With the Sun in friendly and easy-going Libra, the sign that rules our one to one relationships with others, you need other people to feel whole and stable. Your charm and elegance, for which Librans are well-known, mean that, for the most part, you have no problem fitting in with those around you. You can also find it hard to make decisions, as you always see both sides of the picture. For as Libra is an intellectual air sign, you also love to examine emotions and you have a real sixth sense for all the subtler aspects of your own and other people's feelings. With your good taste and eye for exquisiteness, pleasant environments are essential to you and you will go to enormous lengths to avoid cruelty or disagreement, for justice, tranquillity and harmony, sometimes at any price, are Libra's goals.

Your ruling planet
The ruling planet of your personal chart is the one that rules your Rising Sign. However, if Libra is your Sun Sign, its ruler, Venus, will also play an imperative role in your psychology.

Born from the foam of the sea, Venus is the goddess of beauty, love and pleasure. The brightest of the planets, known to us as both the Evening and the Morning Star, belongs to her. It governs harmony, friendship, affection and relatedness of every kind - as well as sensuality and lust. Its position at birth shows how you love, and whom.

Venus shows how you relate to, and assist, with others and the way you love. While the Moon is the representation of the mother, and of all maternal love and caring, the love goddess, Venus, is a beautiful young woman. Venus's sign and house position, as well as the connections it makes to other planets, show how you attract others to you and your attitude towards romance. It softens any planet that it touches. In a woman's chart, its sign reveals your type of femininity and sexuality, while in a man's chart it indicates what kind of woman you are drawn to. It also shows what you find beautiful, harmonious and attractive and what gives you pleasure. Venus also rules the arts and music.

Righteousness, harmony and equilibrium have been connected with the stars of Libra since ancient times. These are the scales of the Roman goddess of justice, Astraea. The Babylonians saw them as the scales in which the souls of the dead were weighed - when the Sun moves into Libra in the Autumn, the days and nights are of equal length, and so delicately balanced. The stars of Libra have also been seen as an altar or a mound, connected with the Tower of Babel. Zebeneschimali, Libra's second brightest star, is one of the only green stars in the sky which can be seen clearly with the naked eye. Libra lies between Virgo and Scorpio on the zodiac chart.

The pleasantly fragrant damask rose, the violet and primrose, as well as the mallow and vervain, sacred to the druids, are the flowers of the voluptuous planet, Venus, and so of Libra, the sign of one to one relationships. Your trees are the apple, the apricot and cherry, the birch, the tamarind and the myrtle, with its incense-scented leaves. Your herbs are pennyroyal, tansy and yarrow.

Your essential oils are pennyroyal, rose and violet. Pennyroyal, which is said to bring peace between lovers, is elevating and refreshing, while opulent rose and delicate violet create the ambience of peace and harmony which Libra needs to function well.

Libra, the sign which governs one to one relationships, is concerned with all the finer shades of love and personal emotions. It is the sign of balance, and those born under it are well -known for their need for synchronization as well as for their ability to originate it around them. Rose quartz, whose soft, rose pink is the colour of eros, or relatedness, is Libra's jewel and it is recommended as a cure for uncertainties or for a sense of estrangement. It creates emotional harmony with loved ones, representing peace towards its wearer from the cosmos. The cooling, therapeutic blue sapphire is also Libra's jewel.