Gemini: dates, traits and meaning
Gemini is the zodiac sign of people born from about May 21 to Jun 20, when the Sun is in Gemini. It is a mutable air sign, traditionally ruled by Budha (Mercury).
What the sign means, in both traditions: the Western Gemini and the Vedic Mithuna, and where your own Moon sign and rising sign come in.
- Dates
- May 21 to Jun 20
- Element
- air
- Mode
- mutable
- Ruler
- Budha (Mercury)
- Vedic name
- Mithuna (sidereal), on the sidereal zodiac
Gemini as a Sun sign
Gemini adapts and finishes things: it is a mutable sign. As a air sign it thinks in conversation and connections, and needs room to move and people to talk to.
If the Sun was in Gemini on your birthday, you carry its drive: the way you push into the world. That is the sign every column is written for, and it is a twelfth of the story.
Your Moon sign is how you feel and recharge, and your rising sign is how you come across; both are computed from the same birthday, with the time.
Gemini as Mithuna
In Vedic astrology the sign of the same name is Mithuna, measured on the sidereal zodiac. That zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the Western one. So most people with a Gemini Sun have their Vedic Sun in Taurus.
In Vedic astrology, though, "your sign" means your Moon sign, the Rashi, not your Sun sign. Your Moon sign is independent of your Sun sign and needs your birth date, time and place.
Today's reading for this sign is read both ways: Gemini today, and the Mithuna rashifal.
Gemini compatibility with every sign
How Gemini pairs with each of the twelve signs, itself included, in love, communication, conflict and marriage, with the Vedic view of each pair.
Worked example
One fixed example birth, run through the same engine as the calculator, so the page and the result can never disagree.
Example: someone born at noon on 5 June 2000 in London. Computed, not a customer.
On the Western zodiac their Sun is in Gemini. On the Vedic, sidereal zodiac the same Sun is in Vrishabha (Taurus).
Their Moon sign, and so their Rashi, depends on their birth date and time. It could be any of the twelve signs.
How it is worked out
The elements follow the classical order of the signs: fire, earth, air and water in turn. The modes run cardinal, fixed and mutable in turn. The ruler is the traditional one used in both Western and Vedic astrology.
What this cannot tell you
- A Gemini Sun describes one part of a person. It says nothing about the Moon sign or the rising sign.
- The dates are approximate. A birthday within a day or two of a change of sign needs the birth time to settle it.
- This is for reflection and cultural interest. It describes tendencies, and is not medical, legal or financial advice.
Related questions
What is Gemini in Vedic astrology?
- The same sign is called Mithuna. The Vedic zodiac sits about 24 degrees behind the Western one. So most people with a Gemini Sun have their Vedic Sun in Taurus.
If my Sun is in Gemini, what is my Rashi?
- Your Rashi is your Moon sign, which is independent of your Sun sign. It can be any of the twelve, and needs your birth date, time and place.
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