Ruler: Mercury
Nature: masculine
Quality: mutable
Element: air, mental
Symbol: the twins
Keywords: thought, communication, versatility, adaptability
Principle: interaction
Destiny: through knowledge, Gemini understands the motive. Wisdom
Sign Tarot: The Lovers
Planet Tarot: The Magician
Expectation: diversity, motion in environment
Imperative: to test, satisfy curiosity
Gift: pleasure in discovery
Challenge: expansion, stretching
Difficulty: coping with mistakes
Need: forgiveness
Body parts: nerves, shoulders, lungs, arms, hands
Foods: vegetables that grow above the soil, nuts
Colours: yellow, greys
Flowers: maidenhair, lavender, fern, camellia, lily of the valley
Herbs: marjoram, caraway, anise
Metal: quicksilver (mercury)
Gem: agate
Animals: sugar glider, parrot, butterfly, monkey
Countries: USA, Wales, Switzerland
Cities: London, Melbourne, San Francisco
Cyclic Parallels >>
Human Life: toddler
Moon: first quarter, waxing
Day: late morning
Plant Life: leaf growth
Associations >>
Expectation: diversity, motion in environment
Imperative: to test, satisfy curiosity
Gift: pleasure in discovery
Difficulty: expansion, stretching
Need: forgiveness
Challenge: expansion, stretching

Source: http://www.groundedheavens.com
( Astrological Diary Australia )

Messenger of the gods, god of science and commerce, known to the Greeks as Hermes. As Hermes, he is one of a number of suspects of being the father of Cupid, along with Zeus (Jupiter) and Ares (Mars). Son of Jupiter.

Mercury has come to inherit two personalities -- Hermes the messenger and trickster is the Gemini expression of Mercury; Thoth, the Egyptian deity whose task was to order the workings of the universe is the Virgo expression.

His winged caduceus has the power of resolving conflict and dispute. To the Hindus, Mercury is known as Ganesh, the elephant-headed son of Shiva. He removes obstacles and bestows wisdom, and so is often invoked at the beginning of books.
Ganesh gained his elephant head as a result of a dispute. Parvati, his mother, told him to guard the door while she had a bath. He tried to do so even against Shiva, who beheaded him. Parvati was so upset that Shiva grabbed the first head to hand to replace the missing one. Ganesh later lost a tusk defending the sleeping Shiva against "Rama with the axe". Opposing entrance, he yet willingly sustained the blow once he recognised that the axe Rama wielded was his father's.

Hermes' winged sandals helped him steal the cattle belonging to his half-brother, Apollo. As recompense, he gave Apollo his invention, the lyre. Roman patron of travellers, merchants and thieves, his festival, the Mercuralia, was held in Rome in May.

Mercury is perceptive, versatile and argumentative. He gets his message across. Can be nervous and tense in some expressions of his personality.