LIBRA: 22 September – 22 October

How's 2009 looking for Librans?

By Shelley von Strunckel  

Finance Work and Achievements

As a Libra, and somebody who has a respect for balance and order, you think everything through. You give serious thought to how you can organise your life, to what your objectives are and to how you'll achieve them. And then, having made a plan that you think is reasonable, you'll put it into action. During this year, however, things won't be so straightforward. In fact, you'll need to revise those plans often, even those that are uncomplicated. When this occurs don't assume that you got things wrong. Actually, this is all about the changes going on in the world around you and in the circumstances of others. This means that it's inevitable that you'll need to rearrange things, and often. Take that approach and then you'll also recognise each change as an opportunity to make improvements, perhaps beyond anything you would have thought possible when you first made those plans. With each of these changes, you'll learn something new and worthwhile. This not only enables you to refine plans, but also to come up with the innovations indicated by the practical Saturn's aspect to the planet of new ideas, Uranus, especially in February and September, when these powerful planets form a potent aspect.

Health and Wellbeing

So much of your life and your sense of wellbeing is based on ensuring that life around you, that the happiness of others and that everything is organised, that you sometimes neglect yourself. Or, alternatively, it won't be until everything is settled in the world around you that you'll think about your own health and wellbeing. You may already have given thought to your physical wellbeing. You're attending to your diet, ensuring you're eating what you should and avoiding the luscious treats most Libras love. Fitness can be trickier, since most Libras prefer an activity that combines music and rhythm rather than a gym with unappealing outfits and unaesthetic machines. Yet, during 2009, your biggest challenge won't be what you do or don't eat or your fitness; it will be recognising the need for balance in your mind and feelings and recognising that if you don't provide balance in this area, you can suffer. In fact, you actually undermine those close relationships by being overly stressed, or in a less than positive mood. By the end of the year, by 29 October, when the practical Saturn moves into your sign, remaining there until April of 2010, you'll recognise how important looking after your own interests is as well.

Love and Close Relationships

Every Libra seeks happiness and contentment in friendships, relationships with family and especially with close partners, at work or at home. Yet, sometimes that contentment must come as a result of either facing difficult facts or conducting challenging conversations. Normally you wisely sidestep these, knowing they'll only upset you and others, and lead to potentially painful discussions, exchanges you worry will achieve nothing. However, this is a period when such conversations aren't just vital, they're unavoidable. True, they may not start out well and when you begin, you could regret having allowed them to take place. However, what begin as exactly that - tense exchanges - will end up in lengthy and worthwhile discussions. Focus on learning from these. This doesn't just involve learning about the situations in question. It's also about adding to your relationship skills, being better able to raise and address these complex and unsettling issues. Keep this is mind, and when situations arise that require this, instead of avoiding them or doing the minimum, you'll conduct these discussions with the knowledge that what begins as a tricky exchange could turn out to be worthwhile in the present and in the years to come.

Mind, Body, Spirit

With so much going on in the world around you and such disruption in your own life and worryingly in the life of others, it would be easy to neglect what might be termed your 'inner world'; those intuitive feelings that arise when you're alone. Yet these are a vital part of this cycle. These give you a vital boost when you need it. Not only will time spent in spiritual reflection help you to reconnect with your centre, as you do it will create the stability that will benefit all of those around you as well.