Libra is the seventh sign on the zodiac, which begins with Aries and ends with Pisces. It occupies the seventh house of the natural zodiac, the one that is directly opposite and balances the first, which is our identity and ego expression. If the first house, or ascendant, describes the ``I" of the chart, the seventh house, describes the ``You".

There is always a pushing and pulling within ourselves, as we seek to express in ways that are both true to ourselves (1st house, Aries) and which are couched in terms that others can hear  (7th house, Libra), drawing them from mere ``spectatorship" into being equal partners in the process of our life´s expression.

Both choices and the decision making processes are under the aegis of Libra and the seventh house, because the wisest of these balance our inner and outer worlds, our own desires and the need to participate with the ``Other"(s) in our lives.

The Grand Arcana equivalent of Libra - and all ten planets and 12 signs have a Tarot equivalent - is ``Justice", ergo the blindfolded archetype balancing the sun and the moon on golden scales that accompanies this series of web images.

Libra is said to share Venus as its ruler with Taurus, but I have personally come to believe, after 30 years as an astrologer, that Taurus resonates far more closely to our own planet, the Earth. The colors for the two signs are often flipped about, yet I feel a much closer affinity to rose tones and pastels as Libra colors, green being so evidently earthy and Taurean.

The Scales (the sun passes through the particular slice of the sky containing this constellation every year when its in ``Libra") are the second of the three air signs: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. My rulership library was scried for metals pertaining to Libra, but none were to be found, so I used a very soft pastel gold. However, marble *is* a Libra mineral, and although many stones are ascribed to it, the one that most rings my inner bell as a stone mage is tanzanite. This exquisite violet/pink or blue-ish stone carries both the blue ray and the red ray, symbolizing the dance of harmonizing opposites which is the core mystery of Libra and the seventh house.

Tanzanite is featured on several of this set´s elements, as is the glyph for Libra and that for its ruler, Venus.

Note to the head shaking astrologer: How dare I make all these non-traditional iconographic decisions? Well, first of all, I´m an Aquarius. My Sun and Mercury´s talent is never to do that which is expected quite in the way its expected. I have a Libra Moon, Taurus rising and Venus exactly conjunct the north Node and exactly trine the ascendant.

I hear Her, therefore I bejewel the Web ;->