The twelve signs · XI Justice
Libra
The scales of Astraea, beside her in the sky. The Greeks saw here the claws of the Scorpion, and the names of its stars still mean the northern and the southern claw.
Its card
XI Justice
The sign
23 September – 22 October
The Sun in the real constellation
about 31 October – 23 November
Brightest stars
Zubeneschamali, Zubenelgenubi
Why two sets of dates? The signs were fixed more than two thousand years ago. Since then the Earth's axis has slowly turned, and today the Sun crosses each constellation weeks later than its sign. Our cards draw the sky as it truly is.