Gemini

Gemini opens 21 May and closes 20 June — Mercury's air sign, the twins of the zodiac. The planet that rules communication, movement and the restless turning of the mind has no fixed house here; it simply passes through, and the sign it meets reflects that. Gemini is the sign of two, of both, of the sentence that starts one way and ends another.

The symbol is the twins, and the tradition holds them as the zodiac's great communicators — curious, quick, interested in almost everything and capable of taking in several threads at once. Air is their element, which means they live partly in the head, partly in the room, partly in the next conversation. The gift-giver's challenge with Gemini is that the mind moves faster than the shopping list.

Stones the tradition links with Gemini run light and varied: blue lace agate with its soft banding, citrine in its warm yellow, aquamarine, tourmalinated quartz. Tiger's eye appears often — a grounding counterweight to the quick mind. These are not stones of stillness; they are stones that ask you to look again, to notice the second thing in the pattern.

Scent follows Mercury. The tradition gives Gemini the bright and the clearing: lemon, eucalyptus, rosemary, cardamom. Anything with a note of alertness rather than drowsiness. Jasmine keeps the softer end — air and flower together.

The tradition's quiet advice for any sign is the same: give the object a role in a practice. For Gemini, a stone on the desk or a scent at the start of the working day becomes a physical anchor for the attention — a small, repeated cue that says slow down enough to finish one thing. The mind will do its knowing faster than the hands; the object is a reminder to stay in the room.

Below: our catalogue's gathering for the twins — stones, scents and the curious, generous end of the shelf.