Libra

September 23 – October 22

As a Libra and an air sign, your interests in what’s happening is second-nature. You love ideas, thinking about what you could do. You love knowing about what others are up to. You love hearing about what’s going on in the world around you. What’s more, you thrive on exchanging ideas about how life, how things could be improved, live could be better lived, how you could reorganise what you do, where you go. And this leads to your interest in what’s happening in your world and the world of others.

Yet at the same time, for you as an individual, stability is essential, simply because with so much going on in your head, so many ideas swirling around, you need a quiet place ’within’, where you can collect your thoughts and, when the mood is right, retire from all that mental chatter. By the same token, when it comes to your life, both your day to day existence and your long term plans, some degree of stability and predictability is important for you.

However, with Saturn, planet of focus, having moved to accent the structure of your life in late 2017, and remaining there until 2020, there will have been many questions about elements of exactly that, how you live and where you live, and what’s in your best interests. This will have triggered a range of questions. Some were clear cut and easy to address and, mostly, you have. But others seemed a nuisance, so you ignored them, while a few seemed somewhat unsettling, if not just plain worrying. This could be because the actual situation was unclear or, perhaps, you haven’t been ready to acknowledge those issues or make the necessary changes.

As you move into the year of 2019, however, and you benefit from the influence of Uranus, the planet of innovation, which moves to accent the practical side of your life, the use of your resources, you’ll find that here, too, new ideas seem to be encouraging you to think differently. To spend time with different people. To rethink your lifestyle, your values, and your goals. Not only that, because Uranus is about innovation, you’ll discover the world around you is changing too. And that will lead to intriguing and often profitable discussions with others.

If you go to a job, this could involve exciting, if initially unsettling, changes in where or how you work, or the actual structure of your professional life. Or, equally, it could influence the shape of the professional activities of someone you closely associated with, a partner at home or at work. Alternatively, it may have to do with altering elements of your day-to-day routine, Or, in fact, it could be elements of all of these. The influence of Uranus can be as unexpected as it is exciting, so when sudden developments arise, bear in mind you won’t necessarily recognise those benefits right away.

Obviously, these are matters you’ll undertake or deal with overnight. However, by September when several of the heavenly bodies move into the earth sign of Virgo – with the Sun, Mercury, your ruler Venus, and Mars all positioned there – you’ll recognise that it is as much about how you and others would benefit from making certain changes as the actual changes themselves.

It’s also worth noting that with Mars, the planet of focus, moving into Libra on October 4, to remain there until November 19, you’ll have an opportunity to review what you’ve learnt during early 2019. This is good timing, especially because when you needn’t make any specific decisions yet, with Jupiter itself the planet of innovation accenting new ideas for the entire year, there’ll be plenty to think about and discuss. Once you understand this is a year during which the process of considering things will often be enough, which means you needn’t make decisions right away, then instead of feeling under pressure to get things organised, you’ll encourage others to join you in this process of exploration. But most of all, you’ll be confident that what you’re exploring will come together in wonderful ways, some of it during 2019, but as much over the exciting years to come.

You’ll find that new ideas seem to be encouraging you to think differently. You’ll discover the world around you is changing too. And that will lead to intriguing discussions