Talk:Libra (constellation)

Astrology

I'm a Libran, I have gone through different explanations from various sources about Libra and Librans, it looks to me that most of the explanations are very correct but some are far away from the reality. Unfortunately there are so many astrological jargons in this site that I have never come across before, can there be a simple way of explaining the details pertaining these zodiac things?

Is there nay astrologist who have tried to link the technical aspects of the practiced astrology and major religions of the world, say Christianity or Islam?

Ibrahim 'Big Bum Beater', TANZANIA.

Thats a Libra (astrology) topic, here, we astronomers are pretty much ignorant of such. Said: Rursus 18:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Mythology

"Since the place Boötes should have held on the ecliptic is vacant, it may have, together with Ursa Major, Draco, and Ursa Minor, also in Libra, led to the myth of the apples of the Hesperides, one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles."

This makes no sense to me. Bootes is not on the ecliptic. And just what is "also in Libra"? Certainly none of these constellations.

 BY Michelle Moreland

Disambiguation page

I've just moved the unwieldy disambiguation header to Libra (disambiguation) and put an Otheruses1 template at the top of this page. Hairy Dude 02:50, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Libra is also an old Roman Unit of mesurement. It is Latin for scales. it is unfair to jump right into astrology. this page should be listed on another page with other uses of Libra.

Libra or as Librans many intend to achieve high dreams in a limited time in an extraordinary manner.

Libra constellation project

see...I am doing a school project on Libra and I was just wondering if anybody knew when and by whom Libra was discovered..?

66.177.184.245 18:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)Lauren

Well, Libra was not "discovered" since constellations are invented. Being a part of the zodiac, Libra is an ancient constellation, apparently originated from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). It is impossible to know who was the original "inventor".--JyriL ^talk 18:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

History and Mythology

Is pretty unclear. The problem is the mentioning of terms, languages and cultures out of sequential order. The sequence is about this:

• 1. Babylonians developed an early astrology,
• 2. Greeks conquered Mesopotamia and thereby the contained Babylonia, and historians wrote in Greek about Mesopotamian topics, f.ex. Berossus,
• 3. Romans conquered the Mediterraneans, including major parts of the former Greek territory, Greeks transfered knowledge Romans, f.ex. Hyginus, who wrote about it in Latin texts surviving today | Simultaneously Mesopotamia was conquered by a diversity of Persian and related rulers,
• 4. The Arabs conquered the Mesopotamian area, the southern Mediterraneans and the Persian area, copying all knowledge from the conquered areas, including Greek, Roman, Persian etc, knowledge, mixed it with some inventions learned from Hindus, and redeveloping all to high science,
• 5. The Franco-Latin West (about 1200) restabilized from some hundred of years of internal crisis and turmoil, and started to import all possible science, slowly and methodically preparing for the Renaissance,

The terms are:

• a. zibanitu, Akkadian, probably in 1. up to 2. or up to 4.
• b. Chelae Scorpionis is actually Latin, Greek name needed! The relevant time is 2. It is suspected that the Greek originally regarded Khêlai (Libra) as being the claws of Skorpios, while the Romans are only known to have invented just a few constellations to add to the usual Greek set,
• c. zubānā, Arabic, might have originated directly from 1. or more plausibly in the 4. interval,

... said: Rursus (^mbork³) 14:05, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

"Libra is the only zodiac sign that does not symbolise a living creature but since 2 air signs (Aquarius and Libra) are not represented by living creatures in art forms, instead they were held up a living creature instead as it was done in art forms." Sent4nce is incomprehensible Nicdavid (talk) 19:26, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Picture of the day

An illustration from Urania's Mirror (1825) depicting the constellation Libra. This faint constellation, which has no first magnitude stars, is located between Virgo to the west and Scorpius to the east. Both Roman and Babylonian astronomy likened the constellation to a pair of scales, though the Ancient Greeks held it to be the scorpion's claws. Libra is one of the constellations of the zodiac; in Western astrology, Libra covers the period between September 22 and October 21.Illustration: Sidney Hall; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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Rho and Pi?

I found out that Rho and Pi were missing from this constellation’s Bayer designation. Why? Astronomical Editor (talk) 01:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)