Jupiter in Gemini

Every conversation you have ever enjoyed ended with you writing something down to look up later, and most of those notes are still somewhere in your bag.

Four new moons

In January 1610 Galileo, an Italian professor with a home-made telescope, pointed it at Jupiter and saw four points of light that moved from night to night. They were moons, circling another world, and in a few weeks of careful notes the idea that everything in the heavens turned round the Earth began to fall apart. That is Jupiter in Gemini: belief that grows by looking again and writing down what you see.

Many truths

The tradition places Jupiter in its detriment here, opposite its own Sagittarius. Sagittarius wants the one great truth. Gemini wants all the small ones, and wants to compare them. So you put more trust in the question than the answer. You can hold several beliefs at once, try each on for size, and change your mind in public without embarrassment.

That makes you open, curious and fun to argue with. It also makes it hard for you to commit to one view long enough to build on it.

Sharing what you know

Your generosity is information. You send the article, pass on the name, lend the book, explain the thing someone was too shy to ask about. Your phone holds more saved articles than you could read in a year, and the list keeps growing. You connect people who ought to meet, and you remember, years later, which of your introductions worked. Teaching, writing, broadcasting and anything that moves knowledge from one place to another suit you, and people come away from a talk with you with a longer reading list than they arrived with.

Spread thin

Curiosity this wide has a cost. You sign up for the course, the club and the side project in the same week, and all three suffer. You can know a little about everything and not quite enough about the one thing that matters.

The teacher who changed your mind at fifteen would be pleased to hear how many minds you have changed since, most of them over a conversation you thought was small.