Last year offered a snapshot of what’s possible for the next many years to come, when you feel viscerally connected to your own wants, needs and desires first and are making the moves to birth them. To be a Libran is to have learned how to read the room and to understand social harmony and relational balance and imbalance. And your graceful sign can unconsciously work to maintain equilibrium with the outer world by being the adaptable and easy-going one. However, what brings the vitality of your own Sun sign to the foreground is when you learn to read yourself first and establish the somatic safety to do so and to act from this place. Your sign has really had an evolution in this, particularly with the South Node in Libra from July 2023 - January 2025. Now a year on, and with so many of the outer planets firming up their long-range positions in signs that are great allies to you (Uranus into Gemini, Neptune into Aries and Pluto in Aquarius) your aim feels true and there is the momentum behind you to bring more of your own desires into form.

"what brings the vitality of your own Sun sign to the foreground is when you learn to read yourself first and establish the somatic safety to do so and to act from this place."

Your ruler, Venus, will retrograde again this year from October 3 - November 14, starting in Scorpio and moving back into your own sign. This is strong. A reset. A clear look at your own relational dynamics and desires. Again, there’s much to be said for your ability to build a strong foundation of your own inner equilibrium. What are the things that you do, personally, that bring you inner harmony? How do you best process your inner world? How do you get clear? Really notice what comes up during this period, much of this retrograde happens during your birthday season so it will really be illuminating how you express your own Venus. This is your values, your relationship to your own worth and value, the aligned action you take to support yourself, the inner and outer beauty that you are so adept at cultivating. As the air version of Venus, you can talk yourself into and out of love. You can almost adapt into the ultimate form that your love or crush desires. But what are you choosing and why? What do you want? There’s a great difference between being desired and being valued. You have the desire thing on tap. And the more that you are learning to truly value yourself and show up for you, the more anchored into your own worth and value you will feel.

"What are you choosing and why? What do you want? There’s a great difference between being desired and being valued."

One thing worth greatly valuing about yourself Libra, is the refinement of your mind and your tastes. Again, with all these big collective planets shifting into friendly signs, there is so much newness, so much change. Your thoughts and ideas, your visual expression, it's important. You have the hallmarks of an artist and an intellectual and in such a time like this, your natural, Venusian offerings are needed. You have a natural observational lens on culture, your own creative/life expression is needed as much as your observations are.

Libra 2026 words to live by

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Want to understand why the zodiac signs are the way they are? Look no further than our comprehensive guide to the personality traits of each zodiac sign. Plus, you can find all the answers to the year ahead in our 2026 astrology forecast.

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