Please tell me you're not Gemini, Ferret?...
From your profile, I gather that you're a Capricorn - a good enough reason why we don't exactly get a long very often.
What is your moon, though?
I found that the Moon can be a much greater influence in people's lives than the Sun. I don't usually depend on Venus much since I would have to be really close the person to know or comprehend their sign in this planet. The 4 that I always go back to are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, and Mars.
My favorite is Mercury because it outlines their thought processes and the manner in which they think or not think (if they think at all, even: looks at the pragmatic Earth signs.
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Element: Air (flighty, chilly, cold, ditached...almost invisible...)
Ascendant: Leo (self-centered, mythological, passionate...)
Sun: Aquarius. (idealistic, in love with theories and ideologies, obsessed with his/her individuality, eccentric, different...)
Moon: Capricorn. (ambitious for worldy wealth and status, sensual, conservative...)
Mercury: Scorpio. (plotting, dark, mysterious, sniffs lies and half-truths miles away, very in touch with his/her dark side, also empathic...)
Venus: Pisces (the most Romantic, and thus wishy washy combination in the Zodiac)
Mars: Pisces (You tell me...)
Aquarius Sun/Scorpio Mercury is said to be the combination of the mad genius.
My best friend, who is Gemini Sun/Scorpio Moon is
the most complex creature on the Zodiac chart, and also the most
sadistic; one book in fact refers to this combination as the Marquis de Sade of the Zodiac.
My Capricorn Moon and Aquarius Sun makes me very, very contradictory, inconsistent; pragmatic in on hand, but idealistic - even unrealistic, in the other. My Scorpio Mercury makes me a paranoiac, distrustful, shadowy, mystical, and hypocritical to the extreme, cynical, confusing to say the least, double-minded, plotting, and in love with conspiracies, crimes, and similar "hobbies."
The first things that my astrologist said to me is whether I was in any way involved in Philosophy or the FBI, somehow. I told her I major in Philosophy and...my favorite show ever is The X-Files, favorite movie, The Matrix. She also said that my Leo ascendant, Aquarius Sun, and Pisces Venus, makes me the most tragic and idealistic lover who, sadly, will never attain the ideal sought. True in so many ways, as I speak from experience.
Although my circle of friends are basically made up of other Air signs - mostly Geminis and some Libras - I must say that Geminis need to learn how to keep their mouths shut for at least 1 second a minute. Please!