Loving Libra -- The mystique, mysteries and magic of the Zodiac's seventh sign -- Part 1

Pink is a Libra color!
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The perfect sign

When I was young, I thought Libra was the perfect Zodiac sign, the one to be -- if you had a choice, the one to emulate, the one you got if you had great Karma. If you weren't born a Libra in this life, you needed to spend your time here doing everything you could to win the Grand Prize next time.

Libras were engaging and sociable and friendly. They were popular. Everybody liked them. They had tremendous people skills. They knew how to get along with everybody. They always had a smile. They knew instinctively how to smooth the troubled waters of social commerce. They were always there for you. They were ... in a word, marvelous.

They were all the wonderful things I wasn't. (I had a mother who told me so constantly.) Despite their terrific press and reputation, I had to admit, even I loved Libras.

My best friend was a Libra. More than 55 years later we are still friends. Believe me, that's saying something. We were so different ... and she was better. I still believe that. When I was young, I didn't know why -- but I knew it was true.

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Libras like to have partners

Today, as an astrologer, I know the answer to the why. We were the opposites that attract -- like magnets. I have Sun and Moon in Aries. My friend, God bless her, has Sun, Venus and Neptune conjunct in Libra. She has an Aries Moon. We both have Sagittarius Rising.

On that plain, we discovered common ground -- and built on it. I also married a man with four planets in Libra. Everybody loved him. Everybody who knew us told me how lucky I was. I believed it. A popular country song the year we married was Donna Fargo singing "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA." That became my anthem. I sang along to the radio with true joy and passion whenever it played.

More deeply than any religious principle I ever met, I believed he was special ... and when life with him behind the closed doors of our house turned out to be less than heaven-on-earth, I knew the problem had to be my fault -- and tried harder.

Everyone else in the world could get along with him. They didn't have to try doing it day after day after day ... but in my rosy romantic enchantment, I didn't see that for a long, long time. And the few times that thought tried to sneak into my consciousness, I smacked it down again, harder and harder each time.

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And opposites attract

Then I discovered real Astrology -- not the dime-store, silly newspaper horoscope kind. I dug into it. I really studied it. Ok, I obsessively devoured the subject ... and I learned a lot more, both academically and through the wisdom of experience than I knew in the beginning when the mystique and allure of Libra was so intoxicating, so seductive, so undeniably fine!! In the magic of my memories, it still is.

I may be a double Aries, but I'm saturated with Pisces energy from many, many directions, and for Pisces ... memories are always like that. Singular and ideal! But then I also have Neptune in Libra -- opposing my Aries Sun like a shining mirage.

No wonder I see Libras and their many splendid virtues as elusive, captivating and grand.

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They are such "people people"

What I knew about Libras way back then wasn't a lie. It wasn't even the fine cover of a facade. Libras are, indeed, fabulous folks. They are friends to cherish, and Lord knows, I still do.

But I also know that Libra's qualities -- like those of us all -- are a mixed blessing, even for those whose souls own plenty of that energy. Libras are for sure charming and oh-so-likeable.

They are naturally refined, naturally sophisticated. They seem born knowing how to use their manners to make their way through life. They know how to talk, how to schmooze, how to seem genuinely interested in other people.

The doors of opportunity open at their touch. People who know them can't seem to do enough for them. Libras know how to capitalize on that. It's one of the best gifts in the world. When people talk about them, one of the things they always say is that Libras are so nice.

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They are so ... nice

When it comes to Libras, those two words are welded together ... so nice. In time, I learned to say that in a tone of voice that suggested lethal poison. So nice. An insult worse than anything else I could utter.

I was usually referring to something about my husband when I said them ... like that. And I always said them only in my mind.

Libras are friendly. Libras are considerate. Anybody with two good eyes and a few firing neurons can see that. What you don't know -- at first -- is that they aren't doing it for you.

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And they want everything else
to be "so nice," too

Sure, they may make you feel special. And sure, if your friendship with one lasts a long time, you may indeed be special to that particular Libra soul. But they do this for everyone. It's why so many people love them. Not a deep love. Not a true love.

But that's something else you learn about Libras. They're not really looking for that -- most of them. They'll settle gladly for the smooth appearance ... the lovely facade I mentioned a minute ago.

They want beauty. They want harmony. They want the atmosphere and their surroundings to be so nice. And if the glittery and tranquil surface is built over a paper-thin shell of rottenness like you wouldn't believe ... that's ok for the time being.

Libras can live with that -- and fool themselves into thinking it's real. Libras are absolute masters at that brand of self-deception.

Part 2

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