Every zodiac sign has meaning that goes beyond the superficial. Gemini is words then to language then to language between two people or twins. Words become conversation and communication. And then community. Gemini is the Mother Tongue. Worship of the Goddess, the counterpart of Sagittarius. Dione to Dios. The oracle.
Mount Athos in Greece is a monastic community dedicated to the worship of the goddess. On Athos, the goddess is Mary, the mother of god. Monasteries are liminal places and can be examined as the 6th house. There in the Axion Esti horoscope, the monasteries of Mount Athos reside in the 6th house connected to the transitting north and south node. The karmic path. Mount Athos only allows men on the peninsula. Mary is the only woman allowed. That night a monk called Gabriel came to the famous disciple monk and chanted a new and unknown verse to the hymn honoring Mary. Then the icon depicting Mary holding the Christ child brightened and glowed. Gabriel wrote the new verse on a roof tile with his finger. The icon and hymn now lie at the center of the thousand year old goddess worship on Athos.
Goddess worship happens in the 3rd house and there we find the disciple (Gemini Sun), the angel (asteroid Gemini Angel) and the hymn (Gemini Mercury). They stand in front of the 26° Gemini Vesta on the Sabian symbol “frost covered trees against winter skies”. There in the dim, gray day we see trees lit as from within. The icon glowing. This famous icon comes from the depths to the Mount Athos community made from a Sun – Vesta conjunction. Out of the Piscean ocean, the depiction of the goddess as Mary becomes the means by which her worship can continue in a Christian context. There hidden in an out of the way corner the continuing ancient worship of the goddess that was being decimated by the Christian religion everywhere is established.
The Astrological T-Square of Pisces, Gemini & Sagittarius
The goddess prefers her worship as the abstract messages of language. Unlike the Sagittarian God need for experiences, the Gemini Goddess needs abstract understanding. The astrological T-square of Pisces to Gemini and Sagittarius results in the words of the Christian Bible’s James 2:17 Faith (Pisces) by itself, if it is not accompanied by action (Sagittarius), is dead (Scorpio). Such Sagittarian complaining and in the followup scripture boasting. Discounting the Gemini words used to express Piscean faith. In Sagittarius eyes, professing faith is unnecessary but there are many in the world who take good action that don’t profess the Christian faith. It is not one or the other, it is both.
The goddess creates understanding of the future through her use of words and language. She is layered meaning. She is nuance. She transcends current truth to find predictive analysis. Her personification on earth, women, as children have a greater faculty for language connecting words to abstract portions of their brains while male children use different parts of their brains to understand language. In the heart of Christianity, especially its focus on bringing literacy to man, this newfangled but now old religion carried the goddess forward.
Today, the monks of Athos carry their silver icon outside their monastic precincts so that some may experience their community. All over the Orthodox world, the Axion Esti hymn is sung so that many may hear the goddess Mary’s experience.