The TAURUS - GEMINI Relationship

Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a

fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest

companion, Peter at once considered how he could turn the

catastrophe to his own use....

Taurus men and women are quiet, steady, practical people, who try to mind their own business. On occasion, they can be fierce, though most of the time they retain an admirable calm. A Bull can look a tornado in the eye, if necessary,without flinching or batting a lash. Nevertheless, his (or her) splendid strength and determined staying power is a poor match for the flashing agility of a pair of Twins, who can cleverly twist and turn their way out of any earthly threat - the Twins, of course, being two different people disguised as one, who call themselves Gemini.

 
Pity the poor Taureans who are faced with these two fast-moving, twinkle toed people, with razor sharp minds, skipping around and confusing them, all the time giving them the illusion that they are facing but a single toreador. It's hard to see how anyone can find sport in cruelly tormenting a great,noble beast,whose only desire is to be left alone, in peace. It almost makes one wish for the Bull to score, with a sudden, furious thrust of his horns. Sometimes, that happens.And it's a fair warning to misguided Geminis, who have no idea how unpleasant it feels to be struck unexpectedly from the rear, when you're grinning and bowing and gracefully bobbing around - and not looking behind you.

 
I have a Taurus neighbor, whose daughter, also a Taurus, fell in love with a Gemini charmer. After six months went by, and she still hadn't brought him home to meet the family, the Taurean began to be curious, and finally, became concerned. "What's with the mystery routine? Are you ashamed of him? Does this guy have two heads or something?" (He had no idea how warm he was getting.)One afternoon, he ran into his daughter and her Gemini boyfriend on the street, so the three of them (the four of them? ) had lunch, and got to know each other. To his delight, the Bull discovered his future son-in-law was bright, handsome, courteous and versatile. (Oh, was he versatile!) He spoke six languages,piloted his own plane, had degrees from two universities and played the saxophone.

   
Over the cheese souffle, the Gemini brilliantly discussed his career (he was a public relations counsel), his political views, and his religious beliefs. When the hypnotized Taurus father admired the huge diamond ring that glittered on one of the Gemini's expressive, artistic hands, he was told, "It's a family heirloom that belonged to my great-grandfather, and it's insured for seventy thousand dollars." No doubt about this man being financially stable enough for his daughter. At last, the Gemini remarked he had to dash off to see his stockbroker,smilingly waved goodbye and disappeared. He forgot to pick up the check,but that was an obvious oversight. After all, the man had a lot on his mind, between his clients, his Wall Street investments - and being in love.

 
The following week, in one of those flukes of fate, the Taurus was having his hair cut by a barber, who just happened to be the Gemini's brother-in-law, and the truth came out. He wasn't a public relations counsel, he was an assistant to a veterinarian. He had two wives and five children he had neglected to mention.His academic degrees consisted of a high school equivalency diploma. The plane was a single-engine model aircraft he flew in the park on Sundays. And the "diamond" was one of the imitation zircons he sold through a mail-order house, to make enough bread for his weekly lessons on the saxophone, which he did happen to play rather well. "I'd class him as a young Hymie Shertzer, but with a real pop sense of jazz, you know?" mused the barber brother-in-law. A

sense of jazz indeed.

 
How did the Taurean father react to this gross betrayal of faith, involving his adored Taurus daughter, and his own judgment of character? With the blind fury and violent rage of a Bull who has been red-flagged once too often.Fortunately, by the time he reached the Gemini's apartment, the "Twins" had just left for Mexico, to join a rock group on a tour of South America. However,two years later, Gemini returned, felt a sentimental urge to visit the scene of the romantic crime, and paid a call on his old Taurus girl friend. At first she stubbornly refused his apologies, but within a half-hour she had forgiven him (the Gemini charm), and melted into his arms. In another fluke of fate, at that precise moment, the father Bull walked through the door. (I mean he actually did nearly walk through the door). I will spare you the gruesome details. Later, when the stitches were removed, the Twins left once again for Mexico, this time to take up permanent residence there. It was a wise move.

 
 It takes a Taurus man, woman or child a long time to learn, but a lesson learned is never forgotten. Never. An elephant is absent-minded, when compared to the memory of a Taurean once wounded. Naturally, not every Gemini keeps his (or her) Twin Selves as separate as the traveling sax player. Most Geminis manage to blend their two distinct personalities into one bright, intelligent and interesting human being, reasonably honest, and refreshingly adaptable.Still, the Geminian ability to change from one viewpoint to another, when it seems necessary for survival, can give Taurus an uneasy feeling that something is happening that he (or she) can't quite grab - or trust.

 
This is a 2-12 Sun Sign Pattern, meaning that Taurus is the sign immediately behind Gemini on the karmic wheel. Therefore, Gemini contains a soul memory of the opportunities it's possible to miss, through excessive Taurean caution. That's why Geminis of both sexes, and all ages, are so anxious to avoid mental ruts, or any other sort of stalemates, in this incarnation. Yet, the Twins sympathize with the Taurus reluctance to toss away security in favor of the unknown more than most other Sun Signs do because, in a subconscious sense,they've "been there."

 
As for the Bulls, since Gemini follows Taurus on the astrological circle, all Taurus men and women are faintly aware that they have something to learn from these bright, quick people. But what Gemini wants to teach, Taurus finds difficult to comprehend. The Bulls would like to be able to take life more casually,to think fast on their feet, toss away the past without regret, and skip happily ahead into a new adventure each day. He - or she - wistfully yearns for the freedom of spirit that Gemini, running a few lengths ahead, keeps dangling in front of the slower Taurean, sparkling and enticing. But - what if someone should break into the house, and steal all the Bull's precious possessions while he (or she) is out chasing fireflies with the Twins? What if one should happen to stumble, and break one's big toe, while jogging alongside Gemini? And what if the night air should give Taurus a sore throat? Who will be waiting back home to nurse and care for him (or her)?

 
It's always easier to sell life insurance or Blue Cross to Taurus than to Gemini. A typical astrological Sun Sign situation is a Gemini salesman or saleswoman,from a Scorpio insurance agency, fast-talking a Taurean customer into signing up for a huge stack of varied policies and annuities. Bulls are usually careful not to fall for a Mercurial pitch, except when it comes to purchasing solid security and protection for their families and their possessions, not to mention protecting their incomes in the future. Then, the Bulls become helpless pawns in the hands of a clever and charming Geminian.

 
Often the dogmatic Taurean determination to stick with facts that have been tried and tested may seem like stubborn prejudice to the more liberal,open-minded Gemini person. Conversely, the typical Bull feels it's always possible for an apparently accurate statement of brilliant Gemini logic to be actually conveying a falsehood or deception behind the surface glibness. What gives Taureans their initial mistrust of Gemini is the Twins' amazing dexterity of speech. Anyone who can juggle words with such ease, and spin them into such hypnotic tales full of wit and excitement, is suspect to the less loquacious Bulls,who tend to make every word count in their own rare speeches. In verbal showmanship,the Gemini man or woman is nearly always supremely eloquent, seemingly logical and clear. Only a Libran can match Gemini's powers of persuasion.But Taurus is not persuaded so quickly.

 
Not all Geminis are completely straightforward in their methods of arguing.Some of them veer away from the issue, on side trips, inciting Taurus to shout,angrily, "Stick to the point, will you?" Stop rationalizing!" Gemini also leans toward a certain amount of diffusiveness and repetition in speech patterns,which sometimes causes Taurean friends, relatives, business associates, lovers or mates to get into the Fixed habit of simply tuning out, after the third or fourth repeat.

 
Astrologer Evangeline Adams (granddaughter of John Quincy Adams,great-granddaughter of John Adams) once noted the typical Gemini verbal dexterity,by using Paul's Epistle to the Romans, in the New Testament, as an example.Verses 25 through 29, Chapter Two, and Verses 1 through 11, Chapter

Three, constitute a masterpiece of Gemini glibness and charm, accomplished with Mercury double-talk. St. Paul, who was surely a Geminian, was obliged to tell the Roman gentiles that circumcision was not a necessary requirement for salvation. At the same time, he was bound to the Jews, by previous statements he'd made to them that it was. His efforts to successfully solve this contradiction are a truly classical example of the Gemini mind at its sharpest and best,cleverly confusing each side while irresistibly courting the approval of both. It's easy to see why Geminis are adept as politicians. They're able to bring opposite opinions together and hang them on a thread of truth, coated with charm and logic, creating an aura of idealism and peace on all sides. Gemini is not called the"communicator" without cause. President John F. Kennedy was a most typical Geminian, in every respect.

