I remembered something Venus-in-Gemini-like today that I read once that I’d like to share since Venus is in Gemini now. Though this particular Gemini vibration I was recalling has some other flavors and undertones in it we will get to. I had read about Émilie du Châtelet, a French intellectual from the eighteenth century. I looked up her astrology tonight, and she is a Gemini Moon trining Venus in Aquarius, Moon opposite Lilith in Sagittarius, a Sun Sagittarius, Pluto in Leo (which we’ll take as the base tone). She also has a Moon-Saturn conjunction which can manifest as playing with cultural gender roles/expectations, as you will see playing out below. I heard about her from a book called Seductress by Betsy Prioleau which is a pretty entertaining read about historical seductresses. From this book Prioleau writes: “Émilie du Châtelet was a woman cut to superhuman scale. ‘A genius in virtually every realm of mathematics,’ she outsmarted the leading male scholars of her day. In addition, she looked like a celebrity model, loved like a Lotharia, and lived like a sultana. ‘The wench,’ said a Romeo of her age, ‘is formidable.’ ‘The most brilliant member of her sex in Europe,’ she was also […]