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Gemini (Mithuna) rashi
Gemini is curious and talkative, a sign of exchange: words, trade, travel and learning.
- Sanskrit
- Mithuna (मिथुन)
- Symbol
- the Couple
- Element
- Air
- Mode
- Dual
- Ruler
- Mercury
- Sidereal span
- 60° to 90° of the zodiac
- Stars inside
- Mrigashira, Ardra, Punarvasu
- Position in the order
- Sign 3 of 12
It is read as adaptable and quick, with a tendency to spread attention over many things.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury. In a birth chart, the sign tells you where a planet sits, and the lord of the sign shows where that planet's influence travels. See the page on the lagna for how a sign becomes a house.
Air and dual
Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) are read as mental and social. They are the signs of ideas, exchange and relationships, and the texts link them with fairness and quick thinking, and with a tendency to stay in the head.
Dual signs (dvisvabhava) bridge two phases. They fall at the end of each season and are read as flexible, adaptable and sometimes divided.
Mercury also rules Virgo, so the two signs share a lord in a chart. Mercury is exalted in Virgo (15°) and debilitated in Pisces (15°).
See it in your own chart
The terms on this page appear in every birth chart report, explained for your own planets and dates.