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The Libra Constellation: the balance of justice


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The Libra constellation represented for the Romans the balance of Justice that was represented in some versions by the goddess Virgo and, in others, by the goddess Asteria.

This concept of justice and balance already existed from the time of the Babylonians who started to notice that whenever the Libra constellation appeared in their skies, then the days and nights began to have similar duration.

Also, the world and the seasons of the year began to be more balanced in these times, in an astronomical phenomenon that occurs close to the equinoxes.

In the time of the Greeks, there was no mention at all to the Libra constellation. The current dishes of the scale were then the claws of Scorpio. It was actually the Romans who, redrawing the sky, drew the Libra constellation to fit their new image.

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What about the stars in the Libra constellation?


The Libra constellation is the only constellation of the celestial vault with the name of an inanimate object. It is a very little luminous constellation, being sometimes very difficult to distinguish it in the night sky.

Three brightest stars form a triangle that simulates the balance’s plates and their point of support. Libra is located in the Southern Hemisphere between the constellation of Virgo, to the west, and the constellation of Scorpio, to the east.

The Libra Constellation and the Zodiac Constellations

The constellation of Libra is one of the twelve zodiacal constellations. The constellations of the zodiac are groups of stars that are found on the ecliptic. The ecliptic is the path that the Sun travels and that is seen from Earth throughout the year.

In the same way, both the Moon and the visible planets of the solar system travel trajectories in the sky. These trajectories are in an area called the zodiac belt that covers a width that measures 8 to 9 degrees north to south in the ecliptic.

Signs and Zodiac Constellations

The zodiacal signs normally used in Astrology were created in 134 BC. by Hipparchus who was inspired by a very old system with Babylonian roots. The Babylonians have inherited this system from the Sumerians, who lived in 3000 BC.

In this system, the Zodiac belt was divided into 12 equal parts, each individual region having a constellation or a ruling sign that occupied about 30° in the sky. These constellations have as a common denominator to mark the birthplace of the Sun at each time of the year.

Currently, the signs and their original constellations do not correspond, essentially due to the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes, where the axis of the Earth undergoes a gradual change of its orientation in a cycle that lasts approximately 26,000 years to return to its initial point.


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