Libra and Libra Compatibility

Libra and Libra in love, sex, friendship and marriage

Libra and Libra compatibility by birth date

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If you both say 'you pick', who decides?

It's ten to seven on a Sunday, and the question is dinner. 'You pick.' 'No, you pick, I'm easy.' 'Honestly, anything.' By eight you're both eating cereal at the counter, and it comes out later that you both wanted the dumpling place on the corner. Neither of you said so.

Two Libras are lovely company and slow deciders. Each holds back a preference to keep the other happy, so small choices drift and big ones sit unanswered. The habit that matters most in Libra and Libra compatibility is plain: say what you want before you ask what the other prefers.

The coin toss: how two Libras settle small choices

For a small choice, name the two options, give one to each side of a coin, and flip. Before anyone talks about it, each of you says one word: glad or sorry. If either of you says 'sorry', stop and say what you wanted instead. If you both wanted the same other thing, do that; if your wants differ, talk them through before choosing. If you both say 'glad', or neither of you minds, the coin stands and nobody reopens it tonight.

It works because of how a Libra hides a preference. The preference is there; it's being held back to protect the other person. A coin takes the choice out of both your hands for a second, and in that second your face gives you away before your manners can. Use it for dinner, a movie, which of two invitations to accept, the color for the hall.

Big decisions: the coin only shows what you hoped for

For a big choice (a transfer to another city, a wedding date, a second child) the coin never decides. Flip it anyway, only to find out what each of you was hoping for. Then each says that hope first, in one sentence, before asking what the other thinks. Say one of you has been offered a transfer to the Seattle office: 'I hoped it would say stay, because I love this neighborhood.' That's the sentence two Libras usually skip. Often the two hopes pull opposite ways, one toward family nearby and one toward the new job, and then each says which part they won't give up.

Marriage, the area that trails for this pair, is made of choices like these. Two Libras rarely argue about the big things. They postpone them out of courtesy, until a deadline makes the choice for them. Saying the hope first means each of you hears one real preference, and after that you can be as generous about it as you like.

Why are two Libras not compatible? Mostly, it's the deciding

Two Libras are compatible, strongly so, and friendship is the best of it. The main difficulty is finishing a decision: the same Venus-ruled tact that makes your evenings easy makes a choice hard to close, because neither of you wants to be the one who picked wrong. On Libra's own ranking of the twelve signs, another Libra comes fifth, with marriage its lowest area.

Money is the other place it shows. Two partners who both dislike a hard conversation can let a card balance or a shared bill slide for months, each assuming the other has it handled. Two Venus-ruled people can also talk each other into the nicer version of everything. Open the statements together, and whoever spots a problem says so that night.

Feelings get the same polite treatment. Two Libras can talk a hurt into something reasonable before either has let themselves feel it, and call a year without a real argument harmony. Say 'that hurt' before you explain why it shouldn't have. Reassurance needs the same treatment: when neither of you ever says 'I want this', each can start to wonder whether the other wants the relationship at all, so say that part plainly too. The Libra sign profile covers the sign's diplomacy on its own.

Should two Libras marry?

Yes, once you've shown you can make decisions together, and the coin toss is a quick test of that. Marriage scores below love, sex, talk and friendship for two Libras, still good, and the gap is about choices, not affection. Start with dinner, then ask the same question about money or a move: 'What would you choose?'

Michael Douglas (born September 25, 1944) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969), two Libras with the same birthday 25 years apart, married in 2000.

For a real couple, go past the Suns. Draw up each partner's chart with a birth time to find the Moon and Venus, then set the two charts against each other, planet by planet. Astrologers look for Venus in one chart touching Saturn or Mars in the other, the contacts that help a couple commit and act.

September Libra and October Libra: the Mercury split

Mercury was in Scorpio on 514 of the 1,268 October Libra dates in our 1950–2005 noon UTC date sample but on only 24 of the 432 September dates. So an October Libra is far more likely to talk like a Scorpio: shorter, more direct, more willing to say the awkward thing.

Check before you assume. Find each Mercury sign from a birthday, and if one of you has it in Scorpio, read what Mercury in Scorpio does to a conversation. September Libras more often have Mercury in Libra or Virgo, and a Libra Mercury weighing every word is the one most likely to say 'either is fine'. You can also run both birthdays through the calculator on this page and compare it with the Mercury table in our date sample.

Two Libra parents, siblings and friends

Two Libra parents tend to be kind and slow on the rules, and children work out quickly that a 'we'll see' from one parent can become a yes from the other. Agree on the few rules that never bend while the kids are asleep, and back each other up on them. Astrologers also compare how a parent's Moon and a child's Moon fit.

Libra siblings get along well and avoid every hard family conversation together, which works until a parent needs care and someone has to choose. Friendship is their highest area; keep it close by mentioning a complaint before you start turning down invitations. Coworkers do well once someone is named to sign off on the final version.

The coin toss on an ordinary Sunday

Same counter, same question. One of you takes a quarter from the change dish: heads the dumpling place, tails pizza. Tails. 'Sorry,' you both say, almost at once, and laugh. Dumplings it is, and the whole thing took about forty seconds.

Then, because the coin is already out, you flip it for the transfer to the Seattle office that one of you was offered last month. Heads, you stay. It lands heads, and one of you looks relieved and the other doesn't. 'I hoped it would say stay. I love this neighborhood.' 'I hoped it wouldn't. I've been reading about Seattle every night.' That's the conversation you'd been putting off since the transfer offer came, and now it has two real preferences in it.

Libra and Libra in our 1950–2005 date sample

These estimates pair two dates drawn independently from the 1950–2005 sample, with equal weight for every date within each Sun sign. They show how often each Venus and Mercury combination turns up, which is why two real people with these Sun signs can score differently.

Most common Venus pairings in this model: Scorpio with Virgo (20.8%), Scorpio with Libra (13.7%), Virgo with Libra (12%). Reversed Venus pairings are combined because both Sun signs are the same. Mars can occupy any sign with either Sun sign. The most frequent Mars signs on sampled Libra dates are Virgo (17.1%), Libra (15.1%), Sagittarius (11.8%), Leo (11.8%).

The sample covers 20,454 dates from January 1, 1950, through December 31, 2005, with Sun, Mercury and Venus signs taken at noon UTC. The September and October counts are single dates; the pair figures draw two Libra dates independently, so they count combinations of dates, not couples.

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