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A horizontal line with a second, shorter line above it raised in the middle by a low arc, the zodiac sign for births between 23 September to 22 October.
Also known as: Libra, Libra zodiac sign, Libra star sign
Libra is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 23 September to 22 October. Astrology classes it as a air sign of cardinal quality ruled by Venus, and reads the glyph as a beam balance, or the sun setting on the horizon. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Libra, which tradition assigns to births between 23 September to 22 October. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+264E in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a air sign of cardinal quality, ruled by Venus.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as a beam balance, or the sun setting on the horizon.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
A horizontal line with a second, shorter line above it raised in the middle by a low arc.
Astrological tradition assigns Venus as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.