2020 Libra Horoscope Preview

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Libra Horoscopes, Year 2020: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Libra.

This forecast is for all those born with the Sun in Libra (from approximately September 23 to October 23)* and for those with a Libra Ascendant**.

2020 Libra Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Libra the Scales for the year 2020, outlining the areas of Libra’s life that are set to grow, improve, constrict, change, and transform. See also the full Libra Yearly Horoscope for 2020.

(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).

Areas of Expansion in 2020 for Libra:

Your Libra 2020 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Home
Family
Security
Self-Worth
Romance
Creativity & Self-Expression
Children
Entertainment & Recreation

Until December 18, 2020, you are more confident about your family, living arrangements, and living conditions. These areas of life continue to expand and improve (since December 2019). While this is a rather domestic transit, relationships with anyone you feel especially connected with emotionally can benefit, grow, and expand.

You are comfortable with your position, and you may be building loving and secure connections with others. There can be special attention to the comfort and beauty of your home or a stronger desire to connect with your roots. There is also a greater ability to bounce back from problems.

Your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements expand and grow. Relations with family can be especially pleasant and supportive. There are various ways this energy can play out, depending on your current situation. You might move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or expand real estate holdings. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base. Family itself can expand, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized if that is something that makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.

Because Jupiter is the natural ruler of your solar third house of communications, attitude, learning, and connecting, home life can be busier than usual with personal interests, visits, and studying, or you’re more connected at home. There can also be a strong desire to communicate about your home life or to share your domestic world with others.

Generally speaking, more positive energy is brought to your domestic world, and long-standing problems with family might be put to bed. Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements, or larger accommodations that are beyond your means. Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might be magnified initially.

This can be a good time to set up a home business or for home studies. On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period.

Potential problems: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons. Avoiding or escaping responsibilities may be a problem from time to time. You may be wanting to please too many people, and overdoing things leaves you exhausted, as it seems there is never enough time and energy to meet all your needs.

However, this influences overlaps with one that is mentioned below that helps stabilize you, and these potential problems are even less likely as a result. As well, there are two excellent supportive aspects that help you further. From February to October, you’re in great shape for improving your daily routines and home situation so that work and health benefit. You can be improving relationships with family and co-workers through increased understanding. As well, from April to November, a booster influence increases your ambition to make serious and long-lasting improvements to your domestic and personal life.

For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. This is a time of nest-feathering. It’s also a strong time for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems. It’s a good period for long-term financial planning and strengthening your financial picture through some form of pooling of resources. There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, especially through a home or property, but also for long-term business endeavors. This is a time of working hard on or around the home, but you’re enjoying yourself as you do!

From December 19th onward, your creative, playful, and romantic side begins to expand and grow. This is a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.

Your romantic life can be on the unusual and surprising side during this period. Now is the time to unwind, relax, and enjoy yourself, and it may very well be an ideal period for a special vacation or hiatus.

Your focus turns to enjoying life, having fun, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds begin to develop, increase, and improve. You are learning to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, and you are more willing to take some personal risks in order to do so!

Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle; or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Of course, it depends on your personality and current life circumstances how this influence plays out. Creatively speaking, you can be filled with ideas and plans for realizing a dream. New forms of recreation can figure strongly now, and it can be exciting to explore your options.

This can be a fertile time on many levels, physically and emotionally. This influence is associated with casual dating and exploring romantic possibilities more than it is with committed connections.

The inner artist, creator, demonstrator, or teacher can emerge at this time. You experience much joy through artistic and cultural outlets. This can be a fertile time, physically and mentally. Family might expand. You’re in particularly good shape for creative writing and communications since your communications sector and creative/romantic sector are connected during this transit. It’s a powerful time for thinking and talking about your relationships, too. Many of your ideas are creatively oriented. It can be a special time for writing, speaking, and connecting through the power of words.

