Sun in Libra

Fall is an alarming word for a plain idea. It names the sign opposite a planet's exaltation, and Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) puts the Sun's fall in Libra because the Sun then crosses into the lower, southern half of the sky. Lilly 1659 fixes it at the nineteenth degree. The term concerns the Sun's place in the year and makes no finding about anyone born then.

Heindel 1918 dramatizes the same axis as a war between the Sun and Saturn fought over Aries and Libra, since each is exalted where the other falls. Ptolemy's own explanation is cooler and rests on heat and cold, the one increasing as the other declines.

Libra is a house of Venus. Alan Leo 1899 treats it as the sign of comparison and weighing, with a strong need for balance and an amiable manner, and the pages read for this site never connect that portrait to the Sun's fall. The 1697 English Manilius, under the Scales, lists measurers, accountants, lawyers and judges.