2017 Libra Horoscope Preview

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Libra Horoscopes, Year 2017: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Libra.

2017 Libra Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Libra the Scales for the year 2017.

2017 Horoscope Previews (Click on a sign)

Libra Preview Horoscope 2017

Areas of Expansion in 2017 for Libra:

Your Libra 2017 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Personality
Independence
Body Image
Attitude & Outlook
Money
Possessions
Resources

Until October 10, 2017, Jupiter is in your sign! This approximately one-year transit comes only every twelve years and serves to bring you out of your shell. You’re ready to take on the world. This is a time for exploring your needs and pursuing your dreams. Your personality, image, body image, and confidence in yourself expand to new levels with Jupiter in your sign since September 2016 and until October 2017. You are seeing whole new possibilities, and your vision of life is panoramic.

If you’ve done your inner “work” well while Jupiter was transiting your solar twelfth house from August 2015 to September 2016, this can be an especially rewarding period. Your confidence in yourself and faith in the world are growing exponentially. Freedom is something you seek, but be wary of the costs of freedom when it’s pursued without necessary attention to responsibilities.

You are more willing to enjoy new experiences and to rid yourself of those things that have been holding you back from truly living and owning your life.

There can be new projects begun now that have long-term potential. You may not yet know where you’re headed with them, but you’re certainly enthusiastic about beginning anew.

Expanding your horizons through higher learning or travel might also figure strongly. This is a time for aligning your behavior with what you believe is right. You are taking more “me” time, which is in fact long overdue.

This is also a strong time for communications, connections, and learning. Jupiter is the natural ruler of your communications sector in your solar chart – a sector that also rules your neighborhood, transportation, schools, and siblings. This comes at the same time as a Saturn transit to this sector, so that there may be some restrictions or buckling down involved with these areas of life as well. There is generally good energy for bringing more structure and simplicity to the ways you connect with others, learn new things, and get around town. This influence can help you to actualize certain dreams.

You are seeking out a new beginning – a fresh start, of sorts – and your desire to do right is especially strong. Work or projects that you have been working on in private or behind the scenes may now begin to pay off. There is less focus on serving and helping others now, perhaps because this is no longer as necessary (for example, a child can go off to college, or even the end of a relationship that took up a lot of your energy and resources, from which you are now enjoying some level of freedom), and now you can put some of your personal interests on the front burner.

You won’t feel like sitting around during this period of your life. You are hungry for new experiences. Everyday stresses that may have frustrated you in the past now seem almost inconsequential, as your vision is lifted above the mundane. As such, your ability to manage stress and pressure increases. You are more tolerant in your attitude towards others, and you’re considerably more confident about expressing the playful, creative, and fun side to your personality.

Especially in August, you are in a good position to advance your personal interests in practical ways. You may launch projects with long-term potential now, particularly related to communications (writing, teaching, and studying).

Potential negatives: Weight gain, pompous behavior, restlessness, over-confidence, wastefulness, and excesses in general. See to it that these things don’t ruin an otherwise excellent period. As well, in your desire to start over, watch that you don’t blind yourself to responsibilities.

There might also be times, especially in March and August-September, when others may feel threatened by your newfound displays of freedom and independence, when your personal desires conflict with home and family matters, or when you have troubles with self-discipline, budgets, and limits. You might sometimes feel overwhelmed with choices and perhaps too disorganized to jump on opportunities from time to time during this period.

Otherwise, this can be a time of opportunity. You might choose to pursue a new channel for self-expression or mental interest with great passion. There can be a strong sense of release and freedom from previously limiting, rigid, or stifling conditions. This can be an especially communicative time when you’re more engaged than usual.

From October 10th onward, money, personal possessions, and self-worth expand, increase, improve, and grow. Your desire for security and comfort is hearty now, and you’ll pursue these things with more confidence and verve. You feel that you deserve more!

This is a strong time for buying long-term valuables. You are likely to make bigger decisions about your material resources during this period.

This cycle that will be in influence until November 2018 is strong for attracting more money from your professional endeavors and for expanding a business. You might also more easily attract support from others (but be careful if you are suddenly in the position to receive, for example, a credit line or sizeable loan – spend wisely). You should certainly watch for overspending.

Potential difficulties: Be on the alert for an attitude towards money that is careless. If you are accumulating personal possessions too quickly, this can lead to clutter and disorganization. If you’re overconfident about your ability to make money, then you might take foolish risks, such as borrowing from your future. Watch for over-indulgence. Be extra careful if lending or borrowing.

Otherwise, this is a good period for bringing a fresh, positive, and confident attitude towards your own self-worth and value, and to your practical affairs, including work. Writing and teaching or other communications or transportation fields can add to your income during this period.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Your Libra 2017 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Communications
Daily Life
Transportation & Commuting
Home
Family

Until December 19, 2017, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach involve the sector that governs communications, learning, and local transportation. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence began on December 23rd, 2014, left in the summer of 2015 before returning at the end of the summer, and will be with you until December 2017. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Libra. This year, those born October 14-22 and with Ascendants of 21-30 degrees of Libra are most directly affected. Those born earlier have finished the intense period of this transit.

Challenges can come to your communications. You may feel pressure to produce ideas, and to make them work in the “real world”. A certain somberness in your outlook may be characteristic of this phase, as it could be a time of worry. It may seem like acquaintances and sometimes siblings are blocking your growth in some manner, and these relationships may be strained as a result. Although you have a desire to make contacts, you are now rather preoccupied with learning or other mental projects, and you may view idle chit-chat as a waste of time. You may feel an unusual pressure to structure your time and effort, and to cut out communications that seem unnecessary. You may at times feel rather overwhelmed by such things as errands, red tape, and other such day-to-day “disruptions”. By the end of the transit, however, you will have ideally gained a greater depth of understanding, having focused on information and communication that you really can use to feel more effective in the world.

