Look to the stars to find out your dream career (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
When you’re thinking about your future career options and trajectory, why not consult the traits and realities of your star sign?
After all, it might steer you in the direction of the work destiny tailor-made to suit you and your strengths.
Astrology can also help you reveal weaknesses you may have missed, allowing you to deal with what’s holding you back and open yourself up to new opportunities.
Gemini, step this way for some cosmic career advice, so you can harness your unique zodiac energy for success.
Gemini career strengths to build on
An Air sign ruled by Mercury, you are all savviness, speed, cleverness and curiosity. You are a natural creative, ideas flow so easily. Communication is your super power and you can sell your ideas and opinions expertly (even if they do change a nano-second later…). You get what it takes to make a winning pitch. You are a great entrepreneur.
You enjoy learning, exploring, discovering new ideas, being open-minded, finding out about different cultures or countries or theories. You are adaptable and curious. You absorb new information super fast and can mix and match it with what’s already in the ‘brain tank’ to create innovative and inventive ideas.
Naturally social, charming, and friendly, you are great with people and enjoy roles which bring opportunities to persuade, influence, teach, cajole, and mingle.
You are so naturally versatile that you might find yourself enjoying a portfolio of work vs one big role. Geminis can spin several different plates and keep muliple projects on the go at the same time, more easily than any other sign (and will enjoy doing it, variety is important).
You love travel, education, business, news and gossip, and sharing what you know in interesting, engaging ways. People are drawn to your bright light.
Gemini is depicted in astrology as the twins (Picture: Getty Images)
Gemini career flaws to mitigate
Geminis get a bad rap as being fickle or even two-faced. This is a little unfair and can maybe be explained by your speedy assimilation of new information. When you receive new data that changes your opinion, you adapt immediately. This can look fickle. But you do need to stay out of office gossip and skullduggery.
You throw yourself into things with 100% gusto and go hard, full on, and with total concentration. But you’re not the strongest of signs physically, you don’t have the stamina of, say, a Taurus or Capricorn. So, trying to measure out and pace your energy and input is vital. Take it steady.
You can’t bear being bossed about, restricted, confined to one thing. You are a freedom seeker and an independent thinker. You won’t do well in places which are extremely hierarchical, or where the tasks are routine and repetitive.
Ideal job roles for a Gemini
Fiction, journalism, PR, linguist, marketing, politics, speech writing, translation, script-writing, presenting – anything linked to communications, given your love of words, is an excellent field for Gemini.
Information. You hunger for new news, absorb information readily, and can assimilate complex ideas easily and share them simply. Research and teaching both appeal on this level.
Entrepreneurial ventures. You are a natural innovator and self-starter so you’re never going to run short of ideas to sell and the proactive energy to make them work.
Promotions. You love being social and hosting great events or gatherings, you’re a natural organiser with an eye for what will make people want to turn up and be involved.
Roles where your sociable nature will be put to good use should suit you (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Gemini as a manager
You are an inspiring and energetic boss who loves to be in the thick of things, especially in creative or imaginative tasks. You’re more than happy to delegate, with full autonomy, the things you’re less interested in (the admin, the attention-to-detail stuff).
You might struggle, sometimes, to be taken totally seriously or exert authority because you’re naturally social, friendly, and might cross lines when it comes to boss/employee dynamics. Don’t get too relaxed!
You will be super keen for your staff to receive education, career development, and inspiration to become the best versions of themselves. You will love creating a fun, happy, and creative environment. Your workplace will be a place people want to be.
Gemini in self-employment
Entrepreneurship attracts Geminis because of your innate desire to be independent, off the leash, and doing things your way on your own terms. You are not scared of a blank piece of paper, so you can make something from nothing – in fact, it’s a super power.
Your propensity to be creative, inventive, and influential creates a great trio of powers to make you a highly successful self starter. You can build empires. You can create enviable businesses.
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