Gemini rising

You can talk to anyone, and within five minutes you have found the one subject they could talk about for an hour.

Gemini rose in the east the minute you were born, so it is the first thing your chart shows anyone: your rising sign. Gemini is the twins, two figures standing side by side high in the northern winter sky, and with it rising you come across as more than one person, depending on who is asking.

Two speeds

You read faster than most people talk and talk faster than most people think. Your hands join in when you explain something, your phone is never far away, and your face changes with every story you hear. People find you young, whatever your age, and they are right: curiosity keeps your expression moving.

What they meet first is the quick, funny, sociable twin. The other one is watching, taking notes, and deciding whether this conversation is worth a second visit.

Mercury does the talking

The ruler of your rising sign, and so of your whole chart, is Mercury, the planet of words and wit. Your mind wanders, most of the time, toward whatever part of life Mercury holds in your chart. Errands, messages, short trips, the stranger in the next seat: the near world is yours, and you know more people by first name than anyone you know.

The long view across from you

Opposite the rising sign, the sign setting at your birth was Sagittarius, and it opens your seventh house, where your partners live. The ones who keep your interest have big opinions, long views and a passport they actually use. You bring the facts; they bring what the facts mean, and the arguments between those two are among the best conversations you will have.

Finish one thing before you start telling people about the next.

What people keep

The details of meeting you fade. What stays is that you asked about them, listened to the answer, and remembered it the next time you met.