2021 Libra Horoscope Preview

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Libra Horoscopes, Year 2021: 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**.

2021 Libra Horoscope Overview

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Areas of Expansion in 2021 for Libra:

Your Libra 2021 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Romance
Creativity & Self-Expression
Children
Entertainment & Recreation
Work & Routines
Health, Wellness, & Habits

Until May 13th, 2021, and then July 28th-December 28th, 2021, your creative, playful, and romantic side continues 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 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!

Entertainment, hobbies, and leisure activities can be more fulfilling now. 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 many months — for a good chunk 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 cycle. You might make a happy commitment to a project or to improving your life. It’s a wonderful time to monetize or solidify a hobby.

Interestingly, these very areas of life that are set to expand are the same areas set to contract (see Areas of Contraction section 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.

From May 13-July 28, 2021, and then from December 28th onward, your work, daily routines, and health endeavors begin to expand, improve, and grow.

This influence spans three date ranges, and we’re on the first wave this year:

from May 13-July 28, 2021,
from December 28, 2021-May 10, 2022,
and from October 28, 2022-December 20, 2022

It may sound complicated, but it just means that you’re experiencing these themes in steps, starting this year from May to July.

This is a time when your work projects or duties expand, or you have increased opportunities for employment. You can be so confident in your ability to take on projects and endeavors, however, that you overload your plate, so do watch for that.

You find more joy in your work (as long as you don’t overload), self-improvement endeavors, and taking care of your health. If you provide a service to others, it is likely to prosper, largely because you’re enjoying it more. You are especially successful in hiring people to work for you, if applicable, and improvements to your working environment are likely. It can be easier than usual to find employment now.

You may get a new job during this cycle or significantly improve an existing one. Work tends to be very available to you. You can be very focused on what really matters to get ahead, and recognition for your efforts may be forthcoming. Still, this cycle is less about recognition as it is about the enjoyment of your duties or daily life.

You are proud of how useful you are to others during this cycle. The more integrity and honesty you bring to your services, the more “payback” or rewards you will receive. Health may very well prosper now, and medical procedures or programs, if necessary, are more likely to be successful. Of course, this isn’t something to take for granted since there are always other transits happening concurrently that can refine this one. There may be an inclination to put on some weight, for example, if you don’t watch your sweet tooth.

You are bringing fresh and original ideas to the work you do and the services you offer. Overload or the magnification of problems surrounding work can be experienced during this cycle. There is a tendency now to focus on the details of your work, and you might sometimes feel a little overwhelmed with monotonous tasks. The key is to avoid overdoing.

Your work might involve more services or the assisting of others during this cycle, and for some, health-related or healing professions can be attractive at this time. You can feel quite motivated to improve your life, particularly through the pursuit of a healthier lifestyle and through your daily routines, habits, chores, tasks, services, and work.

Challenges may occur sporadically during this period with the need for time away from your duties either to take care of yourself or of others requiring care, or the consequences of taking on so much that you have trouble taking time for yourself.

However, for the most part, this is a good time for winning appreciation for what you do or for your skills, enjoying what you do, for finding work, and for working relationships. Particularly later in the cycle, into 2022, a higher purpose and general enjoyment of your work and daily affairs increases. You take more interest in your psychological health and how it impacts your physical health. You may bring more imagination to your routines, and it’s rewarding.

Communications, siblings, classmates, transportation, or personal interests may be closely tied to work and health during this period. There can be opportunities to express yourself through your work, or chances to bring more of your skills and interests to your job. There can be more focus on movement, connecting, and communicating in your work during this period. Your mental outlook is particularly impactful on your health at this time.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Your Libra 2021 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.

Romance
Creativity
Recreation

All year, 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 only just got started last year. While it wove in and out of influence in 2020, you’ll experience it more consistently in 2021 onward. 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 1 to 14 degrees, and those born from September 24-October 7, 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, this influence coincides, in part, 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 2021 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
Learning & Communications
Transportation

Attitudes towards home and family continue to transform this year. There can be a retreat into yourself during this long-term 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). While we’re certainly far into the cycle, there are a few more years of it to go.

Problems adjusting to these changes are more likely to occur when Pluto is forming challenging aspects. There can be times when urges, needs, and desires in other life departments conflict with the changes you’re engaged in on the inside, and with home or family life. While Pluto was prominent last year as it formed strong alignments with outer planets, in 2021, Pluto is not as dominating an influence. Of course, it connects with the inner planets as usual, but it’s not forming major aspects with the outer planets, suggesting that its themes are not as strong this year.

When Pluto is connecting easily with inner planets, there can be nice support for your efforts to excavate, change, and renovate your life from the ground up or from the inside out. Deep, lasting changes and improvements can occur on physical and emotional planes. Activities related to purging and emotional renewal can figure strongly during these transits.

In 2021, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to highlight education, adventure, learning, publishing, and exploring new possibilities and horizons.

You are challenged to grow and improve related to your perspective, belief system, outlook, personal philosophy, studies, publishing, sharing ideas, and transportation. You can benefit greatly from expanding your perspective this year.

One of the major keys to happiness in 2021 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, or adventuresome experiences. Connecting with others, even virtually, of different backgrounds or cultures can be a rich experience.

As well, 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 May, June, and December eclipses, you’ll be learning important things, picking up new interests and possibly ending some, and making exciting discoveries. Communication skills improve.

Near the end of the year, a newer theme begins, although it will develop more fully in 2022. This one is about embracing your intimate world and need for a deeper connection to someone or a special project. In these areas of life, you’re likely to see important changes, beginning with the Lunar Eclipse on November 19th.

Your Planetary Ruler in 2021: Venus is your planetary ruler. It usually moves through the entire zodiac in any given year, or almost, and its journey is a little more personal to you since Venus rules Libra.

Venus Retrograde in December 2021 to January 2022

Venus moves direct for most of the year, but near the end of 2021, it turns retrograde. From December 19, 2021, to January 29, 2022, Venus is retrograde in the sign of Capricorn. (Keep in mind there are preamble and hangover periods involved with this, and to be cautious, consider the dates from November 17, 2021, to March 1, 2022). 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.

Another period that’s less than ideal for big decision-making is when Venus is out of bounds. You could be acting out of character during these times. In 2021, this happens from May 23-June 18 and October 9-December 7.

More power to you when your ruler, Venus, is in your sign, and in 2021, this period is from August 16th to September 10th.

2021 Yearly Overview Horoscopes:

See also 2021 Summary Horoscopes for neat summaries of the year ahead for each sign, 2021 Yearly Horoscopes for detailed forecasts for each sign, and 2021 Love Guides/Horoscopes for Each Sign for forecasts in the areas of romance and relationships.

*It’s important to note that birthdates for Sun signs are always approximate since the starting date and time varies a bit every single year. If you were born on one of these cutoff dates (commonly known as a “cusp”), you can get a definitive answer using a Sun Sign Calculator. You can also write reports@cafeastrology.com with your birth information and we can let you know your true Sun sign if you were born on or beside the approximate date range given for any sign of the zodiac.

**If you want to know your Ascendant, find out with an Ascendant calculator, such as our What’s My Ascendant? if you were born after 1970 or our Free Report Section, but do note that an Ascendant cannot be determined for unknown birth times.

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