Sagittarius is the sign of the the Traveler and the Truth Seeker, the Scholar and the Sage, the Philosopher and the Prophet, the Professor of High Adventure and the Department Chair of Intellectual Beatdowns. Astrologer Austin Coppock refers to Sagittarius as the “Doom Super Soldier” of the Zodiac who while Stella Hyde says this is the sign most likely to find work in highly dangerous professions such as bounty hunting, car-jacking, or crocodile wrangling. (Source) Astrologer Sonya Magett says Sagittarius is the sign most likely to be found combining spirituality with gangsterism, whether that involves taking a broken champagne bottle to somebody’s neck at a party or solving a workplace dispute by leaving a bag of snakes on their boss’s desk. (Source) To illustrate: using its release date as its date of birth, the 1988 film Mississippi Burning is a Sagittarius. (Chart) Based on a true story, the film stars Gene Hackman and William Dafoe as two FBI agents sent to investigate the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. There’s no broken champagne bottles or bounty hunting featured in the film but in one particularly Sagittarian scene Gene Hackman’s character does take a razor blade to the neck of one of the perpetrators. “Doom Super Soldier” tactics for sure:

Combine a Sagittarian’s propensity for spiritual super-soldiering with a Gemini Moon’s instincts for communication and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that is highly spirited, intellectually adventuresome, and can enthusiastically (Sagittarius) converse (Gemini) on pretty much anything. Never afraid to speak out, this pairing is something of a Robin Hood type who can “play the devil’s advocates to the nth degree” and is “quite capable of making jokes at the vicar’s expense” according to Suzi and Charles Harvey. (Source) To illustrate: attorney Jesselyn Radack is a Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) While working for the Department of Justice back in the early 2000s she attempted to blow the whistle on serious ethical violations committed by the FBI. For her efforts she was branded a traitor and subjected to numerous criminal and civil investigations. These days she’s best known as the attorney speaking on behalf of NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Edwin Snowden and others who find themselves targeted by shadowy “vicars” in the employ of an evil king and his national security court. Given how her clients have been portrayed by the U.S. government as examples of evil incarnate, you could say she’s the ultimate “devil’s advocate”:

Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of philosophy and truth seeking while Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and information transmission. The Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon pairing thus expresses much like a Mercury/Jupiter aspect which Adrian Ross Duncan describes as follows:

In Radack’s case, her hunger for knowledge and understanding led her to Brown University where she was a triple major in American civilization, women’s studies, and political science prior to enrolling at Yale Law school where she graduated with honors. It was during her time in school that she begun to speak out about gross injustices. While at Brown she became a leading defender of the university’s “rape list” in which female students who had been sexually assaulted would scrawl the names of their perpetrators on bathroom walls as a way of warning other women. As a result she ended up on The Phil Donahue show, an appearance which is now archived on YouTube:

A book has already been written about Ms. Radack and it’s probably just a matter of time before a film is made too. So whose got the astrological goods to bring a sense of authenticity to her portrayal? Since actors always do their best, most resonant work in roles that line up with their Sun/Moon pairing, the best candidate to portray Ms. Radack is probably professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin as he too is a Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon just like Radack. (Chart) Obviously he’s a jean-shorts wearing roughneck out of West Texas and she’s a well dressed attorney out of Yale law school but they actually have more in common than you might think at first glance.

As coincidence would have it, Radack is a good looking blonde who once posed in Playboy during her time at Yale while Austin once had a blonde head of hair good looking enough that he was part of a tag team called the “Hollywood Blondes”. More importantly than looks is that as a fellow Sagittarius/Gemini he’s got the astro-psychology to portray somebody who won’t be kept down or shut up like Ms. Radack. You see, by the late 1990s Austin had become arguably the most sought after entertainer in all of North America for portraying a persona that was to the imaginary world of professional wrestling what Jesselyn Radack is to the very real world of high level whistleblowers: an outspoken devil’s advocate who applied his intellectual (Sagittarius) dexterity (Gemini) to taking on an all powerful king and his court of vicar-flunkies. This circa 1997 video is pretty much a case study in the Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon pairing. From Mr. Austin’s brash, super soldier (Sagittarius) entrance to his tirade against the authorities to his cutting repartee and clever use of the announcer’s headset (Gemini) to the no holds pandemonium that breaks out at the end it’s as Sagittarius/Gemini as it gets:

The world of professional wrestling is, of course, choreographed but one of the reasons Austin’s act got over so incredibly well is that it walked the tight rope between reality and fiction. A young, highly talented up-and-coming performer in the mid-1990s, Austin had been fired from Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion in 1995 while creaky, rapidly aging stars from the 1980s were still hogging the spotlight. He found work at a regional minor league promotion called Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) where his righteous sense of anger (Sagittarius) was provided unfettered access to the microphone (Gemini). He begun giving quasi-out-of-character interviews which truthfully mocked major decision makers in the wrestling business, something no other performer would risk for fear of retaliation in the professional world. The fans responded with incredible enthusiasm to Austin’s honest appraisals and from there his trouble-making, rabble-rousing “Stone Cold” persona was born into the fictional world. The rest is history. As the arc of Austin’s career makes clear, Sagittarius/Geminis are at their best when they’re speaking their truths, telling their stories, and refusing to be silenced.

