!! OMG Stars: Libra Season 2024 Horoscopes !!

Dear Readers,

“Infinity is duality:
the outside
and the inside
of everything
and nothing”

—Sun Ra, “the alternative to limitation”

Happy Libra season, happy autumnal equinox, or vernal equinox in the Southern hemisphere. Here we hang in the balance between day and night, equal parts light and dark. Libra season this year starts with her ruling planet Venus in her sign, on the tail of the lunar eclipse, in a week when I’m in a funny kind of chain letter with some friends encouraging each other to look at the moon every night.

Whenever I see Libra clients, I wind up telling the following story (so here I am giving away the cow with the milk):

This story comes from brilliant dancer and choreographer Justine A. Chambers. I was taking Justine’s class some years ago and she had us experimenting with gravity by standing high on one leg, up on a demi-pointe, while extending our remaining limbs as far from our bodies as we could, always maintaining a center of gravity. There was some spacey ambient music in the background, and the effect was one of a bunch of flailing orbiting bodies in a big empty room.

While we did this balance dance, Justine walked around the room and told us a story (with my apologies, Justine, if I’ve been telling this story wrong all along). She was once on a long bus ride that took a stop somewhere at a middle-of-nowhere gas station. Justine got off to stretch her legs and walked around the gas station. During this walk she came across a man tap-dancing on a piece of cardboard outside, doing this incredible movement balanced on the very tip of one shoe while orbiting the rest of his body around at great risk and momentum. Justine, as I remember the story, was transfixed and watched him until he finished his dance. Afterwards she approached him and disclosed that she was a dancer, and asked how he balanced like that. He told her, “balance is just moving in every direction at the same time”.

I think about this story always when I see Libran clients, trying hard to bring harmony to everyone, trying hard to advocate for their own needs, trying to seek balance but thinking too much in terms of this-or-that. This is not to say that all Libras are binary thinkers (patently untrue), but that a major feature of the archetype of Libra is the unit of two. The symbolism of Libra is the scale, moving things off of one side in order to balance the other. Libra is Cardinal Air—all air signs are about system, communication, thought, and all cardinal signs are about beginnings. When I think about the beginning of a system, the first kind of system we can understand, I think of a binary. Little children learn opposites, and this is their introduction to systems.

The other thing I always mention in my Libra readings is that Libra is 100% the Carrie Bradshaw of the Zodiac.

When the Libra side of us is in difficulty, we need to shift the perspective from the center out, balancing the self with the other/outer. Libra is about the appreciation of beauty, and I think about how reaching out of the self to notice something beautiful helps us achieve this kind of infinite duality, this every-direction balance between ourselves and everything else.

Happy changing of seasons to you,
Amelia

Horoscopes are written using whole house calculations and are meant as inspiration and affirmation. Specific calculations are made for the rising signs, but if you don’t know your rising sign, you can read for your sun. You can access your birth chart at astro.com, café astrology, or many other apps and websites using your birth date, time, and location. You can also find out lots of personal information by booking a reading with me here.

Aries Rising

For Aries rising, Libra sits on your seventh house, the part of the chart that rules your one-on-one relationship. This territory is natural for Libra and is her home.This part of the chart includes romantic relationships but also close friendships, collaborations, business partnership, and any other dedicated unit of two people.

This month brings focus to this area of your life where you need to balance your sign’s typical individual focus (perhaps a gentle way of naming the Aries tendency of self-involvement) with your need for genuine and reflective connection. Use this month to focus on these close relationships.

Nurture them, reflect on them, spend time thinking and talking about them. This part of the chart is a mirror on your identity, so make sure the reflection you get back is one you want to see.

Taurus Rising

Taurus risings have Libra on your sixth house, which rules your daily schedules, labour, and health. Libra here compliments your natural Taurean love of comfort and nice things, as both signs are ruled by Venus. You likely enjoy a daily schedule that is comfortable and involves appreciation of beauty, and prefer taking good care of your health.

This may be antithetical to your actual career, as Taurus risings have Aquarius (chaos God) on the part of your chart that rules your public profile. This month take advantage of the attention that the Libra part of your chart is getting.

