Making Decisions, Managing Risk, and Creating Balance
Oh, Libra, welcome back! We’ve missed you so. The light, love, and logic you bring to the harvest season makes all those tough decisions we must make this time of year so much easier to manage. Mahalo. In order to make the most of this moment, let’s look at some of reasons why Libra, its energy, and its archetype are so helpful.
The archetype of Libra is complicated. While it is not the most complicated (thank you God), it is much more so than most. Part of it is that Libra has five: the lover, the artist, the advocate, the diplomat, and the peacemaker. All of these are related to the most important parts of the realm Libra rules: the courts, court houses, justice, law, the rule of law (locally, nationally and internationally), and the legal systems that make it.
During Libra season, and especially at the Libra new moon, you will be called upon to activate and utilize each of them at some point. The tricky part is when, where, why, and how. Given the times we live in, given that Libra is a male, cardinal, air sign, and given its archetypes, you will find yourself needing to pivot from one archetype to another – sometimes several times a day – in order to make good decisions and best finish what you start.
The good news is that the archetypes of Libra are all somewhat similar, those pivots are not usually a big step. Each archetype is driven in some way by love, and by the absolute certainty that with an abundance of reason, rationality, integrity, creativity, and clean communications, anything is possible – and all problems are solvable. In Libra season, the harmony, peace, and stability you seek are attainable if you are smart, patient, balanced, and committed.
Ruled by Venus – the Goddess of Love – Libra is committed to love and loving, beauty and aesthetics, pleasure and joy, balance and harmony, ethics and integrity, fairness, justice, and equality. An integrated and actualized Libra seeks reciprocal relationships in which each soul is valued, cherished, nourished, and equal – naturally, easily and without struggle, effort, guilt, or shame. Libra’s drives are quite artfully illustrated by its two defining statements: “I balance,” and “I relate.” With these guiding principles, it is said that in any relationship – personal or professional - Libra is more willing and able to communicate, negotiate, and compromise in order to create the quality of relationship that works for everyone.
Traditionally, Libra season is the time of year that things get set back to rights: spiritually, materially, physically, and emotionally. Sitting exactly halfway through the harvest season, Libra is famous for the restoration of order. That’s part of why Libra’s symbol is the scales, and the image of justice is a blind woman with a sword and scales. It is also why Libra season can feel so uncomfortable – you are being forced to identify what you truly stand for. And – if that wasn’t enough – then do something about it.
Every year – every harvest season - the restoration of order that occurs during the Sun’s course through Libra looks and feels a bit different, depending on any number of astrological, political and economic variables. Libra has a lawyer’s instinct and an axe to grind. It has a fire in its heart and is highly motivated to create a world with greater social justice and societal harmony through prudent risk management and social reform. Libra rules the highest and purest vibrations of love, the unlimited potential of creativity, and yet the absolute ferociousness of love in action, as well.
The energy of a sign is the strongest at its new moon, and the Libra new moon was at 5:25 am on Tuesday, October 21st. If that wasn’t pressure enough, this Libra Sun-Moon conjunction is the most powerful and urgent one in years, due to a number of factors. They are both late in the sign (28 degrees) AND they are the focal planets of a dynamic astrological aspect known as a T-Square.
In astrology, the configuration known as a T-Square occurs when two planets are directly opposite each other, and a third planet (or more) is at right angles to each of the opposed planets. To qualify as a T-Square, the planets directly across the chart from each other must be involved in an opposition, which is a 180° aspect. The third planet (or, in this case, planets) make a square, an aspect of 90°, to each of the first two planets.
Because all the aspects contained in a T-Square are hard aspects, such a configuration in a chart indicates more challenges than would occur in a chart without it. At the same time, a T-Square is a powerfully dynamic configuration. The most dynamic of all configurations. Once the challenges proffered by a T-Square have been adequately met, the moment has tremendous personal power and grace, physically, mentally and emotionally. Because Libra rules dance, and many other art forms, on a good day, you can waltz through whatever challenges and difficult harvest season decisions you face.
Adequately met are the operative words here. Given Libra’s governance of dualities – love and hate, peace and war, marriage and divorce – you will inevitably be faced with incidents and individuals that force you to choose the most empowering place for you to stand. Between this and the waning influence of last month’s eclipses and Virgo Black Moon, the normal harvest-season decisions we face are much more consequential. Libra demands that your decision making is prudent and balanced, that it minimizes risk, and is in keeping with the values and priorities you hold most dear.
Libra Sun or not, everyone has Libra somewhere. This time of year, it is imperative that you find yours. Where Libra lives in our natal charts is where we are capable of fierce heroism. This new Moon, we are all being called upon to find and activate the classic Libran archetypes as they exist in our psyches and our souls, so we are more likely to close out the harvest season and 2025 with greater success and less chaos and drama. Ask your gods, guides, guardians, angels, archangels, and ancestors to guide your thoughts, actions, words, and deeds, so you can make good decisions now that you won’t regret later. Listen to the answers you receive and trust them. Say yes, say thank you, and take action. And if you get stuck, call me.
We’ll figure it out.
Calendar
Below are some of the dates when your opportunities for wizardry, magic, and alchemy will be the greatest.
October 21
New Moon in Libra
October 22
Neptune moves into Pisces, Sun moves into Scorpio
October 29
Mercury moves into Sagittarius
October 31
Samhain, Halloween, Hallowmas, All Hallow’s Eve
November 1
All Saints Day, La Dia de los Muertos begins
November 2
All Soul’s Day, La Dia de los Muertos ends
Daylight Savings Time ends
November 4
Mars moves into Sagittarius
Election Day
November 5
Super Full Moon in Taurus (also known as the Beaver Moon, Frosty Moon, Hunter’s Moon, White Moon, and Oak Moon)
Fun fact: The moon will be 221,817 miles from Earth.
November 6
Venus moves into Scorpio
November 7
Uranus moves into Taurus
November 9
Mercury Retrograde Prelude Period ends, Mercury Retrogrades at 6° Sagittarius
November 11
Jupiter Retrogrades at 25° Cancer
Remembrance Day, Veteran’s Day
November 18
Mercury moves into Virgo
November 19
Lunar Samhain
New Moon in Scorpio