Of course speaking one’s mind can also get one in a lot of hot water. Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings this is arguably the one most likely to get into hot water for speaking out against the system. Radack lost her job and almost went to jail in real life for refusing to go along with the system at the DOJ while the storyline that skyrocketed Austin to national prominence revolved around his alter-ego losing his job and being hauled off to jail for doing the same thing. The storyline was fictional but one that many Sagittarius/Geminis like Ms. Radack can likely vicariously relate to:

If you’re reading a website like this one then you’re probably the sort of person with nothing but respect for a whistleblower like Radack. Unfortunately that sentiment is not yet shared by the consensus in our culture. Consider, for instance, what one expert had to say about Radack in an article “Anatomy of a Whistleblower”:

It’s probably true that a person has to be somewhat “unsociable” to be a whistleblower. Sure, such individuals might make others uncomfortable but at a time where lies are en masse passed off as truths our society could sure use a few more unsociable Robin Hood types who refuse to go along with the deeds of an evil king and his band of high paid vicar-flunkies. This is the case whether we’re talking about the garishly fictional universe of the World Wrestling Federation or the all too real garrison state now headquartered in Washington D.C.

About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults at his contact page.

The Sun’s in Cancer (the Crab) and Moon’s in Gemini (the Communicator) today, don’t have time for a full treatment of this pairing but will sometime after the retrograde is over. These guys belonged to the “Long Range Desert Patrol Group” (LRDPG) aka the “Ghost Patrol” aka the “G-Patrol”, which based on its operational start date was a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon organization. They conducted guerilla warfare in North Africa during WWII where they would scurry along the coast of Libya from Benghazi to Tripoli in jeeps, hiding behind rocks and sand dunes — just like crabs — while radioing in (Gemini Moon) all the information they gathered about Nazi troop movements.

Jefferson Anderson says Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon is the Sun/Moon pairing of “the Antenna” who, like a chameleon, “takes on the color of their surroundings” while experiencing “more than their fair share of problems”. (Source) As is quite clear from this photo, members of the Ghost Patrol survived by blending into the background of their desert surroundings like chameleons while using antennas to report back on a terrain filled with a more than a few “problems”.

Rapper Curtis Jackson, best known as “Fifty Cent”, is also a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon. In addition to having nine bullets lodged in his body, he’s also the founder of “Guerilla Unit” records aka the “G-Unit”. Like members of the G-Patrol, members of the G-Unit have survived in harsh, problem-filled geographies populated by all sorts of warring tribes, some friendly, some hostile, some a mixture of both. Like the G-Patrol, the G-Unit reports back on everything they see.

Cancer/Gemini people are great at getting publicity for themselves. Fifty Cent is one of the few rappers whose name is known in the mainstream world while the exploits of the “Ghost Patrol” were popularized by the 1960s television series The Rat Patrol, a show whose intelligent plot lines were far too nuanced to ever pass muster on current television. Interestingly enough, the show’s distinctive theme song has been sampled by numerous rappers.

Financial talk show host Clark Howard is also a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon. The LRDPG’s job was to radio back all the info they gathered on the Nazis while Howard spends his time on the radio, discussing the info he’s gathered on the sinister practices of the big banks. The two aren’t totally different as the “Big Monster Mega-Banks”, as Howard calls them, would like to see the U.S. turned into a financial fuedal state where all us American lumpenproles have to answer to members of the Wall Street master race. Howard’s a major proponent of credit unions, locally owned financial institutions that are to Wall Street mega-banks what the LRDGP jeeps were to Nazi tanks. He’s also spent a lot of time helping people fight wrongful debt collection, a practice that is truly fascistic in nature.

As coincidence would have it, Howard is known for riding around in a customized plug in hybrid Toyota Prius — a vehicle that is to the tyranny of high fuel prices what the Ghost Patrol’s customized jeeps were to the tyrannical intentions of desert dwelling storm-troopers. Finally, like his fellow Cancer/Gemini Fifty Cent, Howard makes his living rapping and reporting on the microphone.

Gemini is the sign of communication and cross-pollination, dexterity and duplicity, connectivity and con-artistry, mixed messages and multiple agendas, masquerades and myriad disguises, mental confetti and manic double talk, cross word games and jigsaw puzzles, nimble shortcuts and picture-perfect impersonations, quick witted instigators and street smart information brokers, fast-talking sales reps and free-wheeling spin doctors, lies that can pass for truths and truths which can double as lies. This is the Mercurial Mad-Hatter and the Multi-Lingual Multi-Tasker, the Master of Mind Games and the Mistress of Back Room Gossip. Symbolized as a pair of twins who appear identical but are actually radically different, the typical Gemini’s life will often read like a pair of chapter(s) out of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Robert Stevenson novel about a man with split-personalities. Scorpio is renown as the zodiac’s resident spy but Gemini’s propensity for multiple personalities makes it the sign most likely to find work as a double agent. To illustrate: using their establishment date as their date of birth, the U.S. Army Special Forces are a Gemini organization. (Chart) Known for wearing distinctive “Green Beret” head gear and requiring their members to be fluent in multiple languages (Gemini), the Green Berets are the fast moving, highly flexible, mad-hat military outfit Gemini Edward Snowden attempted to join prior to going to work for the National Security Agency. (Source) This Special Forces mission patch alludes to the Geminian nature of their work quite explicitly:

Considered “force multipliers” and “masters of chaos”, the Green Berets’ primary job is to teach other people to wreak havoc. According to a recent documentary, the idea is to insert a 12 man team of Green Beret “advisors” into a war zone which will then multiply into a force of 120 or 1,200 by way of their teaching methods. They were a favorite of Geminian president John F. Kennedy who also had multiple sides to his personality.

