on gemini & sagittarius: the axis of information

part 3 of 6 in the zodiacal pair series

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Earlier this year, I received a gorgeous question from someone in the astrology for writers Discord:

I’ve been really interested lately in what we can learn from polarities between signs and how working with the energy of a sign’s opposite can help us move toward healing. I’m thinking especially in terms of nodal placements but also generally. Could you talk through a little about what opposing signs can learn from each other? I have a good handle on Virgo-Pisces, Cap-Cancer, and Aries-Libra (tho would love to hear your thoughts), but Aqua-Leo, Scorpio-Taurus and esp esp Sag-Gemini are a little opaque to me still.

This question has inspired a series devoted to each of the six zodiacal pairs, because to explore the polarities/axes of the six zodiacal pairs is to understand the whole of human experience. We began this series with on aries & libra & also the nodes, which articulated Aries & Libra as The Axis of Positionality as well as my more academic/theoretical take on the nodes and why I’m not especially considering them for this series. We then explored Taurus & Scorpio, which I frame as The Axis of Desire & Control.

Before we dive into our third pair, Gemini & Sagittarius, permit me to repeat myself, since some folks are new here, or haven’t read the prior installment(s):

There are 12 zodiac signs. Of these, there are 6 pairs of opposing signs, called “opposing” because they are 180* away from each other. The pairs always come in complementary elements (air and fire; earth and water), and they are always of the same modality (cardinal, fixed, mutable).

We each, all of us, have every sign in our birth chart. Personally, I find that the signs folks are most uncomfortable with, or critical of, are usually reflective of the part of their chart they are most uncomfortable with and critical of. Understanding the axis on which these signs reside deepens our understanding of not only the signs, but also of how the chart works together as a whole.

With all that said, let us proceed further into the zodiac — with a more in-depth analysis than usual that includes digressions on queer history.

Gemini & Sagittarius: The Axis of Information

Air & fire; mutable (signs that come at the end of, and so transition, seasons)

The poet and the philosopher. The gossip and the zealot. Both, collectors of ideas and people. Information is the shared central concern of Gemini and Sagittarius, although the way they share insights and data with their respective networks is quite different. Ruled by Mercury (Gemini) and Jupiter (Sagittarius), we have strong contrast here between the specific and the universal, the local and the collective.

It’s long been notable to me that a higher-than-average number of prominent rappers and poets have sun signs on this axis. The Gemini sun club is mind-boggling: Kanye, Kendrick, Tupac, Biggie, Ice Cube, Andre 3000, and Macklemore alongside barrier-breaking Gwendolyn Brooks and similarly single-named luminaries like Emerson, Whitman, Yeats, and Ginsberg. The Sagittarians are also strongly represented by rappers like Jay-Z, DMX, Nicki Minaj, and Mos Def and poets such as William Blake, John Milton, and Emily Dickinson. Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, lauded for their poetic songwriting, have Sagittarius suns; so do the boundary-pushing Janelle Monáe and (late, great) Sinéad O’Connor.