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Libra
September 23-October 22

The smell of hot apple cider with cinnamon, the first whiffs of hot chocolate. Those pumpkin cookies with nutmeg. The salads of summer give way to the vegetable soup and stone ground bread of a fall dinner. The flowered tops of summer become the dark green sweatshirts of fall. The pumpkins begin to proliferate, first in the stores, and later on the stone walls of fine houses. Orange plastic ones filled with candy, and real ones carved with lights.

The dutiful observance of Columbus Day, when the banks close for a day, and the rest of the world doesn’t.

The babies conceived last New Year’s Eve are coming now, with subconscious memories of celebration and glitter, of expensive perfume and a teetering walk through a quiet parking lot and the cold that chills even through fur. They come into a world ready to cocoon again after the high summer, ready to turn to the fireplace again. They gurgle, perhaps with delight that they too, will themselves one day participate in all of the happiness of that night.

In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the first warm breezes after a cold July and August. Time to loosen up coats and sweaters a bit, to open up the windows a little. Babies concieved New Year’s Eve here: stars overhead under warm breezes, ballroom dancing with the sky as the ceiling. Couples nestling together and then as they fall asleep, the Moon sets into the sea and millions of stars twinkle from horizon to horizon.

The midpoint of the Zodiac, Libra traditionally represents balance. It is the culminating point of the Zodiac, where what was sowed by Aries will be harvested by Libra. More in the past, than now, this would be when Harvest Day would be celebrated. The actual harvest was last month in Virgo, with finishing touches this month. Time to can the harvest, to chop the wood, to patch the house and give thanks for the year’s bounty. Canada actually has it’s Thanksgiving Day now, when the weather at least allows for some travel without too much difficulty. Our Libra
celebration is Columbus Day-a poor substitute in most parts of America. No feast, no music, nothing but closed banks and an offday for Government Workers.

Libras may find they have a love for the East, if they are Westerners, or for the West, if they are from the East. To a Western Libra the Orient represents calm and harmony with spirit which is often missing in a go-go-go Western society with its competition and frenzied pace. To an Asian Libra, the West allows for speed and emergy and individual drive. The goal is always balance between opposites, the need to supply what’s missing for completeness in a culture.

Libras may feel the need to mediate conflict between persons and entities in conflict. Their faith in the power of mediation can be so strong that sometimes they may overlook the possibility that some things can’t be solved without conflict bringing the issues to a boil. Conflict can clarify, if only by forcing people to express what’s wrong with a situation.

The shadow side of any sign can be found in the opposite sign. Libras can sometimes be a bit on the selfish side, a me-me-me that wants harmony only on their terms. They can be passive-aggressive, a bit too stuck on not sharing the spotlight with others at times.