Communication is Gemini’s forte so it’s fitting that Kennedy’s finest moment was his deft handling of communications between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1962 standoff that saw the world pushed to the brink of nuclear war. At the time there was no direct phone line between Washington and Moscow which made communications during the crisis dangerously cumbersome, something no self-respecting Gemini president is going to be okay with. As a result, Kennedy had the Moscow-Washington hotline aka “The Red Telephone” installed. Using the day it went live as its date of birth, the “Red Telephone” has both its Sun (conscious identity) and Moon (unconscious emotional needs) in Gemini. (Chart) Originally set up as a pair of twin teletype machines with one in Washington and one in Moscow, a fictionalized version of the Moscow-Washington hotline was featured prominently in the 1964 film Dr. Strangeglove:

When a person, company, or organization has both luminaries (Sun and Moon) in this devilish sign they will often posses numerous personalities. One personality may even multiply into 10 or 100 or 1000. You could say Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon is the Sun/Moon pairing of the “Ultimate Doppleganger(s)”, ones so brewing with (mis)information that they’re akin to “human fiber optic cables”. Actually, astrologers Austin Coppock and Michael Lutin already did say those things, here and here respectively. At least I think they said it. It might have been their digital clones over at the Department of Defense (DOD) who said so for them. “What?!”, you ask, “Astrologers like Austin Coppock and Michael Lutin have digital clones over at the DOD?!”. They sure do or, more accurately, they sure might. In fact everybody might have digital clones over at the DOD courtesy of the Simulex corporation, an Indiana based company that’s been working to create computerized clones of people for over a decade now. According to a 2007 article in the UK Register article, the U.S. government may already be using their simulations to subject your clone(s) (Gemini) to an ever-changing (Gemini) variety (Gemini) of fascinating (Gemini) experiments:

Perhaps your real life is so rich you don’t have time for another. Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”, according to a concept paper for the project.

“SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the paper reads, so that military leaders can “develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners”.

SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.

SEAS can display regional results for public opinion polls, distribution of retail outlets in urban areas, and the level of unorganization of local economies, which may point to potential areas of civil unrest.

Yank a country’s water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next. (Source)

As coincidence would have it, the chart for the company’s incorporation (birth) has both the Sun and Moon in Gemini. (Chart) Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon the Sun/Moon pairing of the “Whirling Dervish” who can out-talk, out-gossip, and out-data process just about anyone:

You are more like several individuals than one . . . No problem arises without you finding the most practical and expedient solution. You are an intellectual powerhouse, having read just about everything there is to read and a lot about almost anything. You are able to assimilate information with incredible speed. (Source)

That’s actually a pretty accurate approximation of the Simulex corporation’s Synthetic World Simulation (SWS) technology. Each of its “nodes” can represent several individuals while it’s being used by governments and corporations to develop “expedient solutions” to a host of problems ranging from electrical blackouts to civil unrest. Eventually its creators want SWS to process new data in real time, which means it will be assimilating information at absolute incredibly speeds. The SWS is, in effect, a powerhouse artificial intelligence version of a “Magic Eight Ball”, one designed not to entertain party goers but to serve governments and private corporations. More than a few informed commentators have speculated that the real reason the intelligence agencies are gobbling up all of our emails, phone calls, bank records, and just about “everything else there is to read” is so they can feed them into computer simulations similar to the SWS. (Source)

As far as intelligence agencies go, people probably assume the Central Intelligence Agency is America’s first spy outfit. The reality is that the CIA evolved out of a World War two organization called the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which, based on its establishment date, is also a Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) This OSS mission patch attests to the Geminis’/Geminis’ penchant for playing both the devil you know and the devil you don’t:

Email, cell phones, fiber optic cables, and other modern Geminian tools of the trade were yet to be invented but the OSS did pioneer developments in the use of wiretaps, electronic beacons, and other innovative forms of mercurial spy-craft. (Source) According to astrologer Raven Kaldera, the double Gemini pairing is something of a “Dennis the Menace” type character who will “peek inside people’s drawers, look under rotting leaves, glance into our files when the doctor leaves the room”. (Source) Among other things, OSS agents managed to menace the Nazis by peeking inside their mail, hiding weapons in rotting debris, and glancing into the files of important people when they weren’t in the room. Linda Goodman says the double Gemini people are at excellent at “thinking, theorizing, figuring, condemning, endorsing, discarding, sorting and analyzing the cold hard facts”. (Source) This is exactly what OSS agents did with the cold, hard facts they gleaned by way of their mad-hat, “Dennis the Menace” style methods. They also used these methods to spread rumors among target populations, such as the time they managed to spread a rumor in Germany that Heinrich Himmler had ordered German housewives to report to “baby breeding farms”. (Source)

