The Link Between ADHD And Gemini In The Birth Chart: Astro Series

Is it ADHD? A gemini placement? Or both?

Lately I have been reading for beautiful humans with obvious and dominant Gemini placements. The discovery that every single one of these clients either suspect or have been diagnosed with ADHD, has more than intrigued me and led me on a thought experiment.

As an astrologer with a penchant for the psychological, I love to understand people (and life) from an overarching perspective; paying attention to both the micro and macrocosm. Instead of forming strong opinions and seeing walls within a person or their chart, I try to read with an openness that this (somewhat unknowable) life, constantly asks us to keep in tact.

After countless readings, I have come to understand that we are somewhat governed by the energies we are born into but we are also only governed by something, for as long as it is unconscious within us. When we begin to unravel our nature and become more conscious of ourselves, we begin to start steering the ship in co-creation with life, rather than being at the beck and call of it.

Our birth chart is a map, not a death sentence.
Our diagnoses are tools, not impairments.
Often, they are actually misunderstood gifts.

So, let’s pull a part the fundamentals of ADHD and Gemini energy and notice the golden thread! Gemini is highly mercurial and curious. Inquisitive, restless and an avid multi-tasker, often without their own permission. A similar feeling that those who have been diagnosed with ADHD often report struggling with.

Lets look closer at the symptoms of ADHD and the traits of Gemini side by side:

• Hyperactivity - Gemini placements are designed to be multitaskers.

• Easily distracted - The sign of the twins = two things/perspectives going on at all times and for a reason, they are not meant to be fixed on one thing.

• Intrusive thought - They are a wellspring of ideas and that kind of air accumulation can be difficult to discipline/control especially if they are unaware that the air in their chart is controlling them/in the drivers seat.

• Restlessness - a symptom of excess air energy in the chart (also see anxiety - hello pisces and virgo) and Gemini notoriously avoids being still because it’s not the main goal/seems irrelevant and is out of the comfort zone.

• Scattered/lack of focus - Gemini placements are here to quickly share, seed and plant, not to build upon! They are a mutable energy, constantly shifting and showing us new ways in the name of evolution and moving forward.

• Emotional dysregulation - Gemini has two sides (light and dark, to put it quickly) and they are contantly and often eratically jumping in and out of both depths manically, which is why they also have a connection to bipolar.

Gemini are the gods and goddesses of thought and communication; pulling through new ideas and ways of thinking/communicating for humanity. This requires them to often spend more time in their mind than in their body; a common Gemini placement pitfall and another nod to ADHD.

Gemini’s main purpose in this lifetime is to share, seed, talk and plant. Why would they want to do anything else? Often their bodies can be an afterthought because they would rather think all of the things they possibly could in one day and cram it all in, than stop and integrate; even leading them into routinual dissasociation at times. Here we go again!

An accumulation of this kind of gemini/mercurial energy, over time, sends us further and further into our air energy and further and further away from the peace of being still within our body. Over time, we begin to have a resistance or a perceived inability to come back down after so long existing on a higher, lighter and more frenetic frequency. Something I observe in ADHD leaning/my Gemini placement clients is this whirlwind of energy that they find difficult to come down from.

This is also where the body comes in. The body is slower. It is energy, made tangible and physical. It is more dense than the realm of the mind and thought. The body is the earth element and requires more time, more patience, more integration and more care. The body will always speak. We can’t have a balanced life without a balanced energy and our physical vessels will often try to detail to us where we are getting lost, so we can make up the difference.

Now, this depends on your desire in life too. It is up to you, how holistically you want to live and how balanced you want to feel. If you are happy being mercurial and nothing else suffers terribly, (like your health) then you probably have your gemini in balance with the rest of your chart! If your body, emotions, sleep, skin, relationships or nervous system is screaming otherwise, then this article might be helpful.

We want our charts and our traits to be something that work for us not against us. Something that reinstates our personal power, rather than gives it away to the idea that we are impaired or controlled. Sometimes we are controlled. By personal grief, by heavy movements going on in our charts, by the world that weighs so heavily on our one human awareness. So in whatever way we can own our power, I think we should.

Astrology gives us a way of looking at things that go beyond the physical surface. It gives us an additional framework of perspective, to work with ourselves through; another tool for our belt. Diagnoses help us locate the physical and then we work deeper, into the energetic.

I think often an ADHD diagnosis can feel like a beautiful permission slip. Something from society to say, “Hey, I’m not crazy, there’s a reason I’m like this and I deserve to be accepted” but what if you always deserved to be accepted? What if you were always meant to be different? With a reason/diagnosis or not? What if it was only the lack of societal understanding of mercurial beings that led you to feel out of place or burdened by your own mind? What if it was only the world’s inability to get with the new and think faster, that made you feel hyperactive?

We are often diagnosing ourselves in order to make sense to ourselves and others but always within the framework of the society that already exists .. which isn’t necessarily a sane or humane one? Yes, maybe we need to change but also, maybe the world is trying to change! If you dull yourself down or chalk your gifts up to a malfunction - how will the world learn? How will we all evolve? Everything we have and feel serves a purpose, that oftentimes is beyond us and asks us to go deeper than ourselves.

Mind you, this is coming from someone who is highly mercurial and has had to discipline their mind through copious amounts of air energy, overthought, anxiety (thanks virgo moon and chiron) and a Gemini upbringing. Yes, your parents signs affect your chart! Which gave me a love for words and writing, amongst other things!

Gemini placements are some of the most beautiful highly connected people I have come into contact with. They have brilliant ideas and can connect dots quickly in the face of many different topics. Some of them have help in their chart, that give a little more grounding. Some are straight up air charts and they might as well be flying around in another dimension! Haha.

Ultimately, everything just comes down to striking a balance and getting to know yourself a little bit more each day; learning about your curves and edges and understanding how to navigate your chart/energy to utilise your potential to the highest degree. Is the energy using you? Or are you driving, it? An important thing to distinguish.

*This is a little more difficult in children as well, when there is a heightened sense of learning which can activate the air/mercurial qualities in their chart until a certain age where they begin to become more dense/grounded here, or connected to their bodies.

Something else that is important to note, is that Gemini placements are connected to the future. They at times, struggle with presence because their purpose has a lot to do with bringing in the new but for the sake of their own wellbeing, they thrive best when they find and make time for things that allow them to feel grounded. They can balance the air in their chart. They can seek out nature or an earth sign friend! They can set the intention to become more present.

We all have Gemini somewhere in our chart and whichever area of life Gemini sits in for you, could hold a portal of more distracting energy or intrusive thought but it also holds a lot of brilliance, mental agility, possibility and fun!

So set flight, my beautiful Gemini placements. You are our butterflies of the zodiac. Thank you for being here and freeing us from stagnant patterning. Though, for the good of your own self and all of us here, please come back down to earth every now and then and remember: the earth and your own body exist and hold important gifts for you. There is a whole zodiac wheel at your disposal, even when the excess air makes that harder to pay attention to.

Happy flying.
Taiyla Bayne x