Capricorn and Gemini breakups
September 14, 2007 by Jeffrey Kishner
This couple is like an old lady and a little kid. One feels like she’s been through it all, and the other can’t get enough! Slow and fast, grounded and scattered … what can possibly keep these two together?
Yes, we are more than our Sun signs, and any number of planetary combinations can compensate for this mix-up. But it’s hard not to rubberneck when passing a collision between a Capricorn and a Gemini.
These two signs are quincunx each other — an off-center 150-degree angle that makes it hard for both signs to see eye-to-eye. Cap is a cardinal (initiating) Earth sign, Gemini is a mutable (dispersing) Air sign. They’re incompatible by both element and mode.
However a Cap and Gemini get together, it’s easy to see why they may not last as a couple. Capricorn has a clear goal in sight, and is focused and dedicated in her path towards attaining it. Gemini is an ADD kid in a candy shop, so excited by all the different flavors that he can’t stay in one place for more than a moment.
Both signs have their strengths, but by the end of a relationship, they’ll only see each other’s faults. Gemini will resent Capricorn for her inhibitions and rigidity, while Cap will look down on Gemini’s lack of focus and inability to commit.
After the ambulance has departed, Gemini will dish to his buddies how long it took for Cap to warm up in bed, while Capricorn will share with her closest confidante that she felt more like a parent than a partner.
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Imagine this combo inside one person’s chart! My former boss is a Gemini Sun with Cappy rising. She loved to socialize, but only with someone who she considered important (i.e., someone in a higher position than her or someone who she can use).
Maybe a Cappy/Gem couple could work. At an office party, Cappy can rub elbows with the higher-ups – securing future financial stability – while Gem can charm everyone into extending more social invitations (i.e. elbow-rubbing opportunities for Cappy) to the couple.
Muwhahahhahahaa!!! Over the last year and a half this gemini has showing up every once in a while and then we dance for a bit.
His Uranus sits right on top of my 12th house Venus. I never know what the attraction is, when he’s showing up, coming, or going, and in fact when he goes soaring off into the sunset I spend a week telling all my friends that I have no idea what makes him so appealing (Although I know darn well its that uranus aspect and the fact that aside from one opposition and our reciprocal venus/mercury inconjuncts we ain’t got nothing but trines & sextiles), and then I forget him. And, at least I can tell myself with his sun/venus opposite my Uranus I know he doesn’t know what the heck is going on either, and that he probably spends as much time shaking his head and wondering what the hell that was as I do.
But hey we have fun! Are we Capricorns allowed to do that?
cappy female here, and i’ve only dated gemini guys in my life. it surprises me too, plus the fact that they were all serious and long term relationships.
opposites attract, i guess.
I’m a Cap Sun with Gemini Rising, which probably makes me more sociable than the average Cap. I don’t like many of the Gemini traits, and was shocked to find out that I was a Rising.
Contrary to alot of bad press about Caps, I laugh alot, can handles jokes about me, and make friends easily (although I maintain a close knit circle of friends I can count on one hand, and only go to social events which have a purpose. No mindless parties for me).
i don’t know what sun/moon i am, though my birthday is 28/12/84, but i go out with a gemini(20/12/82) and i work too hard but he relaxes me and chills me out with his endless banter while i listen. i really don’t think we r dommed and all this fatalistic talk about gems and caps is getting me down. i love him too bits and our sex life is fantastic. theres no pressure with him and loads with me which is y we work in a werid way we balance each other out.
I am Capricorn female who just got dumped by a Gemini male (no reason Wednesday we’re hanging out, Friday we’re chatting up, Tuesday we’re texting as usual and Thursday he’s not answering my calls). To be honest, it was one of the best relationships I have had, never argued we had lots of fun joking around and being out and about. We were definitely different, and there were things I HATED about his personality. But I think a Cap/Gem relationship can work even though mine just fell through. What they said is write though, after the break up all I could see were his faults…and there were many.
Hey,
Do gemini’s ever have regrets about breaking up? Any chance of a gemini-cap reunion after a break up? The Gemini is the one who broke it off.