Technology to digitally clone people like what the SWS can do obviously didn’t exist during the heyday of the OSS but, according to its Wikipedia entry, OSS agents were experts at cloning documents such as “fake German and Japanese-issued identification cards, various passes, ration cards and counterfeit money”. These still shots from a 1943 OSS training video showing an agent disguised as an upper class businessman on the left and a homeless street beggar on the right are good examples of this pairing’s prowess for masquerades, mimicry, and multiple personalities:

According to astrologer Stella Hyde, Gemini’s instant reflexes and ability to improvise make it the sign of the Street Magician. (Source) Along these lines, the OSS’s most (in)famously clever adventure was “Operation Cornflakes” in which OSS agents used a combination of improvised espionage tactics and street magician methods to trick the German postal service into hand delivering anti-Hitler propaganda to German homes through the mail. According to an article at MentalFloss.com, some of the forged German stamps the OSS produced as part of the Cornflakes operation are so valuable to collectors that forgeries (clones) of the forgeries (clones) have turned up for sale, a fitting legacy for an organization with so much Gemini in its chart.

Gemini/Gemini is an exceptionally social pairing and, not coincidentally, the OSS was known as “Oh So Social” for its rollicking social life. At one point the organization even produced a drug that would induce “uncontrollable chattiness”, something that’s about as double Geminian as it gets. (Source) Often referred to as the “glorious amateurs”, the OSS filled its ranks with a wide range of Gemini type people ranging from journalists and Hollywood script writers to safe-crackers and circus performers — two professions which emphasize clever use of the arms and hands, the two body parts ruled by Gemini in medical astrology. As this 1990s History Channel documentary explains, the OSS’s selection process required prospective agents to navigate a fascinating if peculiar series of mind games disguised as circus acrobatics:

With so many twins occupying its astrological chat, any double Gemini is going to have a real serious Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde component to their personality. In the case of the OSS, defeating Hitler was the Dr. Jekyll side. What they did and who they associated with in order to defeat Hitler was the Mr. Hyde component. Astrologer Stella Hyde says that legalish professions for Gemini are “futures broker, market trader, and tax lawyer” while criminal professions for this sign include “gun runner, drug smuggler, and gangster’s moll”. (Source) On the legal(ish) side, the OSS was originally organized by a group Wall Street lawyers, markets traders, and futures brokers who had connections high up in Washington DC. (Source) On the criminal side, the OSS partnered with actual gangsters, gun runners and drug smugglers as these groups knew best how to covertly get weapons and funds into the hands of anti-Nazi partisans. (Source) According to now deceased journalist Danny Casolaro, “The OSS permitted the Mafia to use the port of Marseilles for heroin smuggling in exchange for its assistance in defeating the Nazis”. Unfortunately, these networks didn’t just go away when the war ended. For instance, the Marseilles heroin syndicate utilized by the OSS was the one later depicted in the award winning 1971 crime film The French Connection. (Source) Obviously this is something neither Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde like to talk about much.

In addition to being a “trickster-fixster” with its hands in just about everything, Gemini/Gemini at its most extreme shadow incarnation is probably one of the best Sun/Moon combinations for running a giant insurance scam. For instance, the much maligned insurance company American International Group (AIG) actually evolved out of a highly classified unit inside the OSS. For folks who may not remember, it was AIG’s failed derivative scams that were ground-zero for the 2008 economic collapse. A year 2000 Los Angeles Times article entitled “The Secret Agent (Insurance) Man” traced the company’s heritage all the way back to its “Oh So Social” Geminian roots:

Newly declassified U.S. intelligence files tell the remarkable story of the ultra-secret Insurance Intelligence Unit, a component of the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the CIA, and its elite counterintelligence branch X-2.

. . . the unit mined standard insurance records for blueprints of bomb plants, timetables of tide changes and thousands of other details about targets . . . “They used insurance information as a weapon of war,” said Greg Bradsher, a historian and National Archives expert on the declassified records.

The men behind the insurance unit were OSS head William “Wild Bill” Donovan and California-born insurance magnate Cornelius V. Starr. Starr had started out selling insurance to Chinese in Shanghai in 1919 and, over the next 50 years, would build what is now American International Group . . . (Source)

Speaking of Oh So Social double Geminis linked to the world of high finance, talk show host Suze Orman is a Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) At first you might not think she would have to much in common with America’s first spy agency the OSS but they actually have more than a few similarities. For starters, Ms. Orman is extremely talkative, so much so that watching her show one can’t help but wonder if her coffee’s been spiked with the substance the OSS came up with to induce uncontrollable chattiness. Her non-stop, manic, rapid fire way of engaging her callers even brings to mind the mad-hat “Dennis the Menace” methods the OSS used to harass its adversaries. (“DENIED girlfriend!!!”)