 
The airy detachment of Gemini can hurt and annoy Taurus, by turns, because,to the Bulls,detachment is indicative of being either rudely ignored or condescendingly patronized, neither of which is particularly pleasing to them.Some Bulls carry the scars of real or imagined rejection from an Air Sign for many years. It's often what causes those streaks of bull-headed stubbornness.For the life of them, Geminis can't see how anyone could be so opinionated that he (or she) is deaf to all logic and reason. Yet, an affectionate word or two, an arm thrown round a shoulder, or a warm, friendly clasp of hands (any form of touching) will make the tender, Venus-ruled Taurean heart melt like butter in the Sun. For all their cleverness, Geminis frequently fail to comprehend this magic formula for softening the Fixed and firm Taurean mental or emotional position. The occasional coldness projected by the Mental Sign of the Twins will only freeze the Bull into a more solid lump of obstinate earth. (Frozen ground is harder to shovel, you know, than the soft, rich earth, which has been kissed awake by the summer Sun.)

 
 Geminis are always looking for short cuts. All right, Twins, here's a shortcut to your compatibility with Bulls. The most common cause of tension between you is the Taurus habit of feeling, when he (or she) ought to think - and your own habit of thinking, when you ought to feel. Don't try to dazzle the Bulls with your brilliance - baffle them with bear hugs.

The TAURUS - TAURUS Relationship

Observe how they pass over fallen twigs without making the

slightest noise. The only sound to be heard is their

somewhat heavy breathing.

Somehow, an astrological rumor has gotten around that Taurus people are inclined to be overweight. This is false. Some of them tend to plumpness, true,but most of them do not.

They love to cook and they love to eat, but normally, the splendid physique of the Bull causes any excess calories to turn into solid muscle. With the female Taureans, good food only seems to give them a look of sturdy coordination, and a slow, sensual grace. (Taurean film star Audrey Hepburn is fat? ) Of course,there are always the inevitable exceptions, but the truth of the matter is that it's the Sun Signs of Cancer and Libra who are more susceptible to plumpness andextra curves than Taurus. (I said susceptible, that's all, susceptible.) I just thought I'd mention it, to put the Taurus people reading this section into a contented frame of mind. That's always the safest way to keep Cows and Bulls -contented.

Another misconception about these people is that they're lazy. Taureans are not lazy. They're simply dedicated to the proposition that wasting energy is a sin, which is why you'll seldom catch them in a quick movement. (Except for rare Bulls like Fred Astaire, who have heavy Gemini influences in their birth charts.) The reason Taurus people have so much strength is because the typical Bulls conserve it, the way they conserve their money. When you put two Taureans together, it's difficult to get them to move into any sort of instant action(unless they're angry, but we'll discuss that later). In fact, moving two Bulls is twice as hard as moving one Bull (an example of uncomplicated, sensible, Taurus-type logic). Picture a couple of piles of rich earth, just sitting there, side-by side.Isn't it peaceful? Neither of them wishes to profane the peaceful stillness by chattering unduly. When they first meet, they'll size each other up more or less silently. No Bull is ever overly anxious to impulsively jump into an association with another Bull (or any other kind of astrological animal) until all the various possibilities have been carefully judged and seriously considered.This brings us to the third unfair and fallacious astrological rumor - that Taureans are stubborn. They are not stubborn. They're merely determined and firm in their convictions, not nervous flibbertigibbits who are continually changing their minds and losing their heads. The Bulls change their minds rarely, and lose their heads with even greater infrequency. It's only reasonable, you see,after you've done all that careful judging and serious considering, to stick to what you know is right. When two Taurus people (of either sex) who hold conflicting opinions are brought into close proximity, they both become even more reasonable with each other than they are with others of contrary opinion.

One of the producers of a major television network where I was once a writer is a Taurus. I remember  the time he was assigned by the network to build a prime time TV spectacular around a popular singing star, also a Taurus. One calm, peaceful morning, the Taurus star arrived at the Taurus producer's office to discuss the format of the show, and these two Bulls were closeted together behind

locked doors for nearly six hours, without so much as a coffee break. Each of them had his own ideas about the spectacular, the guest stars, the songs, the musical theme, the scenic background, lighting effects, and so on. When the famous Taurean finally left, the Taurus producer's secretary and staff crowded around him to ask, "What's he like?" The weary Bull considered the question carefully, as usual, and finally allowed as how the star was a nice, friendly person,intelligent and creative. Then he paused, and said, "But look how long it took him to approve of one simple TV format. He kept pushing some ridiculous ideas he had, over and over, before he realized that I was right in the first place.All that valuable time wasted. I've never met anyone so stubborn." Everyone broke up. It took them several minutes to calm down, while the Taurus producer kept asking, "What did I say that was so funny?"

The last chapter of the foregoing story is that the agent for the Taurus singing star phoned the next day to proffer the singing Bull's apologies. He had decided not to do the spectacular they discussed, and had signed with another network.Period. End of story.

You've probably heard lots of unfair rumors about female American singing star Barbra Streisand being difficult and unreasonable to work with, right?Barbra is a Taurus lady. Obviously, such rumors are false. As I've just pointed out, Taureans are completely reasonable. I refer the reader once again to the fourth paragraph of this chapter for a detailed explanation of the reasonable attitude of these unjustly maligned Taurus people. At least no one ever accuses them of not being musical. Every Taurus ever born either sings beautifully, as an amateur or professional - in the shower or tub - while shaving - or if nothing else, adores listening to music, and dreaming about singing.

An association between two Bulls, laboring under the double weight of a 1-1Sun Sign influence, can be placid, stable and mutually comforting. These people are normally sweet, patient Teddy-Bear types, respectful of each other's rights, quietly devoted, and unquestionably loyal. Still, life may become somewhat stagnant and uneventful for them, unless the birth chart of one or both contains planets in Air or Fire Signs. Taureans are suspicious of change, because the Bull is conservative, and that's not a false rumor. If you know a Bull who actually enjoys change, especially abrupt change, he or she was either adopted or the Moon and/or Ascendent was in a sign like Aries, Gemini, or Aquarius at birth. Maybe Sag. The typical Taureans are on guard against quick reforms or sudden switches in the status quo, being very much like the Goats in this respect. They feel that, on the whole, things have been plodding along pretty well for a number of centuries, so why disturb things by changing the rules and regulations of life? To the average Taurean (always allowing for the rareexceptions who prove the rule) any sort of radical interference with Fixed Habit (Taurus is a Fixed Sign, you know) - is unwise. Fixed Habits have already been proven worthy by time, and a new, untested idea could be merely a hair-brained scheme, which might be the dangerous wedge that brings disaster. When a Bull does change his (or her) mind - which does occasionally occur - you can be jolly well certain the change of opinion has been methodically blocked out and measures up to all the necessary qualifications of practicality.

There were, of course, a fair number of double Taurus teams who participated in the "youth revolution" of the sixties, but an honest survey would show that an extremely low percentage of them were draft-card burners who escaped to Canada, or elsewhere, because of conscientious objection. Taurus may "conscientiously object" to many things, but facing physical danger is not one of them. The Sun Sign Taurus rules patriotism in astrology (as does Cancer).American television hero Archie Bunker is a Bull. (Not actor Carroll O'Connor.Archie Bunker. Only sissies avoid their patriotic duty.) Of those Bulls who did follow their consciences in this respect, they all suffered private guilt twinges

later. Even now there are Taureans who are willing to demonstrate for new causes like Ecology, Solar Energy, Greenpeace, Women's Rights and so on, just as some of them demonstrated for Civil Rights for the blacks. After all, it is the Aquarian Age, and even Bulls can't help being swept up in the violent changes.But it will have taken them considerable time to decide to join any protests, and they will have done so only after due cautious reflection.

The currently Venus-ruled Bulls you may know who marched two-by-two in yesterday's Peace Parades, sniffing posies, believed in "Peace" itself quite naturally. Yet only a handful of those who called the police "pigs," threw trash on the White House lawn, set fires, and otherwise defied law and order - or streaked through towns and hamlets naked, to proclaim their pristine innocence- were Taureans. (In the latter instance, it's a safe bet the Bulls, however, watched the streakers with interest and amusement. The slapstick aspect of "streaking" tickled their fancies.) But on the whole, the "revolutionary"Taurus protesters just stood there quietly, clutching their Peace signs, candles,flowers, incense, or whatever - and it's quite possible some of them are still standing there.

Their defense of established mores and their respect for authority (when authority is sensible) is often what draws two Bulls together initially - and the glue that keeps them together. Taurus feels that, if change is needed, the only reasonable (there's that word again!) way to bring it about is within the system.Actually, the rest of us should be properly grateful for these basically kindhearted,reliable souls, who are so dedicated to the reign of cool reason. We need the assorted viewpoints of all twelve Sun Signs for any sort of sane and lasting Peace on Earth. But a couple of Bulls, when they're doubling up on their innate character traits, can freeze into a mold that's just a touch fanatical. Both are deeply and sincerely concerned with protecting their investments, their possessions,their families and loved ones, and their country from wild-eyed radicals.Of course, you must realize that to Taurus, the definition of "wild-eyed radicals"can be an affectionate couple, who are embracing on the street, wearing twin stickers on their Levi's reading: One-two-three-four, we'd rather - - -- than go to war." They'd rather kiss than defend their own country?! That sort of philosophy, to the typical Bull, borders on anarchy.

