Libra at the entrance of the 5th house would make pleasure a matter of sharing and aesthetics.
Fun is better in company: a duet, an elegant conversation, a harmony found together.
Creating beauty with others and making the moments you organize pleasant.
Waiting for other people’s opinion before daring to create, or avoiding any quarrel at the cost of your own tastes.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A four-hands piano duet, a ballroom dance learned as a couple, an exhibition visited with a friend and discussed afterward at the café, a bouquet arranged for a festive table: the pleasures tied to this house would need someone across from you.
You like creating in dialogue, looking for balance of colors, the rightness of a proportion, the well-turned phrase. You win people over with courtesy, listening, a keen sense of elegance. With children, you would pass on a love of pretty objects, politeness, and the art of settling a playground quarrel with words.
Libra is a domicile of Venus: the planet of pleasure therefore rules the house where she finds her joy. If she is there in person, in Libra and in the 5th house, tradition would see a very favorable meeting for a taste for beauty. Elsewhere, her placement steers these pleasures: in the 7th, they would be lived in the couple; in the 11th, among circles of friends; in the 3rd, in writing. In Paris, this configuration corresponds, in nearly all charts, to a Cancer rising sign.
The whole problem is outside approval. Not starting a painting without a loved one’s approval, changing hobbies according to your partner of the moment, avoiding competitive games for fear of conflict: harmony can become a gentle prison. Opposite, the 11th house in Aries breathes in boldness: friends who push you to act, group projects where you have to decide and take a stand.
Flirting would be an art: a carefully set candlelit dinner, a well-judged compliment, an invitation to a concert.
You look for a balanced, aesthetic relationship without clashes. You know how to please and like to be courted with delicacy. The risk would be to keep your disagreements quiet to preserve the mood. Saying no to an outing you do not enjoy, without guilt, makes the relationship more sincere and more lasting.
Trades that combine beauty and relationships would give you momentum: decoration, styling, mediation, wedding planning, art galleries, graphic design.
You appreciate collaborations and creative pairings, and you notice at once a poorly balanced shop window or a poorly aligned poster. You do well to stand by your aesthetic choices with a hesitant client, instead of endlessly adapting your project to contradictory opinions: presenting two proposals, not ten, then defending the one you prefer protects both your pleasure in creating and the quality of the result.
Free time is shared: cultural outings, dinners among couples, board games in a small group.
You pay attention to the setting, a tablecloth, music, a soft light. You tolerate noisy or messy hobbies poorly. Allowing yourself a solitary activity, a sketchbook, a walk alone with headphones, helps you discover your own tastes, independent of other people’s.
The planet of pleasure, ruler of the sign and joyful in this place: the ancients would have seen a double dignity in it, a sign of refined pleasures, elegant parties, and amiable children.
Lilly linked ambassadors and messengers to this house; under a Venusian, cardinal sign, diplomacy would readily mingle with pleasure. Libra, an air sign, would favor salons, chats, and games of wit.
For twentieth-century authors, the Libra-Aries axis that links this domain to the 11th house would set the art of pleasing against the courage to assert yourself. You would learn frankness from your friends, and offer them in return a sense of agreement.
The sign on the cusp of the 5th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: creativity, pleasures, children.
The 5th houseA air sign, cardinal.
The Libra signVenus rules Libra: its place in the chart extends the 5th house.
Venus in the 5th houseIt describes shared, aesthetic pleasures: duo creation, cultural outings, flirting full of tact. You look for harmony in your hobbies as in your love life. Your pitfall would be waiting for an outside green light to allow yourself to create or to love. Opposite, the 11th house in Aries helps you assert your wishes.
Venus, for whom Libra is a domicile. She thus rules the house where she has her joy, which strengthens her role. Exalted in Pisces, she would be in fall in Virgo and in detriment in Aries as in Scorpio. Her natal house shows where the taste for beauty and sharing takes shape: couple, friendships, career.
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