO documentary aired on 10th June 2013 HBO Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
After asking for parole she went on a brief hunger strike that ended in June 2013. International criticism continues as new Russian anti-gay laws, including one on ‘ propaganda for non-traditional sexual relations’ appear to serve as encouragement for harassment, violent attacks and recently two murders.

Relationships are very high on a Venus list but money and fairness also come under the remit of our Venus desires. A run through our personal list will give us a clue as to just how fundamental and central Venus style demands and priorities are in our lives. We all know that if we get Love and Money sorted out that we have a chance at getting a good handle on our life. We can have a try at denying the need for one but it is unusual to deny both, at least not intentionally.

Jack & Jackie Kennedy both have Venus in Gemini
11th June 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of President JFK’s Radio & TV 11th June civil rights address to the nation when attitudes to racism was still in its infancy and the 26th June 1963 his Berlin speech delivered to a divided city during the height of the Cold War, where he memorably proclaimed ‘Ich bin eine Berliner‘, siding with West Germany over Soviet support of East Germany, the Gemini twins at war and threatening to throw things at each other over the wall. President Obama re-visiting Berlin in June 2013 amid outrage over the US secret internet spying programme and Edward Snowdon leaking documents to the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers. The NSA PRISM programme gives US officials covert access to  emails and web chats communications from companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. Data privacy will continue to be a major cause for concern in Europe as there appears to be no choice involved, Europeans are not protected from this type of US surveillance programme intrusion in any way and American laws of protection only appear to be applying to Americans. 

Venus may have had felt sensual, measured and deep during her time in Taurus which got us all kind of used to that way of being, taking our time, having concern for the wider community and indulging our senses. What appeared to change when she moved to Gemini, just how different was life for us with The Naughty Twins running riot around the ‘Love ‘n Money Show’? Did we use languages expertly, adapt to the sudden changes, and up our levels of dexterity? Maybe we could have navigated our path through the merry month of May 2013 a little easier by being flexible rather than stuck rigidly to our guns or floundered in the complacency of some of our habits and changed nothing at all.
                 
Marathon Runner Joan Benoit has Venus in Gemini (Sun in Taurus)
She won Gold in the 1st Womens Marathon at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984.
‘When I first started running I was so embarrassed I’d walk when cars passed me. I’d pretend I was looking at the flowers’ Sun in Taurus – Tending To Our Gardens
Professional Basketball Player with 4 Olympic Gold Medals  Lisa Leslie also has Venus in Gemini
During her initial basketball trials when team members were told to split into two groups for left handers and right handers she was the only ‘lefty’, she decided to use her right hand so she would not have to be by herself. That choice worked to her advantage as she is now ambidextrous, in true Gemini form.
If we wanted to attract or to appear more attractive during Gemini Venus time we may have had to become aware of ‘the more the merrier’ adage. Wanting to be ‘in there’ and among the crowd, chopping and changing our object(s) of fascination or just shifting to another groups, preferably groups of admirers. All this could have appeared to have been a breeze and as natural as breathing. We may also have been trying hard to impress with our clever use of information, just dazzling with our communication skills or regretting saying just a little too much.

Danish Film Director Lars von Trier has Venus in Gemini
co-founder of Dogma95 with friend Thomas Vinterberg, extolling the vitues of simple storytelling and excluding elborate special effects in filmmaking, perhaps contradicting himself a little in Melancholia and expending some ‘hot air’ about the Third Reich that did not go well at the Cannes Film Festival.’ What can I say? I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely…He’s not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him, and I sympathise with him a little bit. But come on, I’m not for the Second World War, and I’m not against Jews…I am of course very much for Jews, no not too much, because Israel is pain in the ass, but still how can I get out of this sentence. Later in answer to another critic who questioned whether Melancholia was an answer to Hollywood blockbuster films asking von Trier if he could imagine doing a film on a grander scale, von Trier replied, ‘On a grander scale? Yeah. Yeah that’s what we Nazis, we have a tendency to do things on a greater scale. Yeah, maybe you could persuade me into the final solution with journalists’ 
His press release photo attached to his 2013 film Nymphomanic is an ironic reference to this.

We would all have all had a month where our relationships may have got a bit more unsettled and/or playful. Freedom and ‘space’ concerns could have dominated our relating and we examined multiple view points and new areas of interest. This would have been most enjoyable with a twin soul but if not then we would have gladly pursued the interest solo. Looking out and being on the look-out for our one true love, our soul mate, our other half would have become quite energised and for those already with ‘their one’ this time would have been an explosion of shared mutual interests. 
Before we get too carried away with the excitement and pleasure of all this variety it may also be the case that we became much more aware of unreliability, demonstrations of a side of the mouth expression, even two-faced behaviour style or simply a one-sided, uncompromising one. 

