The Gemini Oracle

You find yourself lying on a rooftop under the night sky, on the phone with your best chatting buddy, talking about everything and nothing. The stars are out and you’re staring into the cosmos, describing remembered constellations to your friend on the other line. As you gaze up, gabbing away, something different appears in the night. You can’t explain it, but you know you whatever it is has something for you, and you only. Something that is important to you right here, right now.

You tell your friend you have to go, and end the call as two twin orbs of reflecting light emerge from somewhere behind a cloud, carried by two enormous and otherworldly butterfly wings. They descend toward you, sparkling and casting refractions on the rooftop floor, like two disco stars arriving to start the party here on Earth.

You have found The Gemini oracle, and it has a story to share with you today.

The Gemini oracle says:

Your charm is electric. People feel it on the air long before they see you round the corner. You have the gift of gab, a natural silver tongue. You can bend the ear of any audience and snap any room into instant enthralled attention. When you’re around, conversation flows back and forth effortlessly, and people feel more free to laugh, to sigh, to emote, to be themselves in the presence of your endearing wit and endless curiosity. A mic loves to see you coming because it knows you’re going to drop it.

But it goes deeper, too. While you’re telling your next outrageous story or getting the juicy details about a stranger’s wild neighbors, your quick mind is working on knowledge of a different sort as well. Certain layers of truth, certain other sides of the coin, certain dualities of dark and light and all the places they overlap into grey.

You are comfortable with the slippery nature of truth, Gemini, in ways that very few are. It doesn’t bother you that truth is not necessarily constant or clear cut or the same from one person to another or ever just one thing. Actually, you might even prefer it that way because it’s more interesting, there are more multitudes to examine in it, there is more to discuss and to debate and to consider. When your brain moves at the speed of light and your mouth moves almost as fast, the most fun and interest for you is found when you’re exchanging ideas rapid-fire and never running out of things to say.

Those on the outside sees a fun time. Maybe a bit of harmless gossip. Stories told with great intrigue in whispered tones in an atmospheric lounge. But without them ever realizing it, you mirror people back to themselves. They think they’re just dancing in the shiny light of your aura, and that’s true - they are doing that. And they’re also simultaneously experiencing the endless mirrored pieces that are you, and that are in them as well.

Some who are more, shall we say, one-dimensional in their approach to life may claim that you switch up on them. You were one way yesterday, why are you this way today - that kind of thing. When all they are seeing is a new part of your brilliantly shifting prism as you turn it this way and that at your own will and whim, examining all its facets, never accepting only one side, always looking for both the light source and its refraction.

Do you contradict yourself? Perhaps at times. But okay then, so you contradict yourself. You are large, you contain multitudes. So says Walt Whitman, and he would know: He was a Gemini, too.

You’re the one who shows up with a bottle of something bubbly, gets the chat going and the laughter flowing, and then casually drops the most seriously deep and thought-provoking sentence people around you have heard all year. They stare at you speechless while you smile, pour yourself another glass, and say: So anyway. And ask after their favorite cousin or their new cat or their cute colleague. Because it is all casual to you. And at the same time, it’s all deep to you. In your world, those two things aren’t opposites - they are two evenly balanced poles that create a cohesive picture and endlessly fascinating whole.

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About the Artist
Bailey Lewis is an experiential storytelling artist (MFA, University of South Carolina) who combines words, images, and reimagined materials to create intuitive story experiences. Her art has been exhibited and published internationally, and she is the author of award-winning stories which have been featured in The Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. 

Visit the Bailey Sends Word Story Studio site to see more of Bailey’s work.