This enhancing, supportive influence is with you for approximately a year — for most of the time from December 2020 until December 2021 (except for May 13 to July 28, 2021).

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. Throughout this transit, you may need to come to a balance between attention to work and health routines and attention to romantic and creative needs.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident during this approximately year-long cycle. An influence in December right near the beginning of the transit is a powerful one for making a happy commitment to a project or to improving your life. It’s a wonderful time to monetize or solidify a hobby.

Interestingly, these areas of life that are set to expand are the same areas set to contract (see below). These opposite influences don’t act to cancel the individual influences out. Instead, they coexist and you may get a chance to blend them to your benefit. This can be a productive time when hunkering down or committing can be joyful.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Your Libra 2020 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.

Home
Family
Security
Romance
Creativity
Recreation

Until March 21, 2020, and from July 1st to December 16th, 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 is phasing out this year after several years of influence. As you can see with the date range, it’s with you on and off in 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 mostly those born with the Sun in Libra from October 15-23 and those with a Libra Ascendant of 21-30 degrees. For the rest, this theme is minimal–you’ve already experienced the major crux of the transit, in other words.

You are especially security-minded and you have a stronger need to live a more organized life. Some of you may be a little more private about your home life during this cycle. This is a good time to be more frugal due to your increased desire to feel secure and safe. You have or feel more responsibility to your home and family now. There may be some restrictions experienced in your living conditions or arrangements or circumstances tie you to your home or a particular place.

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. Also, in 2020, a concurrent influence mentioned in the Expansion section above helps you appreciate this transit more than usual. You may find more joy in getting organized.

From March 22nd to June 30th and December 17th forward, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that governs creativity, dating and romance, pleasure, children, hobbies, and creative pastimes. 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 is only just getting started this year. While it’s weaving in and out of influence in 2020, you’ll experience it more consistently from December 17th forward. Saturn will transit this area of your chart until March 2023. 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 with a Libra Ascendant of 0 to 2 degrees, and those born from September 23-25, are most directly affected.

Tests can come to your romantic life during this cycle. For those of you who are single, there can be some reluctance to enter into light-hearted romantic relationships. If you do, you do so cautiously, and you are attracted to more mature or stable people during this cycle. Because you are more discriminating now, the pickings might appear to be slim.

Those of you who are dating might feel some loneliness, as it can be hard to find what you are looking for at this time. An existing romance may be tested but strong ones strengthen further. Those Libras who are in committed partnerships could find the romantic or fun element of the relationship becomes a strong area of focus during this cycle, for better or for worse. Keeping this aspect of your partnership alive requires work. A romantic partner could feel like a “heavy” at this time, and you might feel restricted in terms of making acquaintances and enjoying other people’s company. For those single and looking, be careful that you don’t project a negative attitude without even realizing it, as this can intimidate some. Those of you who are parents could feel the weight of responsibilities towards children during this cycle. They may require more of your attention now, although this can be rewarding.

However, for many others, this is a time when a relationship stabilizes and it feels great. In fact, this can be a generally more stable or steady time in your life, and this is exactly what you need at the moment.

Creatively speaking, you are a little more serious in your approach. You might be turning a hobby into a business now, or you might find that there is less time for creative hobbies, pastimes, amusements, and entertainment. Your work can require more show, drama, creativity, and entertainment value, and it might be a hobby-turned-business. Romance and work can be tied together in some significant way. Some of you could be working hard on, and putting a lot of effort into, creative hobbies or pastimes.

In a rare turn of events, the first year of this influence coincides with an expansive, fortunate, or lucky transit of the same area, outlined in the Expansion section above! This makes things feel better, more productive, and less strained. You may be solidifying a relationship, combining the responsible and more romantic elements of your interactions very successfully at this time. It may be that in certain ways, these areas of life are expanding and developing, but that in other ways, there are restrictions, more discipline, and simplification. For some, one project or relationship ends while another one begins.

