Sun in Libra
What Sun in Libra means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Sun is actually in Libra.
What Sun in Libra means
With your Sun in Libra, identity forms in relationship — you weigh, balance, and look for what is fair. Libra is an air sign, so you feel most yourself in dialogue, where beauty and other people help you find your footing.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Libra
- Element
- Air
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Polarity
- Yang: outward, active
- Ruler
- Venus
Essential dignity
The Sun is in its fall in Libra, the sign opposite its exaltation. The tradition reads this as its most muted expression.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Sun is in Libra
The Sun is in Libra every year from about September 23 to October 23. The exact moments this year and next:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026, 00:05 | Oct 23, 2026, 09:38 · now |
| Sep 23, 2027, 06:01 | Oct 23, 2027, 15:32 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
See where the Sun falls in your own birth chart
How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.