Gemini as a friend

Gemini’s make much better friends than they do lovers. Friendships are less restricting than love-affairs. Geminis are likely to have millions of mates mooching about, culled from all walks of life, and will be just as chummy with a politician as a painter, an architect as an aardvark expert.

But all those friends, no matter how old or young they are. must have one thing in common. They must be bright, breezy and bursting with brilliant brainwaves, because Gemini’s will cast aside the dozy, depressing dullards in the twinkling of an eye. They can be very sympathetic if a friend is feeling under the weather, or down in the dumps, but you won’t catch them saying ‘Oh, you poor thing’ for long. If a Gemini knows people who are naturally miserable, they’ll be way down their Christmas card list if they don’t actually fall off it altogether. Loyalty is not one of their shining virtues, I’m afraid.

A Gemini’s idea of a fun friend is one who rings the doorbell on a sunny Saturday morning and suggests an expedition to Exeter, to see if the cathedral has fallen down yet, traipsing off on a trek to see if there really is a town called Timbuktu, or popping off on a plane to Paris.

They absolutely adore adventures and like to have a companion to take along on a trip. The Gemini’s idea of adventure can be anything from capering off to a crochet class together to skipping off to do something slightly shady, at which point the pal will become a partner in crime. They love doing things that are rather risqué, niftily naughty, or absolutely against the law. But unless they have a severely afflicted natal chart, they aren’t out-and-out lawbreakers. Gemini’s just love new ventures, like Noddy and Big Ears.

Geminis are always going off at new tangents, or on new levels even if geometry wasn’t their best subject at school! One of the best points about a Gemini is that he or she is very receptive to new ideas and will go in any direction a friend suggests. Who knows where it will lead?

Predictability breeds contempt for a typical Twin. Geminis like their friends, as well as their lovers, to keep them mentally alert, and physically on their toes. Tennis is one of their favourite games, and if you have a ferocious forehand, and your Mercurial mate has a vicious volley, you’re in clover.

The Gemini ideas of bliss is to browse in a bookshop, new or second-hand. A pea-feet place for all book loving Gemini’s must be Hay-on-Wye which is bursting with bookshops. The Twin could go there for a day trip with a chum and end up spending the weekend! There are so many shops to see.

Geminis don’t like buddies they can boss around, as they need to respect their pals rather than dominate them, and what they will most like in a mate is the mind. If they can find someone who echoes their vitality, versatility and variety, they will have found a true star-mate.