“But wait, there’s more”, a lot more, in terms of the parallels between OSS and Ms. Orman. The OSS was organized by Wall Street lawyers turned intelligence operatives while Orman started out as a financial adviser at Wall Street bank Merrill Lynch before turning to a career as talk show tele=operative (host). She’s never officially been in the spy business but has admitted to deploying OSS like tactics when dealing with her critics. From a Business Journal article entitled “Don’t Mess with Suze Orman”:

Obviously, when I want to, I do investigations into the people to find out, What does their economic situation look like? One person who did this in the past — he has such severe debt, owns a home that was, like, $100,000, fights with his wife all the time, drives a junker of a car, doesn’t have a pot to pee in. It just validated the fact that when people are so vindictive and they’re really trying to slam you, it’s because they’re so desperate — they’re trying to do anything to get noticed. (Source)

As mentioned earlier, Gemini is the sign of “the double agent who plays both sides”. At one point while working at Merrill Lynch selling investment strategies, Orman sued Merrill Lynch for the shady investment strategies they had sold her years earlier. (Source) Only a super nimble double Gemini could manage to pull that off.

Like the operatives at OSS and the clones at the Simulex corporation, Orman appears to have multiple personalities. As Helaine Olen points out in her book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Orman’s public persona back in the 1990s was much more on the “down-to-earth” side albeit spiced up with hint of spiritual new-age salt and pepper. Following the crash of 2008 she morphed into a fiercesome, fire-breathing financial “tiger mom” of the airwaves. Orman says the best way for people to become millionaires is to invest in the stock market yet she invests most of her money in super-safe bonds. (Source) One side of Orman has publicly expressed sympathy for the revolutionary aims of the Occupy Wall Street movement, another side of her almost seems like an operative for the FICO corporation. On the one hand, Orman has done well enough to dress in Versace and fly first class. On the other hand, she is still something of a scrappy, bare-knuckle “hood”, this by her own admission:

Strange, strange coincidence: the SWS program analyzes aggregated data in hopes of predicting people’s future behavior. In 2012 Orman released her own pre-paid bank card which according to Orman, “has a deal with Transunion so that for they years they would look at behavior on this card — in an aggregate, anonymous way —- and see if it determines future behavior”. (Source)

In addition to being oriented to data exchange and dissemination, the Gemini/Gemini pairing will often find his or her way into knowledge quests, overseas crusades, and spiritual super-missions, all of which are generally considered the domain of Sagittarius — the sign opposite to Gemini. This is because, according to Berkeley based astrologer Linda Rose, when a chart has both the Sun and Moon in the same sign the entity will often express as the opposite sign. I suspect this “kick-over” phenomenon observed by Ms. Rose is some type of psychological compensation mechanism similar to what happens in traditional Chinese medicine when one meridian is so overloaded with energy that the person hyper-expresses the characteristics of the opposite meridian. Regardless of the exact mechanism behind the phenomenon it does seem to track reality with a high degree of consistency. To illustrate: the Simulex corporation aggregates massive amounts of data (Gemini) in hopes of getting big picture knowledge (Sagittarius) about how people behave. The OSS used mad-hat methods of manic subversion (Gemini) as part of an overseas crusade (Sagittarius) to defeat Hitler. Suze Orman hosts a talk show (Gemini) about money but in a culture where banks have more power than God she’s actually as much a spiritual guru figure (Sagittarius) as she is an uncontrollable chatter-box (Gemini).

As she explains in the above video, Orman has more recently been applying her verbal acumen (Gemini) towards a new crusade (Sagittarius): the crusade to have gay couples granted the same financial rights and privileges as heterosexual couples. For a Sun/Moon pairing with as many question marks surrounding it as Gemini/Gemini, that’s about as straight a shot (Sagittarius) as they come.

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Gemini is “the Communicator” of the zodiac known for its quick communications, cross-pollination, and chatting late into the night. Libra, its air sign cousin sitting 120 degrees to the right, is “the Social Director” of the zodiac known for its smooth sociability and suave relational skills. Combine the highly communicative nature of a Gemini Sun with the socially conscious instincts of a Libra Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is chatty, charming, and extremely clever. A deft and delightful companion whether in the office carpool or out at a coffee shop, this pairing lives life according to the philosophy of “gaiety, good times, and the gift of gab.” Like most double air combinations, it excels at anything involving the airwaves or mass media such as writing, blogging, television, radio, etc.

In addition to “gaiety, good times, and the gift of gab” this pairing also enjoys an ever-changing variety of “vistas, viewpoints, and vivacious visitors”. Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey write of the Gemini/Libra’s extremely diverse mercurial abilities, “You especially enjoy travel, for you love the stimulation of new faces, new landscapes and other perspectives.” (Source) To illustrate just how much this pairing loves traveling to see new landscapes: using the day its patent was filed in 1908 as its date of birth, the concept of “pigeon photography” is a Gemini Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) In the age of ubiquitous satellite imagery, the idea of using pigeons to take aerial photographs may seem quaint. Back at the turn of the century it was an extraordinarily novel way to view “new landscapes from new perspectives” and to see “different vistas from different viewpoints”. Take a look, for instance, at these photos snapped by some early pigeon photographers:

