classic Gemini * click image for more information *
Hey Gem!
You know what I love about your constellation? All the other constellations are so interpretive. Try as I might to connect the dots, I still don’t come up with, say, a lion or a ram. But your constellation is different. It looks like what it is, star twins — two adorable stick figures holding hands. Cute too, don’t you think?
You're so cute!
I once heard a story about these two Greek twins — Castor and Pollux. Well, I guess they weren’t exactly real twins because they shared the same mother, but had two different fathers. One was fathered by a swan (wha?? I know. This was actually the incorrigible Zeus doing another one of his pervy bestial impersonations, but that’s another story) and the other was fathered by a handsome, mortal guy. And these brothers were so close. They loved, loved, loved! each other. One never went anywhere without the other.
Castor and Pollux were also very successful and popular (think Mary-Kate and Ashley, only with penises and without rehab.) Side by side they date women, fight the Trojan War, and get rich and famous… until one horrible day when Castor, the mortal brother, does as mortals are known to do — he dies.
Pollux is lost. Utterly lost. Overwrought with grief over the knowledge that he’s doomed to live eternally without his bitchin’ other half. He knows he’ll never get over the hell of it. Finally his god-father takes pitty on him and changes all of the rules. (It’s good to have an all-powerful god in the family.)
Zeus tosses the two brothers up into the heavens, where they remain immortally connected.*
You may be wondering, what does this story have to do with me? and clearly the answer is, not much.
Unless of course you also happen to be a charming, popular adventurer who is fiercely loyal and loving to such a degree that the gods have been known to change all of the rules just to suit you. Come to think of it, that sounds exactly like you. :)
Well, I wanted you to know — I’m a fan.
Cosmically yours,
Holiday
*Retelling of a story from Rock Your Stars, the Astrological Guide to Getting it All by Holiday Mathis
