Image of Oliver Sim taken from https://www.anothermanmag.com/life-culture/9894/cover-story-oliver-sim-on-stardom-style-and-sobriety

There’s just something about Gemini Suns that makes them so damn photogenic. So, it’s Gemini season and this article is mainly a reason for me to fan-girl over two Gemini celebrities I like. Aside from this, I hope to also hook you in and get you to look into conducting an astrological birth-chart reading for yourself or those whom you may be interested in. I guess we’ll do a two-in-one today, which fits with the topic at hand, the inner duality of a Gemini Sun.

Gemini Sun British singer Morrisey famously crooned: “I am the son, I am the heir / Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / Of nothing in particular“. In addition, French existentialist philosopher and notorious Gemini Sun, Jean Paul Sartre affirmed: If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. More recently, the British singer Billie Marten (a Gemini Sun herself) sings in ‘Mice‘ that “I can do things no human can do/ I can doubt myself and then I’ll doubt you” and to me these lines speak a lot about the inner duality inside of a Gemini personality, a complex mind who understands life as a game of trial and error (and some really funny moments).

In religious lore, a Geminian mind is usually associated with the Doubting Thomas, a man who allegedly rejected the resurrection of Christ until he was able to actually touch the martyr’s crucifixion wounds. More generally speaking, a Gemini is a person who displays signs of being a strong believer in something (since their shadow zone is Sagittarius aka the prophet), while simultaneously doubting themselves and everyone around them. Paradoxically, it is the act of doubting that strengthens their determination to uphold a value, belief or specific mindset.

Gemini energy is contradictory. A Gemini is that person who sulks in a class photo of beaming smiles, or that one who smirks at a funeral as everyone is bawling their eyes out. Often they do it just because it feels right to be different, at other times they do it to balance out the room, and most often than not, they do it for attention, to bring some sort of light-hearted, erratic energy into an otherwise organized, material existence. Most of the people I know, have met at least one Gemini in their lives who got on their nerves or they just struggled to understand. These people were also given some important information from the same Gemini that got their partner to reply to their text calls, landed them a job interview or set them free from a certain doubt or worry they were entertaining for ages. I guess the gift of Gemini energy is always pendulating in the in-between, that space from which humor creativity and truly brilliant ideas have a stubborn tendency to emerge. Although, you might find it hard to trust a Gemini, you have to admit their deadpan delivery and adolescent love of life, has a certain stroke of genius about it and ends up coloring reality in something lighter and brighter in the end. After all, it was Gemini Sun painter Egon Schiele who said: “All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me… I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me“.

Gemini energy is overtly self-obsessed, this is why they make such great friends with Scorpio Suns. It is the energy of the God Odin in Norse mythology, the intense seeker of knowledge, the deity willing to sacrifice an eye in order to merge with the Tree of Life and sip from the fountain of knowledge. It is said his sacrifice gave us all the wisdom of the magical runes. In other mythological stories, Geminis appear as the Greek twins Castor and Polux, which today represent some of the stars in the Gemini constellation. However, Geminis are normally thought to be disciples of Hermes Trismegistus or his Roman equivalent, the God Mercury. Mercury’s alter ego in Egyptian lore was the wise God Thoth, the scribe of the hymns and poems dedicated to the Ennead. Have I lost you yet? Taking a deep dive into the world of facts is in itself, a daily Gemini preoccupation. But let’s turn our attention now to the two men I selected for this month’s birth-chart analyses.

Let’s start of first with Oliver Sim, one of the lead singers & bassist of the alternative British rock band The XX. Oliver is known for his incredible low and intimate, bass voice. If you need a sample try this live session of this BBC Philarmonic session, in which Jamie, Romy and Oly play for the public and always end up making me weep and feel dreamy; or you may want to listen to the songs Fiction or GMT, two pieces which I think illustrate so beautifully Oliver’s vocal range. Say what you want about how he looks, but this man can sing! And not in the oh-I’m-a-pop-star-look-at-me kind of way, but in a way in which when he open his mouth something also awakens in the soul of the listener. And there are some astrological blessings in his chart which show a propensity for Oliver to develop as an artist due to his innate talent. Let’s have a look at his chart:

Image of the birth-chart of Oliver Sim

Oliver has a Sun in Gemini conjunct Mercury in the 10th house (the house of Capricorn), a Moon in Pisces in the 6th house (the house of Virgo) and an Ascendant in Virgo. His Venus is in Taurus in the lucky but restless 9th house, while his Mars is in brave Aries but in the darkest house of the zodiac the 8th. It’s interesting to see his Pluto enshrouds his communicative 3rd house (a placement he shares in common with Humphrey Bogart, but in a different sign), while his Capricorn stellium composed of Uranus, Neptune and Saturn is spread across his 4th and 5th houses.

In contrast, Louis Garrel is a French actor of international appeal known for having played in La Belle Personne, Godard, Mon Amour. He also had a cameo in Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires) but he rose to stardom when he appeared alongside Michael Pitt and Eva Green in Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers” at the beginning of the 2000s and more recently in Little Women, the Timothee Chalamet edition 🙂 Louis is a man with Greek perfection physical proportions, also known for his famous filmographer father (Philippe Garrel), his famous model wife (Laetitia Casta, who is 6 years older than him) and his rather strange opinions:

Image of the birth-chart of Louis Garrel

Louis has a Sun in Gemini in the 1st house (the house of Aries) conjunct his Mars, Ascendant and North Node and a Moon in Leo in the 4th house (conjunct Venus). That’s a lot of Air and it’s heated up by a stable Fire Moon! Moreover, his chart is anchored by an almost perfect conjunction between Pluto and Saturn retrograde in Libra in the 5th house, and an additional conjunction between Uranus and Jupiter in Sagittarius in the 7th house (loosely followed by Neptune too). His Mercury placement is especially interesting as it is placed at the final anaretic degree (the 29th) in the final house of the zodiac (the 12th house). Louis is certainly completing the development of his mental abilities in this incarnation and he might very well reincarnate as a wave of energy or some bizare thought-form in his next cosmic adventure, judging by the intense mental energies and karmic wrap ups which are present in his chart.

So Oliver has more Earth and Water energies which add a certain softens and dependability to his Air-marked solar energy, but it also gives him a higher emotionality and a heavier karma. While Louis has more fire in his chart which gives him a lot of confidence, a sexy physicality and a super-star allure. Oliver has recently come out to discuss his battle with HIV/AIDS since he was 17, his turn to alcohol to work out emotional issues related to his identity and his awesome solo album and movie ‘Hideous’ which helped hi process through such dark feelings. While Louis seems to have increased his family by one, after getting secretly married to Laetitia Cast, a famous beauty in France and who has amazing chemistry with him in their charts (they have a powerful double whammy in their charts due to their Venus-Mars placements, which often indicates a strong attraction between people).

Full disclosure, as hot as Louis objectively is, I would much rather have a heart-to-heart and a cup of coffee with Oly, who is consistently challenged by life in order to fully embody and rise into his stoic Sun in the 10th house placement. I just think that our conversations will be more interesting and I always had a ‘thing’ for soulful, gay men. On the other hand, I don’t see myself doing much talking with Louis, if you know what I mean 🙂 Which of the two (or should I say 4, since we have 2 Gemini couples) would you prefer to hang out with? Let me know down in the comments section.

With universal love,

Lexi