The patent for pigeon photography was filed by Dr. Julius Neubronner, a German apothecary who also used the pigeons to deliver medicine to his far away patients. Gemini/Libras are very entertaining, easy-going, and make excellent conversationalists so it’s quite likely that Dr. Neubronner’s patients enjoyed the pigeons’ visits for reasons social as much as medicinal. It wouldn’t be too much of a surprise if the pigeons even managed to engage in some type of conversation with those to whom they were delivering medicine. As astrologer Linda Goodman points out, when Gemini (the “Communicator”) is paired with Libra (the “Social Director”) the result is dazzling conversation and dizzying sociability:

These two air signs are fun to watch, like trapeze artists at the circus. Their mental gymnastics can be both dazzling and dizzying . . . when they team up at home, in the office, on the campus, or anywhere else, it will definitely not be difficult to hear them. These two signs will have lengthy discourses on every subject imaginable, and they both have immense imaginations. Sometimes the discussions are friendly, sometimes not. But they will usually remain on speaking terms since silence for anything but the briefest periods of time is well nigh an impossibility. (Source)

One of the most social of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings, the textbook Gemini/Libra loves going back-and-forth, to-and-fro among a wide variety of people, projects, and places. This is probably the Sun/Moon pairing most likely to find work as a gossip columnist (albeit a friendly one), a party planner, a salesperson, a public relations expert, or even as a member of the paparazzi – at least in the old days when the paparazzi made an attempt to catch celebrities at their most classy instead of their most skanky.

Speaking of celebrities, this pairing loves pop culture! Even those Gemini/Libras who find themselves in the most intellectually high-minded professions such as law, politics, mediation, or counseling can be found secretly checking websites like as TMZ and PerezHilton during meetings or reading People Magazine during their lunch breaks. Those who don’t peruse the gossip mags will still be at the center of any Monday morning water-cooler exchanges about who did what with whom where over the weekend. Gemini/Libra is a very light, flighty combination so its interest in office gossip is motivated more by endless curiosity and an absolute intolerance of boredom than anything dark-hearted or deeply sinister. Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for creating the Dilbert series, is a Gemini/Libra. (Chart)

This pairing is often as dextrous physically as it is socially. Legendary dancer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker, for instance, is a Gemini/Libra. (Chart) Bi-lingual, bi-sexual, and bi-racial, Baker adopted 12 children, each of a different ethnicity, while enjoying stardom across both France and the U.S.

Like many Gemini/Libras, Baker excelled in a variety of professions. In addition to being a professional dancer, she also worked for the French resistance as a spy during World War II. According to Baker’s Wikipedia page, her job was to “report any gossip she heard at parties that might be of use to her adopted country.” (Source) She also “assisted the French Resistance by smuggling secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music.” (Source) Only a Gemini/Libra could score a spy gig based on gab, gossip, and gaiety filled entertainment!

Baker isn’t the only Gemini/Libra to put this pairing’s mental and physical dexterity to use as a spy. Using its first flight as its date of birth, the P-61 “Black Widow” night fighter, the first aircraft specifically designed to use radar, is a Gemini Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) Like Josephine Baker, the P-61 was also extraordinarily dextrous in terms of its ability to dip, dive, and dance through the skies. Take a look at the plane’s structure as it bears a resemblance to the glyphs for both Gemini and Libra. Like the glyph for Gemini it has two cockpits facing each other, one front and back, each of which housed its own recon-photographer. Like the glyph for Libra the plane is comprised of two equally balanced halves, one left and one right:

The P-61 was also used in “aerial photo-mapping”, which is essentially a more modern version of pigeon photography. Coincidentally, pigeon photography was actually used by the CIA in espionage missions similar to those the P-61 was originally designed for. (Source)

What’s really interesting is that the P-61 and Mrs. Baker had similar jobs during the war: Mrs. Baker relayed secret information she picked up while dancing in and out of Nazi occupied social settings while the P-61 relayed secret information it picked up while dancing in and out of Nazi occupied skies. The Harveys tell us that “living by its wits” and a tendency to “skim the surface” of matters are two of this pairing’s weaknesses. (Source) It’s true this pairing has a tendency towards superficiality but the capacity to “skim the surface” while “living by one’s wits” aren’t such bad weaknesses when one is dodging Nazis!

This pairing loves variety in relationships, will often have numerous significant partnerships, whether romantic or professional. This is true even when the Gemini/Libra in question is of the aviation persuasion. The P-61, for instance, was initially assigned to (partnered with) the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC). Following the war it was re-assigned (re-partnered) to Project Thunderstorm, a joint program by the U.S. Weather Bureau and NASA to study atmospheric weather patterns, an extremely fitting gig for a double air pairing. (Source) On a metaphoric level it’s probably not too much of a stretch to consider the P-61’s assignments as being akin to marriages: the first marriage was during World War II to the Army while the second marriage was during Project Thunderstorm to both the Weather Bureau and NASA. That’s two marriages to three spouses, each of whom had very different dispositions and life missions. Leave it to a Gemini/Libra to adapt themselves such a diverse array of partners!

