All Mercury
Virgo and Gemini share a ruling planet and are both mutable, meaning they adapt to whatever’s changing. You tend to learn quickly and talk quickly, and you can file a surprising amount of information in your head, in order. Virgo catches every detail, and Gemini sorts it and looks for the pattern. When something new breaks at work, you may be happier than you’re supposed to be.
There’s a nervous hum that comes with this. Your mental gears don’t really stop, including at the moments when you’d quite like them to.
Thinking you feel
You’re friendly and hospitable, and you’re also quietly classifying everyone you meet. There’s no malice in it, but it can come across as aloof. You may think of yourself as a romantic, and in a way you are, full of ideals and letters and clever messages. Yet there’s often a gap between how involved you think you are and how much you’ve really let in.
Strong emotional demands can make you restless, so you might slip off into the next interest just when things get real. Once you truly fall, though, the person gets the full written record: long texts, notes, poems, links to things that made you think of them. Friendship has to be part of it. So does someone who can keep up with you and occasionally win.
Getting out of your head
Your curiosity is your best way in. Treat your own feelings as the one subject you haven’t studied. When something upsets you, write it down without correcting it, or notice where in your body it’s sitting. Warm or dreamy people often do you good, since they show you something you can’t reason your way to. Your shy side shouldn’t keep you from enjoying physical closeness either. It’s one area where it helps to stop narrating.