You can be filled with desire–or circumstances create a need–for more structure in all or any of these areas of life, including children, romance, creativity, and recreation. This can be a truly wonderful time for feeling balanced and steady. Firming up areas of your life that have become wasteful can benefit you in many ways. This can be a good time for realizing a dream or goal, particularly along creative lines. The last time a similar theme occurred was from 1991 to early 1994.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Partnerships, Intimacy, Shared Finances

Your 2020 Libra Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

All year, you are in a long-term cycle in which your intimate world and shared resources can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. Your intimate life and support systems from others are stimulated and opened. These areas of life can be the wildcard area of life, but also highly innovative. You can become far more experimental regarding opening yourself up on sexual and intimate levels, or there can be a marked decrease of interest as you explore different areas of your life more fully, depending on your current circumstances. You do need to watch for over-confidence with others who might squander your shared resources, however.

You will be learning a lesson in detachment during this cycle – sudden changes in the support you receive from others or outside sources can force you to become more independent financially. Prepare yourself for fluctuations by settling as many debts as you can and by working on boosting your personal income. Some people may free themselves from an attachment that at one time weighed them down too heavily.

This can also be a highly creative time for handling money, talents, and relationships. The important thing with this transit is to open up to alternative, new, progressive, or non-traditional ways of doing things without throwing practical considerations out in the process.

Note that this influence stays with you until April 2026!

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation:

Your Libra Horoscope for the year ahead 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
Career

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. Note that this influence is very long term and has been with you for many years (the full range of this influence is from January to June 2008, November 2008 to March 2023, June 2023 to January 2024, and then September 2024 to November 2024).

Problems adjusting to these changes are more likely to occur in January, when you can feel pressures to pull something apart in order to rebuild from the ground up, and in late September to early October, when educational pursuits or the need to branch out and explore new horizones seem to conflict with the changes you’re engaged in on the inside, and with home or family life.

However, you receive wonderful support for your efforts, particularly from March to November in 2020, when beneficial, powerful, and long-term renovations occur on either physical or emotional planes. You are determined to make improvements that go deep in your home, family, and personal life. It’s an excellent period for purging, emotional renewal, and starting fresh. It’s also a powerful time for the beginning of a major long-term initiative or business.

In 2020, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of career, life path, responsibilities, and reputation, as well as home and family in the first half of the year. However, a new theme is entering and building this year, and is most prominent from May 2020 forward: education, travel, adventure, learning, publishing, and exploring new possibilities and horizons can figure strongly.

The North Node of the Moon transits your career, life path, responsibilities, and reputation sector until May/June, and you are called upon to sort out your life plan. This is about discovering your needs to balance professional and personal life. Nurture your desire to feel accomplished and to meet your responsibilities for best results now.

From May/June forward, however, you are challenged to grow and improve with your perspective, studies, publishing, sharing ideas, and transportation. You can benefit greatly from expanding your perspective at this time. One of the major keys to happiness now is learning to reach out and connect beyond your usual bounds. Seek personal growth through expanding your horizons, such as through higher studies, philosophical pursuits, travel, or adventuresome experiences. Do what you can to learn as much as possible about your trade. There may be an important beginning or culmination in education. If you are in business, a writer, or the like, you might reach a wider audience. Big changes in transportation and mobility may be in the works. Particularly around the June, November, and December eclipses, you’ll be learning important things, picking up new interests and possibly ending some, and making important discoveries.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2020: Venus is your planetary ruler.

Venus Retrograde Cycle May to June 2020

Venus is retrograde from May 13th to June 25th, 2020. (Keep in mind there are preamble and hangover periods involved with this, and to be cautious, consider the dates from April 9th to July 29th). This is not an ideal time for new endeavors, beginnings, or launches, but is useful for looking back and learning from the past. Rest, reflect, and reconsider during this period.

More power to you when your ruler is in your sign, and in 2020, this period is from October 28th to November 21st, although Venus is not in the best of shape with aspects during this period.

2020 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

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