Libra Season 2024: The Middle Way

On September 22, 08:44 AM EST, the Sun leaves Virgo, and Libra season 2024 begins, bringing the spotlight on our ongoing quest for balance while inspiring us to pursue harmony by embracing the Middle Way. This time of the year highlights the importance of relationships and invites us to reflect on how we tend to engage with others and on the dance between giving and receiving in our connections.

The Sun’s ingress into Libra is especially relevant for individuals born with planets or angles in Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn).

Those of us personally impacted by the start of Libra season will have the opportunity to gain awareness of what needs attention in our relationships and renovate how we connect with others. We will also be able to identify imbalances and work toward creating greater harmony and peace within ourselves and around us.

From Virgo to Libra season: Connection, Cooperation, and Collaboration

Virgo season stressed the value of discernment, inviting us to be selective about what we consume and aware of how our daily choices impact our health and well-being. The Sun’s transit through Virgo encouraged us to come back to our routines, reprioritize, improve functionality and efficiency, and develop a new relationship with our bodies and our health.

Libra is a Yang, Cardinal, and Air sign, the first one through which we enter the social sphere and establish relationships based on equality. As a Cardinal archetype of initiation, Libra begins a new and unfamiliar process: integrating into the social reality and mastering relationships. Ruled by Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty, Libra season reminds us that we learn invaluable lessons about ourselves and life by simply participating in relationships and allowing others to be our mirrors.

The Sun’s transit through the sign of the Scales is an opportunity to practice putting ourselves in other people’s shoes, refining our active listening skills, and exploring diversity, differences, and contrast with an open mind and an open heart. This season reminds us of the power of cooperation and collaboration, of learning from each other, and of experiencing opposites.

Libra season 2024: the Middle Way

While we navigate the Eclipse window, the Equinox provides us with an opportunity to become aware of any imbalances in our lives and invites us to reflect on what balance means to us: the Sun’s ingress into Libra encourages us to embrace the Middle Way.

The concept of the Middle Way has its roots in Buddhist philosophy. Before his enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Buddha, experienced two extreme lifestyles: one of indulgence as a prince, and one of asceticism as a monk. However, neither path led him to the peace he was seeking. It was only when he discovered the Middle Way, avoiding both excess and deprivation, that he found enlightenment.

Buddhist philosophy encourages moderation and mindfulness and teaches us that all kinds of extremes lead to suffering: this is very resonant with the essence of the Libra archetype. During Libra season, we have an opportunity to pay attention to where we tend to gravitate toward extremes, what is out of balance in our lives, where we lack moderation, and where more harmony is needed. The Sun’s transit through the sign of the Scales encourages us to gravitate toward the Middle Way and see what happens in our lives as a result of that choice.

Upcoming Lunations

During Libra season 2024, we are going to experience a New Moon Annular Solar Eclipse in Libra on October 2 and a Full Moon in Aries on October 17.

The New Moon Annular Solar Eclipse is the final Eclipse in Libra for this cycle, as we won’t experience another one in this sign until 2033. This event invites radical changes in our relationships and relating patterns and sets in motion a drastic renewal of how we connect with others, of our expectations, of how we show up in our connections, of the choices we make, of the people we surround ourselves with. 

Taking place on the South Node of the Moon, conjunct Mercury, and square Mars, this Eclipse asks us to purge the old, release familiar habits, and let go of relationships that run their course to make space for new ones. It is an opportunity to embody a new version of ourselves and, as a result, welcome different kinds of people into our lives. 

The upcoming Full Moon in Aries is an extremely relevant event as it represents the culmination point of a six-month cycle that began on April 8, 2024, with the New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Aries conjunct Chiron. This Full Moon happens at 24º Aries: it will again be conjunct with Chiron, retrograde at 21º Aries, and square both retrograde Pluto in Capricorn and Mars in Cancer.

Despite not being an Eclipse, the upcoming Aries Full Moon is a powerful one. Around this time, we can expect intense emotional releases and opportunities to recognize and heal deep-seated wounds. The activation of both Pluto and Mars heightens the likelihood of experiencing separations, conflicts, and power struggles, as long-accumulated tension finally erupts to the surface, revealing where we settled for comfortable lies instead of facing the uncomfortable truth.

Quest for Balance

As Libra season 2024 begins, Venus leaves the sign of the Scales and enters Scorpio almost simultaneously. Venus is going to remain in Scorpio until October 17, almost for the entirety of Libra season: this is an invitation for us to deepen our connections and strive for greater emotional intimacy, not only with other people but first and foremost with ourselves.

This time of the year highlights our ongoing quest for balance while challenging us to renovate our existing definition of balance and recognize its dynamic nature. The Sun in Libra highlights the value of relationships and the importance of being surrounded by harmony, peace, and beauty. Nevertheless, particularly around the time of the Aries Full Moon, we will have chances to recognize how avoiding disagreements and settling for a false sense of peace and harmony ultimately creates more conflict and tension in our lives, both internally and externally.

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To celebrate the arrival of Libra Season we present you our new creation – the Libra Season Workbook 2024. This is a printable PDF workbook that you can print out and work on right away!

You have to experience this powerful workbook – for all zodiac signs, no matter your sun sign or configuration of your natal chart. It is life changing and we are going to be using it along side you. Below you can watch our short Libra Season 2024 workbook preview!