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The two bright stars, Castor and Pollux, mark the heads of the two brothers, one mortal and one the son of a god. Their mother was Queen Leda, the father of mortal Castor was her husband King Tyndarus and the father of Pollux was Zeus. They were also brothers to Helen of Troy. As most identical twins are, they were inseperable in both looks and actions. Castor was a famed horseman and Pollux a reknowned boxer. They were famous for being argonauts with Jason on the Argo and and after saving the mighty ship from a wild storm became the protectors of mariners. The ghostly flame of St. Elmo’s fire that sometimes appears on ships is also connected to them. One day Castor was killed in a fight. Distraught, Pollux pleaded w ith Zeus to let Castor reside with him on Mount Olympus. Zeus took pity on his son and placed the brothers in the sky next to each other. The Romans also connected this constellation with Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome.
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Pollux Propus U GEM Mebsuta Al Kirkab Propus Tejat Posterior
Wasat Mekbuda
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Alhena
Alkibash
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Astronomically Castor is an interesting star as it known to be a multiple system of six stars! Few other stars come close to this number. Not all are visible in a telescope though but the two main components are easily split. Alhena is the name for gamma (g) Geminorum, meaning a Brand or Mark. Wasat, meaning the Middle, is the proper name for delta (d) Geminorum. It is named so as it lies half way along the east side of the constellation. Mebsuta, epsilon (e) Geminorum, means the Outstretched [paw] and is a relic from ancient Arabian times when part of Gemini was contained in a larger constellation representing a lion, stretching from Gemini to Virgo. Mekbuda, zeta (z) Geminorum, was the Contracted [paw]. The planet Uranus was in Gemini when on March 13th 1781 William Herschel first noticed a new star not on his charts. He soon realised he could see a disk when he magnified it and it was moving across the sky. The gas giant had been sighted several times before and even plotted o n printed charts as a star but Herschel was the first to realise it wasn’t an ordinary star. Two meteor showers are known to radiate from Gemini: The delta Geminids in early October and the Geminids in December. The Geminids radiate from a point near Castor and are known to be the part of the debri stream following the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. This is most unusual as most meteor showers are connected to comets https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/gemini-constellation/ FACTS, LOCATION & MAP Gemini is the 30th largest constellation in the sky, occupying an area of 514 s quare degrees. It lies in the second quadrant of the northern hemisphere (NQ2) and can be seen at latitudes between +90° and -60°. The neighboring constellations are Auriga, Cancer, Canis Minor, Lynx, Monoceros, Orion and Taurus. Gemini belongs to the Zodiac family of constellations, along with Aries, T aurus, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces. Gemini contains a Messier object – the star cluster Messier 35 (M35, NGC 2168) – and has seven stars with known planets. The brightest star in the constellation is Pollux, Beta Geminorum, with an apparent magnitude of 1.14. There are two meteor showers associated with the constellation; the Geminids and the Rho Geminids. The Geminids are usually bright and peak around December 13-14.
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Mebsuta, epsilon (e) Geminorum, means the Outstretched [paw] and is a relic from ancient Arabian times when part of Gemini was contained in a larger constellation representing a lion, stretching from Gemini to Virgo. Mekbuda, zeta (z) Geminorum, was the Contracted [paw].
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Gemini has many traits, almost many personalities. I love how Joesph Campbell describes the human condition as a man with a thousand masks. This illustration is inspired by Janus, in ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. The Black illustration is from a sketch I did of myself then vector drew the sketch into a homage to one of my favorite comic book artists Frank Miller. The Double Cross// Double Letter I is my custom logo for the symbol of Gemini. The placement of the symbol is significant, an area known as the Third eye.
Native American Indians would spit paint on their hands to mark walls to signify their presence in another world. In Hollywood, celebrities would denounce their own status of what they do when bomabaried by poparazzi. Influenced by the high five, palmistry, hello, greetings, stop, Ironman, a simple wave, push the hand is and has many way of communicating this is the mark of Mthree (M3) Applied Design. M3 could mean Meaning, Message & Mystery or McElhattan III.