Mggirl, I think your chart, and this thread you’ve started, is a great example of how insufficient astrology becomes when we focus so prominently on the Sun. of course, the sun does have to be a central component in any reading of a chart. But you’re really illustrating nicely how incomplete a picture we present of ourselves when we say “I’m a Gemini” or “I’m a Capricorn,” etc., based on where our sun is placed.
You’ve already spurred a lot of great thoughts on this post, but looking at your chart I have some I’d like to share as well.
First, I want to second almost everybody here and say that your chart – heaviest in water and earth energy – just doesn’t scream “Gemini” when looked at as a whole. The idea that you’re personality would be primarily Geminian because you have a Gemini Sun actually isn’t suggested by this chart. BUT, at the same time, I wouldn’t swing the pendulum the other way and play down too much that you are, in fact, a Gemini Sun. That doesn’t disappear. In amidst all your watery energy, you have Libra Rising and a Gemini Sun. I’d still expect you to be intelligent, to process things at the level of the intellect, to be humanitarian by disposition, to be interested in your fellow human beings, to be relationship oriented (not necessarily love match relationship, though I would suspect that’s very important for you – but also friends and acquaintances). A common Geminian trait, I think, is interest in language itself, and when you say you are very attuned to accents and voices, that basic attunment strikes me as very Geminian.
From this chart I'd also expect you to be concerned, consciously or otherwise, with balancing dualities. You might notice that the symbols for air signs all represent duality in the form of two parallel lines.The Libra ascendant flips a natural chart 180 degrees, so that signs are located on the house cusps naturally opposite to them. Libra ascendant, it seems to be, tends itself to a live spent reconciling (or trying to reconcile) polarities. It also lends itself to thinking/working through the Me/You or Self/Other relationship.
On those lines, I think you still want to approach your Sun as a Gemini Sun even though it is in the 8th house. Not to quibble with Osamenor’s excellent and helpful posts, but I want to disagree just slightly with the way s/he worded one point – though in the end I’m sure we actually agree on it. I wouldn’t say you’re Sun takes on a blending of the signs of Gemini and Scorpio, 50/50. I’d say your Sun has the quality of Gemini but is particularly focused on, or expresses itself around, Scorpio-like things. It tends towards Scorpio-like things, but still does so like a Gemini.
And of course Scorpio – and the 8th house – are really complicated, and there’s far too many things that might be entailed in having an 8th house Sun to post here. But just as one example, I suspect that most 8th house sun folks are born psychologists. They tend to see into the depths of people’s psyches and motivations. And do it whether people want them to or not. Whether people even realize it or not. Whether the 8th house person wants to or not! It’s their basic inclination. With a Gemini Sun, I suspect you do that sort of thing, and do it in a Gemini way. If a Cancer 8th house Sun might really feel into the soul of another, feel into the deep needs and security concerns of another in a very prelingual, emotionally resonant kind of way, I would expect a Gemini Sun to pierce into and understand the psyches of others through lingual communication (i.e., a discussion) and to process it via higher thought. You being a good listener, and seemingly congenitally prone to it, sounds like a part of that, to my mind. But how else would a Gemini Sun approach its 8th house tendency to always be doing a kind of depth psychology? I’d expect Gemini to want to document the ideas, share them in some way, and still be kind of “academic” about it, as opposed to, say, Neptunian about it. I would guess this is where your interest in astrology is represented, in that astrology tries to document and understand the invisible forces of the universe in a rational, conscious, even mathematical system, as opposed to, say, the eternal murkiness of dream symbology. I’d expect you to be a natural born psychologist of some sort, and I suspect that when you’re being a good listener it’s more than just passively hearing other people’s stories. I suspect – whether you’ve tried to own it or not – you are also seeing into how their psyche works, understanding their strengths and problems, and probably (Gemini) good at summing what their issues in a quick, pithy headline or phrase. Depth psychology of the 8th house variety, but Mercurial in quality.
(Here's one a quick metaphor. Imagine you have twelve psychologists in a room, each representative of a sign from the zodiac. They all work in psychology. An 8th house preoccupation. But they all have different demeanors, personalities and ways of going about the job. Maybe one drives with the client right to the heart of the problem, in a jarring way. Best way to take a band-aid off is just rip it. Maybe that's Aries in the 8th house. Freud had an 8th house Taurus Sun. He was very patient, sat long hours with his clients, and the physicality of his approach is clear: human psychology for him is ultimately brain biology, and often driven by pleasures (or pains) of the flesh. Same preoccupation with 8th house things. Different possible approaches.)
EDIT: Freud's MOON was in the 8th, not his Sun. I was wrong on that!
But then, Osamenor reminds us that your Mercury is in Cancer, so actually we have to say “Yes, you might approach you’re tendency to be a psychologist with the people around you in an intellectual way, but in your case the quality of your intellect really is profoundly emotion-oriented.” I bet you’re very good at discovering, as you listen to people, what they need in life to feel rooted and safe. Perhaps as a Gemini Sun in the 8th house, part of your role in life is to report back to them what you discover about them. So often it’s the case that when we talk to other people, it’s not until the other person tells our story back to us that we see the logic in it, our problem becomes clear and we know what our own story means to us. perhaps part of your role in life is to be the person that retells a person’s story back to them,. Sop they can finally “hear” what their own story is really about???
That your Mercury is also in the 9th house, opposed to the 3rd house which we’d naturally associate with Gemini and Mercury, could be a whole other thread. But just to begin to think about it: it will have to do with what I wrote earlier about being a Libra ascendant. About reconciling polarities in life.
I have two more thoughts: 1) on the lack of fire in this chart and; 2) on your North Node in Scorpio (conjunct Pluto!). But this post is already super long so I’ll post those separately…