Gemini and Scorpio Compatibility

How these two meet

Everybody who has watched the two of you for a year has the same theory, and the theory is that Scorpio is the deep one.

It is not that. Gemini goes exactly as deep and comes back up, repeatedly, inside the same afternoon, which from outside reads as never having gone.

Mercury turns back three times a year and spends nearly a fifth of its life recrossing ground. Mars runs 2.13 years between reversals and holds the whole way through. The same territory, two entirely different ways of being in it, and no shared element or modality or polarity to translate between them.

And the two who are absent: Gemini’s opposite is Sagittarius, who takes the speed and gives it a horizon, and Scorpio is what comes just before Sagittarius, with the depth and none of the horizon. Scorpio’s opposite is Taurus, who wants in daylight and states the price, and Gemini is what comes just after Taurus, and states four prices, none of them binding.

Here is what has actually been going on while everybody had the wrong theory: Scorpio tells you things. Not many people, and not often, but Scorpio tells Gemini things that have never been said out loud anywhere, and the reason is that Gemini does not keep them, does not weigh them, and will be somewhere else with them by Thursday. That is not carelessness. For a sign that has never been able to put anything down, it is somewhere to put something.

For Gemini, the work is holding one of those things for a week and giving it back on purpose, so that it is visible that it was held.

For Scorpio, the work is telling Gemini one thing and then asking, plainly, what they did with it.