Gemini: Personality and Compatibility
A mutable air sign. Gemini is the light-footed intellect that handles information and words with ease.
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- Dates (approx.)
- 21 May – 21 June
- Element
- Air
- Modality
- Mutable
- Ruling planet
- Mercury
- Keywords
- intellect, words, curiosity
- Body
- Shoulders, arms and lungs
- Lucky colors
- Yellow
- Ecliptic longitude
- 60° – 90°
1.The Gemini personality
Strengths
Quick-witted with plenty to talk about, you can chat happily with anyone. Endlessly curious, you soak up new things instantly.
Things to watch
You get bored easily and your interests jump around. What you say can change with your mood, so people may not take you seriously.
2.Love and work
Love: You are drawn to clever people you can talk with. Your ideal is a partner who is also a friend, and you dislike being tied down.
Work: Media, advertising, IT, interpreting and translation, sales and teaching: connecting information and people.
3.Signs that get along with Gemini
The other air signs (Libra and Aquarius) share your values, while the fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) bring out the best in you.
4.The dates shift a little each year
A sign begins at the moment the sun reaches 60° of ecliptic longitude, so the boundary moves by about a day from year to year. Exact dates in Japan Standard Time:
| Year | Gemini (JST) |
|---|---|
| 2026 | May 21, 2026 9:37 – Jun 20, 2026 |
| 2027 | May 21, 2027 15:18 – Jun 20, 2027 |
If you were born on a boundary day, check with the Sun, Moon and Rising sign reading.
5.Not just the Sun sign: the Moon sign too
Horoscope columns use your Sun sign, but the sign the Moon was in when you were born shows your private face and how your feelings move. See also the basics of Western astrology.
6.One sign earlier in Indian astrology
Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which sits about 24° behind the tropical one, so most people born as Gemini are Taurus there. Read more in What is Indian astrology?