"I think" Gemini

Zodiac series - Gemini 3/12

”I think” is the mantra for Gemini who is ruled by planet Mercury or Hermes the divine messenger.

In the ancient zodiac of Denderah, this sign is called “the place of who cometh”, an emerging spiritual Being is held before us. It is represented by two figures, one man, and the other woman.

The Twins can represent two sides of the man’s nature, the man of action and the man of thought, the ego and the alter ego. Often at enmity one slays the other and the one who dies leaves traces of evil in the world. They’re often depicted as one light and one dark symbolizing the sacrifice and the sacrificer, light and darkness, heaven and earth. The duality which is emphasized in Gemini rims through a large number of mythological stories. We meet the same brothers in Romulus and Remus, and in Cain and Abel, one brother dying and the other living. We meet the astrological symbol for Gemini in the two pillars of Masonry Boaz and Jachin. Many believe that the Masonic tradition could, if we had the power to do so, be traced back to that period, antedating the Taurian age, when the sun was in Gemini, and to that great cycle in which the Lemurian race, the first strictly human race, came into being; where the mind aspect began to emerge, and the duality of mankind became a fact in nature. So we have in the Masonic tradition the search of the human family typified, the search for light, the search for unity, and the search for divinity. And so the two pillars, Boaz
and Jachin, stand as the emblems of that duality.

Castor and Pollux or the Twins represent the two aspects of man’s nature, the soul and the personality, the spiritual man and the human being through which that spiritual entity is functioning. Castor was regarded as immortal and Pollux as Immortal. It is an interesting astronomical fact that the star, Castor, is waning in brilliancy and has not the light that it had several hundred years ago while Pollux, the immortal brother, is waxing in brightness and eclipsing his brother.

The three constellations in relation to Gemini are Lepus - The Hare which is associated with these other two constellations and contains a star of the most intense crimson color, almost like a drop of blood. Red is ever the symbol of the desire for material things. The Canis Minor was known as the “underdog”, in the same writing which tells us that the name of the brightest star signifies, “redeemer” and that the next brightest is “the burden-bearer” or “the one who bears for others”. My personal favorite The Canis Major is where we find Sirius the Dog Star also called “the leader of the entire heavenly host” in various old books since it is brighter than any other star in the first magnitude. Sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as the individual soul. Esoterically considered the star of initiation. In the language of symbology, we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the initiate, signifying their realization of their identity with the universal soul, and this they suddenly glimpse through the medium of their own soul, their own star.