102 Spiritual Astrology
the permanent and the transitory. This power of
discrimination is the cause of duality in mind. Experience
of man received as one on the mental plane, is divided
into two. Thus Gemini is predominantly a mental sign.
To a man of the lower planes, mental activity creates
variations in opinion and thus enables him to gain
experience by a process of ‘compare and contrast’. This
sign is the cause of the political, social and religious
differences among various races, nations and individuals.
This creates problems as well as opportunities in solving
problems. Mercury, the messenger of gods, is the lord of
this sign. Mercury is a symbol of Na-rada in one aspect as
he is the son of Brahma and Saraswati born on the mental
plane. For the beings of the individual and personality-
levels Mercury causes the differences of opinion and
creates problems.
Mercury is the metal ruled by this sign. This is the
chief implement of alchemy. Mercury is transformed into
gold by a process known to few. Mercury in the higher
planes gives discrimination, and an impersonal way of
handling the opposites. He finds solutions to all his
problems and approaches, unity in diversity through a
mathematical process. When mind is freed from the astral
and etheric influences, it is transformed into Buddhi. On
the buddhic plane, Na-rada is the Guru who initiates the
disciple into the word of ‘Hari’. The two epic seers Vya-sa
and Va-lmi-ki received their initiations into the wisdom which
has an expression in the Bhagavatha and the Ra-ma-yan.a
respectively. In such a capacity Na-rada governs the latter
half of Gemini.
The science of mathematics belongs to Mercury as
the lord of Gemini. H.P. Blavatsky reminds us that
mathematics is the only exact science. Number is the only