There is a great need now to structure your life by way of schedules, managing daily details and your time more effectively. There can be some problems with local transportation — getting from point A to point B. There can be some restlessness or an urge to get out and about, but you might feel weighed down by your daily responsibilities.

This can also be a time when communications with family become especially important and critical. There can be issues with mobility and transportation during this transit, and mechanical breakdowns can present challenges. Until November while Jupiter is in your sign, the more pleasant side of this transit is likely to be experienced more fully. You also benefit from a magnificent influence throughout this period (at least until November) in which partnership is boosted through excellent communications. There can be a partnership that helps advance your work or projects. There can be a greater love of the less glamorous aspects of your work, studies, and projects, and you are capable of tremendous effort to further your goals. There may also be more balance of innovation and steadiness in a partnership. Peaking in August, yet another influence boosts your ability to get your ideas across most eloquently. This can be considered a power period for business communications and for respect for your ideas, advice, guidance, and wisdom.

Peaking in late April and early November, the challenges of this position are more likely to be felt. You may be dealing with some inner reticence about your skills or abilities to produce, or additional responsibilities to serving or helping out others, and these can interfere with the responsibilities of studying or maintaining a schedule. Health matters or uncertainty with work can present some challenges. A chaotic routine may undermine your efforts at times.

However, this is also a time of increased practicality and esteem. You are more reliable than usual. You procrastinate less. Teaching can be in strong focus.

From December 19, 2017, and onward, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules home, family, your roots, domestic activities, living conditions, and security. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Those things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence will stick with you until the year 2020. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Libra. This year, it impacts only those born in the first two days of Libra and those with a Libra Ascendant of 0-2 degrees. (This will extend to 10 days and 10 degrees in 2018).

Tests can come to your home life this year. The responsibilities and demands of domestic life can run high. There can be a feeling that others are not as sympathetic to you, or that they leave you alone to your own defenses during this period. In truth, you are learning how to stand on your own two feet, as well as to meet your responsibilities and to fix whatever it is that you have let slide in the past. At the end of this cycle, you’ll have built a stronger foundation. You’ll see yourself and your family more clearly, and your expectations will be more realistic as a result.

You can be filled with desire, or circumstances create a need, for more structure in your home life.

This is also a time for the very beginnings of a business project for some, and especially for those with a Libra Ascendant. This is a career building stage. It’s vital that you get your home and personal life into order so that you can move forward feeling rooted and secure. Saturn performs very well in this sector of your chart because Capricorn is associated with your solar fourth house and is one of the signs that Saturn rules. You understand this energy implicitly, so this transit feels more natural to you than most. The last time Saturn transited here was from 1988-1990.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Partnerships

Your 2017 Libra Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

In March 2011, you entered a lengthy cycle in which others may be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. This influence is with you throughout 2017 and beyond–until March 2019. You are more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric or unstable as close partners; or you attract these types of people into your experience without necessarily wanting to!

You are learning about giving freedom to others, and this isn’t always easy, particularly in especially in March, August, and September, when your own desires to be free and to explore can take over. You are more strongly seeking out your own freedom with Jupiter in your sign encouraging you to explore new horizons. There can be difficulties related to messy schedules or uncertainty about your work or health that impact your relationships.

As a Libra, learning to detach yourself from some of the too-dependent elements of partnering can be a difficult thing, but if you learn that you can, in fact, subsist independently, you are more able to relate to others on a healthy level, more able to choose what and who is right for you in a relationship, and less likely to allow others to take advantage of your obliging nature.

You receive nice support this year for your close relationships and making them work. This can be a very friendly, progressive period. It’s a time for exploring, taking healthy risks on a social level, and letting go of preconceived ideas of what friendships and relationships “should” be. You can find it easier to agree to disagree. Alternative pairings and arrangements may very well become satisfying and stable in their own right. There can be a good partnering setup for some of you involving work or communications projects.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation:

Your 2017 Libra Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Family
Inner Foundations
Home Life
Friendships
Romance
Children
Creativity

Attitudes towards home and family continue to transform this year. There can be a retreat into yourself during this cycle as you explore, on a very deep level, your roots, childhood conditioning, and feelings of personal security. More challenging periods are possible in NMarch and August when personal needs and plans seem to conflict with the changes you’re engaged in on the inside, and with home or family life.

In 2017, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of service to others, work, daily routines, and health, but only until May, with an eclipse in February pushing you to confront your needs to bring more satisfaction to your work and services, as well as getting better programs into place for health and wellness.

As well, your sectors of friendships, romantic relationships, and creative matters are in focus. A newer theme involving friendship and romance is with you in 2017. These areas of life are going through transformations, sometimes dramatic ones. Friends and lovers may come and go, for example. This is a time for exploring your need to connect with a cause, group, or your community. One of the major keys to happiness this year from May forward is learning to team up with others successfully instead of going it alone or pushing to stand out as unique.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2017: Venus is your planetary ruler. Venus forms a freeing trine to your sign until January 3rd, starting your year off on the right foot–this is an especially warm and expressive period for you. Venus is retrograde from March 4th to April 15th. This can be a period of reflection, slowing down, and perhaps some backtracking. Venus is in your partnership sector for most of this retrograde period, suggesting that your heart’s with a relationship, but there can be some confusion involved. More power to you when your ruler is in your sign, and this year, this period is from October 14th to November 6th. When Venus is out of bounds from December 21st forward, be a little more cautious of overdoing things.

2017 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

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