Moon in Libra

Lilly 1659 grants the Moon the first ten degrees of Libra as a face, and that is the sum of her listed claims in this sign. Face is a narrow entitlement tied to the degree, so a Moon late in Libra falls outside it. The sign itself is Venus's chief house, in his words.

What should Libra do to the feeling side of the mind? Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) has no entry to answer, since his list covers tropical, bicorporeal and fixed signs and leaves Libra's equinoctial class unmentioned. A reader has to choose whether to stretch his tropical list over this placement.

Sepharial 1920 credits the Moon generally with suavity of speech and a wish for change, and Alan Leo 1899 gives Libra a habit of weighing everything until it balances. Set side by side they suggest an agreeable manner with a shifting sense of where things stand. That combination is this page's reasoning from the two books, and popular modern writing turns it into a need to keep the peace.