1013. Gemini
Gemini is the third sign of the zodiac. It is the first
mutable sign and the first airy sign. In the physical body,
it represents the vocal cords, the bronchi and the shoulders
of man. In the vital body, it governs the function of
pulsation. In the mental body this sign is responsible for
the lateral sense of man (Jara-sandha). The birth of the lateral
sense on the cosmic plane is allegorised in the Maha--
bha-ratha. Two wives of a king give birth only to two lateral
halves of a child. They throw the two halves on either
side of the portal of their palace. An elemental of the
threshold called Jara causes the union of the two parts
and thus Jara-sandha is born. The lateral sense of man in
his mind is the sense of dividing the whole into two parts
which are identical in form but seeming opposites to one
another.
When compared with the sign Pisces, which is
another mutable sign, we find that Pisces is a pair of fishes
and Gemini a pair of persons. The fishes are identical but
run in opposite directions. The pair in Gemini is a pair of
opposites (a man and a woman). The power to compare
is located in Pisces and the power to contrast is located in
Gemini. This means that Gemini is the cause of polarity
and Pisces is the ending of polarity. All the four mutable
signs possess the double nature in some degree.
Discrimination is the key-note of this sign. Man
learns to discriminate between good and bad, the higher
and the lower, darkness and light, birth and death and