Sun in Libra in the First House

With your Sun in Libra, you are easy to like, for you have a captivating charm, possess elegant taste, and are usually beautiful to look at. In addition, you have the gift of making others feel important, for you are a superb listener and instinctively know how to draw out another person. You’re a born charmer. Your home will always have a touch of elegance, and you love to entertain in style.

Libra is the zodiacal sign of Partnerships—in psychological terms the sign is outer-directed. With your Sun in Libra, your energies are focused on melding and combining with other people; you are at your best in personal relationships. Your real energy, however, goes into people. Whether they be partners, lovers, mates, family, friends, business associates, or even guests at your party. You’re simply not a loner. Instinctively, you try to magnetize and pull others toward you. However, having your Sun in Libra, your main interest is on yourself within the relationship. You deal intuitively with other people’s emotions, and no one is better at understanding and taking into consideration another person’s point of view. Yet all too soon that outside viewpoint will be lost or subsumed within your own subtly self-centered concerns.

As an individual with your Sun in Libra, you strive for balance and harmony and are happiest when your environment is ordered and serene. Peace is worth any price to you and usually you will go a long way out of your way to avoid friction and dissension. Because you see clearly every side of an argument, every possibility of a given course, you have the tact and ability to smooth over disputes. You are a born diplomat. In order to avoid an unpleasant scene, you will even stifle your own true feelings. In fact, far too often you are not sure what your true feelings are. Because you try to be all things to all people, there is a general impression that you are indecisive.

Having your Sun in Libra, although you have superb instincts, you don’t trust them enough. You are likely to be an underachiever because of your easygoing attitude. For the most part, you don’t want anything badly enough to fight for it. The exception is when you’re denied a privilege to which you feel entitled. That ruffles your fur. Libras have a reputation for stubbornness, but that’s because you are sticklers for fairness. You resent being treated unfairly and become upset at inequity in the world at large. In general, it seems your strength is only brought out by crisis. This is when you’re at your most courageous.

The Inner You with your Sun in Libra

Having your Sun in Libra, you work hard trying to please others and as a result, they find you captivating. However, beneath your friendly exterior, you desperately long for love and approval. You have trouble saying no to others’ requests and you take on too many jobs or commitments—and then to prove how nice you are, you keep smiling through the strain while you hide a lot of resentment. It might be more useful to spend time building up your self-esteem rather than looking to others to give it to you. Basically, you give away your power. You hate anything unpleasant and avoid conflict, vulgarity, or strife. If life were a play, you’d always insist on a happy ending. The problem with trying to have constant peace and harmony is that you have trouble making decisions. At times you fear that any move you make will bring something terrible crashing down around you. If you could just lighten up and not be so hard on yourself, you’d be much more satisfied with what you do achieve. You have every ingredient for happiness!

The sign position of the Sun indicates how we seek to express ourselves, develop ourselves, fulfill ourselves, and assert our will and power to shape our environment. The house position indicates the area of life in which we choose to focus the energy of our Sun sign and fulfill the purpose which it represents.

Sun in the 1st House

The Sun in the 1st House is a strong placement for the Sun, indicating considerable focus on your self-identity. Both the Sun and the 1st House are associated with identity— who you feel you are. Normally, this placement suggests that you have a strong personality, unless the Sun has difficult aspects or is in a weak sign. Confidence, self-esteem and self-identity are likely to be issues that concern you but—unless there are indications in your chart to the contrary—you will generally deal with these issues positively. With the Sun in the 1st House, you may be given lessons, especially in early life, that challenge your self-confidence or provoke an identity crisis. Meeting these challenges is likely to result in you developing a stronger personality.

Insecurities

With your Sun in the 1st House you are vulnerable to two extremes if your psyche is unbalanced. At one extreme, you may have an overabundance of ego or self-interest resulting in you being too concerned with yourself. If this energy is introverted, you will be self-absorbed. If the energy is extroverted, you may manifest your personality too much. At the other extreme, you may suffer from a severe lack of self-esteem. In this case, it is the identity and the ego which are problematic for you. As an individual with your Sun in the 1st House, you do not know how to express your personality and identity in a healthy manner. The resulting personality is dysfunctional. Alternatively, working out this problem may become a life-goal. If this is the case, a more complete self will be the result.

Focus of Your Self-Identity

Having your Sun in the 1st House denotes a strong focus on self-identity. A central question, faced consciously or unconsciously by you is, Who am I? Throughout your life, you are likely to deal with issues involving the place of self, the meaning of identity and the development of persona. Depending on the aspects to the Sun in your chart, the overall composition of the chart, your stage of consciousness and your “inherited” tendencies, these issues may be dealt with in a confident manner or from an insecure or questioning place.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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