GEMINI

GEMINI

Geminis are show-offs.  That hyper gifted kid who can play any musical genre… on any instrument… by ear… only to eventually get bored anyways… and then decide that they need to invent their own instrument instead.  So they’re always winning the Science Fair.

Or perhaps they should record others!  And then change their name!  And then change their religion!  And then change their gender!  Or maybe it would be more prudent to simply take up acting.  It’s appalling how talented they are.  Indeed, it’s almost enough to make one believe in a god because where else could the Twin be getting all of their awesome brain software.  But then their schizoid seams start to show and their next switcheroo lands them in a mental hospital, at which point I cease being so envious.

Geminis are mercurial, macabre, and multi-personality.  They’re also easily bored.  So the chronic acting bug, the sudden career changes, the mid-career name changes, that’s all par for the course.  To be a Gemini is to be in perpetual personality crisis.  It’s not that the Gemini doesn’t know who s/he is, it’s just that there are so many hims and hers in every single Gemini.

Artistically, this Mutable Air sign is most notable for its invention of new instruments, its invention of new genres (Hip-Hop and Electronic music both have a serious and formidable Gemini contingent), and early adoption of either/or.  They’re also amazingly gifted at blending genres, and at recording and mixing.  Their careers are often characterized by sudden reversals and long-term success.  Both Prince and Bob Dylan come to mind, as each name represents several successive icons rolled into one long career.  And they aren’t so unique in this as Geminis.

However, if the Geminian is appallingly polymathematical, they’re also appallingly uptight about copyright – which is why neither Prince nor Bob Dylan are featured in this article.  I can’t find a video that stays up longer than a couple weeks for either of them.  Which is a pity because my all-time favorite song is by Bob Dylan.  You’d think a sign with so many gifts might be a bit more generous with others… :/

If Aries excel at the refinement of tradition and Tauruses work upon tradition’s very bedrock, Geminis create new traditions by suturing multiple pasts into the present.  They blend, meld, and spawn bizarre new offspring of the most futuristic sort.  Space oddities, aliens, bisexual hermaphrodites, and new races in new hues.  They’re always on to the next frontier and they seem to invent new taboos, thereby breaking the old as if by dizzy-headed accident.  And finally, I secretly suspect that they have an unusually intense fascination with war and murder – simply by glancing through the musicians listed here, and then considering the Geminis that I know and love in my own life – although I have no idea why this should be.  Thoughts?

Known to be loquacious, mercurial, inquisitive, inventive, and child-like, the Gemini motto is “I think.”  Gemini is a Mutable Air sign occupying the Third House of Communication.  It is ruled by Mercury, the messenger of the gods.

Let’s consider what Gemini might sound like…

(To get the full list of musicians, please click here.)