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Late September brings us the beginning of Libra season. Commencing within hours of the autumnal equinox, it’s a time filled with paradox and equilibrium as day and night sit equal to one another and bring light and dark into balance. As we observe these two opposing states of being, we are reminded that life can hold two possibilities, two states, two truths, two divergent directions at once.
Light cannot exist without dark, much as the self cannot exist without the other. Concepts and entities not only coexist, but need the other to become its fullest expression. On this day, we are reminded that nothing exists in isolation. This is Libra.
When Does Libra Season Start?
As the Sun enters the constellation of Libra on September 22, 2024, we are invited to step into the essence that is this air sign. To become it, learn from it, and begin to experience the world through its lens until the Sun exits Libra on October 23, 2024.
What Awarenesses Does Libra Bring?
Libra is a cardinal sign, which means it signals a new season in nature. Cardinal signs initiate. They are designed to exert energy into the world and begin a new chapter. Libra thrives when moving and working toward something, whether creating, connecting, or taking steps toward its dreams and desires. It is a likable, beautiful, graceful, and pleasing archetype. Underneath the surface of this sign is acute awareness, insights, creativity, charisma, and a deep drive to move forward in the world, to meet fairness and justice wherever it can, and to cultivate diplomacy and communication.
As the Sun illuminates our world under the influence of this Venus-ruled sign, the Libra in each of us steps to the forefront. Whether Libra is our Sun sign or our Moon sign or simply resides in one of the astrological houses in our birth chart, we each have Libra within us operating at different volumes and expressing itself in different areas of life. During Libra season, these characteristics are experience and embodied.
The Sun’s journey through the zodiac is directed by two distinct chapters. The first half, comprising Aries to Virgo, is the development of the individual self. These signs are self-directed, aimed at both creating and learning about who we are and offering us definition and clarity about our self. The second half, constituting Libra to Pisces, symbolizes our experience in the world and our relationship with other people, society, and life itself.
Libra, then, is the meeting point of these two chapters. It is where the self meets the other. It represents the lifelong journey of exploring and seeking balance between the self and the other and the self among others. It is the archetype of collaboration and partnership, where we come together to enhance the beauty and pleasures of the human experience. Libra represents our initial awareness of the other.
The sign of Libra exposes us to other perspectives and helps us learn how to balance and exist within these different. Although often outwardly opposing, these perspectives find harmony within. Libra is the opportunity to see and learn through the eyes of another, through our vast and diverse experiences, opinions, and unique journeys.
Libra reminds us that we are not alone in this journey. In fact, others play an integral role in the building of our identity and our sense of self. It is through this experience that we move beyond the limitations of the self.
To simply be alive is to be in relationship with one another, with ourselves, and with the world around us. It is through another that we experience the words we are ready to hear, the gentleness we are ready to receive, the perspective we are ready to experience. Others are the mirror through which we can see ourselves more clearly. Sometimes it is within offering love to another that we gain access to it ourselves. We cannot not be in relationship in life. We are made better by those around us.
With harmony as the primary theme influencing Libra’s purpose and intentions, the sign has an intuitive ability to sense the balance, or imbalance, in the energy around it. Whether in a conversation, a relationship, an outfit, a home, a piece of art, or the workplace, Libra is always intuitively aware of what the other needs to achieve a state of peace, balance, beauty, and fairness. Libra can then become or offer that very thing.
What to Watch For During Libra Season
Libra often learns to read the other before learning how to read the self. Reading the other means that we know what is needed in that moment to create a sense of balance or a feeling of safety within the interaction and environment. However, this may not be the most authentic or aligned direction for the long term. To learn to tune into the other before tuning into the self can create distance between our actions and our needs, desires, and preferences. And to address this, we turn to Libra’s opposite sign, Aries.
In astrology, each zodiac exists on an axis in partnership with its opposite sign. Although seemingly in opposition, these signs are partners. They need the other to become fully engaged with life. When we find ourselves in an unsupportive and imbalanced expression of one zodiac sign, we can look to its opposite for guidance.