The most potentially damaging aspect of a Taurus-Taurus association is the great reluctance of either Bull to repent when one has seriously offended the other. Even when a Taurean is inwardly convinced that he (or she) has been mistaken, the tendency is to stubbornly stand by what's been unwisely said or done, because to admit a mistake is uncomfortably close to being weak, and the very word "weakness" makes a Bull see red. Now and then, one Bull can coax the other to unbend and say "I'm sorry," or make up, but not often. Sometimes,tickling them helps. They giggle, turn pink, then finally mumble, "Aw shucks, I didn't mean it." It's always easier for Taureans to back down when the disgrace of being wrong is cozily blanketed in humor. It breaks the fall.

When a Bull finally comprehends that Taurus patience is a graceful, desirable virtue, but that turned upside down, it's transformed into plain, cussed,bull-headedness, it will be easier to forgive the other half of the Taurus team his (or her) own spells of the same "virtue." Two Bulls can work or play side-by side,and behave beautifully. They'll be mutually docile, dependable, and sweetly compliant - if one doesn't push the other too far, or too hard. Nearly all Taureans have a sensational sense of humor, and if they can learn to laugh at themselves, their adjustment problems will be all over. There's nothing like a funny bone to tickle the Bull into moving, or changing a Fixed position. Humor is one of the greatest qualities a human being can possess. Blended in generous amounts with the wonderful Taurean dependability, it can help to make these lovable and huggable men and women more reasonable - as well as a shade more flexible.

An afterthought for any two Taureans, who have lost sight of one another's basic sweetness and cuddly qualities: Taurus Tom Snyder, of television fame and familiarity, has his very own (no joke) Teddy Bear, tucked tenderly somewhere behind the cameras during his program, sometimes clearly visible, at other times playing peek with the audience. Wouldn't you just know? Every Bull, male or female, clutches a symbolic Teddy Bear for emotional security. So you see, the two of you are really very lovable sorts, not nearly so stern and bull-headed as you both behave at times.

And you can also be certain that every Taurean has a funny bone hidden somewhere behind the silent facade. When they permit one another a glimpse of it, the rich humor shared by these two in their 1-1 Sun Sign association will burst forth like a refreshing rain of happiness, to wash clean those stubborn memories of mutually inflicted hurt and allow the flowers of forgiveness to grow in their hearts.

TAURUS Woman - GEMINI Man

Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as

yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of

waiting to her. But he was exactly as fascinating as

ever....

While the Taurus woman sits beneath the rose bush, carefully stitching a piece of needlework, with the words "Home, Sweet Home," the Gemini man is drumming his restless fingers on the window pane, humming his own melody and lyric to "Song of the Open Road." No matter where these two (these three, counting his invisible Twin self) meet along life's highway, they'll eventually reach a fork in the path that will force them to flip a coin, to decide which one to take -the one leading to a comfortable, conventional marriage - or the one leading to a casual affair, with no strings attached to the heart. Correction: He'll flip a coin. She'll consult her common sense, to see if she might be headed in the wrong direction.

Once a Taurus girl is absolutely sure she loves a Gemini man, she'll first try everything in her considerable power to entice him into a permanent arrangement,complete with both social and legal sanction. And she possesses more weapons for enticement than you may think: erotic sensuality,tender affection,rich humor, fantastic home-baked biscuits, patience and fortitude. If none of these powerful feminine wiles work, she'll sigh softly, take a deep breath, and settle herself cozily into the role of mistress, still secretly using the very same weapons, but content to wait until he sees the light. "Everything comes to him - or her - who waits," is her philosophy. A Taurus woman may be cautious about getting her feet tangled up in romantic poison ivy in the beginning;she may be slow to allow herself to get tripped up by moonlight and roses, and fragile promises, at the start. However, once this lady has fallen, she has fallen,and it takes a steel derrick, or a Mack truck, to pull her out. Sometimes, the four-wheel drive of her common sense comes to the rescue, sometimes not.

Geminis are equally as wary as Taurus about being trapped in the beginning,but even after a Mercury Bird has capitulated to love, he keeps one light foot in the bedroom and one poised on the front porch for ready flight, if necessary.He'll tenderly give her one of his Twin hearts to have and to hold, but he hangs on to the other - just in case the one he gave away should happen to become soiled or broken, or damaged in any way. What good is a cracked heart to him? It will never sell as a new one. Think of the depreciation. It's a kind of Gemini insurance policy against disillusionment. That's where they differ. (Imean, that's one of the ways they differ.)

The Taurus woman, who is ordinarily so respectful of all kinds of insurance, has no emotional insurance against hurt, once she's handed over her loyalty to another human being. Unless there are severe afflictions to her natal Mars or Venus (or Sun), this lady will wait out anything, from another woman to poverty.She'll calmly ignore the changeable antics of her altar-shy, Mercury-ruled man, and not always - but usually - she'll win. If there are certain planetary squares or oppositions in her birth chart, it's possible that she may be the one to break his heart by chasing will-o'-the-wisps of pleasure just to torment her Gemini man, whose love is delicate and easily torn apart. But that's an exception to the rule, and the average Taurean Bull will sit serenely by the fire, toasting her toes and calmly counting the days between visits from her lover.

Her friends will try to make this sentimental woman see that she may be wasting her life, but she won't listen. She'll stubbornly insist that the delays preventing their marriage are valid ones, that tomorrow, next week, next month,next year - it will all work out. They love each other, and love can make anything happen, can't it? Yes, it can. But not when love is blind, as Taurus love sometimes is. A Taurean who's convinced she's right is difficult to lead into a realization of the truth - the truth being that all may not be lost if she recognizes the danger of a dead-end scene in time to zap some life back into the romance.But she may not want to admit things aren't as rosy as they could be.As sensible as she is about everything else, she can be incredibly foolish when it comes to her own emotional security. If he has the Moon in an Earth or Water Sign, or she has the Moon in a Fire or Air Sign, they have a better chance to stay together, each supplying what is missing in the other. And that can be a mighty satisfying arrangement.

A Gemini man is quickly bored with the same woman, but that doesn't have to mean infidelity. He just likes to examine the various faces of the girl he loves,test the nuances of her emotional facets sort of look at her through trick mirrors,for a change of mood. But the Taurus female has only three moods: sweet,affectionate contentment, sullen brooding - and raging fury. A Mercury man may secretly wish she'd vary them with a few impulsive whims, careless excitement, or a game of emotional hide-and-seek, now and then. She may hate change, but learning to adapt to new patterns is a necessity for a woman in love with a pair of Gemini Twins.

She might like it, if she tried doing something new and wild each week. It doesn't have to be as far out as astral traveling, or opium parties. Maybe just part her hair on the other side, for a change (when a Taurus girl does that, it's a clear signal for the man who can read it) or switch her brand of bath oil, or throw some mushrooms in with the eggplant. She might even try saying she's sorry when she's wrong, instead of pouting. A Taurus woman has a way of choosing a side, and staying there, refusing even to listen to an apology, much less a compromise. This girl doesn't realize how cruel and cold she seems, once she's made up her mind and slammed the door shut on any further discussion.

Sexually, the same problems of change-versus-stubbornness may creep into their relationship. She wants to be well loved, and to her, the physical expression of that love should be a rich and total experience. She expects complete sensual satisfaction from a lover, and she gives him full measure in return. A Taurus woman thinks sex is great because it produces sweet, cuddly babies and brings emotional peace and physical fulfillment at the same time - a triple blessing. When she makes love, there's nothing misty about it. She wants to feel her man is there beside her - all there - not just the parts of him he's not using while he's daydreaming. Since his Mercurial mind may be wandering on the wind, she may resent what she interprets as his lack of earthy passion, his casual attitude. And he may resent what he sees as her intrusion into his emotional privacy, which Gemini will consider sacred, even during their most intimate moments. She might have to persuade herself to try various, different approaches to pull him off his cloud and back into her arms. Otherwise, he may grow weary of beating his wings against a stone wall, and become even more detached.He'll be happier than he guesses, however, if he allows her to show him the way to a deeper affection by trusting her more instinctive Venus vibrations,and her earthiness, instead of hovering somewhere, just out of touch, when she needs him so profoundly. All Air Signs tend to mistrust sex, in a vague sort of way, unless it's first been strained through the imagination, which sometimes purges it of its very essence. A Gemini man wants his sexual experience diluted,in varying degrees, with fiction and fantasy.

