Word origin · etymology
Latin constellation and sign name.
Gemini means twins, the paired figures behind the sign's name.
How we know · epistemology
Zodiac convention with traditional symbolism
Gemini is the third equal sector, traditionally mutable air. Those classifications organize the symbolic system; they do not establish dual personality, communication skill or another individual trait merely from a planet's presence in the sector.
Deborah Houlding: absolute zodiac longitude ↗Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos I.4–24, Robbins translation ↗Astrodienst: The four Elements and the Signs (practitioner account) ↗
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