On a similar note, Josephine Baker was married four times to four men, each of a different nationality and/or ethnicity. (Source) Only a pairing as socially deft, psychologically dextrous, superbly diplomatic and as comfortable viewing things from different perspectives as Gemini/Libra could pull off such relational arrangements while maintaining a light heart and an open mind.

About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached via his contact page.

People with their Suns (identity) in Gemini will often come to be identified with their capacity for communication. Symbolized as a pair of twins talking to each other, Gemini Suns almost always have at least two personalities within them. If their Moon (emotional needs) is in Scorpio — the sign of the Criminal Deviant and the Depth Psychologist, the Sorcerer and the Spell-Caster — then at least one of their personalities will be characterized by some serious extremes. Astrologer Raven Kaldera calls Gemini/Scorpio the Sun/Moon pairing of “The Cloaked One” who “understands brutality and horror . . . who must go down to the darkness and wrestle his demons to the ground”. (Source) To illustrate: professional wrestler James Brian Hellwig is a Gemini Sun, Scorpio Moon. (Chart) He’s best known for portraying “The Ultimate Warrior”, a popular if controversial 1980s wrestling persona cloaked by face paint and characterized by seemingly demonic extremes. In true Gemini/Scorpio fashion Hellwig’s alter ego once explained, “Nightmares are the best part of my day”. (Source)

Linda Goodman warns her readers that when Gemini and Scorpio pair up they will often form “pretzels of intrigue” that are equal parts Merlin the Magician and Houdini the Illusionist. Together these two signs can “mix up a White Witch’s brew of happiness . . . one that can detect illusion from reality or discover that the two are interchangeable”. (Source) The combination will also “long to solve the mysteries that lie out there among the stars and the comets” she tells us. In 1990 Hellwig appeared on the Arsenio Hall show as his alter ego the Ultimate Warrior. The appearance was (of course) staged but, as the deeply concerned look on Arsenio’s face at 2:35 of this video indicates, he’s more than a bit nervous as to whether Hellwig is entirely clear on where reality begins and illusion ends. At the time, wrestlers routinely appeared “in character” on Arsenio’s show but none of them took their performances to the intense extremes that Hellwig did. Arsenio is a comedian, a good one, so he played the situation for laughs but it’s clear he’s not sure how to handle the whirlwind of interchangeable intrigue and pharmacological witchcraft that’s made its way onto his show. Similar to most of his in-character promos, Warrior explained to Arsenio that he was guided by the mysteries of the stars, the comets, and other mysterious cosmological forces from above.

Of course the mystery and intrigue that surrounded the Ultimate Warrior character was also a large part of his appeal. By the 1980s everybody knew wrestling was a choreographed show but Hellwig’s alter-ego was so convincingly strange that it was impossible not to wonder what about the man was an illusion and what was a reality, what was witchcraft and what was writing, what was a character and what was a cloak. Many Gemini/Scorpios end up grappling with similarly themed paradoxes about who and what they actually are, although few will sport the hellaciously well teased hair that Hell-Wig did.

The only wrestler of the last 30 years to rival Hulk Hogan in terms of popularity, Hellwig and his alter-ego were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 4th of this year. Three days later he was found dead by way of a “catastrophic medial incident”, believed to be related to his heart.

Gemini/Scorpios often love to talk (Gemini) about death, darkness, and the occult (Scorpio). During his career Hellwig made graphic descriptions of death a consistent theme in his promos and participated in numerous story lines involving witchcraft, voodoo, darkness, and the occult. When he retired from wrestling there were constant rumors that he had died, so much so that when the WWE announced his actual death many people assumed it was yet another rumor. Strangely enough, he did seem to foreshadow his own death during a monologue he delivered on WWE television the night before his passing:

Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat, his lungs breathe their final breath and if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit will be immortalised.

Astrologer Jefferson Andeson refers to the Gemini Sun, Scorpio Moon pairing as the “Storyteller” whose “forceful and magnetic personality . . . projects an explosive image. You know where you’re going, even if nobody else does”. (Source) In Hellwig’s case, a good deal of his alter ego’s popularity stemmed from projecting as so explosive, forceful, and magnetic that nobody knew what he was going to do or where he was going to go once he hit the ring. The result for fans was, as Linda Goodman describes the Gemini/Scorpio pairing, a “White Witch’s brew” of utter excitement and total inspiration.

Gemini and Scorpio form what’s known as a “quincunx”, an inherently discordant aspect that results in extreme ingenuity, extreme instability, or a combination of both. The textbook Gemini/Scorpio will thus have to make constant adjustments between the radically different nature of their luminaries in order to maintain an even keel in life. According to Suzi and Charles Harvey, Gemini/Scorpio individuals will often wrestle with the disconnect between the highly communicative (Gemini) and deeply covert (Scorpio) sides of their psyche:

Your life seems to be a breeze until you start noticing the monsters from the deep coming up for air. Then life begins to seem more like an expedition across hostile territory than a jaunt to visit friends.

