As with all Cardinal Leadership Signs, we know that a new season is beginning. Libra is ready to kick off Autumn on the Equinox through its air guide, giving direction to intellect and ideas. With their ruling planet Venus, those influenced by the Scales are on a constant search in life for balance, beauty, and justice.
The typical Libra shows a charming, friendly, harmonious, idealistic and diplomatic nature. Always a firm judge, they are born to see both sides of any issue. If those Scales are tipped in any way, they can lead to indecision, vanity, insincerity, drama, and inconsistencies. One way a Libra can stay in check is to always be fully aware of the relationship they have with themselves first before others.
The House of the Zodiac that governs the energy of Libra in the natal chart is the 7th of Associations/Marriage. This is the area of life in our chart that denotes how we wish to relate to any of our closest and most intimate relationships, and the sign here will also signal maximum compatibility for the native. Looking at how the Wheel of the Zodiac can turn in any individual birth chart, House Libra falls into the area of life where they will see a harmonious and pleasure-seeking nature behind everything they do. Any planet that may be located in Libra at birth also gains its innate expression through the qualities of this relationship-oriented and peaceful sign.
Libra is our second cardinal and air sign in the Wheel of the Zodiac. The collective naturally gravitates toward coupled activities as the fall season begins on the equinox. With the beauty of Venus ruling Libra, the month urges us to spend time in pleasurable activities, romantic adventures, and being fair! No other sign is more attuned to justice, as a Libra innately knows how to ideally weigh both sides of the issue at hand.
Mercury visits its final 2008 retrograde period from 9/24 to 10/15. The Messenger will take a backwards spin through comparative Libra asking us to RE-evaluate our definition of diplomacy; Ideally, you would use this period to engage in persuasive acts animated with insightful flashes. No doubt the world at large will be faced with negotiations that require a polished response. The Libra part of your zodiac pie indicates where to watch out for those communication mishaps and strive for greater understanding.
Mars goes into transformation in Scorpio on 3/10 and 4/10. The Universal urge to be perceptive and reveal secrets will finally be strong; while one must be aware of the tendency to adopt authoritarian attitudes and insatiable desires. The Scorpio ruled area of the birth chart points to where one can anticipate a powerful and passionate impulse during the 6 weeks that Mars visits the sign of regeneration.
Venus joins the Sun in the energy of Scorpio on September 23 for 3 weeks. As the romantic planet now travels with the Eagle, expect flattery, luxury, and purification to be at the center of value-related matters, allowing revaluations of one’s experiences to emerge. Reviewing the area in which Scorpio affects you will be the portion of life to which the potentials of mystery and profound change can be brought through renewed values until 10.18.
May your beginning of Fall ’08 be full of harmonious relationships from the wisdom of seeking to understand others.