Venus in Libra

You met at a friend’s party, while you were introducing two other people to each other. You did it so well that they talked all night, and you ended up talking to the one guest who had noticed what you did.

Venus in Libra makes love an art, and you practise it well.

Handwritten notes

You love courtship, and you are good at it: the handwritten note, the remembered detail, the evening planned around what they like. You know the name of their oldest friend, the colour they say they never wear and the film they quote, and you use all of it lightly, so that being courted by you feels like being understood. The tradition makes Libra Venus’s house by day, as Taurus is its house by night, and here love goes out into company: the introduction, the dinner, the dance. Your taste is excellent and it matters to you, in clothes, rooms, music and people, and someone with none of it has to be very kind indeed.

Seen together

Your love is social. You like being seen with the person you love, introducing them, making friends of their friends. A romance kept entirely private feels to you like half a romance. Good manners and a good eye attract you first, and you want a love that is fair, where both people give and both receive. You feel it the moment the scales tip.

Peace at any price

Peace, for you, is worth almost any price. You smooth over what needs saying, agree to the restaurant you did not want, and call it kindness. You have said “I’m fine, honestly” in a tone that fooled everyone except you. Arguments feel ugly to you, even the necessary ones, and you would sooner lose one than have it.

When you feel yourself smoothing something over, ask whether this is peace or only quiet, and say what the quiet is covering, kindly, the same day.

Still courting

Ten years in, you still court: the note in a jacket pocket, the table booked for no reason, the good glasses on a weeknight. Beauty and good manners hold a love together longer than people think, and yours is the proof.