Positions
Descendant in Libra
Modern
With Libra on your Descendant you are drawn to partners who are charming, even-handed, and easy to be with, the ones who make relationship itself feel like an art. You look across at grace and fairness, often because harmony and partnership are what you most consciously want, with the Descendant in its home angle. The shadow is so prizing peace that you avoid the partner's real edges, choosing pleasing over honest, or projecting your own diplomacy, until you let the bond hold disagreement without breaking.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Libra on the seventh cusp, the very place of marriage, the partner is signified by Venus in her diurnal house and comes as a courteous, fair-minded, and companionable figure made for relationship. The native is drawn to a mate of charm and balance and is well matched when Venus is dignified, since this is the angle most natural to her, but when the lord is afflicted the bond grows indecisive or peace is kept at the cost of the self. The open enemy is polite but evasive, so read Venus closely.
- libra
- descendant
- harmonious partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Reads the seventh house of marriage and open foes; Venus on this her natural angle favors a gracious, companionable union.
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, IV.5Treats marriage from the angle and Venus; a Venusian seventh inclines to a harmonious, well-matched, social bond.
- Greene, Relating (1977)Reads the Descendant as the relating function; a Libra cusp seeks the partner as mirror, balance, and other half.