Libra

-By Amber

Libra means scale or balance. So named because when the zodiac was still in its infancy, some four thousand years ago, the sun passed through this constellation at the 21 of March.

Libra is a symbol for equality, to represent the Justice in several middle eastern cultures. However the Greeks had different thoughts: at one time Scorpius, which lies just to the east, was much larger, and the stars that make up Libra were then known as the Claws of the Scorpion.

Eventually, however, these stars of Libra came to represent the Golden Chariot of Pluto. Pluto's , (or Hades), Golden Chariot was used whenever the Lord of the Underworld wished to visit the Upperworld, usually to seduce a nymph. But when he took Persephone back to Tartarus, the deepest part of Hades, the Upperworld would change forever.

His golden Chariot was pulled by four black horses. When he used the Chariot to visit the Upperworld, in order to seduce a beautiful nymph, he rarely wished the relationship to last. Until he saw Persephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus.

The 4 stars also represent the shape of a diamond.