A lifetime ago, I had a roommate who was always saying, “Geminis are two faced but a Libra has many faces!” Now, I’m not so sure about that one. But I think that, in saying this, the roommate was speaking to something she had noticed in Gemini and Libra compatibility.

I would revise the statement. Let’s compare Gemini and Libras. This is how I would revise the statement: Libras are good at making you think that their ideas are your own but a Gemini is good at making you think that your own ideas were never yours to begin with.

Why do both Geminis and Libras freak some people out so much? Both signs are capable of creating an affect of what I can only describe as intellectual trippiness. Geminis and Libras make you think. They are both tricksters like that. They make you stop taking things for granted. They don’t make you doubt so much because they also inspire. They make you trip out.

Both signs are whiplash smart. I think that this has to do with the two or multiple faces thing. Both Geminis and Libras confuse. Confusion is actually a sign of learning. We feel confused when we learn new information.

Libras are good at implanting brainworms. They use strategy to make their own ideas appear in the minds of those around them. Sometimes, Libras are unaware themselves that they are doing this. They don’t have to be aware in order to do an effective job. They just make a soft remark here or there, ask a question or two, and gently encourage people to look where they want them to look. Libras excel at redirecting attention.

Geminis are good at making you doubt what you take for granted. Geminis like to play pranks, like to make little jokes. Gemini jokes are genius devices that layer one meaning with another. Usually, jokes communicate one thing but say another. They are like questions in that way. Geminis excel in the art of making questions and jokes.

What do you get when you put them together? You get the smartest couple in the zodiac.

First of all, Gemini and Libra relationships are funny. Libra is the clown of the zodiac and Gemini the prankster. You have a clown playing around with a jokester. God! Can the two of them even look away? Every conversation becomes a long running joke. Put the two of them together in the same room and everyone is falling on the floor.

Geminis and Libras know that the best type of sexiness is humor. They speak each other’s language on that front. They make each other laugh. Why did I start with my old roommate’s remark about Geminis and Libras? Because both of these signs can take a joke.

And a Gemini and Libra’s sense of humor is rarely ever appropriate. These are raunchy people who say out of bounds things. They shock and they provoke. Basically, both Geminis and Libras will take the least expected position whenever possible.

Try to get a Gemini to agree with you. Just try. You can’t do it. If you agree with the opinion they had yesterday, then they will change their mind in order to disagree with you today. Same goes for Libras even though it’s not as obvious. A Libra won’t change their minds in an obvious way but they will change your mind. Try to disagree with a Libra. They will have you agreeing with them. This is what people usually get wrong about Libras, by the way. They are not people pleasers. They get people to agree with them.

Basically, you can imagine a Gemini and Libra relationship now. They play little tricks on each other. They send each other into research spirals over their own obsessive interest. They play with each other and inspire themselves by impressing the other. Geminis and Libras admire each other for their minds.

Here’s the other thing about Gemini and Libra relationships—they don’t have to stay together. We’re talking about Mercury and Venus coming together. Both are samplers and both appreciate variety.

Think about the nature of humor. If you crack a joke with one person, does that mean that you’ll never find other people funny? No way! We don’t expect dogmatic loyalty when it comes to humor. Everyone is funny in their own way. In fact, humor is something that we all need breaks from. The more you hear a joke, the less funny it becomes.

Libras like to take breaks from everything. This includes their partnerships. They like to depart and then come back together. Geminis like to flit around and try new ventures. If hard pressed to stay home, a Gemini will take a secret vacation. Neither Libras nor Gemini expect undying and unflinching attention from the other. In fact, they expect their partners and friends to keep their own friends. They both find seeing their partners have dynamics with other people interesting.

Now, I’m not one to put kinks on specific signs. Some people enjoy consensual cuckolding and some people don’t. I don’t know the astrology behind that. Cuckolding is different from polyamory because it is a kink. I just know that Libras sometimes like to experience things through another person. I know that Geminis can really enjoy the feeling of deception when they get to explore the feeling in a game safely.

Geminis and Libras like to keep things interesting. They like to flirt with masks on and then flirt with masks off. They like to ask each other who they really are.

The joy of cuckolding as a kink is really about being able to play with risk and then come back to strengthened partnership that is already familiar. Venus and Mercury like to tempt and tease. They also like to come back. Notice this with Gemini and Libra exes—they might part amiably and they might come back as a friend.

Really, the fun of a Gemini and Libra relationship is about self inquiry. Libras like to confound our assured notions about what selfhood means. Geminis like to warp old ideas until they become new. Both signs enjoy that feeling of confusion and intellectual trippiness you only get when you get a huge brain download. Both Gemini and Libra want to investigate the self seriously. They feel loved when they are lovingly questioned and examined.

The most famous celebrity Gemini and Libra couple is Kimye. I never really followed either of them as public figures so I don’t know a ton about what happened between them. I think that the confusion that most of the public feels when it comes to watching Kimye in their relationship has something to do with the trippiness that Mercury and Venus can generate when they come together.

Geminis and Libras are jokesters. The best jokes deconstruct life and make us take the important things more seriously. They cause unexpected connections and they disorient us in order to give us more agency in reorienting ourselves. They may cause a fair bit of confusion but that confusion is more like an ideas tornado. The tornado spirals, warps, and then places everything where it least expected to be. When a Gemini and a Libra come together, something unexpected always happens.