Consciously increase the comfort in your work routine, add daily moments of appreciating beauty, and maintain an equilibrium of work-life balance. You’ll honour your Venusian rulership this way, and this time of year is often a great time for these things anyway.

Gemini Rising

Gemini risings have Libra on your fifth house, the part of the chart that rules creativity, having fun, dancing, and pleasure. This is the part of the chart that makes life worth living. Libra on this side of the chart is such a blessing. It makes you naturally creative, expressive, and possessing an eye for beauty. This month, with the sun and Mercury there, and Venus having just made a delicious pass through, focus on your fun.

This is a great time to engage in whatever creative practice you love (or try out a new one), and to spend time in social engagements. It’s a great month for romance (whether with someone else or with yourself) and is a great time for play.

Keep the focus light, pleasant, and Venusian this month. There’s been tough astrology for Gemini this year, so consider this month a vacation.

Cancer Rising

For Cancer risings, Libra rules your fourth house of home and family. This part of the chart governs your physical abode itself as well as your chosen family and family of origin. Having Libra here very much adds to the Cancerian stereotype of loving your home and loving nice things. You likely have lots of nice little objects around that remind you of the people and places you love, and have a hard time parting with things.

You likely also take a lot of comfort in being at home and are able to be your most safe and creative self there. All Cancer people are centrally concerned with their people, whoever those people are, and having Libra on your fourth house also means you’re very attached to those relationships. This month is a lovely time for you to focus on your home and family (/families). Spend time with your loved ones and give love to your home.

I always tend to think that dusting is a nice thing to do in this kind of astrology: fondly handling your sweet treasured objects, carefully wiping them down, and ensuring they can be admired at their best is a good metaphor for how to care for yourself in this astrology, too.

Leo Rising

Libra rules your third house, Leo risings. The third house is a spot I always find a bit hard to talk about because it rules so many things. In opposition to the ninth house of expansion (growth, higher learning, travel) the third house rules many mundane things that are hard to lump into a succinct and poetic category. It rules communication, yes, but so does your Mercury in a much more immediate way. The third house also rules short trips like your commute, your siblings, intellect, debates, education…

Though it doesn’t encapsulate everything, recently I encountered it as the house of Learning, while the ninth house is that of growth. You learn things in direct communication, you read, you write (third house) so that you can then grow, expand, and develop from them (ninth house). With that in mind, Leo risings, this month your third house sees the focus. With Libra here you likely enjoy a harmonious and pleasant approach to learning.

You might have a subtly sweet communication style. Take this month to focus on your learning, the direct, mundane, immediate, and day-to-day aspects of it, so that you can take your learning forward into growth.

Virgo Rising

For Virgo risings, Libra rules the second house of resources. This is the house that rules your stuff, your objects, your money, and your values (physical and moral). Libra in this part of the chart means you might be fond of pretty things, and deeply value a sense of fairness and values.

This month (as is the case every Libra season), the sun lights this part of your chart up bringing them into focus. This is a good month for taking stock, a lovely thing to do as the days begin to shorten and we prepare for winter. Care for your things, check in on your finances, and prepare yourself emotionally. Think about how you identify with the objects you own and how they bring you peace.

Think about how your values align with where you spend your money. Then take those thoughts and prepare to place them into action over the next 12 months as you engage in/remain in this lifelong cycle.

Libra Sun or Rising

Happy you season, Libra. Happy Venus-in-your-sign (in her home sign), happy season of appreciation and giving thanks and golden light and the nicest moons of the year. Happy knowing that winter is coming but not yet preparing for it season, happy there’s still gorgeous days out there and people still wearing shorts. This is very Libra time. The glyph that represents Libra ( ♎︎ ) is largely understood to be an image of scales, but I was taught to recognize that it also looks like a sun setting or rising over a horizon, and that appreciating beauty is one of the most key elements of Libra.

Take this season to appreciate yourself. This is a time to focus on your identity and your needs, your own self in its wholeness. Take care of your skin, the barrier between the outside world and yourself, and use this as a metaphor for the rest of your life. How do you protect the soft membranes that separate you and the outside world? How do you respect them while allowing them to remain porous?