I know a Taurus woman who is unusually psychic, for her normally un-esoteric Sun Sign. (That happens, you know, even with Goats and Virgins of the male and female sex. World-famous psychic Peter Hurkos is a Bull - with a powerfully trined Neptune, of course.) This particular lady Taurean was deeply and genuinely in love with a peripatetic Gemini man from California, for more years than she's able to forget, and maybe she still is in love with him, in her own stubborn way. There are several Neptune trines between their birth charts,creating a rare emotional telepathy, which they used to communicate with each other, without benefit of telephone or letters. Sometimes, their uncanny ESP brought them together when they were miles apart, more than just mentally and emotionally and spiritually. It brought them also into physical Oneness. She once remarked to me that she told him she believed she could almost... conceive a baby through their powerful mutual projection, and she wasn't ready for that, for they weren't married. (Taurus realistic humor.) That's a strong union. Strong indeed.

But his twin Gemini desires never blended into one single dream she could depend on. Finally, she read his mind (reversing his Mercury trick), saw nothing there but more ephemeral promises, and cut the telepathic cord between them with the cold, sharp scissors of Taurus determination. Now he can no longer reach her astrally, or any other way. She refuses to answer either her telephone - or her heart - when they ring. She knows when it's Gemini who's calling. But it doesn't move her. A psychic Taurus woman is still a Bull. Metaphysical talents don't make a dent in her iron will - once her mind has been made up firmly.

And so, a Gemini man isn't always blameless when his affair with a Taurean girl has tied itself into obstinate knots. He can wear himself into his own kind of rut. He might pause, during one of his spins around the carousel of changing lights and sounds, and ask himself if he's still hearing the same calliope music he heard when he first jumped on for the ride. A melody without words a story without an ending a whirl around a circle that goes nowhere but back to the beginning. How many brass rings must a man grab to jingle in his pocket- to watch turn green, and tarnish - until he reaches for one made of solid gold?

The GEMINI - LEO Relationship

"Back, twins "

As Gemini calculates the sunny but sometimes insufferable antics of the Lion,the Twins wonder: "Does the big cat actually possess such complete self-assurance?Or could Leo only be trying to prove that the reality is as infallible andmfearless as the image?" - a typical Gemini mind trip.

As the Lion or Lioness lazily studies the Mercurial Gemini Twins, he (or she) has a similar thought: "All that mental and physical activity must be a compensation of some kind. Survival alone isn't sufficient reason for so much unnecessary maneuvering. Is Gemini trying to span East, West, North, and South all at once to hide the fact that he (or she) is lost in the woods with a broken compass?"

They've both guessed the truth about each other. Yes, Leos are trying to prove to themselves and the rest of the world, through a show of arrogant bravado,that Lions and Lionesses are as brave inwardly as they outwardly seem. Andyes, Gemini is trying to prove to the Twin Self and everyone else that he-she is racing straight ahead, in the right direction, and not really running around in circles.

Because their two Sun Signs are sextile, creating a 3-11 vibration between them, they're intuitive about each other, are inclined to friendship, despite any differences between them from time to time, and they have a mutual talent for whistling in the dark. When they whistle a tune together, in harmony, it's easier to convince themselves that all is well. Unlike Scorpios (except for the Grey Lizards),who are deeply and unshakably certain of their superiority, the Lion and Lioness believe that if they roar loudly enough, no one will suspect that they tremble with apprehension over their private fear that they may not be completely equal to every occasion that may arise. The King and Queen of the jungle pride - or of any kingdom, classroom, office or home - must never lose face before their adoring subjects, who respect and worship the monarchy, only because their rulers are capable of handling any minor or major emergency with majestic finesse, regal dignity and wisdom. It's the quintessence of royalty to project nobility of spirit and strength of character to the weaker masses.Strangely, and rather wonderfully, in pretending to be all these things, Leo actually becomes them, rediscovering through every human crisis (to his or her secret surprise and delight) that the Leonine courage really is as powerful and awesome as the Lion's roar insinuates.

Geminis have the same sort of good fortune with their apparent self-deception.While the Twins are selling others, they're simultaneously selling themselves the validity of their own dreams. Gemini tells stories, flavored with excitement,always amusing, some of them with a double-switch O'Henry ending,instilling enthusiasm and inspiring more cautious, practical souls. With the brush of imagination, Geminis paint marvelous word pictures of nonsensical things and somehow manage to make them seem real and logical to sane people,as well as to themselves. By so believing, Mercury dreams eventually materialize and manifest.

Because Leo inwardly senses that Geminis are telling the truth as they see it, the large Leonine heart goes out to the Twins in sympathetic recognition of a soul brother - or sister. Of course. Leo understands. It's like the song from The King and I - "make believe you're brave, and the trick will get you far.You can be as brave - as you make believe you are!"

What hurts and perplexes the Gemini Mercury Birds is the way others, who are less sympathetic than Leo, interpret their talent for conjuring up imagery.They can't fathom why it is, when other people do the same thing, they're called creative, imaginative - astute traders, or shrewd businessmen. When the Twins do it, they're called con artists, liars - or, at the very least, deceptively slick and quick with the facts. Geminis think they have the world and everyorie in it analyzed down to the last nuance. That is, until they bump up against the exceptions to the rule and finally come to the conclusion that the world may consist entirely of exceptions. It figures. The Twins themselves are.

From childhood, Geminis have been acutely aware that illusion is the most dependable of all riches. No Broadway stage is as packed with drama and color as the "theatre of the mind." And so, the Twins cast themselves in all roles,from the character actors to the ingenues, from the stars to the lowliest bit players,sometimes slipping into the part of the stagehands or musicians. Why not? They've also decided they're the producers and directors, so they can be whatever they choose to be.

However, when playing the boards with the Big Cats, the Twins best be cautious about grabbing off the plum titles of Star, Director or Producer. If there's any kind of show going on, anywhere, at any time, actual or make-believe,you can bet your greasepaint and footlights that Leos are going to insist on directing it and producing it - and most definitely will star in it. No one successfully outshines a Lion or a Lioness for very long, let alone upstages a King or Queen.

That's usually just fine and dandy with the airy, detached Geminis. The Twins are, if the truth be told, actually far more interested in changing the scenery than in hogging the encores. They appreciate press notices as much as Leo,and they're equally if not more adept in the art of getting heard about or written about. But they'll normally, if they're typical Mercury Birds, move gracefully aside and allow the vainer Leos to take most of the bows before a live audience.

Is it because Gemini is a Mutable Sign? Not necessarily. The Twins have another "method to their madness." When you're out front, headlining the show, you see, you're vulnerable to being inspected by a bunch of curious Strangers. It makes many Geminians in the entertainment field uncomfortable if he she can't wear the many-colored cloak of multifaceted identity, which is so handy for disguising a Twin - or even Triplet - personality, who's pretending to be one single entity.

It's been said that inside every plump person is a skinny twin, longing to escape.That's especially true of the chubby Geminis, who have gained weight in an unconscious effort to hide their secret selves - to stop running so fast - because they were bored into eating by a lack of opportunity for physical activity and mental challenge - or through some hidden guilt and frustration connected with their tangled emotions. Gemini fatties, however, are rare, since the skinny Twin is normally the more insistent one, because of being aware that the ability to flash around, thin, and therefore less noticeable, is a more effective means of masquerading. This is the real reason why the few plump Mercury Birds are so very much more miserable than people of any other Sun Sign (except Scorpio

and Pisces) who have gained weight. They don't mind the burden of extra pounds so much, and they're not unduly concerned over their health - it's just that it makes them so visible, spoiling all their fun and games.

The difference between the Geminian and Leonine natures regarding visibility and public exposure was rather gloriously demonstrated when I was givinga talk in Washington, D.C., in May of 1971,  before a very large crowd, consisting mainly of the press, at a banquet honoring Martha Mitchell (who provided them, undeniably, with some of their most colorful copy).

When I asked how many Leos were present, hands shot up all over the place instantly - and they remained up, as high as possible, many of them waving frantically in an attempt to be noticed. When I followed that request by asking the Big Cats to please stand and be recognized, heads started bobbing, right and left, as all the Lions and Lionesses present in the ballroom of the Hotel Shoreham

that night rose grandly to the occasion. Then, while the audience loudly applauded, all those Leos, as if on cue, immediately began bowing quite formally,graciously accepting their rightful homage - even the Shy Pussycat Leos,who saw their chance to finally be on stage and take a few curtain calls. It was

truly, astrologically and otherwise, hilarious. My tape recording of the event clocks the resulting roars of laughter from the other Sun Signs present at a full three minutes, during which time the applause grew louder and louder, as the Big Cats kept bowing repeatedly.

As a sort of test, a few moments after the general uproar had died down, I invited all the Geminis present to raise their hands. "Come on," I urged, "let's have a show of hands from all the Twins here tonight." Not one single hand was raised in the entire, huge ballroom. Quickly, a ripple of whispering passed among the audience, as everyone wondered why the Geminis weren't answering the astrological roll call, especially since I had just pointed out that there are,statistically, in several countries, including the U.S.A., more June births than any others. Obviously, percentagewise, there should have been at least one Gemini in that large crowd.

