The Vanishing Point: Gemini and the Boundaries of Perspective
The line of the horizon marks the end of our perception. It’s a literal vanishing point, the boundary of our established experience. In recent centuries we understand that this is more optical illusion than geographic fact: the world is not flat, and there is no point where we — or our experience — drop off the face of the Earth. The Earth is round. Sometimes advancement is circular.
Gemini was the patron constellation of those who bravely pursued the horizon. Its appearance in the sky heralded the stormy season, a physical representation of the restlessness that stirred within. Polarity was once a well-known fact. Our knowledge of the world was based on explorations of opposing forces, seeking information about one in the other: earth and sky, god and mortal, past and future. We understood that each had strengths and weaknesses which informed our understanding of the other and often, each could be found in its opposing heart. In the end, duality and non-duality may be another expression of this polarity, each containing the concept of the other as an equal and opposite truth. Astrology can be viewed as a journey with each sign bringing new development to the seeker, itself an exploration in opposing perspectives and values. In no sign is this clearer than Gemini.
