This divergent combination is very interesting as the Sun and Moon are hard-angled or square to one another, meaning that the personality is at odds. Here we have a personality that sings on the wings of chaos—as the mutable signs must admit describes their worlds. They are privy to much that is changeable in the mood and in the environment; they seem to be most useful where spontaneous and lightning-fast reactions as well as a dash of recklessness is needed. Gemini is the first mutable sign, when the season is yo-yoing between the cool of earlier spring and the oncoming summer. A Gemini Sun is childlike, adores laughter and mirth, quick-witted, and spicily tongued as well as genuinely interested in very different kinds of people. The Virgo Moon, being of the mutable cross, yet starkly at odds ethically, as the mutable sign of the earth, underlies the typical Gemini carefree whimsicalness with a definite and painstaking awareness that errs a little desperately towards permanence but is meant to be in the constant motion of surveying and deciphering. The Virgo Moon is always shifting where its deepest comfort lies—sometimes in the meat of long-worked for projects, sometimes in the details along the surface of the every day, sometimes in the rituals we crave to nourish ourselves, or in deeply connected and contradictory elements of the universe. The sign of Virgo rules the intense minutiae of small details, the microscopic versions of the totality of the universe, and the mastery of hard-worked for skills. While the Gemini Sun is extraordinarily aware of the wavelengths of other people and its own prowess in speaking to the justice of the moment, which can be more indefinable than not, the Virgo Moon intelligently longs for certain schematic truths. The Virgo Moon calculates, breaks apart, categorizes, but the Gemini Sun absorbs all through a nervous system fervor. Both signs are ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and the nervous system itself so there’s an electricity of the brain and a many-sidedness to this person’s thoughts that can, in the agony and ecstasy between reason and passion turn them almost comic. Dostoevsky’s figures of contradiction and absurdity, sticking one’s foot in one’s mouth, is beloved to them. For the more they strive one way, or follow the Gemini instinct for expansion and connection that is more mental than otherwise, the more something particularly Virgoan, or expected, is sacrificed. In a way, all their joy is unlocked by sacrifice. This person endures almost endless stimulation, and so periods of blankness or lack of confrontation and deep meditation literally saves them. Mercury is a strange planet, closest to the sun, yet ice-capped at its polar regions, bizarrely close then flitting away in its oval orbit—there is no absolutely predicting the tendencies of Mercury so both signs are ignited in the whirlwinds just beyond conscious intention. They think they want one thing and find something entirely different. It’s both upsetting and exactly what they need. The Gemini-Virgo has strong intentions usually, as any Virgo Moon would—there is such a deep need to project one’s self accurately and clearly into the right atmosphere one chooses. Virgo is essentially the analytical instinct brought up to the very brink of a cliffside, the accurate, instinctual part of our minds that determines which wild berry will kill us and which will help us survive. The Virgo Moon is most triggered by unexpected outward events, the unpredictable nervous systems of other people, and its own great sensitivity. Food, herbs, drink, exercise—all these have tremendous effect for better or worse on the Virgo Moon and should be taken seriously. Yet even the needs and limits are always shifting. The person might be prone to great fluctuations in weight and energy as well as dips into and out of health as normalcy. While the Gemini Sun makes ready any part of its own psyche to become personable, thereby wrecking the Virgo defenses. While the Virgo Moon is typically known for a shrewd, almost vindictive kind of secrecy, akin I believe to the Scorpio Moon—where what is particular and soothing for the person is kept close and safe—Gemini lays all out very indiscriminately so the person simultaneously hides as well as shows. There’s a blatant contradiction worked into all the square signs that cannot be overcome but must in all its complexity and chaos just be embraced. The Gemini-Virgo must learn to balance deep protectiveness and private rituals which feed health with a childlike nature that lusts for total exposure and risk. The Gemini Sun loves to be tossed way out on a thought, to know the strange and the ugly. Having a Virgo Moon tacked on to that is like bringing one’s critical curmudgeon grandfather always along. The person is truly hysterical, brilliantly critical, and can become an emblem for the wisdom of beautiful suffering. When Gemini-Virgo operate in their strange sync, we have the pervasive obsessive-compulsive side of Mercury married to its beautiful mirth. This person may be known for his or her strange, brilliant way of words, and he or she may be a constant disciple of something or other. Both these signs belie a nature that is not very emotionally open unless extraordinarily relaxed. Otherwise the person speaks in riddles; sex might make him or her laugh out loud or suddenly withdraw. It takes time, for Gemini-Virgos are battling to know themselves and it is hard for them to predict how they will act and when. But they are rarely truly wrong—the decisions they make in life are generally hard and genius. They astound themselves with the portals they open and they will get charged again and again for this exploration. This is the combination of a very early love in my life, someone who was older than I and who seemed to be paving the way to enlightenment. No one made me laugh more. No one seemed more truly wrestling with his soul. Here the Moon is at the waxing first quarter when constant action and adjustment is needed. There is very little true rest. One’s ideals must be physically clawed for and dug out; there is a pressure to be on the move.