Libra Zodiac Sign: Dates, Traits and Ruling Planet
- Usual dates
- September 23 to October 22
- Element
- Air
- Mode
- Cardinal
- Ruling planet
- Venus
Dates and the edge days
Libra dates are September 23 to October 22. September 23 and October 22 are the edge days: the year and the birth time can put the Sun on either side of the change. The calculator checks that moment instead of trusting the printed range.
Element, mode, and ruler
Libra is an air sign, and it is cardinal. Libra is cardinal air and begins around the September equinox. Cardinal signs open a season. Here the season is the balance point of the year, which is why the scales became the picture. Fair-minded, social, always weighing both sides.
Venus rules Libra and Taurus. For Libra the textbooks use Venus for agreement, taste, and one-to-one relationships, rather than for Taurus and its attachment to comfort. Libra is the scales. The inherited description is about weighing two sides, preferring a fair exchange, and disliking an open fight. Air signs are linked with ideas and with other people. The scales do not measure a person. They are the symbol tied to this 30 degree slice.
Moon in Libra
A Libra Moon is described as feelings that want harmony in the room and get restless when the tone turns sharp. Comfort, in the tradition, is a balanced company rather than solitude or a crowd. Use a birth time if the Moon changed sign that day.
Libra rising
Libra rising is the textbook first impression of politeness and an even manner. It is one two-hour window of the day. The rising calculator uses the city so the horizon is the local one.
Sign and constellation
The constellation Libra is the scales. Its two brighter stars still carry older names, Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali, from a time when they were counted as the claws of the scorpion. The sign starts around the September equinox.
Calculators
For the Sun sign, use the zodiac calculator. The Moon, Rising, Mercury, Venus, and Mars calculators answer a different question, and the Libra horoscope is a separate daily note on the same sign.
Zodiac sign calculator · Moon · Rising · Libra horoscope
Dates usually counted as Libra
September 23 · September 24 · September 25 · September 26 · September 27 · September 28 · September 29 · September 30 · October 1 · October 2 · October 3 · October 4 · October 5 · October 6 · October 7 · October 8 · October 9 · October 10 · October 11 · October 12 · October 13 · October 14 · October 15 · October 16 · October 17 · October 18 · October 19 · October 20 · October 21 · October 22
Questions
What are Libra dates?
Libra dates are September 23 to October 22 in the usual tropical calendar. Those two edges are changeover days: the year and the birth time can put the Sun in Libra or in the neighboring sign. Each date page below uses noon UTC, the same engine as the zodiac calculator, so you can see whether that birthday stays in Libra.
What month is Libra?
Libra season sits in September and October. It does not fill either month on its own. September 23 is the usual start, and October 22 is the usual last day, with a clock time that shifts a little each year. Use the date list on this page, or the September and October birthday hubs.
When does Libra season start?
Libra season usually starts on September 23. That is the calendar day when the Sun is treated as entering Libra, but the exact minute depends on the year. The zodiac calculator uses the same tropical longitude as these pages. If the birthday is September 23 or October 22, check the year rather than the printed range.