23 September – 22 October
Libra
The autumn equinox: everything here is measured against someone else.
- Element
- air
- Modality
- cardinal
- Ruling planet
- Venus
- Keywords
- relation · proportion · avoidance
Libra opens opposite Aries, at the equinox where day and night are equal, and it thinks in exactly that shape: nothing is judged alone. A planet in Libra works through relationship, comparison and the question of what would be fair.
Venus rules it as harmony rather than appetite: arrangement, proportion, the pleasure of things in right relation. Cardinal, so it acts; air, so it acts by weighing. The failure is famous and real: a placement that can always see the other side can stall indefinitely, and will sometimes choose peace over the truer answer.
Where to go next
Its element
The other air signs are Gemini and Aquarius. They share the temperament and differ in how they hold it.
Its house
Libra's meaning echoes in the seventh house, which covers the same ground as an area of life rather than a manner.
In your chart
Where Libra actually falls, and which planets are standing in it. It takes about a minute to work out, free and without an account.