LIBRA RISING

You're artistic, creative, sociable and have a diplomatic, friendly demeanor. However, you need to let go of self-interest and become cooperative instead of competitive. You're indecisive yet have a great fixity that doesn't appear on the surface. You're a good debater and can be a good lawyer. You're expedient and practical in a shrewd way and, if Venus and Saturn are well aspected, you're also dependable. You have a keen sense of color and must be in a harmonious environment because you can't stand disorder, be it physical, emotional or mental. If Venus is poorly placed, there can be an imbalance in your nature. You're apt to try to hard to please others and negate your principles in order to be popular.

Decanates
Degrees Planet Traits
0-9.99 Venus You're refined, cultured and have a good disposition. You have strong intuitive power and are very artistic. You can attract people without effort and need work in association with others.
10-19.99 Uranus Your mind is strong but not free-flowing and you tend to organize the life out of projects. You act more from reason that emotion and tend to follow a fixed pattern.
20-29.99 Mercury You're adaptable and versatile, but you find it difficult to settle down and finish projects. You're intuitive and can be a good reporter or journalist. You can be very restless and often are.

Libra on the 1st House: Your actions express beauty, grace, sternness, discipline and a strong sense of justice. You don't like to be alone and have a great need for companionship, and you project your individuality through cooperation. It's difficult for you to take a stand since you can see all sides clearly, especially the viewpoints of your associates. You want peace at any price, but in order to attain any peace worth having, you must function from the highest principle and let the chips fall where they may. You're forever trying to strike a mental and emotional balance, but you rarely do. You have charm and kindness, but must learn courage and convictions, using facts to form your own opinions.

Scorpio on the 2nd House: You're resourceful and energetic when making money, but you spend it as quick as you earn it. You want your possessions to be aesthetically pleasing more than valuable, enabling you to transform worthless items into something of value. Your partner(s) often supply money for the elegant things you want. You're willing to share your possessions with partners and friends if well aspected otherwise you clutch your possessions too tightly due to insecurity and a fear of lack in later life. You're secretive about your finances and personal affairs, resenting attempts to pry. You need a new slant on your values. Your personality must die so the soul can emerge.

Sagittarius on the 3rd House: You're philosophic and visionary in expressing your thoughts and ideas and you have an executive or legal type mind. You're generous toward you siblings even if you're separated from them, and they have a philosophical type of mind. You rate religious and social values on their usefulness in the larger social order. You're optimistic, cheerful and a good judge of character. You often receive messages from or communicate with people in far-away places. You often make short trips, mentally or physically, to explore far horizons and places you haven't yet visited.

Capricorn on the 4th House: You're a great disciplinarian and household organizer, but it's never organized to your satisfaction. There's much work and responsibility concentrated in your home and it's important to you that your home is recognized as contributing to the life of the community. You don't like moving around. Your family tends to be conservative and austere, but you take strong pride in you family ancestry, being bound to heirlooms through sentiment. You have a strong link to your mother, but clinging overlong to home ties leads to later resentment. A strong tendency to selfishness must be broken or you'll be alone in your later years.

Aquarius on the 5th House: You appear extremely conventional, but often have singular, exciting and unconventional love affairs, especially in your early thirties. As a child, you're rebellious but you won't gain freedom of expression unless you have self-discipline. You enjoy friends, groups and unusual or dramatic forms of art and theater, yet they must remain structured. Your children are original and often physically weak. If you don't teach them the value of discipline in early life, you won't be able to teach them at all. If you spoil them, you'll pay a heavy price later. Later in life, the understanding you gain through suffering is helpful in aiding others to gain understanding.

Pisces on the 6th House: Circumstances require unselfish devotion in your work and service, but you can create confusion and problems by trying to do too much at one time. You're sympathetic to your co-workers and employees even though you let your mind and not your emotions control your work and service. If you're looking for escape from professional duties, you may become a hypochondriac. Too much worry, especially about work can cause physical problems since your health is directly related to your emotional state. You can get ulcers if your emotions run wild and you need to learn to relax with a creative hobby. You must sacrifice your super-sensitivity to the needs of others.

Aries on the 7th House: You have the power to motivate others into action without them really being conscious of where it came from, but you can be too aggressive in gaining others' cooperation or attention. If your sense of justice is outraged, you'll fight to the death. There's often strife and difficulties in relationships and you must learn to adjust, and if the other person won't adjust too, there's war. You must learn to cooperate and compromise. Your partners must maintain a high activity level and work hard if they want peace. An early marriage in which many lessons must be learned may be necessary. Don't leap impulsively into any partnership. Women tend to dominate and be assertive, causing problems with partners.

Taurus on the 8th House: You have a power to generate wealth from sources unknown to others and you cooperate to help partner(s) earn money, but you're apt to spend it on adornments due to your love of beauty. You experience breaks and disruptions if your partner's money is dealt with selfishly or unreasonably, and, if afflicted, you can have a "It's mine" attitude. There must be cooperation with others if there's to be free-flowing lovingness and shared experiences.

Gemini on the 9th House: You demand that religion and philosophy be practical and logical, and you like to write about or discuss these topics. You have numerous comings and goings related to religious activity, often due to you curiosity about life. If Mercury is afflicted, gossiping and bickering with your in-laws is a constant source of irritation and it's not wise to live near them.

Cancer on the 10th House: You're acutely sensitive to your reputation and prestige and it's important to you that you're considered responsible and respectable. You often have a public career and are subconsciously aware of what people want. You often have a partner in business and there are many close ties between your professional life and your home life. If the Moon's afflicted, you have many career changes due to innate restlessness. You have a strong sense of responsibility and duty, but you must emphasize sympathy and understanding. Your mother is a strong influence for good or for bad, and your inability to escape from the "womb of the past" causes deep-seated resentment that becomes stronger the longer it remains unexpressed. After a parent is gone, in later life, you feel that life has passed you by. Skin eruptions can cause you difficulties.

Leo on the 11th House: You're diplomatic, optimistic and exude a great friendliness and outgoingness since you want to be liked. An external source of strength and security must be established, so you cultivate friends who are influential, creative and ingenious and your creative self-expression is often linked to friends. You're conscientious and have a strong sense of justice and goodwill, but if the Sun is afflicted, obstacles and difficulties with egotism and false pride arise. You achieve success through kindness and the right use of will.

Virgo on the 12th House: Your hidden support is your ability to devote meticulous attention to secondary details that others often overlook. Everything you do, even the hidden phases, is well-planned and organized, but you worry excessively and nag about trivial things. You have a strong interest in and secret concerns about your health. If you're inwardly critical of others, you have health difficulties. If you're of service to others without criticizing, you have superb health.

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