Capricorn female here….I just ended my relationship with a Gemini….and I agree 110% with what this says
We had an extreme sexual attraction….and he is one of the smartest and wittiest people I’ve ever met….but he just doesn’t get me…and a lot of times I ended up feeling like I wasn’t appreciated….so I decided to stop wasting me time
Now on to Virgo
My mother was a capricorn sun and gem. rising and I was a gem. sun with cap. all over. We don’t get along, but we don’t not get along. I love her ability to stick at anything forever and she always comments on how she has always admired what she sees as my ability to beat my own path in a completely opposite direction to every one else. o_0
I guess it does depend on the rest of your planetary makeup if thats the right way to put it. I have to agree, it’s not the best relationship. My poor pisces dad holes up in a tent somewhere for months when we’re fighting because it always seems like neither will ever give up. But all ’round, it’s fine because we understand each other and end up just cooking and watching TV and being grumpy and talking indirectly through family for the rest of the year. heh.
You can make cap/gem relationships work, but sometimes were gem fails to have the patience and cap fails to stop and listen, maybe it’s better if it just doesn’t work out.
im a gemini and im dating a capricorn guy. he blows my mind. he is my soul mate and…surprisingly we dont fight.when i know he needs to tlk i shut up. i klnow when something is up with him and he trusts me because i care and wont judge him.
gemini’s and capricorns can work. im proving it.
I'm a Cap. on the cusp of Aquarius, with Gemini rising & was engaged to a Gemini. I would surmise that my having a lot of Gemini, Picses & Aquarius in my chart is what enabled me to see more eye to eye with him. Essentially we lacked the same fundamental values & it is true that his intellectual curiosity was satiated more quickly than mine. (Gemini men especially enjoy debate, but when they've run out of reasoning the impatient child in them comes out & the discussion is over.) The Gemini friends I have now have plenty of tender-hearted sensitivity which makes their ethereal nature that much more endearing. Unfortunately Gem's seem to be so weak in character that their virtuosity is easily overpowered. Typical Cappy: I would only date a Gem. again if he was an excessively religious man.
I’m a capricorn guy and have been dating a Gemini chick for 2 years 6 months, we both understand one another and i’m sometimes puzzled by what most astrologers say about how incompatible this match is.
well iam a capricorn with pisces rising i have this friend she is soooo hot shes a gemini , she is also straight ..i am not str8 are friend ship is great are ages are prob 8 yrs apart . . i like her and i think she likes me … she seems puzzled . . .and i am a capricorn and i know i can BE puzzling either way …she gives me no damb ground like they say they like u and like ur bro and sister , , i just like u and only u …course till i find out u dont like me then ill stray . .. .ugghghghhg lol
i’m a gemini and my boyfriend is a capricorn, and the tihng is – both my rising & moon signs are in VIRGO. maybe its why it’s working out so great, despite all the beliefs about cap & gem being such an incompatible couple.
i reckon with relationships youll have to look into the ENTIRE birth chart. not just the sun sign. add in the VENUS sign too, with the ascendant and moon sign.
my venus is in cancer, and his is in capricorn – voila, a compatible one again. and everyone probably know that venus is rep love/relationships etc.
so this relationship def works, there are lots of other things in a chart that has plenty of influences
This combo is a disaster – long term- experience speaking here! On a positive note- Gemini will help Capricorn loosen up his TIE & Cappy has the perseverance to teach Gem a thing or to about FOCUS & hard work…
This is a karmic match in the sense that once both have learned the lessons they were meant to teach each other – they move on with little regret despite the little emotion call LOVE:(
Imagine this one, I am a capricorn with a gemini moon! Just imagine what I go thru in relationships. The cappy in me wants a stable relationship, but the gemini moon loves variety, lol.
i’m a gemini. have not dated a capricorn, yet. but i have rejected one before.
to anonymous who was wondering if “gemini’s ever have regrets about breaking up?”.
Speaking for myself, I have never had regrets about break ups.
And I would never even imagine reconciling with someone I broke off.
I am a gemini female who has been in a relationship with a Capricorn guy for 3 years now…It is just amazing!!! It just requires the making the effort like all relationships require…..
