Geminisms

venus & serena w Il lI ams

Gemini often occurs among siblings or couples who become prominent in related professions, and whose personal relationship is professionally relevant. Serena is a Libra, an air sign like Gemini, in fact the most serene of the air signs. Venus, the Gemini sister, is paradoxically named, since the planet Venus rules Libra, her sister's sign. Thus in their very naming began the intended intermixture of their identities. They are the only pair of tennis players to have played championship singles matches and then partnered in doubles. This year they did it for the second time. I relish the exemplary equanimity of these sisters who shift from opposition to cooperation, expressing the astrological nature of the signs of the Twins and the Balance.

Or, might one say " the dodecalogical nature of the 3rd and the 7th signs"?

IsAIAh Berlin

 

Anglo-russo social philosopher, historian of ideas,and intellectual playboy (6 June 1909-1997).

A portion of his voluminous correspondence (Enlightening:Letters 1946-1960) is reviewed by Terry Eagleton in The Guardian:

“Berlin was not only a compulsive chatterer; he was in a chattering class of his own. These letters are great splurges of urbane speech, which at times come close to stream-of-consciousness mode.”

[One recalls Gemini Walt Whitman's "Garrulous to the very last"; and epistolary genius Mary Wortley Montagu's "When one loves, one always has something to say." (Contrast Pisces telepathy, or Scorpio's deep silence).]

"Fragments of political philosophy blend with upper-class gush ("divine", "delicious", "adorable"). There is the odd, respectfully restrained note to Winston Churchill, along with loquacious missives to Arthur Schlesinger, John Sparrow, David Astor, Richard Wollheim, Violet Bonham Carter, Bernard Berenson and a glittering array of others. Berlin's parents are kept informed of the socially glamorous crew he has just dined with in Paris. All the time the man himself is darting from Harvard to Aix-en-Provence, Italian castles to Tel Aviv, penning his views on the Palestinian question while his social life proliferates hopelessly beyond control." (Terry Eagleton, The Guardian)

I wonder if a site like Open Salon (or other megablogsites) could reveal the large contribution of Geminis among the truly copious bloggers? As one cruel astrologer puts it, Gemini can be "garrulous and inconsequential". A few other Geminis who show aspects of this trait: Joan Rivers, Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Bob Dylan, Richard Wagner, Thomas Mann, come on you can think of more.Oh yes, neo-Whitmanian poet Allen Ginsburg, whose huge correspondence is now being published:

          communicate with me

          by mail post telegraph phone street accusation or scratching at my window

          and send me a true sign I'll reply special delivery

             DEATH IS A LETTER THAT WAS NEVER SENT   ag 

Comments

[Elena]

my ex is a Gem and has a younger brother in the same profession. He also speaks 5 languages.

[astrodreamer]

There you are!

Mark