The audience had no idea what was happening, but I did. Any astrologer would have known. The Twins prefer to observe, without being specifically identified themselves. Geminis are seldom anxious to be recognized by a crowd.Also, some of them were undoubtedly present at the banquet after telling a friend, mate or relative that they were going somewhere else, following which they changed their minds - and they didn't want to get caught by those present later remarking on their presence because they had become publicly visible to the entire group. The rest of them were reluctant to expose themselves for as many assorted reasons as there are individual (or dual) Geminis.

I made all these remarks aloud to the audience - and repeated my invitation to the Geminis. Very slowly and hesitantly then, only about three or four hands were partially raised in the packed room. Suddenly a wave of laughter burst forth from everyone, as heads turned toward the rear of the ballroom,where what resembled a conga line of a dozen or more Geminis were attempting to sneak out the door without being noticed. As the laughter rose, and people began calling out to the departing Geminis they knew by name, they all began actually running past the astonished doorman. Everyone present, myself included,completely broke up.

And thus did I discover by sheer accident what turned out to be a most enlightening,as well as hilarious, way to prove the validity of Sun Signs to a large gathering of skeptics and believers.

I can't say whether it had any bearing on the hasty departure of the Mercury Birds, but perhaps I should note that the late FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover was seated on the dais that night, making one of his extremely rare public appearances.Mr. Hoover was, quite clearly, intently interested in the exodus, and I received the distinct impression that he desperately wanted to signal someone to check out the identity of the guests who sneaked out rather than be recognized maybe even have them followed home. But, being a Capricorn, he was,of course, aware that one does not so behave thus improperly at a social function.It would be against the rules.

The twin Mercury gifts of charm and glibness make the typical Gemini an expert Lion trainer, cleverly cajoling Leo to docily jump through his (or her)double hoops. For example, Leo might ask Gemini, "What am I really like? I mean, how do I appear to people?"

And Gemini will answer, "Well, you're incredibly egotistical and arrogrant.But you're also open-minded, friendly and generous." (With Leos, you let them have the painful truth near the beginning, then quickly slam in a compliment at the close.) But the Lion or Lioness may persist, stroking his (or her) vanity and demanding, "Do others see my virtues as clearly as you? If so, then why are they always underestimating me?"

Gemini: "Of course they do. Everyone knows you're a fantastic person, a little conceited, and stuffed full of yourself, but you're a terrific organizer. It's obvious that you have a wiser head and cooler emotions than the average person.Anyone who doesn't give you credit for it is jealous, and not worth concerning yourself about."

You see how it works? When you're conversing with a Lion, you sandwich the cold facts in between thick slices of warm flattery. There's a Mercurial technique to it - like, grovel while you're leveling with them.

Actually, Leos are excellent organizers, expert at delegating authority, and Fixed enough to wait out with composure the final success of their grandiose schemes and promotions. But they may not show as much patience with Gemini's changeability. The Big Cats can become indignant over the Twins' tendency to speed through life, discarding former convictions like yesterday's newspaper,tossing away homes and jobs and friends with minor flaws, too soon, with absolutely no reflective retrospection, but simply dashing off blithely to the next fascinating interest. To the loyal, more languid Lion or Lioness, fast is not always best, or right. Then Leo will feel obliged to enlighten Gemini with one of those regal Leonine lectures.

"You're pretty good at dabbling in the dairy and skimming off the surface cream, but it's always turning sour on you. That mental sharpness you think is so great cuts a lot of large holes in your common sense, and they'll trip you up when you least expect it. Someday you'll thank me for warning you."

Leos, the eternal Big Brothers and Sisters, are unable to resist predicting that the people they benevolently guided are going to want to look them up someday and seek them out to thank them for their unsolicited pearls of wis-dam. As if Gemini had time to stop and make out a list of such obligations. The Mercury Birds are too busy selling that sour cream as buttermilk. As for the holes Leo cautioned them about, Geminis will simply leap out of them, land on their feet, and skate across the same thin ice again, while Leo pouts and asks petulantly, "Don't you ever get caught?"

Well, yes, sometimes Geminis do get caught by their own cleverness. But why worry, when the brave King (or Queen) will pull them out in a splendid,technicolor, last-minute rescue? Then, Leo will blush and bow (modestly) as Gemini sings Leo's favorite lyric of flattery. "Boy! You sure were right about everything you said. Thanks for warning me in time. I don't know what I'd do without you," cry the Twins, quite probably sincerely, who have now managed to have their cake and eat it too (royal protection - plus freedom).

"It was nothing," modestly replies the Lion or Lioness, purring and rolling over happily in the catnip of Gemini charm. "It's the duty of the stronger and wiser to protect the weak and foolish from the folly of their ways. Just remember in the future to do as I tell you, and you'll stay out of trouble." "Okay, I promise!" cheerfully call out the Twins, as they wave goodbye and dash off. But Gemini knows, deep down inside, that what Leo said is true.Frustrating, annoying, often infuriating . . . but true.

The GEMINI - PISCES Relationship

When their voices died away, there came a cold silence over

the lagoon, and then a feeble cry, "Help, help!" Two small

figures were beating against the rock.

There's not much use pretending that Gemini and Pisces are Sun Signs which are naturally as compatible as strawberries and cream, Oliver and Hardy, or Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Not all, but some of them are as mismatched and antagonistic as the Arabs and the Jews have been over the years, though perhaps not as violent. However, just as peace is possible - and ever more likely between these traditional foes, a happy compromise is also possible between Gemini and Pisces. If they have a Sun-Moon trine, sextile or conjunction between them, they can get along quite happily, as long as Gemini consents to occasionally swim through Neptune's waters to keep the Fish company and as long as Pisces is willing to fly fearlessly, now and then, alongside the Gemini Mercury Birds.

Still, an Air Sign is never completely comfortable in the element of water There's always the possibility of drowning - just as a Water Sign finds flying without a parachute a little scary. "Could someone please stand beneath me,with a net to catch me if I fall?" Since this is a 4-10 Sun Sign Pattern, should they discover a negative Sun-Moon aspect between their horoscopes, they'll have to remember that mixing air with water must be done carefully, not carelessly.Otherwise, the result could be a dreary fog, or even a dangerous smog.It's easy to see how this can produce a dampening or smothering effect (or both) on a business basis, within the family bosom, in a love affair or among friends.It is, undoubtedly, an unpleasant experience to be dampened (as Pisces can do to Gemini) or smothered (as Gemini can do to Pisces).

GEMINI: You realize that whatever you say will be used against you?⋆

PISCES: That's okay with me. It always has been.

GEMINI: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Do you plead guilty or innocent? Speak up. You're always so silent. It's called pouting, and you do it to annoy me.

PISCES: Oh, I plead guilty, of course. Guilty of being human, of possessing human needs and desires even human failings. Isn't that all right?

GEMINI: It depends. You have more failings than most people. You have no sense of deductive reasoning. You avoid the issues, sulk, and refuse to discuss anything. Your mind wanders. Three different times yesterday you ignored me when I told you something I wanted you to do, and you continue to neglect it. You run around listening to everyone's hard-luck stories while your own life falls apart. You're a masochist and a procrastinator.You leave all the important things undone, while you're out chasing bubbles and smelling flowers. Does this make you happy?

PISCES: Oh, yes! No one has ever been happier. Please make sure the jury is told, and the judge too, how happy I've been.

GEMINI: Don't start talking about a judge and jury. This isn't trial, and you know it. We're just having a discussion.

PISCES: I'm sorry but you sound like a public prosecutor.

GEMINI: Let's stick to the point. You say you're happy. That's just another of your Neptune lies. You are obviously, at this moment, sad. Clearly depressed.Why aren't you happy right now?

PISCES: Because I'm not making anyone else happy . . . . not even you.(or...)

PISCES: I'm sorry to submit you to a cross examination, please forgive me,b u t . . . well, I don't trust you. I'm afraid of you. Don't you see how cruelly your words can cut? Are you completely unaware of how unkind and how supercritical you are sometimes?

GEMINI: No more so than others. I'm just verbal enough to express my thoughts clearly, to communicate my feelings. I don't keep everything inside, the way you do. I'm not sneaky, like you.

PISCES: Yes, that's true. You are clever. You can use words ever so much better than I. You're even brilliant, at times. Lots of times. But... have you ever been happy? I mean, content with yourself, peaceful. Have you been? Ever?(pause)

GEMINI: I . . . uh, well... of course. Naturally. Why do you ask me that?

PISCES: I just wondered. What does happiness mean to you?

GEMINI: Happiness? What does it mean to me? It's well, it's a number of things you wouldn't understand.

PISCES: Like what?

GEMINI: Like knowing exactly where I'm going, arriving there when I plan to arrive knowing who I am and what I want.

PISCES: Who are you? What do you want?

GEMINI: You are deliberately trying to confuse me. I refuse to answer any more questions.

