Libra in the inner sky

Mode: standard

Prototype: lover, artist, mediator

Only in silence can there be words,

There is light in the darkness,

There is life in death,

The eagle is in the empty sky.

Glow.

-Ursula Le Quinn

The symbol of Libra:

Libra is not a modern product. It has no spring and no digital display. Only simple leverage came directly from the markets of Babylon and ancient Egypt. Put an ounce of lead in one plate and pour gold dust in the other. When they are balanced, you have an ounce of gold.

Libra represents harmony, balance and bipolar reconciliation. Lead meets gold, life meets death, love meets fear. There is no light without shadow, and there is no light without shadow.

The end of Libra:

Libra teaches tranquility. It represents the ability of the brain to consciously control the nervous system. Libra represents the part of us that will not be disturbed, irritated or shocked by anything. It has signed a permanent peace agreement with Chaos.

One rainy night, at the bus stop in Georgia, our car engine burned out and broke down three miles away. On our left, paid advertisements on TV constantly make people use more deodorant, which is exhausting. On our right, a portable high-power recorder plays harsh disco dance music for a three-year-old child. The loudspeaker announced that our bus would be two hours late. Do we care? No, this is life. There is no reason to feel uneasy.

Libra's goal, like all constellations, is a change of consciousness. It wants to achieve unbreakable inner harmony. From now on, nothing can shake this balance. Nothing can upset this balance. Pain comes and goes. The ups and downs of joys and sorrows are like alternating day and night. In the center of the merry-go-round, Libra stands consciously, but is indifferent.

The destination of Libra? It's easy to say, but hard to do: just calm down.

Libra's strategy:

Other constellations have a built-in balance. No matter how discordant life becomes, they will continue to focus on the matter at hand. Their task has nothing to do with calm, but something else.

Not suitable for Libra. Getting calm is the essence of this constellation. In addition, this kind of peace must be achieved through the conscious use of will. Numbness and neglect do not count. Libra has no innate immunity to its own balance. Their peace must be maintained through unremitting efforts. It doesn't happen automatically.

This is a contradiction: Libra, a symbol of peace, is as nervous as a violin string. Its art is not to relax them, but to see them never touched. Become completely fragile, extremely sensitive, but still calm. This is its mission.

How? Libra must learn to be aware of the first symptoms of emotional imbalance. You are late for your appointment 10 minutes, and the phone keeps ringing. You see a college roommate who was annoyed with you at first coming to your hall through the window and suddenly visiting. Okay, take a deep breath and meditate for five seconds. This is the core of Libra's strategy: never let stress form a chain reaction. Stop it before it starts.

There are other ways, but this is the key.

In any popular astrology book, you will see a sentence at the beginning, Libra is the artist's constellation. This statement is correct, but we must go further. This constellation usually enhances the sensitivity to beauty. But we usually don't understand that appreciating and creating beauty is actually in line with Libra's evolutionary purpose: they all bring peace.

Turning a corner on the mountain road, I stepped into a vast grassland from the gloomy pine forest. Looking up, the ridge that stretches for miles is blue-green, and the pink and red are tender at dusk. Feel this surprise, feel this comfort. What happened? Unconsciously, our mouths opened, our muscles relaxed, and we breathed a sigh of relief. When we see a ballet dancer spinning on the stage, we will have the same psychological and physiological reaction. The same is true when we look at a beautiful oil painting or take a last look at our bedroom after cleaning.

The harmony felt by the external world will be interpreted as the peace of the internal world. This is the focus of Libra's evolutionary strategy: you must constantly beautify your environment. Learning to draw can achieve this goal. You can also travel to those beautiful places, such as mountains, rivers or galleries, or make your bed.

Harmony does not only enter consciousness through the five senses. It also comes from feeling. And our feelings often depend on the quality of our relationship with others. For other constellations, friendship and marriage are not so central. Libra is only half, and the peace it seeks comes from the other half it finds.

Popular books usually say that Libra is lucky in love. The truth is often the opposite. For this constellation, relationship is a high-intensity growth field. That means doing your homework in this area, and there may be a lot of intense ups and downs.

Libra's goal is to build a deep and harmonious relationship. The strategy is to learn to compromise your habits, not your essence. The danger is that it cares so much about maintaining a harmonious appearance in a relationship that it loses all real peace.

Libra's resources:

A sense of harmony is Libra's resource. But this harmony is not only about color, shape or personality. It is a kind of consciousness, that is, all the whole is composed of two complementary halves. Women are complete men, light is complete darkness, evil creates beauty, and beauty brings meaning to evil.

Give Libra any rigid dogmatic view, and it will immediately put forward the opposite view. Tell it that the political left has all the answers and Libra will celebrate the wisdom of the right. Tell it that conservatives will save the country, and it will point out the advantages of liberalism. For this constellation, truth is always a balanced behavior. Intuitively, Libra feels that gold must be balanced with lead, and every truth is balanced by an equal and opposite truth.

This is the baby of Libra. It's not just artistic sensitivity, it's not just intimacy, it's not just elegance in social situations. But something deeper, which permeates all the virtues. Libra is more tolerant of contradictions than other constellations. You don't need the world to make sense. Opposing philosophy, opposing people and opposing choices-Libra can accept it.

Mary thinks Jack is selfish. Jack thinks Mary is manipulating. Their friends don't agree. One of them must be right. But who is it? Only Libra understands that they are all right. Truth is found in the balance between the two. For Libra, every truth contains two "half truths and half falsehoods". No constellation is so completely dissatisfied with only half the truth.

The shadow of Libra:

Truth is inherently vague. If we can accept this, our perception will be clearer. But this knowledge is also a very bad burden. We have come to a crossroads and we need to make a decision. But every decision must be a clear step. The bridge on the retreat road must be burned down.

Want to go to medical school? This means that you can't write poems about Crete. Want to get married? You mean you can't stay single. With a broad mind, you can keep two possibilities at the same time. But life is much narrower. We must make choices in life.

In the field of thought, tolerating contradictions is wisdom. But in daily life, it just means indecision. Libra will stand at the crossroads and be shocked to realize that no road is absolutely right.

The only thing Libra can do is flip a coin to make a decision, and then throw yourself into this choice with great enthusiasm, as if there is no other choice. Without commitment, life is just a long wait. We can't keep the option forever. But Libra may try so hard and encounter its own shadow in such an attempt.

Libra may just be waiting for time. They wandered around. They smiled sweetly. They won't have any enemies, because they won't take any position. But under the calm surface, the pressure is accumulating. Some things are fundamentally wrong. What is this? No threats, no pressure, no problems. Nothing happened.

But an old clock is ticking somewhere. Whether you decide or not, life will go on. (Twelve constellations/Astronomy/)

Excerpt from "the sky inside"

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