Gemini, degree by degree
Each of the thirty degrees of Gemini: its image as Marc Edmund Jones published it in 1953, quoted and credited, and the same image as this house words and draws it. To read the degrees your own planets stood in, cast your Sabian reading.
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Gemini 1 · degree 61 of 360
A glass-bottomed boat in still water Jones, 1953
A boat with a glass floor drifting over still water full of fish ours
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Gemini 2 · degree 62 of 360
Santa Claus filling stockings furtively Jones, 1953
Father Christmas slipping gifts into the stockings while the house sleeps ours
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Gemini 3 · degree 63 of 360
The garden of the Tuileries Jones, 1953
A formal garden of clipped trees around a fountain, as in old Paris ours
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Gemini 4 · degree 64 of 360
Holly and mistletoe Jones, 1953
Sprigs of holly and mistletoe hung up for the season ours
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Gemini 5 · degree 65 of 360
A radical magazine Jones, 1953
A pamphlet with a lightning bolt on its cover, its pages flying ours
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Gemini 6 · degree 66 of 360
Drilling for oil Jones, 1953
An oil derrick, the well just come gushing in ours
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Gemini 7 · degree 67 of 360
An old-fashioned well Jones, 1953
A well with a little roof and a bucket on a rope ours
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Gemini 8 · degree 68 of 360
An industrial strike Jones, 1953
Workers with placards outside a silent factory ours
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Gemini 9 · degree 69 of 360
A quiver filled with arrows Jones, 1953
A quiver packed with arrows ours
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Gemini 10 · degree 70 of 360
An airplane falling Jones, 1953
A plane plunging towards the ground, smoke trailing behind it ours
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Gemini 11 · degree 71 of 360
A new path of realism in experience Jones, 1953
A traveller stepping off the old road onto a new path ours
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Gemini 12 · degree 72 of 360
An enslaved girl saucily asserting herself Jones, 1953, reworded here
A girl standing with her hands on her hips, refusing to be talked down to ours
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Gemini 13 · degree 73 of 360
A great musician at his piano Jones, 1953
A great pianist lost in his playing ours
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Gemini 14 · degree 74 of 360
A conversation by telepathy Jones, 1953
Two people talking without a word, thought passing between them ours
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Gemini 15 · degree 75 of 360
Two Dutch children talking Jones, 1953
Two children chatting in front of a windmill ours
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Gemini 16 · degree 76 of 360
A woman suffragist haranguing Jones, 1953
A woman on a soapbox calling for the vote ours
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Gemini 17 · degree 77 of 360
The head of health dissolved into the head of mentality Jones, 1953
A sturdy face slowly giving way to a thoughtful one ours
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Gemini 18 · degree 78 of 360
Two Chinese men talking Chinese Jones, 1953
Two men deep in talk in their own tongue, not caring who understands ours
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Gemini 19 · degree 79 of 360
A large archaic volume Jones, 1953
A huge old book shut with clasps ours
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Gemini 20 · degree 80 of 360
A cafeteria Jones, 1953
People with trays choosing their food along a counter ours
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Gemini 21 · degree 81 of 360
A labor demonstration Jones, 1953
Workers marching with their banners held high ours
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Gemini 22 · degree 82 of 360
A barn dance Jones, 1953
Couples dancing to a fiddle in a barn ours
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Gemini 23 · degree 83 of 360
Three fledglings in a nest high in a tree Jones, 1953
Three nestlings calling with open beaks from a treetop nest ours
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Gemini 24 · degree 84 of 360
Children skating on ice Jones, 1953
Children gliding on a frozen pond ours
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Gemini 25 · degree 85 of 360
A man trimming palms Jones, 1953
A man up a ladder pruning a palm ours
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Gemini 26 · degree 86 of 360
Winter frost in the woods Jones, 1953
Frost and snow on the pines of a winter wood ours
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Gemini 27 · degree 87 of 360
A Romani traveller coming out of the forest Jones, 1953, reworded here
A wanderer with a bundle walking out from among the trees ours
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Gemini 28 · degree 88 of 360
A man declared bankrupt Jones, 1953
A man turning out his empty pockets ours
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Gemini 29 · degree 89 of 360
The First mockingbird in spring Jones, 1953
The first songbird of spring singing on a blossoming branch ours
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Gemini 30 · degree 90 of 360
Bathing beauties Jones, 1953
Swimmers in bathing costumes posing on the beach ours
Jones’s images are quoted from Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (New York: Sabian Publishing Society, 1953), first printing; public domain in the United States. Ours, and every drawing, are this house’s own, worded and drawn from that text alone.