When the zodiac speaks, it does so in symbols. Sometimes they are bold, somethings cryptic, sometimes clever and sometimes they point out the obvious. The zodiac starts when the Sun is at equinox with the image of a ram, the sign Aries. It continues with the image of a cow or a bull. We must wait fully 60 days into the year until we see the image of a person. When we do, it’s two people, and they are children. The zodiac is so often depicted and the symbols so familiar even in modern industrial society that we take them for granted, kind of like the letters of the alphabet. Yet even the most basic images and how they appear are worth considering. Not one human appears but two; not adults, but children. That they are young makes sense; we’re at the beginning of the zodiac. But why two? Traditional occultism would say it’s a comment on dualism, or how everything in our reality presents itself in the context of its opposite. Mythology of a civilization from which we’re descended says that the twins represent Castor and Pollux — the mortal son and the immortal one, respectively. These represent the (perhaps constructed, perhaps organic) notion that in each person, there is an ego with a transient life and there is a soul with an eternal life. I would propose that the first human image or concept in the zodiac is presented in a pair because it represents self-awareness. It is the human consciousness aware of itself as the other. If you talk to yourself, who is doing the talking and who is doing the listening? When you have the feeling of observing yourself, who exactly is doing that observing, if it’s you? There is a quality of reflexivity to the human mind, and that is Gemini.<\/p>\n
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