Rashi 3 of 12 · Air sign
Gemini.
Mithuna · The Couple
Mercury's air sign lives through ideas and exchange. Mithuna is curious, quick and sociable, happiest with two things to think about at once.
- Ruler
- Mercury (Budha)
- Element
- Air
- Quality
- Dual (dvisvabhava)
- Gender
- Masculine (odd)
- Exalted here
- None
- Debilitated here
- None
- Direction
- West
- Sun passes
- 15 Jun – 15 Jul (approx.)
Placement
Gemini in your chart
Rashi — the mind and emotions
Gemini as your Moon sign
A Gemini Moon processes feeling by talking and reading about it. The mind is lively and restless, and it needs variety to stay content.
Lagna — the body and the life's direction
Gemini rising
A Gemini ascendant gives a youthful, animated manner and a gift for conversation; first impressions are of wit and quick intelligence.
Vedic astrology reads the Moon sign and the ascendant before the Sun sign. Both depend on the exact time and place of birth — NAMOH works them out from yours.
Temperament
The nature of Mithuna
Gifts
- Quick learning
- Communication and humour
- Adaptability
Lessons
- Scattered attention
- Restlessness
- Talking around a feeling instead of through it
Where Gemini tends to thrive
- Writing and media
- Teaching
- Sales and trade
- Technology and analysis
Lunar mansions
The nakshatras of Gemini
Thirty degrees, nine padas. Where your Moon falls along this span decides which nakshatra colours your Gemini Moon — and which planet's dasha your life begins in.
Lordship
Mercury, lord of Gemini
Gemini takes its colour from Mercury (Budha). Wherever Mercury sits in your chart shows where the affairs of your Gemini house are carried out.
Graha Maitri
Gemini with the other signs
One strand of Guna Milan compares the rulers of two Moon signs. It is a first reading only: a full match weighs all eight kootas, from nakshatra to nadi.
Questions
Gemini, briefly answered
Who rules Gemini in Vedic astrology?
Gemini (Mithuna) is ruled by Mercury (Budha). It is a masculine, dual air sign.
What are the Gemini dates in Vedic astrology?
In the sidereal zodiac used in Vedic astrology, the Sun passes through Gemini from about 15 Jun – 15 Jul, give or take a day each year. Vedic astrology gives more weight to the Moon sign and the ascendant than to the Sun sign, and those depend on the exact time and place of birth.
Which nakshatras fall in Gemini?
Mrigashira (2 padas), Ardra and Punarvasu (3 padas). Together they make up Gemini's thirty degrees, nine padas in all.
See where Mithuna sits in your chart.
Your Moon, your rising sign and every planet, read from your exact birth time and place.
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