My Birthday falls on 19th June every year. I am a GEMINI- 'The Twins'.
'June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days remaining until the end of the year.'
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'Gemini (Gem-en-i.e.) (♊) is the third astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Gemini. In western astrology, this sign is no longer aligned with the constellation as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. In astrology, Gemini is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. Perhaps the most dominant Geminian characteristic is versatility. It is also considered an air sign, and is one of four mutable signs.[4] Gemini has been closely associated with the planet Mercury and is considered to be ruled by it. Being the third sign of the zodiac, Gemini has been associated with the astrological third house.
Gemini were twin brothers in Greek mythology and collectively known as the Dioskouroi. They were the sons of Leda by Tyndareus and Zeus respectively, the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, They are known collectively in Greek as the Dioscuri (Greek: Διόσκουροι, Dioskouroi) "sons of Zeus"
Individuals born when the Sun was in this sign are considered Gemini individuals. Under the tropical (western) zodiac, Sun is in the sign of Gemini roughly from May 21 to June 20, ending at the moment of summer solstice by definition. Under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently there roughly from June 15 to July 15. The Sanskrit name of Gemini in Hindu astrology is Mithuna.'
Gemini! About My Sign...
Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. They take up new activities enthusiastically but lack application, constantly needing new interests, flitting from project to project as apparently purposelessly as a butterfly dancing from flower to flower. To them life is a game which must always be full of fresh moves and continuous entertainment, free of labor and routine. Changing horses in the middle of the stream is another small quirk in the Gemini personality which makes decision making, and sticking to a decision, particularly hard for them.
Since they lack the quality of conscientiousness, they are apt to fight a losing battle in any attempts they make to be moral (in the widest sense of the word). Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. They quickly learn to use their outward attractiveness to gain their own ends, and when striving for these they will use any weapon in their armory - unscrupulous lying, and cunning evasiveness; escaping blame by contriving to put it on other people, wrapped up in all the charm they can turn on. In their better moments they may strive to be honest and straightforward, but self-interest is almost always the victor. If things go against them, they sulk like children. Also like children, they demand attention, admiration, and the spending on them of time, energy and money, throwing tantrums if they don't get what they want. They reflect every change in their surroundings, like chameleons, and can become pessimistic, sullen, peevish and materialistically self-centered if circumstances force them to struggle in any way. If the conditions of life become really adverse, their strength of will may desert them entirely. They can become uncertain of themselves, either withdrawn, or nervously excitable worriers, sullenly discontented, hard and irritable, with "Self" looming ever larger in their struggles. On the other hand their versatility can make them very adaptable, adjusting themselves to control the world around them by means of their inherent ingenuity and cleverness
Most Gemini have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and they love cerebral challenges. But their concentration, though intense for a while, does not last. Their mental agility and energy give them a voracious appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike the labor of learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and mental dexterity, and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical and sometimes gives them so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and find it hard to make decisions. But their intelligence may very well be used to control and unify the duality of their natures into a most efficient unit. If faced with difficulties, they have little determination to worry at a problem until they find a solution - they will pick the brains of others. In their intellectual pursuits, as in other departments of their lives, they risk becoming dilettantes, losing themselves in too many projects which they follow until they become difficult.
In love they are fickle, not intentionally so but because of the basic inconsistency of their emotional nature, which has an amoral aspect to it. Their is a side to Geminians which can become deeply involved emotionally, and another, hostile to sentimentality, which stands back from a romantic situation, laughing at it and the protagonists in it, including themselves while analyzing it intellectually. Gemini subjects take nothing seriously. So, in love, in spite of their temporary depth of feeling, for the intensity of involvement lasts only while it is new, they are superficial, light-hearted, cool, flirtatious and unimaginative in the understanding of the pain they may give others. They like intrigue, the excitement of the chase, but once they have caught the prey, they lose interest and look around for the next creature to pursue. In less serious situations they make witty, entertaining companions, good acquaintances rather than friends. Even at their worst they are never dull - there is usually playfulness below the surface, and they can be brilliant conversationalists - but they can also be quarrelsome, prattlers, boasters, liars and cheats.
Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. In business any work which combines quick-wittedness with a change of surroundings suits them; working as a traveling salesperson, brokerage work, or dealing with the public in any capacity is right up their alley. Because they are dispassionate, logical, rational and analytical they make good scientists, especially in the fields of medicine and astronomy. They can also make excellent members of the Armed Forces, for they take danger no more seriously than anything else and can earn themselves a reputation for devotion to duty and heroic acts. In the arts they may excel in music, painting and sculpture. They make good psychic researchers of a sceptical kind. Negatively they can degenerate into confidence tricksters, thieves and even adepts in the black arts.
Traditional Gemini traits
Adaptable and versatile
Communicative and witty
Intellectual and eloquent
Youthful and lively
On The Dark Side.....
Nervous and tense
Superficial and inconsistent
Cunning and inquisitive
QUOTATIONS
I would like to share interesting quotations from people who were born or died on 19th June taken from various sources in the internet.
BORN ON 19 JUNE
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." Blaise Pascal
(06/19/1623 – 08/19/1662)
French mathematician
"The anvil is not afraid of the hammer." Charles H. Spurgeon
(06/19/1834 – 01/31/1892)
English clergy
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 – 05/07/1915)
US writer
"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you." Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856 – 01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent
"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him." Earl Douglas Haig
(06/19/1861 – 01/29/1928)
Scottish military
"You knuckleheads!" Moe Howard
(06/19/1897 – 05/04/1975)
US stooge (Also see Larry Fine, Curly Howard)
"If you have integrity—nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity—nothing else matters." Evelle J. Younger
(06/19/1918 – 05/04/1989)
US attorney general (CA)
"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'" Pauline Kael
(06/19/1919 – 09/03/2001)
US (Petaluma, CA-born) film critic
"[The Libyan Army] is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." Muammar al-Gaddafi
(06/19/1942 – )
Libyan military, political leader
"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now." Salman Rushdie
(06/19/1947 – )
Indian-English writer
"Things can always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office." Adrienne Gusoff
(06/19/1953 – )
US telegram
"I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay." Kathleen Turner
(06/19/1954 – )
US actor
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men." John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834 – 06/19/1902)
English historian
DIED ON 19 JUNE
"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate." Thomas John Watson, Jr.
(02/17/1874 – 06/19/1956)
US businessman (IBM president)
"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it." Ed Wynn
(11/09/1886 – 06/19/1966)
US actor
"Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?" William Golding
(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer
"We shall never be content until man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself." Jerome K. Jerome
(05/02/1859 – 06/19/1927)
English writer
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life." Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)
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