Mercury in Gemini
What Mercury in Gemini means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Mercury is actually in Gemini.
The sign: Gemini
- Element
- Air
- Modality
- Mutable
- Polarity
- Yang: outward, active
- Ruler
- Mercury
Essential dignity
Mercury rules Gemini. This is its home sign, or domicile, where the tradition sees it working most freely and most in character.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When Mercury is in Gemini
Every stay of Mercury in Gemini from a year ago to two years ahead. Retrograde motion can split one stay in two.
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| May 17, 2026, 10:26 | Jun 1, 2026, 11:55 |
| May 9, 2027, 01:58 | May 28, 2027, 17:07 |
| Jun 26, 2027, 07:23 | Jul 12, 2027, 13:45 |
| May 1, 2028, 01:42 | Jul 9, 2028, 01:36 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
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How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.