Libra

Libra the symbol of the scales connects this sign with justice, and with a strong sense of fair play this can be seen in their ability to remain impartial and consider all sides of the case. However, the Librian is often caught in conflict between the desire to please themselves, and the need to be liked by other people. As a result, Librians spend a lot of time sitting on the fence devising clever strategies on how to take the initiative, while still appearing to compromise. Librians will hesitate and hedge, but its apparent indecision hides a steely resolve. Libra is learning how to recognize the opposites within their own nature, and balance them so they can relate to others. The qualities associated with this sign are partnership, harmony of ideas, co-operation and balance. Libra is an air sign and represents the principle of relating to others, and to practice peaceful relating. The deepest motivation of Libra is to share experiences with others, to socialize, to interact with equality, they can spend a lot of time thinking about love and relationships, and have an ideal of the perfect relationship, the perfect union.

Learning to balance is not an easy task, the need to be tolerant and non judgmental, to accept other people have concepts, realities, and values which are very different from their own belief system. “Fair and “equal” are important words to Libra, and they are always aware of other people’s viewpoints and are reluctant to assert themselves, without first consulting others. Sometimes this constant balancing act, when performed for the sake of partnership, can create the very disharmony that they dislike. Libra needs peace and harmony and will do almost anything to avoid quarrels and emotional storms. It is hard for Librian’s to feel anger, jealousy, or hatred because these type of emotions don’t fit in with their ideal image of how they should be feeling. Thus they will often repress such feelings, and turn a blind eye, to anything coarse, ugly or unpleasant. It can be shattering for Libra to deal with the darker side of human nature. Libra finds it very difficult to deal with the emotional world, they can carry a lot of heavy emotions around inside of them unexpressed.

Libra’s love is a theoretical one. Libra lifts the ordinary human relationship into the world of platonic ideals and introduces the impersonal concept of justice, and ideal that reflects the nature of cause and effect on moral and legal levels. Those actions taken by the innocently self seeking Aries are now shown to have social consequences. What is clear here is that we can’t do what we please, at least not at the expense of others, and we are learning to see both sides of a relationship. Not just our own. Libra is usually working towards order, perfection and the ideal relationship, and because they are so aware of others viewpoints, they won’t be pushy or show aggressiveness in their encounters with others. Libra has to ability to charm their way into getting want they want, they don’t need to be pushy. Some may call this manipulative charm, but Libra has the powerful ability of knowing just how to please the other person, so they usually do get what they want in the end.

Since Libra is so focused on harmony, often the other side of life confronts them to cause a little friction and to tip the scales, typically leaving them feel unbalanced. Librian’s have to be careful not to express too much sweetness and light, since it becomes very hard for them to sustain for long periods. Libra must learn to be a assertive, and not just of social causes, they need to learn how to personally defend themselves. The key is to fight fairly and intelligently. It’s 'nice' to be kind and considerate to others, but not if your the one always bending over backwards, especially to please those who never think to return the favour. Libra has a big problem with selfishness, it is constantly adjusting decisions to suit everybody else. For this person there is a lot of polarizing going on inside inside of them, and Libra is always searching for balance. Libra’s biggest fear is of being disliked, it destroys them to know that somebody doesn’t like them. Libra has the ability to bring opposites together, that would otherwise be in conflict. A great gift for diplomacy and sociability, along with the ability to see both sides of a situation, can really bring harmony into all of relationships. Broken unions go against Librian’s deepest motivations, they will go out of their way to smooth troubles over.