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Gemini zodiac sign: dates, traits, love and career

Gemini runs from 21 May to 20 June. It is a mutable air sign ruled by Mercury.

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Gemini closes the spring season and is the first air sign. People born under Gemini are often lively, curious and good with words, and they like to have more than one thing going at once.

Gemini at a glance

Dates	21 May to 20 June (a day either way, by year)
Symbol	♊︎ The twins
Place in the zodiac	3 of 12
Element	Air
Modality	Mutable
Ruling planet	Mercury
Polarity	Positive (outgoing; called masculine in older texts)
Opposite sign	Sagittarius
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The dates follow the Western (tropical) zodiac. The Sun changes sign at a different hour each year, so if you were born around 21 May or 20 June, the exact sign depends on your birth year, time and place.

Gemini traits and nature

In short: Gemini people are usually curious, talkative and quick to learn. Their challenge is to stay with one subject long enough to go deep.

Gemini people usually pick up new subjects fast and enjoy talking them through. They notice details in conversation, change their minds when the facts change, and get bored by repetition.

The twins of the symbol are often read as two sides: a social, playful side and a restless, questioning one. Both are real, and people close to them learn to meet each side in turn.

Strengths

Quick learning
Wit and humour
Easy with people of every kind
Adaptable
Good at explaining things

Things to watch

Scattered attention
Restlessness
Saying yes to too much
Avoiding deep feelings by talking around them

Element, modality and ruling planet

Gemini is an air sign. Air signs are commonly linked with ideas, conversation and people. The other air signs are Libra and Aquarius.

It is a mutable sign. Mutable signs close each season and are said to adapt and pass things on. The other mutable signs are Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.

Its ruling planet is Mercury, on which traditional and modern Western astrology agree. Its opposite sign is Sagittarius, often read as its complement.

Gemini in love and compatibility

In love Gemini looks for a friend first: someone to talk with, laugh with and learn with. They need variety and space, and they show care by staying in touch. A partner who is curious and does not cling usually suits them.

The table reads the match with all 12 signs by a common rule: the same element and complementary elements (fire with air, earth with water) read as easy, signs a square apart as tense, and signs that share nothing as mixed.

With	Element	Aspect	Reading	Why
Aries	Fire	Sextile	Easy	Complementary elements: friendly and easy going.
Taurus	Earth	Neighbour	Mixed	Different element and modality: little in common at first, can grow with effort.
Gemini	Air	Same sign	Easy	Same element and outlook: easy to understand each other, and the same blind spots.
Cancer	Water	Neighbour	Mixed	Different element and modality: little in common at first, can grow with effort.
Leo	Fire	Sextile	Easy	Complementary elements: friendly and easy going.
Virgo	Earth	Square	Tense	Same modality, clashing elements: friction that needs patience.
Libra	Air	Trine	Easy	Same element: natural understanding.
Scorpio	Water	Quincunx	Mixed	Nothing shared: needs adjustment on both sides.
Sagittarius	Fire	Opposite	Mixed	Complementary elements, same modality: a strong pull that needs give and take.
Capricorn	Earth	Quincunx	Mixed	Nothing shared: needs adjustment on both sides.
Aquarius	Air	Trine	Easy	Same element: natural understanding.
Pisces	Water	Square	Tense	Same modality, clashing elements: friction that needs patience.

This is a general guide from the sun signs alone. How two people get on shows in their full birth charts; in India, marriage matching uses the Moon sign and nakshatra in Kundli milan. Kundli matching by date of birth · Love calculator

Gemini career themes

Fields commonly linked with Gemini: Media and writing, Teaching, Sales and marketing, Travel and tourism, Communications, Translation.

These are tendencies of the sun sign as commonly described, not predictions. Your rising sign, Moon and the other planets shape each person far more than the sun sign alone.

Western Gemini and the Vedic sign

Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, tied to the seasons: Aries always begins at the March equinox. Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, tied to the stars, which now sits about 24° behind (the Lahiri ayanamsa). That is why most people’s Vedic sun sign is the sign before their Western one.

In 2026 the Sun enters sidereal Mithuna rashi on 15 June. So of the people born 21 May to 20 June, those born 21 May to 14 June have the Sun in Vrishabha (Taurus) in Vedic astrology, and those born 15 June to 20 June have it in Mithuna. These are the Sankranti dates.

Your Indian rashi (janma rashi) is a third thing: the sign the Moon was in at your birth. The Moon changes sign about every two and a quarter days, so it needs your date, time and place of birth: use the rashi calculator.

Questions about Gemini

What are the Gemini dates?

21 May to 20 June. The Sun changes sign at a different hour each year, so the first and last day can shift by a day. If you were born on one of those days, check with the zodiac sign calculator.

What is the ruling planet of Gemini?

Mercury. Traditional and modern Western astrology agree on it.

Which signs are compatible with Gemini?

By the common element and modality rule, Aries, Leo, Libra and Aquarius read as easy matches for Gemini, and Virgo and Pisces as tense. It is a general guide: a real match is seen from both full birth charts.

What are Gemini traits?

Strengths commonly given for people born under Gemini: quick learning, wit and humour and easy with people of every kind. Things they are often told to watch: scattered attention and restlessness. These are tendencies of the sun sign, not certainties.

Is Gemini the same as Mithuna rashi?

No. Gemini is the Sun's sign in the Western tropical zodiac. In Indian astrology your rashi is the Moon's sign at birth in the sidereal zodiac, and it can be any of the twelve. Find it with the rashi calculator.

What is a Gemini's sun sign in Vedic astrology?

The sidereal zodiac sits about 24° behind, so in 2026 people born 21 May to 14 June have the Sun in Vrishabha (Taurus) in Vedic astrology, and those born 15 June to 20 June have it in Mithuna.