Sabian Symbols · Gemini · Degree 17 of 30
Gemini 17°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A strong young face slowly settles into the more thoughtful, weathered face of someone who has learned to think things through.”
THE SYMBOL
“A strong young face slowly settles into the more thoughtful, weathered face of someone who has learned to think things through.”
Gemini 17° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Vitality maturing into wisdom without losing what made it vital in the first place, the transformation is an upgrade, not a loss. Gemini's whole arc, compressed into one image: quick, physical, reactive intelligence gradually becoming slower, deeper, considered intelligence. Both faces belong to the same person; the degree simply names the years it takes to grow from one into the other.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet here often shows real intellectual development over time, someone who becomes noticeably more thoughtful with age rather than just older. Mercury or Saturn at this degree favors a mind that keeps upgrading itself, quickness eventually earning real depth. On an angle, it can describe a person others watch visibly mature into their thinking self.
Which of your two faces, the quick one or the thoughtful one, is actually running things today?
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