There are some ways in which Gemini and Pisces are alike. Both of them give an overall impression of evasiveness, always sliding just out of reach, with a chameleon's talent for camouflage, as tricky to catch and pin down as fireflies (Gemini) and minnows (Pisces). Their mental and physical maneuvers (both)are quick, darting and elusive, first shimmering in light before you - then disappearing. Where did they go? Well, which one do you mean? The Fish just swam inside his (or her) deep emotional nature, for protection against further questions, more hurt - and the Mercury Bird, for the very same reasons, just soared mentally up into the gathering clouds above your head.

You've heard that Pisceans are very old souls. I've told you that myself,many times. It's true. They are. They've come through the purifying deluge of many incarnations, and they understand everything and everybody - except themselves. The soul cannot reach the Pisces incarnation until it has mastered,at least once, all of the other eleven Sun Signs' lessons. Since some souls remain in (or return to) a single Sun Sign experience for many lifetimes before mastering the positive side of that sign's essence, you can see why the Fish is an "old soul." You can also understand why the Piscean faces the most difficult of all karmic testing. For it is here, under Neptune's strange influence, that souls may slip and slide, and forget some of the eleven lessons learned at such expense, either being forced, then, to return to a certain sign (like returning to learn grammar,when you thought you'd passed it) or being reborn into the Pisces vibration itself again and again, until they get the hang of it.

No wonder Pisceans are such a strange bunch. As a group, they seem to contain only saints and sinners, with hardly a normal pilgrim among them. Yes,the Pisces experience is the most vulnerable one, the most tempting to angels. . . the most likely to produce a "fallen angel." A Fish may do nicely in Neptune's school, then one day happen to forget the generosity mastered through the Aries, Sag and Leo incarnations, become stingy - and fall. Or live a smooth life of enlightenment, then some morning (or night), amnesia-like, forget the lesson of Libra fairness, and unkindly judge another or forget the faint-remembered Taurus patience, and make some impulsive decision, agonizingly regretted, too late. It's not exactly fun, being a Fish. So much more knowing is required of these men and women. They're all on the karmic Honor System,and any West Point cadet can tell you how difficult a test of one's worth any Honor System is - deceptively free, yet spiritually and ethically, extremely restrictive.

And so, the Fish float through the complex mazes of their existence, often searching pathetically for their own identities. When they do catch a glimpse of their real images in life's mirror, they are first terrified, then disbelieving. What they see is a godlike self, difficult for the Neptune humility to accept. So they deny it, hide from it, and finally flee from it, into acting or music - often into the escape of drugs, alcohol, or illusion. A few settle into some sort of mundane ambition in the material world, which is entirely foreign to the imaginative Neptunian essence, and therefore, obviously not the Pisces route to happiness. The majority, however (fortunately for the rest of us), flee into creative endeavors,public service, science, religion, healing, teaching - or full-time private devotion to friends, neighbors and relatives.

If the Fish does not understand himself (or herself) the Gemini Twins are only too willing to clear up the mystery. Mercury-ruled people feel they can solve anything, figure out anything, take it apart, see how it works, then put it back together again. But after their cold critical analysis of Pisces, they sometimes leave the pieces scattered around, without putting them back the way they found them. A Fish who has been taken apart by Gemini can flounder helplessly for years attempting to recover his or her self-respect. Gemini is challenged to clear up the perpetual confusion hanging over Pisces with the razor sharp Mercury mind, but some Twins can't swim deep enough to even get past the seaweed like human sandpipers, pecking away at nothing, unable to see the bottom of the ocean or to recognize its depth.

The wiser Piscean will usually look with indulgence, if not with genuine affection, upon the sometimes childlike antics of the Twins. If Gemini lives (and many Twins do) in an enchanted realm of make-believe, Pisces is delighted to visit there too. But Gemini tends to analyze and label all mystical kingdoms,even while frolicking there, and that spoils all the fun for Pisces. A dream is a dream why come too near, look too closely? Pisces will not stand for personal probing or insistent questioning by the curious Gemini. If pressed too often, the Fish will either glide away to another stream, or take the easier escape of deception, all the way from subtle evasion to outright lying justified by Neptune as "simple" self-protection from an invasion of personal privacy.

Sometimes the Pisces man or woman will unconsciously get even with Gemini for being continually forced into a position of accommodation, by refusing to show an energetic response to the Twins' exuberance in communicating some marvelous new idea or plan. This may be the beginning of the end, because Gemini cannot long bear to have his (or her) enthusiasms and flashes of inspiration sprinkled with Pisces pessimism, or dampened by Neptune's wet blankets. When they choose, the Fish can be soothingly supportive, full of faith and encouragement. If they don't choose, well there may come a time when the Mercury Bird is left out on a limb, singing alone.

There are some things these two can share happily, some ways in which they bear a striking resemblance. One of them is the appreciation of beauty.Most of us don't notice beauty enough, I guess, but Gemini and Pisces are both acutely aware of the transiting loveliness of Nature, the changing of the seasons,sunrise and sunset - and both are usually inclined to bathe their souls in art, poetry or music . . . the spoken or the written word. Pisces absorbs beauty in ecstasy,silently. Gemini grins, in awe and excited wonder. Somehow, beauty brings the Fish and the Twins together, forms a bridge over which they can toss a sunbeam and perhaps reach the other side of each other.

Another way they're alike is that it's hard to get either of them to pay strict attention to what you're saying, or to get them to look directly at you for more than a fraction of an instant. Gemini's eyes are sharp, alert, sometimes mocking.Pisces eyes are soft, wandering, liquid and full of comprehension when they focus on you, which isn't often. Gemini eyes, too, focus only briefly, then dart restlessly here and there, birdlike. Like their eyes, the minds of Gemini and Pisces wander also, but for different reasons to separate galaxies.

The reason Pisceans make such excellent sounding boards for the rest of us is that the Fish have been, in a karmic or a spiritual sense, through it all.They've learned how to do without constant attention and adulation. Knowing how to do without, and not complaining about it, is Neptune's strength, a Piscean weapon against the disappointments of Life. It makes these people stronger than they seem, much tougher than they appear to be. The Fish are used to being overlooked, even before they're born. Geminis, however, are accustomed to being heard and noticed from the time they're chattering toddlers. Which brings us to one of the main reasons these two Sun Signs come together, when they do. Gemini must communicate, needs to express himself or herself - and compassionate Pisces nearly always finds time to listen with genuine interest to both the heartaches and the excitements of others. Gemini couldn't survive without an audience to appreciate the magic of Mercury's beautiful ribbons of words. And the Fish couldn't survive without feeling needed. But after a while,the Twins might lose this great gift offered by Pisces, if Neptune's gentle longings are consistently ignored. There will be signs. Clear indications. And when they appear, they should be heeded. The best time to mend a mistake is when it's small.

GEMINI: A magazine just accepted the article I wrote! Isn't that great news?

PISCES: See how reddish the clouds are over there? I remember my grandfather used to say, "Red sky at night, sailor's delight - red sky in the morning, sailor's warning "

GEMINI: Did you hear what I said about my magazine article?

PISCES: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I wasn't listening.

The CANCER - CAPRICORN Relationship

They were the most ordinary questions - "What was the

colour of Mother's eyes? Which was taller, Father or

Mother? ... (A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words

on How I spent My Last Holidays, or The Characters of

Father and Mother compared .. (1) Describe Mother's

laugh; (2) Describe Father's laugh; (3) Describe Mother's

party dress "

By the way, the questions were all written in the past

tense.

As with all 7-7 Sun Sign Pattern Earthlihgs, the Crab and the Goat are 180 degrees apart on the karmic wheel of Life. In astrology - for that matter, also in astronomy and math - 180 degrees is half a circle or an opposition. Now, in human contact, a Sun Sign opposition need not be negative. It very often is, but it need not be. Will all Crabs and Goats please read that last sentence over several times?

An opposition indicates that two opposing forces are "at war." In this case,those forces are the Moon and Saturn, rulers of Cancer and Capricorn, respectively.It's hard to imagine anything farther apart than the Moon and Saturn.Among other things, the Moon (Cancer) represents dreams, change, movement or travel, memories, reflections, softness, and dependency. Among other things,Saturn (Capricorn) represents realities, stability, caution, waiting, determination,hardness, and self-sufficiency. Like all other blends of the 7-7 vibration,sooner or later (hopefully sooner) a choice must be made by Cancer and Capricorn as to which of these opposing forces, consisting of the Lunar and the Saturnine,will become the dominant force of their association - or the association it self will become a battlefield over which symbolic cannon balls are shot back and forth indefinitely.

And so, the Crab and the Goat must decide whether the Moon or Saturn is to rule their relationship, even though they may still choose to be individually ruled by the Moon and Saturn both - and equally.I realize this all sounds terribly complicated. No one ever claimed a 7-7 vibration is easy to work out harmoniously. But my greatgrandma used to say that "nothing gained easily is really worthwhile." Will all Crabs and Goats please read that sentence over several times also?