The shadow side of Libra involves not seeing what everyone else is doing for you, and feeling the weight of your own efforts to balance most strongly. By attending to the protections you have between the internal and external, you can more clearly see your relationships for what they are. In this way you become more discerning.

Scorpio Rising

Libra rules the part of your chart that rules your dreams, your solitude, and your mental health. I often think this is a bit of a blessing for Scorpio risings, whose worldview can tend towards the intense. Libra is a lighter, gentler, more self-interested side of the zodiac than is Scorpio, so you get a bit of levity where your chart needs it most.

This month (as happens every Libra season) your twelfth house gets the focus, and this is best served by honouring it. Lean in to the dreams, the solitude, and the profound self care. This isn’t face mask self care, this is journaling and paying attention to what’s coming out of the depths.

It doesn’t need to be profound, it doesn’t need to be scary, but we all need to pay attention to our shadow, and this time of year (right before your season) is a great time to do it.

Sagittarius Rising

Sagittarius risings have Libra on your eleventh house, the part of the chart that rules social circles and community groups. This isn’t so much the individual relationships as it is the meta view of all of them together. The large groups you belong to and the way they interact. This can include groups of coworkers, any clubs or memberships you belong to, and the birds-eye-view of your social circles.

Libra is a sign that really values one-on-one relationships, so having Libra rule this part of your chart can mean you might be prone to focusing on the one-on-one, either because you prefer speaking in this dynamic or because you just don’t like big groups. There is something really fun about slithering away from a big crowd to chat with just one person (though I’ll admit it’s a bit antithetical to the Sagittarian archetype).

This month, use the presence of the sun to bring light to this part of yourself and your life. Focus on the big groups, the networks, and the communities. Consider their interconnectedness and their commonalities. Find yourself in your groups, Sag rising, and find comfort in them.

Capricorn Rising

You have Libra ruling your tenth house of career and public profile, Capricorn, a placement that can be a bit of a quandary for your sign typically known for its practicality and authority. Libra is sweeter and gentler than your archetype, and having her in such a public place might mean you give off a vibe at large that’s very different than the one you give off interpersonally.

It could also mean that whatever you do professionally has to do with beauty, and that as a Capricorn, you’re very serious about it. Serious business of beauty! This month your house of career gets lit up by the sun, as it does every year, and you have an opportunity to focus on this area of your life.

Spend some time in appreciation for the work that you do and how well you do it. Be proud of your accomplishments and savour the challenges.

Aquarius Rising

Libra rules your ninth house, Aquarius rising, which has to do with growth, expansion, and higher learning. This house has mundane expressions but is also a fairly spiritual area of the chart. This month, as is the case every Libra season, this area of your chart (your life) gets light from the sun. It’s a good time to consider your growth, and take on an expansive view of the world. Look back at the last twelve months and think about how you’ve grown.

What things have you done that have contributed to your growth? Which of them have been challenging? Since Libra is here, which of them have been beautiful? Sweet? Gentle? Harmonious? Growth is often difficult (discomfort is transformation) so having Libra in this area can mean you might be rankled by the challenges necessary to grow.

Use your skill at seeing the big picture and the patterns therein to recognize the overall story of your growth.

Pisces Rising

For Pisces risings Libra rules the eight house of your chart. This part of the chart/your life is complex territory: in a word I consider it the house of intimacy, but it is also the house of entanglement, of the inevitable, and in the mundane, of sex, death, and taxes. It rules the way your life is tied up in the lives of the people around you, and the way that has physical, practical, emotional, and spiritual ramifications. So chill! Having Libra here means you like a harmonious approach to these kinds of depths, and that can be really challenging as these depths are often not harmonious.

Pisces as a sign is good at understanding that things can be complex and messy and completely incomprehensible, but Libra likes to find understanding in a tidy little package. So How do we reconcile this? Libra season is a good time for you to consider your deepest emotional connections and look at how they impact your life.

Consider the closest relationships you’ve had over the past year, Pisces rising, and honour their mark on your dreams and your reality.

OMG Stars is our astrology column written by queer astrologer Amelia Ehrhardt (@amelia.np.e). At the beginning of each new astrological season, Amelia interprets the upcoming astrology with a focus on how to navigate current events (astrological and global).