French National Front Founder/Leader & Presidential Candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has Venus in Gemini
‘Ni Pote, Ni Black, Ni Blanc, Ni Beur, Francais’ (neither friend nor black nor white nor arab French)
His daughter Marine Le Pen now leads the French National Front and wrote on Twitter after the protest suicide in Notre Dame ‘All our respect to Dominique Venner, whose final gesture, eminently political, was to try to awaken the people of France’ She is now also demanding political asylum for US whistle blower 
Edward Snowden.

Our facility to see more than one side of any situation, coupled with a keen articulation of possibility could have been frustrating to those just wanting a straight answer! There is always more than we bargained for in sort of Gemini presentation, given that they always come as a pair.

‘Mandiba’ South Africa’s 1st Black President Nelson Mandela has Venus in Gemini
His friend Mac Maharaj who also has Venus in Gemini, described by Mandela as ‘the cleverest chap I’ve ever met’,was also imprisoned with other ANC supporters on Robben Island during the apartheid. Maharaj, transcribed and smuggled out a draft of Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom is still acting as spokesman, buffering 95 year old Mandela, in failing health, from unnecessary outside world intrusions. Mandela was rushed to hospitalon the 7th/8th June 2013 in the early hours with a long-term lung infection, contracted working in the prison quarry and Tuberculosis developed during his 27 years incarceration . 

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Gemini-attuned’. We all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Gemini vibration, our personal Gemini antenna. It will be good to look at how smoothly the matters connected to our Gemini houses and/or planets ran at this time? Did they function as well as they could, is there room for improvement or even some room to manoeuvre, reverse, revise and try a new perspective or two. 

 Right-Wing French Historian Dominique Venner has Venus in Gemini
On 21st May 2013 on a busy day, amid tourists and people praying he shot and killed himself in front of the altar in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris after placing a sealed envelope on the steps. In his youth he had been jailed for violence against Communists. Nearly 80 he felt that French civilisation was being replaced by an ‘Afro-Maghreb culture‘ and would end up with Sharia Law as former French colonies were overwhelming the Republic shown in his final blog message ‘Peaceful street protests will not be enough to prevent it…It will require new, spectacular, and symbolic gestures to wake up the sleepwalkers, to shake the slumbering consciousness and to remind us of our origins … and rouse people from their complacency … We are entering a time when words must be backed up … by new, spectacular and symbolic actions.’ His extreme symbolic action was prompted by the passing of the law legalising gay marriage in France. He regarded this as another dismantling of French culture as did the immigration of millions of Muslims and the white French culture also being overwhelmed by Americanism, predicting a ”total replacement of the population of France and of Europe’

If you have Gemini spanning the 5th zone of Romance & Creativity, you may have found that things may not have been that bad and that your ‘fun time’ got a perk as did what you do for the sheer love of it. All may have gone to another deeper level. Is your own Venus is in Gemini was it a time to welcome in new arrivals.

Italy’s Senate Vice President Roberto Calderoli has Venus in Gemini
Commenting on Italy’s first black cabinet minister Congolese born Cecile Kyenge ‘I love animals, bears and wolves, as everyone knows but when I see the pictures of Kyenge I cannot but think of, even if I’m not saying she is one, the features of an orangutan.’

If you are a Sun sign Gemini then this stuff may seem easy. Well to a point, because even a cheeky, clever Gemini knows the value of engaging the mind before the tongue and the heart before the mind!

Astronomer Frank Kameny has Venus in Gemini
‘One of the most significant figures’ in the Gay right Movement in America he was dismissed from the US Military for his open homosexuality beginning his struggle with the American establishment in the ’60’s.
He now has a minor planet named in his honour Frankkameny  

For this Venus in Gemini time we may have had a vista of possibilities that opened up before us and a plethora of choices that serve to entice and revel. The anxieties could have been about exactly which ones to choose, what to leave and sacrifice and which ones to pick up and develop. As Venus moved on into Cancer we will be hoping to try and enrich, deepen and nurture those ideas we have decided to bring with us on our continuing journey. Choice is power and the more the merrier, or is less more, right or left, green or red, crescent or cross, rainbow or jackboot……decision decisions,
ad infinitum.
                                     
Singer/Writer/Icon Bob Dylan has Venus in Gemini
credits:indieWire & reuters & BBC & maximeshematov& charismanews & the tribune online
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs

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