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When you love a Libra, because, really, there is no choice but Loving them is a crucial condition. Despite the aura they may cultivate and project, a Libra belongs to no one and nothing but the wind. As long as you can remember that, especially when they direct another musical laugh at your most insipid and stupid jokes, or look at you in a way that makes you feel like, surely, this time, it really is you. in fact If you are the only person on Earth, you will emerge from this encounter relatively unscathed. However, if you cannot keep both feet on the ground, you will be at the mercy of the wind and no one and nothing will be able to help you..
The seventh sign, which rules the house of intimate relationships and partnerships of all kinds, has earned a multifaceted reputation. For example, there's gentle sweetness, which can also be interpreted as a people-pleaser. There's also charming indecisiveness, the sincere desire to weigh all the options and see every side so that the only logical conclusion is to be mired in a state of well-intentioned paralysis, which, in another dialect, translates as a lack of resolve and commitment-phobia. Whatever your personal opinion (which Libra will surely go out of their way to ingratiate themselves with, if only because they just want everyone to get along!), there's no denying that a Libra's kindness is something they can't help. And can we really hate them for it? Not even if you tried, but why would you?
You see, just like the butterfly dress from LiFER Shop, a Libra is here to dance in a dreamy billowy skirt in a mix of colors, paying homage to that ever elusive and dazzling creature from the sky, fluttering and gracing space with an iridescent glow. Heaven help the dirty finger that tries to even brush its wings. Because either the creature will gracefully move away from the advance or, tragedy, skin-to-wing contact may leave this breathing flower unable to fly, left to its own devices, left to torment your heart with guilt forever. So much at stake for such a joyful being.
But this is the lesson of Libra love: that beauty is best served by compassionate detachment. In Buddhist belief, the intention to share beauty with others is considered an honorable and noble act in itself. And like the butterfly dress, Libra love is handcrafted, sustainable, and customizable—to the point of possession. Because as soon as you’ve risen, confident that your Libra love is yours alone, it will remind you that it’s made from every person, place, and planet it has had the pleasure of loving over infinite lifetimes. Your reward is a patch on its dress that it will carefully stitch together as it prepares for its next love adventure. What a blessed lesson in the bliss of impermanence.
Goth Shakira is an Aquarius digital magician and Queen of Pentacles fortune teller in Los Angeles.