I absolutely love him…he brings out this person in me, that is not afraid of being taking care of (not clingy – just knowing that there are decisions that I know he will make that will that will bee good for both of us)
I’m talking with a Gemini guy that has an aqua moon.. He’s very weird. I don’t really see it going anywhere. It’s hard to believe anything he says, it comes off very pretentious and detached, void of real meaning. Sometimes I believe him, but other times it’s really hard to. I get annoyed easily, he doesn’t believe in himself and he thinks that talking about his emotions is embarrassing and beats himself up when he does. It’s just very strange. He also claims I belong to him. This freaked me out because we haven’t known each other very long. In a way I think he’s trying to push me away, because I understand his emotions and he doesn’t want anyone to get close… It’s like he’s sabotaging himself.
Cap.Sun/Gemini ASC. here. I am always drawn to Gemini, but I do have a strong Jupiter & Moon influence within my own chart. Perhaps it is the combination of their unattainability & mutable nature that draws me in? I do get frustrated with their short-sighted logic & sporadic autistic moments. The comment regarding dating an excessively religious Gemini was amusing, because Gemini’s never lose that Mercurial nature! A good Gemini friend of mine is a church-going Catholic who is still plagued by indecision, as well as the autistic moments. Cappy definitely needs to LISTEN to Gemini though. I’ve found that most Gemini’s will talk non-chalantly about extremely personal matters, then move quickly onto some run-of-the-mill conversation. Later they’ll question your emotional depth & empathy simply because you didn’t listen to the mundane details of their story. With Gemini, that’s all life is: details; almost as if they’re unable to see the trees for the forest. How adorably child-like.
I am a Gemini with a rising sun in Virgo Venus in Cancer and Moon in Aries. My Capricorn boyfriend has a Libra Rising, Aquarius Venus and Moon in Aquarius. We get along so well though we also debate and argue some at times. We have so much understanding for each other. He is ok with understanding i take alot of time to understand since im bouncy on everything, dont stick to anything, perfectionist and really typical gemini though my cancer makes me anti social and i have a tremendous need to stay at home and be with family which he does too. I found that out 7 yr age difference him being younger helps because i dont feel like i have to be so overly mature even though he acts as though hes 50 in his 20’s lol. But i guess what im saying is this is either a really really good match or a complete nightmere ive dated other capricorns who drove me nuts but for some reason i cant get enough of them. I need a rock to hold me still.
I am a Capricorn with a Gemini moon and Pisces rising. My chart is dominated by earth and water, however, with just the Gemini moon and a Uranus in Libra to lighten me up, and Neptune in Sagittarius which doesn’t do much on the energy front. I dated a Gemini (Cancer cusp) and it was a disaster; we met via work channels, and there was a sort of complicated fishbowl aspect to it b/c I’d be with him in his “social crowd” which was a group of people w/whom I needed to be professional. It was complicated. I wasn’t sure, ultimately, if he was dating me for my ability to be a “good work contact” for him to bring around his crew or if he genuinely liked me. The worst thing about it was that he played mind games, or he’d bring up an important issue he wanted to discuss in a venue where I couldn’t respond (like he’d say something major in a traffic intersection 100 yards from the entrance of a work party, then before I could reply we’d be inside schmoozing and I’d have a knot in my stomach). I was definitely supposed to learn something. I kept running into him until I told him off, then I never saw him again. He dumped me in a bar one night, told me that, and I’m not making this up, he wasn’t nice enough to me and I didn’t get upset enough about it, and thus, I really needed to go to therapy. I know many Geminis, but am glad to be done dating them. I married a Sagittarius with heaps of Taurus and water in his chart. Fun-loving on the outside, stable and funny on the inside.
I’m was in a relationship with a Gemini for a year and this is the exact definition of our relationship, especially this section:
“Gemini will resent Capricorn for her inhibitions and rigidity, while Cap will look down on Gemini’s lack of focus and inability to commit.
After the ambulance has departed, Gemini will dish to his buddies how long it took for Cap to warm up in bed, while Capricorn will share with her closest confidante that she felt more like a parent than a partner.”