LIBRA
Libra is the energy
of equilibrium, depicted by the scales, and yet with the Hebrew Letter of Lamed,
it also contains the energy of the Hanged Man in the Tarot. Libra
is about the balance between the head and the heart.
Being an Air sign, this creates a difficulty, as it is more natural to
“think” things through rather than feel things.
Libra
carries the most intense vibrations of “perfection” and they want everything
symmetrical and balanced. The
energy of love is vital for Libra, but they have a “theatrical approach” and
know very little about love, but they think about it all the time.
Libra’s
emotions are rather childlike and naïve.
Scales: Symbolize the need to balance, and symmetry. However, the scales are in fact an inanimate object, and this is part of where Libra tries to lift ordinary human living onto the levels of Platonic ideals. Libra’s idea of love and romance must contain ritual and be full of ceremony.
Myth: Libra has a most fascinating Myth which in reality contains the very essence of the Libran psyche.
Triesias,
the blind Greek Prophet was given the opportunity to observe two snakes
coupling. He was then to report to
Zeus and the Goddess Hera, which has the greatest pleasure.
Typical to Libra, he could not answer truthfully, for fear of offending
either the male or the female component.
Finally
he answered that the female gained most enjoyment at which Zeus was furious at
his insult to masculine vanity and blinded him.
However,
blindness is a symbol of “inner sight” so Thiesias is now the blind prophet.
This is the ploy of the spiritual evolvement of the Libran energy.
Always trying to unite both sides of his psyche, heart and mind,
intellect and emotions, male and
female energies, Libra finally unites his own two sides, human and divine and
gains balance. He can now
manifest all the good the true and the beautiful, rather than them existing just
as energies of the mind.
Lamed
the Hebrew letter: Lamed
is related to the 12th major arcane The Hanged Man and vibrates to a
most important and subtle initiatory game of divination, the one most
representative of the spiritual evolution to which every human being can aspire
to hope to attain. In fact the
figure is less “hanging” and more suspended.
It is a representation of someone who is supremely confident or who has
faith. The renunciation which
derives from total confidence or sublime faith calls for self-abnegation.
The abnegation for Lamed is a most harrowing, restrictive and painful
act. It support the unity of
the things of the flesh and the things of the spirit, which must be attained
through unity of the impure and pure.
Lamed and Libra: The heart is the total link for the Libran. They waver between emotional dependence and independence of the mind. By swinging from side to side is a movement which produces energy and leads to progress. Swinging to and fro on a thread, at times tilting or falling one way or the other, is the destiny of Libra. Finally is not the aerial nimbleness epitomizing Libra, which leads to self-denial, and makes possible numerous compromises; which allows us to find internal balance and promotes the growth and blossoming of the soul?
Astrological glyphs: If you assemble the 22 number-letters of the Hebrew alphabet, you get a hierophant. If you replace these letters with the planets and their corresponding sings, you get the Hanged Man, the arcane of the Tarot, which corresponds to Lamed.