Libra, the Scales

ZODIAC CONSTELLATION

SUN PASSES end of October to late November, nowadays

The only zodiac constellation that is an object rather than a creature, and a young one: its stars once belonged to the Scorpion as its claws, and their Arabic names still mean northern and southern claw. Rome split them off as scales of justice. A quiet constellation with a borrowed past.

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