In opposition and partnership with Libra is the first of the zodiac, Aries. Just as Libra teaches us about the other, Aries invites Libra to come back to the self, tune into its own energy independent from another’s, and connect with its own desires.
Libra is an air sign. It conceptualizes, it mentalizes, it learns, expresses, processes, and shares. There is a strong intellectual drive to Libra that asks us to continue feeding its internal thoughts. Whereas Aries teaches us communication, courage, and safety within oneself. The boldness and directness of Aries in communication balances the diplomatic, fair, and harmonious communication of Libra. There is a magic in confidently communicating our needs while feeling safe in our bodies to do so and also considering the other in a way that is fair, loving, considerate, and peaceful. In its highest and balanced expression, Libra becomes the leader, the peacemaker, the mediator.
A devotion to balance and harmony is needed in our world, yet an overemphasis on this can have us close our eyes to what may not fit within that ideal state. To be fully alive is to journey into depths that live beyond the peaceful and harmonious realm of Libra. Emotions often demand to be felt fully, and that may not always be a beautiful thing in the moment. Love, when surrendered to, can take over us, taking us into depths beyond our rational mind and throwing us out of balance. And in those depths are immense healing and catalyzing opportunities to come home to ourselves and all of life.
For this, we need a healthy amount of space and opportunities to get to know ourselves. Time spent creating or observing art, exploring what we find beautiful, playing in the inner workings of the mind, and dreaming up an ideal day supports the expression of Aries.Time spent with the mind through journaling or any other creative endeavors will also help establish the deeper and more confident sense of self that is represented by Aries.
Another way to support the gifts of Libra is to create time and space to come into the body. Being an air sign can sometimes seem as if life is spent exclusively in the mind. The medicine is in the body. In not just analyzing our experience but being. Not just conceptualizing love but expressing it. Not just understanding emotions but feeling them.
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Your Invitation During Libra Season
Ruled by Venus, Libra understands the value inherent in beauty. Throughout Libra season, we are invited to look through the eyes of this sign. To seek beauty in all and to add beauty wherever we can. This appreciation and creation of beauty is an integral component of Libra’s evolutionary purpose, which is to promote harmony within and without. With its sensitivity to aesthetics, Libra intuitively understands that a harmonious environment—whether through design, color, furnishings, fashion, nature, florals, art, words, or something else—supports harmony from within. It calms the nervous system and invites ease in the exhalation.
When we are still learning to access and work with the gifts of Libra, we may find ourselves stumbling around in the lower aspects of the archetype. For Libra, this can look like a devotion to short-term harmony placed before long-lasting harmony, driven by a fear of discord, imbalance, unpleasantries, or conflict. A fear that can often come back to a lack of safety found within the self, especially as we find our way.
What Libra Season Means for You, According to Your Sign
As the Sun shifts into the constellation of Libra, it simultaneously moves through a house or two in your birth chart, bringing focus to that specific area of life throughout Libra season. By looking at your rising sign, you can become aware of which house will be highlighted for you.
For a more personalized exploration of Libra season, learn which house(s) in your birth chart are occupied by Libra, as this is where the Sun will be journeying in the weeks to come. Bonus tip: If you have any planets in Libra, as the Sun moves through Libra, it will bring a focus to the energy of that planet, bringing it to the forefront of your life for this season, too.
Aries Rising
As the Sun transits through Libra, it moves through your seventh house of relationships, partnerships, and collaborations. This is a social time, a time to explore and revel in the company of your loved ones or to establish new connections and collaborations that support you in your endeavors. Libra season is where others play an integral role in the building of your identity and sense of self by acting as a mirror. It is where we are invited to play with who we find ourselves being and becoming while in the company of others.
Taurus Rising
There is harmony offered to you within Libra season. You, too, are ruled by Venus, the planet of love and beauty. You are invited to bring that love and beauty into your body, your everyday routines, your habits, and your mind. This is a time to adorn your day with flowers and art, bring love into the kitchen, organize and refine anything that feels as if it is not already in place, and review your habits, observing if they are truly supporting you.
