Gemini Rashi

Mithuna connects. Ruled by Budha, it thinks in language, moves between subjects easily, and is happiest where information is being exchanged. Mithuna people are rarely bored and rarely still. The characteristic risk is breadth without depth: many started conversations, several open projects, and a quiet anxiety about which one mattered. When Mithuna commits to a single thing long enough, its range becomes an advantage rather than a scatter.

Mithuna — known in English as Gemini — is the sidereal zodiac sign of the Twins, ruled by Budha (Mercury). It is a air (vayu) rashi of dual (dwisvabhava) quality: in Vedic astrology that pair describes how a sign begins things, holds them, or adapts to them.

In the sidereal zodiac the Sun passes through Mithuna from roughly 15 June to 15 July. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, where Gemini runs from 21 May – 20 June. The two differ by about 24 degrees — the ayanamsa — which is why your Vedic rashi is usually the sign before your Western one.

Mithuna contains Mrigashira (Pada 3–4), Ardra, Punarvasu (Pada 1–3). Each rashi spans 30 degrees and holds two and a quarter nakshatras, so the nakshatra locates a planet far more precisely than the rashi alone, and it is the nakshatra that determines your Vimshottari dasha sequence.

In Indian and Nepali practice your rashi is your Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at your birth, not the Sun. The Moon governs the mind, and it is the Moon's daily transit counted from your rashi that a daily rashifal actually reads.

In traditional matching, Gemini tends to find easy ground with Libra, Aquarius, where the element and the ruling planets agree. Sagittarius asks more work — not incompatibility, but a difference in pace and priority that has to be named rather than assumed. Ashtakoota Gun Milan looks at eight factors and not only the rashi, so treat sign-to-sign compatibility as a first indication rather than a verdict.