There is a desirable side to any kind of opposition, which is that opposites do complement one another. Each has what the other yearns for - needs,wants, desires - and is therefore secretly anxious to acquire. Just form a mental image of that, if you will. Two people, each possessing what the other wants.If neither is selfish, if both are generous - if they give to one another and share equally - what could be happier? It's rather nice to be someone's "magic genie"and have that someone be your genie too, at the same time, supplying all your needs, while you supply his (or hers). It's the same with the polarities ofanything on Earth. Take a thermometer. You have Hot, and you have Cold.When they meet in the middle, you have Warm - the temperature of eternal Spring. Lovely thought! And that's just what can happen when Winter (Saturn)and Midsummer (the Moon) meet each other halfway.

Yes, Cancer symbolizes Midsummer, just as Gemini symbolizes late Springand early Summer, Leo symbolizes Summer in full bloom - and Virgo symbolizes Indian Summer. This seasonal Sun Sign conceptual is fully explained in"The Twelve Mysteries of Love" in the front section of this book. But it may be important to remind the Crab and Goat of it again here.. that Cappy means Winter and the Crab means Midsummer.

Despite the opposition of their Sun Signs and Lunar-Saturnine rulers, andin addition to the complementary nuances of opposites being a plus to their association Cancer and Capricorn are alike in certain ways, as much alike inthese ways as they are different in many others. Both the differences and thesimilarities are strikingly pronounced in this particular 7-7 vibration.They were both born under the Negative-Feminine Night Forces, meaningthat each has a soft inner core, and is rather good at hiding the softness - meaning,too, that the feelings and emotions of both run very deep. They are alsoboth Cardinal, therefore both Cancer and Capricorn like to lead. The Goat prefers to lead unobtrusively; likewise, the Crab tends to lead in subtle ways, and so their mutually shared leadership motivation may be hidden when they first meet. It will not remain long hidden.

It's difficult for an association to contain two leaders of equal stature. Consequently,something will have to give a little. It will more likely be the Crab.For a while, however, it's an amusing scene for the astrologically alert to watch from a distance. Picture, if you can, two "leaders" each attempting - in great secrecy - to lead the other, without letting the other suspect that he or she is being led. Gradually, each of them becomes aware of the leadership motive of the other, never mind how cleverly hidden - and then the quiet, yet intense and determined battle for supremacy between them begins. Truly, it is as fascinating to observe as a movie - more fascinating than most films Hollywood has been making recently. (For meditation purposes, Gerald Ford is a Crab; Richard Nixon, a Goat.)

Throughout all these carefully mapped strategies, it would behoove the Crab to remember the Goat's sure-footed reputation - and it would behoove the Goat to remember that the Crab always takes a step or two sideways and backward before advancing straight ahead. It will be a thrilling battle of wills. There won't be as much fanfare as with the Fire and Air Element oppositions in the other 7-7 Sun Sign Patterns (Cancer is Water, Capricorn is Earth) but quiet and steady contests can contain more suspense.

Some of the traits of the Crab and the Goat are neither similar nor dissimilar,but simply supportive of each other. For example, Cancer likes comfort and security in great abundance. Capricorn is intensely ambitious, and since ambition has a way of being one of the quicker routes to all degrees of comfort and security, this is one thing which may hold these two together, as well as attract them initially.

They are both attached to yesterday, the Moon-ruled because of a liking for history in general, plus a sort of personal nostalgia - the Goat because of the lessons to be learned from experiences of the past and a touch of hero worship. (Actually, Cappy admires the achievers of past and present equally, but yesterday's heroes and heroines have more glamour.) They also share a strong attachment to the family hearth and relatives. Cancer leans toward sentiment for the maternal, Cappy leans toward sentiment for both the maternal and the paternal,the whole family tree - especially if a coat of arms hangs from one of the branches. Some Goats are decidedly snobbish about fame and prestige the whole status trip. It's hard to detect behind the typical Capricorn's shy smile and gentle manners, but it's there.

It's not uncommon to find the combination of the Crab and the Goat involved in renovation of historical landmarks, laying cornerstones, heading a drive to establish a museum, writing history books, building business empires,collecting antiques, or actively engaged in local or national politics. This is a couple often found in bookstores (as the owners, of course) and especially in banks (on the board of directors). As individuals, the Crab may be drawn toward marine activities, near the water, while the Goat tends to climb the highest mountain of achievement in his or her vicinity. Capricorns abound in the jewelry business and junkyards. Goats, you see, have an odd way of finding something practical, something of value, in anything from diamonds to rusty parts of an old car. Strangely, they are also tuned in to art, one of the few aesthetic experiences that attracts them. But the typical Capricorn has no time for pop art like Andy Warhol's tomato cans and tubes of toothpaste. To a Capricorn,art should be solid and substantial. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt these are artists. Picasso and Dali are joking, aren't they? Art, like everything else in life, is a serious matter to the Saturn-ruled. Imaginative Cancerians,although differently motivated, also appreciate the beauty of fine paintings and works of art, including music, and so lots of the people you see strolling through metropolitan galleries and attending concerts will be Crabs and Goats.

If the Cancerian and the Capricorn are children, the same rules apply.They'll both excel in history class, and both Cappy and the young Crab will start early mowing lawns or delivering newspapers to earn money to stash away in their sock drawers.

Many Capricorns are by nature somewhat cold and suspicious, thanks to Saturn's stern influence, and sympathetic, sensitive Cancer can provide a healing balm of love and understanding for the Goat. Cancer's devotion to homeand family will please Capricorn, who is equally loyal to family ties.

Unless one or both were born with the Moon or Ascendent in the Air or Fire Element, these two will never burn dollar bills for fun. Very few, if any, Cancerians and Capricorns are found resorting to public welfare or food stamps. Not only are they clever in financial matters, they also share a rather severe Puritan work ethic. They feel alike concerning the subject of money. Both enjoy stacking up lots and lots of it, and both prefer saving it to spending it. If any two people need to meditate on poet Kahlil Gibran's words on the subject of working for material gain, they are Cancer and Cappy. They would benefit immensely from an attempt to comprehend that man must "work with love" or it is better that he sits outside the gates of the temple and "takes alms from those who do for bread baked without love is a bitter bread, that feeds but half man's hunger."

At first glance, those words will startle both the Crab and the Goat. Work for love? People work for money, not love. If a person also happens to enjoy his or her work, so much the better, but the first consideration is the financial compensation,isn't it? No, it is not. To work with love is the first consideration,the cash return is secondary. And therein lies the problem. It isn't that the Moon-ruled and Saturn-ruled don't understand craftsmanship and laboringwith the heart, as well as with the  hands: It's a matter of priorities. And these two are charged with the duty to make a strong effort to change them.

One of the most delightful things about the pairing of these undeniably divergent creatures, the Crab and the Goat, is that the outwardly controlled and stern, but inwardly gentle and lonely, Capricorn can find an escape from his or her seriousness in the rich and refreshing humor of the Moon people. Cancerian laughter is contagious, irresistible. There's something about the Crab's sense of the ridiculous that brings a merry twinkle to the eye of the Goat. Cancer clowns - Cappy grins. And the steadfast Capricorn heart, so sadly locked much of the time by the disciplined emotions, begins to warm, then to beat a little faster.

Few people ever guess the true extent of the Goat's wistful longing to escape Saturn's invisible restrictions, for such longing is also - even especially - kept under strict control. The compassionate smile of a Moon Child, who so well understands what it means to be lonely, can be an open door to a new and brighter world for Capricorn.

As for the Cancerian (unless his or her Luminaries are in negative aspect) from the first moment the Crab feels that powerful magnetic tug from his (or her) opposed Suns - in the classroom or office, in the family circle, the circle of friendship, or within the eternal circle of love, the searching Moon Child will have found a safe home, protected by the tough but loving billy goat.

CANCER Woman - CAPRICORN Man

"Ah, old lady," Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself

by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a

heel, "there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you

and me when the day's toil is over than to rest by the fire

with the little ones near by."

"It is sweet, Peter, isn't it?" Wendy said, frightfully

gratified. "Peter, I think Curly has your nose."

"Michael takes after you."

When a Cancerian girl is attracted to a Capricorn man (or to any man), she has the three M's on her mind. Three dreams she has, as she tosses pennies into every available wishing well. Three goals in her hard little crab-shell head. These may vary in their order of importance with each girl Crab, but all Cancerian women will be consumed with one of the six variations of the three M's, which are as follows:

marriage - motherhood - money

motherhood - money - marriage

money - marriage - motherhood

marriage - money - motherhood

motherhood - marriage - money

money - motherhood - marriage

These, in their sextuplet priority variations, are the female Crab's goals.