Gemini Rising
It’s a season of play and creativity, romance and happiness for you. Under the influence of Libra season, you are invited to return to the youthful spirit that lives within, the curious spirit, the playful spirit. Within that pleasure-seeking happiness, you will find peace, harmony, and beauty within yourself and life. Whether this looks like art classes, candlelit dinners, galleries, books, or dancing, allow your expression to be the doorway to equilibrium found within.
Cancer Rising
Libra season invites comfort. It’s a time of turning inward, reflecting, and allowing time for yourself. Focus on your safe space, your sacred space, your born family and your chosen people, and your home. Balance comes from within, and it comes from sharing sacred moments with your loved ones. Invite peace into your home and body this season, invite spaciousness into your day and your mind, adorn your home with love and art. Allow these small moments that seem to mean everything to fill your body and your experience of each moment with beauty.
Leo Rising
Connection is at the heart of Libra season. Communication is your art, your journey of connection with another, your reminder that life is not fully lived without the people you treasure most. Words are one of the many ways that we come together with another, that we bring forth the world living in our minds into the mind of another, and vice versa. This is what this month is about. It is your mind learning, communicating, speaking, writing, listening, reading, and exploring the world—not only through your mental processes but through the worlds that live within others, too.
Virgo Rising
Libra season invites you to sink deep into your body. To slow down and celebrate your value. To recognize your self that has moved through so much in this life. And to bring yourself further and further into your authenticity as a result. This is a time to bring peace and beauty to your body and senses, whether your indulge in a massage, take yourself for a hike, anoint yourself with essential oils, or move through a yoga flow. This is also a harmonious time to explore and build upon your skills and introduce something new to your repertoire.
Libra Rising
It’s your season. As the Sun moves through your first house of self, you are gifted a renewed life force. It is a celebration of who you are and, simultaneously, a welcoming of a new season of yourself. This is a time to invite a deepened clarity of your wants and desires, whether through journaling, daydreaming, conversing, or creating. The month invites you to spend time simply engaging in what you love and what brings you home to yourself.
Scorpio Rising
Libra season and its qualities of beauty, harmony, and balance are a gateway into your connection with something greater. It reminds you that beauty is sacred, harmony is peace, art is holy, and love and connection are the true purpose and meaning of life. An internally focused month, this season invites a surrender into the moments that allow you to feel held by something greater, whatever name you assign to that. It’s as if appreciating and being in beauty is your way of falling into the hands of the divine.
Sagittarius Rising
Libra season invites you to look to the future. To play in the realm of your hopes and dreams and allow the space for frequent visioning, dreaming, and creating. A cardinal season, this month reignites a flame for a vision of yours and asks you to pursue it with grace, balance, and charisma. It also asks that you look to your community not only for support but potential collaborations and partnership that align with that vision. The way you bring it to life is through coming together with others.
Capricorn Rising
As the Sun moves through the constellation of Libra, it moves through the highest point in your birth chart. This season invites more Sun into your life literally and metaphorically. This is where you access light, life force, and vitality. As you look to this point in your chart, you look to a sense of direction and a bigger life calling your name. This season invites your focus on career growth, your sense of purpose, and access to ideas and aligned opportunities, all with forward momentum and movement.
Aquarius Rising
Beauty for you is found in meaning, in truth, in expanding your perspective, in soaking up wisdom. This month brings a nourishing invitation to lean into the moments that bring you closer to that truth. Whether through philosophical conversations or books, learning about art or history, experiencing other cultures, or simply seeing through the eyes of someone else for a moment in time. There is much you learn through the wisdom shared by another’s teachings, creations, narratives, and experiences. These will bring you deeper into yourself.
Pisces Rising
Libra season invites you inward, Pisces. Into your depths and into the depths of others. To observe the unspoken threads that seem to bring us together, and the emotions and greater meaning living beyond words expressed and art shared. Inner healing sits at the core of this month, beckoning you toward it. Love, intimacy, art, creative expression, time alone, and beauty are the doorway to it.
This article has been updated. Originally published September 19, 2023.
Learn more about the influence of astrology in your life, including astrological events the Moon cycles, your Sun and Moon and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with the current influences, and more with Jordane Maree at Girl and her Moon.
