Jupiter in Gemini

The appetite is for knowing things. Someone with this placement reads three books at once, keeps up four correspondences, and can hold a decent conversation with almost anyone about almost anything within four minutes of meeting them. Their luck arrives through people and through hearing something first: the job that came from a chance remark, the introduction made at a party. Networks form around them without effort. They are the person others call when they need to be put in touch with somebody.

The difficulty is depth. Wide grazing suits them so well that the long unglamorous study, the second and third year of a hard subject, tends to get skipped in favour of a fresh field. They can summarize a discipline they have not practised and are usually the last to notice the difference. Curiosity is the genuine gift and it is undermined by its own speed; the belief quietly forming underneath is that everything worth knowing can be got quickly, which is not true of anything that matters.

What they teach is agility of mind, and they teach it constantly, often by talking. Generosity here comes as information freely given away, introductions made without payment, explanations offered to anyone who asks. It is real generosity even though it costs them little. The mature form of this placement is the person who has finally committed to one subject long enough to be genuinely expert, and who then uses all that connective quickness to make the difficult thing plain to everybody else.