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Two vertical strokes joined by a horizontal bar at the top and another at the foot, the shape of the Roman numeral two, the zodiac sign for births between 21 May to 20 June.
Also known as: Gemini, Gemini zodiac sign, Gemini star sign
Gemini is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 21 May to 20 June. Astrology classes it as a air sign of mutable quality ruled by Mercury, and reads the glyph as a pair of twins standing side by side. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Gemini, which tradition assigns to births between 21 May to 20 June. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+264A in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a air sign of mutable quality, ruled by Mercury.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as a pair of twins standing side by side.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
Two vertical strokes joined by a horizontal bar at the top and another at the foot, the shape of the Roman numeral two.
Astrological tradition assigns Mercury as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.