Her needs are slightly different from her goals. Her needs are the three S's, and these do not vary in the order of their importance to the Moon Maiden. They're each of equal value to her peace of mind.

sympathy - serenity - security

One of the most endearing things about a Moon Maiden is that, although she very much needs and seeks the three S's in every relationship, and although her goals are always the three M's, she is willing to give her man a soft cradle of emotional comfort in return. She can be the most sympathetic, affectionate,loyal, and protective of women. When she's on her best behavior, the female Crab is devoted - and better still, she's also both adaptable and patient, surely a fine companion for the Capricorn man. A Taurus woman is patient, but not very adaptable. A Gemini woman is adaptable, but not very patient. The Cancerian woman possesses both admirable traits. As for devotion, many women are devoted to the men they love, but none so devoted as this one. The Goat,loving the home fires as he does, will be especially happy about her own deep feelings about "family." Since Capricorn rules the Jewish people, and all Cancer women are "Jewish mothers" (whether they are mothers or not) you can see there are powerful magnetic forces pulling these two together from the start.

There's always something slightly helpless and appealing in the Cancerian female, and the Capricorn man senses it sooner than most. What this woman needs is a strong man to lean on, someone who can smooth away all her worries and calm all her fears - who provides her with a shoulder to cry on now and then. But she's not quite as helpless as she seems. Cancer, I keep telling you, is a Cardinal Sign of leadership. The Moon Maid would prefer to lead by guiding her man's destiny gently, unobtrusively, in the background if she's in love.When she is not in love, a Cancer gal can be mighty ambitious in her career, and will do just about anything to get to the top of the heap.

Every Cancerian woman is secretly looking for a good provider, and this the Capricorn man certainly is. He is always ambitious (as much so as she is) and usually successful. In fact, he's often the epitome of everything she would like to be, but cannot - for she is too vulnerable. Conversely, she represents to the Goat all the Lunar qualities he privately would love to call his own, but cannot  for he is not vulnerable enough. Therefore, almost from the moment these two meet, there is an unmistakable appreciation of one another, which is one of the strongest foundations for love.

A Capricorn man can be both conservative and domineering to a high degree.The Cancer girl doesn't mind the first quality, since she's rather unduly conservative herself. As for being dominated, she won't stand for that in any association except love. When this woman falls in love, she'll at first submit to the Goat's dominance out of a desire to keep peace, but gradually she's likely to forget she's playing a role, and slip into the submissive position for good which is not really bad! Next to Pisces, no other woman so secretly enjoys being controlled and conquered by the male she adores. And if any man can be domineering,tender, and affectionate all at once, it's this one. So it all works out in a favorable manner for both of them, usually. Barring, that is, a more fiery or aggressive Moon Sign or Ascendent in the horoscope of the girl Crab.

It's a funny thing about Capricorn males. However far out they may swing in an attempt to avoid the granite discipline of Saturn over their natures, they'll swing right back again in important matters. In other words, whatever his temporary actions or behavior, a Goat is a Goat. Or - once a Cappy, always a Cappy. Like that. Normally, this man will strongly disapprove of the "open marriage" theory. He's conservative where marriage is concerned, however much he tries to be "with it" in his speech at times. He essentially believes a woman's place is in the home. Even should he permit his wife to work or to follow her own career, when the children appear, he'll frown on a woman who expects someone else to fill the maternal role while she pursues her own activities.If he's a typical Capricorn, he'll believe that a mother's place is with her children,at least while they're very young. He won't be happy about any frivolous or excessive spending of money either, whether it's his - hers - or theirs. Even if his Moon Maiden earns her own cash, he'll probably take it upon himself to caution and counsel her on the subject of extravagance.

Not that he'll have many opportunities to chide her about spending money.She's as careful with a dollar as he is (unless her Moon Sign or Ascendent is in Aries or Leo or Gemini, and then she'll have periodic, minor nervous breakdowns over guilt each time she's wasteful). With this girl, most of his financial lectures will be in the area of how much of their separate or combined income to save, and what would be the smartest investment for any surplus they accumulate.Being an Earth Sign, the chances are he'll believe that real estate property or land - is the safest thing to own for future security. If she argues with him, he may quote Will Rogers on the subject of whether or not buying land is wise - "They're not making any more of it." That sort of earthy, practical statement wins arguments by closing a subject abruptly, and it's the sort of undebatable observation Cappies are very good at making when they're pressed for an answer.

He'll approve of her habit of saving things. Capricorn believes firmly that a practical purpose can be found for anything at all, and nothing should be discarded until every possible use has been squeezed from it. If she's a typical Cancerian,she'll go along with that philosophy enthusiastically. In fact, unless one of them has a "looser" planetary influence in the birth chart, they might even save old toothpaste tubes in case they ever have a son who grows up to be a basketball player in high school. (He can use them to practice hook shots in the wastebasket.) I (truthfully) know a Cancerian woman, with a Capricorn Moon Sign and Ascendent, who actually washes and rinses out those little plastic Baggies that come on a roll (to cover vegetables, etc.) and reuses them over and over - until they split. She has them hanging out to dry all over the kitchen.One roll of Baggies lasts her, roughly, a couple of years. (Being an Aries, I go through a roll every week or so.) Someone I know recently suggested that the reason Richard Nixon saved those damaging tapes relating to Watergate was because,as a Capricorn, he simply could not discard them, and kept hoping he could in some way make them useful, or serve some practical purpose. No one has been able to come up with a better answer, even Mr. Nixon himself. Only a knowledge of the Capricorn essence provides any semblance of sense to the mystery of "why didn't he burn those (expletive deleted) tapes? " The answer is simplicity itself (to Cappy). That would have been wasteful.

A Cancerian woman will adapt more easily than many another woman to the Capricorn man's introversion, his inclination to "take care of business" and do the sensible thing. But she will not adapt so well perhaps to his lack of excitement over change. Ruled by the inconstant Moon, she needs occasional change in her life, and intervals of travel. Convincing him that their life would be richer by not remaining in one place too long or holding the same ideas always,could be somewhat difficult. Because this man will never completely escape Saturn's restrictions over his inner nature, struggle as he may. Somewhere behind the facade of even an apparently extroverted Goat is serious old man Saturn. Always and inevitably. The shade of conservatism may be dyed a lighter pastel in some Cappies, but it can never be painted over entirely. He can be lovable, yes. Affectionate. Tender.  Gentle. Whimsical and funny. All that.Nonetheless, he is ruled by Saturn, and there's no avoiding it. Beneath the sequins and rhinestones of a Capricorn rock and roll star, for example, is hiding a portrait of grandpa, complete with pocket watch and chain . . . waistcoat... and scowl of disapproval for the foolish.

The sex life of a Capricorn man can range from frankly erotic and sensual to tender and affectionate. If his Sun and Venus are both severely afflicted from the fifth or eighth horoscopic houses, he will indulge himself in multiple experimentation. But the typical Goat's affairs are few, the intent nearly always permanency. Almost the identical thing can be said of the Cancer woman's love life. It depends. However, her inner desire is for a lasting relationship, even if she goes through more frequent trial and error periods than she would like .. to find it. One thing is quite certain. This woman will greatly enrich the Capricorn man's physical enjoyment of love. Although he's capable of a deep and steady sexual expression and physical intimacy (his sex drive is strong, never halfhearted),

he may lack the kind of sensitive imagination that makes mating between two people a trembling, ecstatic kind of sharing of themselves. This is a sexual dimension the Moon Maiden will add to their relationship, and the Goat will be touchingly grateful for the enlightenment. His strength and loyalty, the stability of his kind of Saturn love, will permit her to relax in his arms, without the fear of being hurt she might have with a less reliable lover or husband. He can supply the emotional insurance she needs, while she supplies the delicacy and romance he so needs, and lacks and after a while, with enough sharing back and forth of this nature, their physical love will become a strong and lasting cord to bind them together.

I know a Cancer woman who is presently separated from her Capricorn husband.Their problems are numerous, but essentially minor . . . none that can't be softened and healed with a little more understanding, a little less selfishness on both parts. Capricorn men can be hurtfully selfish. There's always a tendency,to some degree, to use people, with little regard for the other person's feelings. One of their heartaches was his inability to express love to her physically, after they'd had even the mildest sort of quarrel. He was like a stone, she told me, totally unresponsive to any tender overtures she shyly attempted. And so she would turn away, weeping silently, never letting him know. Recently she said to me, wistfully, "All those times I was so sorry for myself.. crying myself to sleep, retreating further into my shell of hurt. But I've had lots of time to think since we've been apart. I know more now, and I'm sorriest for him."

She's found the magic key to unlock his heart, at last. Now, if she'll only use it. If she goes to him with her new understanding they'll be closer than ever.When a Moon Maiden learns to stop feeling so sorry for herself and to direct her sympathy instead toward the Capricorn man she loves, she'll realize the depth of his inability to release the emotional power and glory he feels within.It's worth the effort of helping him release it. For no love has more grandeur,more endurance, than Capricorn love, which waits at the very top of the mountain to bless those with the patience and courage to climb high enough to experience it. It's a rough trip, with plenty of rocky ledges .. and always the danger of falling....but the view at the top is inexpressible, indescribable. Like a glimpse of eternity. Saturn gives stern tests, but immense rewards.