A sociable optimism: charm, fairness, and generous ideas that bring people together.
Venus extends a hand, Jupiter opens the horizon: a generous sociability that links people around an ideal of justice.
Getting people to work together whom everything had set apart, in the service of a fair cause.
Wanting to please everyone to the point of avoiding necessary stands.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
October greets December at sixty degrees: the breeze fans the flame.
The Scales tie the bond, the Archer pushes back the frontiers. Aphrodite in the east, Zeus at the core: the two benevolent planets of the doctrine join hands. At first contact, the person seems elegant, smiling, curious; they ask where you are from, cite a foreign novel, offer to introduce someone who shares the same passion.
The Sun lodges in the 3rd house, that of speech, exchanges, and the immediate surroundings. This combination likes to talk, write, teach, debate with elegance. It keeps warm ties with siblings, neighbors, and colleagues, and gladly organizes cultural exchanges, reading clubs, language cafés. Their words carry values of justice and openness. They know how to turn a neighborhood meal into a meeting of continents.
The pitfall: deciding costs them. Libra wants harmony, Sagittarius sees every perspective: the person may hesitate for a long time, avoid conflicts, go along with the last speaker’s opinion. They may also idealize people. Aries, lodged in the west, would push them to assert themselves; its representatives, frank, demand a clear position. Little by little, they learn that choosing is not betraying.
A harmonious, joyful relationship, open to the world: that is what a Sagittarius Sun with Libra rising hopes for.
Getaways for two, suppers where the planet gets rebuilt, passionate discussions on the way out of the movie theater keep the flame alive. The opposite sign, Aries, would expose them to fiery, unfiltered temperaments. Their frankness helps them out of hesitation and to state their own desires straight out, which clears the air in many situations.
Diplomacy, teaching, cultural criticism, publishing, international law, public relations, mediation: charm and openness work wonders.
Explaining, persuading, and bringing people together are their natural talents. A Sun placed in the 3rd house would open the way of the pen and the microphone. The trap would be accepting every request and no longer finding time to deepen their own projects. A good editor or a good department head would make them progress fast.
Calls to family, coffees with neighbors, writing workshops, Italian class on Thursdays: their days overflow with exchanges.
The interior is elegant and welcoming, adorned with souvenirs brought back from travels. Exhibitions, concerts, and urban strolls fill their weekends. Choosing their commitments, rather than accepting them all out of kindness, would leave them time to read, dream, and prepare the next departure. A travel notebook always goes with them.
Venus, regent of the horizon, would stay under the Centaur as a mere guest, without domicile or exaltation, and would gain a laughing frankness there.
Zeus rules the birth sign. With front and core entrusted to the two benefics, the ancient doctrine would see an amiable, trusting nature there, one that draws sympathy without guaranteeing it.
The Scales rise around three in the morning, when the city is still asleep. The birth sign then lodges in the 3rd house, the “Goddess,” where the Moon rejoiced: siblings, neighborhood, short trips, devotions. A Centaur placed this way would travel first through words and encounters close to home.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Libra takes about 2 hr 45 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Sagittarius, the rising sign is Libra for a birth during that rise.
A fire sign, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
The Sagittarius signA air sign, cardinal; descendant in Aries.
Libra risingVenus rules Libra: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Venus| Sun in Sagittarius | Libra rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| November 24Start of the sign | 2:38 AM to 5:23 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| December 7Middle of the sign | 1:47 AM to 4:32 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| December 19End of the sign | 1:00 AM to 3:45 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
Very, and generous with it. In the east, grace and a sense of connection; at the core, breadth and faith. Meeting, exchanging, linking come without effort. The downside: deciding is costly, for fear of displeasing or closing off a promising lead. Their friends know it and help them reach a conclusion.
The Scales in the east place the Centaur in the 3rd house, devoted to exchanges, writings, and the immediate circle. Convictions would then pass through conversation, the pen, or teaching, more than through great expeditions. A reading club would be worth, for this person, a trip around the world.
They are the two benefics of the doctrine, and here they rule the manner and the inner self. Their placements would show how grace and generosity fit together. A Venus in Scorpio would deepen the seduction; a Jupiter at home, in the Centaur, would reinforce idealism and the taste for teaching. Their dialogue would sketch an amiable, trusting character.