Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images There are a few different prisms through which you can initiate yourself into zodiacal wisdom. The most obvious option is through the lens of your own birth chart, learning about planets, aspects, and houses based off your own narcissistic explorations. This is a totally valid pathway. I’ve done it. I’ve done it with myself, my crushes, and my celebrity crushes.
The woman who first introduced me to this clever approach was, of course, an air sign. Air signs are intellectual and communicative. They are experts in the ephemeral, the things of this world that lack physical form, and this is especially true of language and information. The air element is our breath, the most necessary and invisible function of our human body.
GEMINI is the twins. I think the areas in which zodiac signs have the worst reputations are really the qualities we tend to resent the most in ourselves, and poor Gemini is a perpetual victim of that unjust slander. In one of my favorite films, Paprika, a supporting character reveals himself as a villain, splitting into twin heads, his seam rupturing with cerulean butterflies. “I never knew this side of you!” shouts the heroine, in utter repulsion.
A few famous Gemini Suns include Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Kanye West, Che Guevara, Anne Frank, Josephine Baker, Tupac Shakur, and Angelina Jolie. Not knowing them personally, the most obvious commonalities are the malleability of their identities over time, even in the public consciousness, even in death. Sometimes that duality is terrifying, but more often than not, it’s a beautiful strength and survival skill.
Libra is a cardinal sign, an initiating energy, and it’s ruled by Venus. Again, this Venusian energy can manifest as a shallow obsession with appearances, but it can also embody a deep understanding of the most grand and abstract measures of beauty — rhythm, poetics, and the golden mean. Libra represents an aspirational beauty, or an inspirational splendor. Libra longs for justice, even in the face of the most unfair, compromised systems.
The phrase “Age of Aquarius” dominates New Age literature and features heavily in the musical Hair. This doesn’t mean that the moon is in the seventh house, or that Jupiter aligns with Mars, or that most of the lyrics in “Let the Sunshine In” stand up to scrutiny. But the overall meaning is there, somewhere. In a hypothetical Aquarian Age, everyone would be interconnected to higher-order concepts and dreamscapes.
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