Wrestling with, and communicating your insights and the paradoxes of your deep inner experience is essential to your larger health and contentment. (Source)

In Hellwig’s case, he routinely described life in the WWE as more of an “expedition across hostile territory” than a jaunt with colleagues. His promos and, later, his YouTube videos make it clear he was very invested in “communicating his insights and deep inner experiences”, no matter how radically paradoxical they may have seemed to outside observers. As far as “monsters from the deep coming up for air” are concerned, it’s difficult to find a better example of that than the now infamous “Crash the Plane” promo he cut in the lead up to the 1990 installment of Wrestlemania:

Gemini is the sign of the Communicator while Scorpio Moons require contact with the dark and the taboo in order to feel themselves. The combination of communication (Gemini) about the taboo (Scorpio) means that many Gemini/Scorpios will experience censorship and/or seek to hide their whereabouts at some point in their lives. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is a Gemini/Scorpio whose battles with censorship and need to hide his whereabouts have been extensively documented. Hellwig was a professional wrestler billed from “Parts Unknown”, not a whistleblower hiding in unknown parts, but the above promo has apparently been censored from the WWE’s officially available library. A reason has never been given but it probably has something to do with the fact the story Hellwig tells about hijacking an airplane, disposing of its pilots, and sending it into a nosedive towards “parts unknown” bears more than a passing resemblance to the events of 9/11. The maniacal tone he summoned for the recording only adds to its multiple levels (Gemini) of creepiness (Scorpio).

South Node in Aries, North Node in Libra: Symbol of Past Lives in the Sign of Warfare, Symbol of Destiny in the Sign of Diplomacy, Partnership, and Dance

While a person’s Sun/Moon pairing describes their basic psychological disposition, it’s their Nodal axis that describes what they’re here to leave behind and what they’re here to learn. The South Node describes the “what they’re here to leave behind” side of the equation while the North Node describes the “what they’re here to learn” side. With his South Node in Aries, the sign of courage, confrontation, and self-preservation, Hellwig has spent many lives as, quite literally, a warrior. He came into this life naturally good at all things Aries: kicking ass, breaking free, fighting back, and looking out for number one. These are also ways he was most likely to self-destruct in this life. With his South Node in Aries, his North Node (destiny) is in Libra — the sign of of relationships, reconciliation, and relating to “the other”. The way of cooperation, not combat, was what Hellwig was really here to figure out.

Ironically, success in the world of professional wrestling is inherently a Libran style endeavor. That may come as a surprise to anybody distracted by the industry’s over the top camp and brutish theatrics. The reality, however, is that the best matches will be those where the two performers each attempt to make the other person look good. What the performers do has been compared to fantasy (Pisces), stunt-work (Sagittarius) or even acting (Leo) but, truth be told, it’s really akin more to partner dancing (Libra) than anything else. Randy “Macho Man” Savage, for instance, is a Scorpio with a stellium in Libra in his chart. (Article) When he passed away a few years ago a number of old wrestlers came out of the woodwork to say how fabulous it was to work with him, how he would always make “the other” guy look like a million bucks. Hellwig, with his North Node (destiny) in Libra (cooperation), would have been wise to emulate Randy Savage in this regard as much as possible.

People are at their worst when stuck back in their South Node, at their highest, best, and most fulfilled when their doing things associated with their North Node. In Hellwig’s case, he was at his absolute best the night of Wrestlemania VI when he and Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) put on a performance that many consider the “match of the century”, one that is to the world of wrestling what Gone with the Wind or Avatar are to the world of film. Not coincidentally, the performance began with Hellwig and Bollea’s alter-egos standing face to face in a manner that actually bears a resemblance to the scales of justice, the symbol for Libra.

The storyline that Hellwig and Bollea acted out in the months leading up their Wrestlemania match was so enormously successful for the WWE in large part because the two men’s in-ring personas were 100% *equally* matched for each other. The fans at the time were split right down the middle in terms of their support, with many unable to make a decision about who they wanted to root for. Even WWE management gave up trying to decide which man was going to play the hero and which was going to play the villain. At the conclusion of the event the two men even hugged and held hands. So behind the big muscles, teased hair, wild outfits, and choreographed press-slams the whole thing was actually as textbook Libra as it gets.

Strangely enough, Hellwig signed his initial contract with the WWE on September 23rd, 1987 just as an eclipse in early Libra was hitting his North Node almost to the degree. Transiting eclipses to a person’s natal North Node are incredibly powerful events. In Hellwig’s case the contract he signed that day ended up not only shaking up the wrestling world but also gave him everything he would ever be known for in this life.

If a person’s life can be analogized to a journey, the South Node is where they start off and the North Node is where they (hopefully) end up. Hellwig passed just as he was beginning his third North Node return, a major astrological turning point that occurs every 18.5 years in a person’s life. Reports are that in the days prior to his death Hellwig had managed to make peace with the WWE and reconciled with a number of wrestlers he had been at odds with for going on 20 years. He even managed to bury the hatchet with Hulk Hogan, a man he’d been feuding with in both the imaginal world of ring and screen and the very real world of court cases and depositions since the 1990s. That’s good to hear because when a person’s North Node is in Libra, peace and reconciliation, not combat and warfare, are exactly what they’re here to seek out. This is true even when the person is the Ultimate Warrior himself.

About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or consults at his contact page.