Full Moon in Libra Horoscopes
The commodification of peace & where your garden is in full bloom
Call it a ferocious belief in the underdog or ideological high horse or love of perspiration of effort, but I resent the wellness trends and memes and declarations to “protect your peace” in the way it is advertised, recited by coaches, and offered up as the reason why we won’t pick a friend up from the airport or swerve ever so slightly outside the lane of convenience in our daily lives. Beware when the cost of protecting your peace comes at the expense of the world around you. This phenomenon knows many names — Internet brain rot. End stage capitalism. The atrophy of empathy. To me, it’s present in the shadow of Libra, and a dangerous way to live.
The underbelly here is not vanity or apathy, rather the weaponization of peace at any cost, stripping the muscle off justice and infantilizing its carcass; hyper-individualized needs, shrink wrapped saviorism, same-day delivery, hollow sonnets of convenient consideration, pregnant silence. The pleasing instinct of Libra risks bypassing the work of a boundary by bloating the space between discomfort and reassurance, in favor of what is proper and amenable.
None of us are immune. At this very moment, I am avoiding a truth. Sidestepping a hard conversation. Waiting for the perfect moment to speak up. The risk and fear here is obvious; if we avoid the sharper edges of conflict, the stretch of fulfilling a favor, the act of looking an issue straight in the eye, we will protect our peace to death and end up on an isolated island of our own making.
This is where I beat my fists on my chest and remind you of the glorious bliss of giving and loving, free from want and expectation. You don’t feel satisfied after the gym unless you break a sweat, and yet we seek out relationships that require little of us and have the audacity to be confused when the love is as shallow as a kiddie pool. This is all a very long way of saying true connection requires effort. The commodification of peace aims to remove effort and put a product or shortcut in its place. We’re told to avoid the external work of having a need met by cutting out the middleman. But what about when the middleman is a friend, lover, sister, mother? Suddenly we wake up and everyone is lonelier than they’ve ever been. We should not be so surprised how we arrived here.
My double Aries instinct is always to rush in with ferocity and declaration and sometimes rage — anything to fill the vacancy that choosing convenience over connection leaves behind. I can be rough edges where a soft touch is needed. Here I lean into Libra and she puts a cool rag on my brow and asks for patience. She reminds me of my “sphere of influence,” to not seek change beyond what I can personally insist upon. Less sledgehammer, more service.
I try and honor Libra by spotting the different mouth feel of convenience and peace on my tongue.
Libra reminds me of the importance of showing up when it matters most, and in the smallest ways. Holding a door open, complimenting a stranger, being a drop in the ocean over and over and over again.
Consider whether you are more sledgehammer or soft touch in the house of Libra.
Is one in particular needed more now than the other? They are both purveyors of justice, yet each of us naturally prefer one over the other.
Find 23 degrees Libra in your chart. Imagine this house is a garden. What is blooming? What has run its course, fragrant for a season? Are there roots you resist digging out to make room? Do you give too much or not enough in this area?
1st house: are you a mirror of everyone around you, or have you cultivated your own identity like a garden, with blooms that come and go in season, a rotational wardrobe and playful exterior that is a constant dance with the world around you? Consider how you’ve been a greater ally to yourself in the past six months, or the ways you still can be.
2nd house: it’s essential that you honor your values, especially when compromise is asked of you. If money is a topic that frequently comes up in relationships, speak your heart as truthfully as you know it. If your feeling of worth is ever up for debate, look to this house, this feeling, as a reminder that its preset and priceless. Have you become less compromising on what matters most to you?
3rd house: not a single soul in the world gets to determine the volume of your voice or the words that you use. How have you grown more unapologetic in speaking up over the last six months? Has there been a scenario or opportunity for you to stop apologizing and own your space? Are there words still trapped in your throat now?
4th house: there’s no one on earth that can push your buttons and boundaries like family. This does not mean you’ve lost the footing on progress, it’s just a reminder that your family is the ultimate litmus test for your ability to love yourself and them simultaneously, which requires boundaries that are not up for debate. What growth have you noticed with them in the past six months?
5th house: if you wait for the perfect time to feel fully, truly alive, the hourglass will continue to run. Which is to say, do not delay your joy. Consider any concessions you’ve made in the past six months to put your true joy, creative projects, and excitement on the back burner, or the ways in which you’ve insisted upon their priority. It’s never too late.
6th house: the routines you maintain for yourself are the highest form of love. Discipline is the highest expression of self-care. But so is forgiveness, grace, understanding. When you take an assessing glance at the quality of your day-to-day habits and lifestyle, do you need more discipline, or do you need more grace?
7th house: there is a truth emerging in your most significant relationships, if you feel willing to receive it. The beauty of wanting and loving is that it is a very alive way of being, and live things do not stay the same forever. They grow and morph and shift. What is emerging now? Will you let it?
8th house: you love so deep that the echo of the other reverberates inside of you, at times shifting your fabric of self and relationship to reality. It is a beautiful thing to be devoured, but it can also skew your true north. Consider how much of your interior world is defined or built around others. Have you experienced a need in the past six months to feel more rooted in yourself? To reclaim or to surrender?
9th house: it may often feel as if your dreams do not exist without the consideration of others. It is a beautiful thing, to want to fly in the same direction, together. When paths converge and dance, there is no greater feeling. But what about when the dream is put on pause or pushed to side in favor of another? Explore what ideas or goals deserve equal priority right now.
10th house: do you have a history of making career decisions based on relationships? Have you stayed in a city for a partner, or taken specific opportunities based on how they impact or support others? I want to know about the relationship between you and your purpose; a sacred kind of marriage beyond the earthly realm. As if you are renewing your vows with your divine path, what would you say to your purpose now?
11th house: you are often the neutral ground, Switzerland, middleman, friend who brings peace and understanding. Whether by choice or not, examine all the ways in which you’ve been wedged in between, a human buffer, and the role you play in those relationships. Are there any people in your circle you are tired of performing for? Are there any spaces you’re tired of peacekeeping in?
12th house: this placement emphasizes the relationship you have with the spiritual realm. Whether it’s a daily practice or a faint familiarity with the unseen, take this weekend to return to your love of spirit. Find its face in the flowers at the park, the bite of something sweet, or between the pages of your journal. Have any new beliefs or spiritual practices emerged in the past six months that you wish to continue?
It is my little prayer for the weekend that we might honor each pillar of relationship that Libra is here to teach us. Do one thing this weekend to honor yourself, one thing to make another feel loved, one thing to be a drop in the collective around you, and one to wink back at spirit.
To the moon and back (pun intended),
Ocean Pleasant
I have read this 3 times. Trying to connect to each word. The depth and understanding of the being of Libra allows comprehension with a deep soulfulness. Being to articulate that which does not have words, Brilliant!