GEMINI RISING

You have a strong sense of duality, often like two personalities fighting for control of your body. This can make you indecisive, unsure and extremely nervous and high-strung. You're friendly, adaptable, clever, witty and temperamental. You appear self-confident but lack both it and inner security. Although people make you nervous, you love talking in front of an audience, often using your hands as much as your tongue. This makes you a good conversationalist, writer and reporter. You've very active mentally and function from your mind. You have a good disposition when you're calm and serene.
Decanates
Degree Planet Traits
0-9.99 Mercury You're extremely restless and diffuse. You have strong family ties and often stay near your place of birth due to insecurity and indecisiveness. You're often overly talkative and need to learn to be quiet and still.
10-19.99 Venus You have strong artistic and creative talent. Your career should deal with people in a personal sense. You're very likeable, very restless and you can be lazy. You dislike routine work.
20-29.99 Uranus You can achieve success in business or science or as a head of a large business or group. You have a keen mind with exceptional business sense.

Gemini on the 1st House: You're an original, creative thinker who dominates your intellectual circle. You're able to visualize ideas and express them scientifically, but you may identify yourself too closely with your ideas. You have an alert, active mind and your most dynamic form of expression is intellectual. You're versatile and adaptable but you need to learn to concentrate and direct your forces in steady effort rather than in spurts. You're seldom course or crude unless Mars is heavily afflicted and, if Mercury is afflicted, you can have a caustic tongue, lack coordination or have a high state of nervous tension. You're artistic, a lover of beauty and have an innate desire for culture and refinement.

Cancer on the 2nd House: You acquire money through your adaptability and receptiveness to others. You have a sixth sense that enables you to know what they need or want. You have a natural flair for the promotion of art and beauty. Because of a basic fear or insecurity about money, you usually have a nest egg to which you're emotionally tied and that you protect at all costs. Yet you're not stingy or frugal in sharing and, if your emotions are involved, you can be very generous in giving of yourself and your resources.

Leo on the 3rd House: You express power through creative thinking and put a great deal of energy into your ideas. You think in large, dramatic terms and you're able to dramatize any story. Your mental ingenuity is often expressed as art. You must "shine" in your environment with relatives and neighbors and you need to learn humility. You're strongly tied to your relatives and often travel to see loved ones or romantic interests. Journeys are likely to have a pleasurable or creative purpose. Your great pride can make you very fixed in spite or your versatility and you won't forget any slight or wound, even if you appear to. You have a keen wit.

Virgo on the 4th House: You're analytical and practical, but you fray your own nerves in your drive for perfection. You fuss and nag over little unimportant things and have no idea how difficult your temperament can be. However, you're superb in a big crisis. You want to keep the peace and by agreeing with all concerned to avoid conflict, you often appear two-faced, and sometimes you are. You must learn to center your mind in wisdom. You're fastidious and discerning in your home and render service to your family. Your career is often carried on in your home. You move around constantly and often combine visits with financial or business concerns.

Libra on the 5th House: Partnerships are a channel for creative power and you're attracted to people of grace, refinement and balance. However, you don't want to feel responsible for anyone but yourself so you often remain single or marry late in life when you don't want to be alone. You like children when they're old enough to be interesting. You have hidden artistic ability in mental and emotional areas and derive great aesthetic pleasure from music. You enjoy intellectual discussion in social situations.

Scorpio on the 6th House: Your job must be active, varied and busy with people because you want a sense of freedom in your job and dislike routine of any kind. You're very curious and often involved in science or research, but you need more patience. You need to regenerate yourself in and through work and service. You need to make your ideas effective and practical. Your expression or repression of your desires strongly influences your health. You must learn to use your mind to improve your health.

Sagittarius on the 7th House: You emphasize ethical, philosophical and religious values when choosing personal relationships, but you like everyone and find it hard to love just one. You're adverse to close and binding ties since you're concerned with your own growth. However, you're usually lucky in marriage and the more liberty you're given in marriage, the happier you are, although you still want the feeling of belonging to someone. You want companionship more than sex and expect your mate to be as active as you are. You're mentally restless and suffer from nerves.

Capricorn on the 8th House: You dread growing old and dying and seek to protect yourself by buying insurance. You feel and want to stay young. You're not highly sexes since you live more on the thinking side of your nature. If you don't pull your weight in any sort of partnership, you deprive yourself of fulfillment. You need discrimination in your use of finances, especially lending, and you must adjust your value system. Any inheritance is often delayed or tied up by litigation.

Aquarius on the 9th House: You tend to be progressive, unusual and freethinking in matters of religion, philosophy and higher education and like to associate with people in these fields. Yet you're scared of new philosophical ideas until you're ready to accept them. The keynote to your philosophy should be "ideals made practical." Inspiration comes in sudden flashes, often resulting in sudden long journeys. You're curious about foreign countries and seek the unusual through travels and study. You often have many friends from different cultural or religious backgrounds.

Pisces on the 10th House: You're otherworldly and visionary, but you're not always practical with regard to your work or your public reputation. Peculiar conditions are sometimes associated with your job and reputation and you're elusive and hard to pin down in professional matters. Your work must appeal to your mind and emotions and always involves some element of mystery. You often have two jobs, one of them usually in a hospital, institution or prison. You're apt to have a vivid imagination and you're always running to keep up with yourself.

Aries on the 11th House: You must make a constant effort to make friends because you're continually moving into new groups, leaving old friends and rejoining them some time later. You're able to make friends yet remain detached enabling you to make the most of your sociability and the contacts you make. You organize group endeavors, often involving adventure or unusual undertakings, and are the life of any party. You're energetic in expressing your hopes and wishes and often try new and unusual ways of obtaining them. You're apt to take things too lightly and turn back at the first sign of unpleasantness. You must not gossip and need to learn to be more focused.

Taurus on the 12th House: You're often affected by conditions from the past that don't change easily. You tend to be more persistent on an unconscious rather than the conscious level. You must learn to build good judgment and lasting values into your innermost self or your self-undoing comes from unconscious materialistic desires. You have a hidden insecurity about finances and need hidden cash reserves to feel secure, but if you waste your resources, you'll be restricted. You're easier to reason with than to argue with.

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