#harmonized!

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♪: A song (or two) that I associate with my character

Heaven - John Legend

Last night was the worst nightBeginning of the endOr maybe it beganBefore it here we go againThings got so dramaticThings got out of handWe said words we couldn’t imagineI don’t understandThere you go with the same old thingWhen things go wrong you always seem to blame meNow I would like to find what secrets hide in your mindWhere the end will goWill I ever knowHeaven only knows

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♋ -Accomplishment.

Tighten Up - Black Keys

Living just to keep goingGoing just to be saneAll the while not knowingIt's such a shameI don't need to get steadyI know just how I feelI'm telling you to be readyMy dear

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During the Golden Age, the legendary first period of human existence, Astraea, the Roman Goddess of justice, lived on the earth, mingling among the many mortal beings. In the pans of her great golden scales, she heavily weighed the good and evil deeds of men and women, thereby deciding their many different fates. As Astraea became increasingly offended by the wickedness of her citizens, she decided to flee from the corrupt civilization, and returned to the heavens, joining Demeter as the constellation of the Virgin Goddess. Astraea abandoned civilization so hurriedly that she left behind her golden scales of justice. The Romans, in fear of her judgment, created the constellation of Libra from the ancient Scorpion's claws so that The Scales would always be nearby in the sky.

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The Tiresias myth is a profound one, and shows the profound side of Libra's journey.  For Libra isn't just about finding the perfect love, the perfect marriage, and perfect society.  It's about blending the opposites, bringing together people and things which would otherwise fight each other without understanding.  With his great gift of diplomacy, Libra can straddle the fence and comprehend both sides, and act as an intermediary because he recognizes both within himself.  He may not be very balanced, but balance is what he's ultimately striving for.  The sooner he climbs down from the ivory tower which is his protection against emotional pain and disillusionment, the sooner he can begin his real work, which is first to marry the conflicting opposites within himself.  Whether it's his intellect and his emotions, his maleness and his femaleness, his spirituality and his materialism, Libra will always find deep conflicts in himself which represent the deep conflicts in life.  And as he gradually carves for himself the thin road in the middle, he can truly become the bringer of the Good, the True and the Beautiful - because they no longer exist only in his mind.

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[ Okay I found something that could help relate Libra to Greek Mythology! ]

There is a Greek myth which can help us get some insight into what Libra's real life journey is about.  The Greek myth of Tiresias, the blind prophet, also has some relation to Libra.  It's a curious myth, and we'll deal here with only part of it, the part that really pertains to our curious subject.  

Tiresias, because he has the favor of the goddess Hera, is given the chance to observe a miracle:  two serpents coupling in the goddess' sacred grove.  He asks the goddess which of them experiences the greater pleasure; and because she cannot answer, she grants him the boon of spending part of his life as a woman, so that he can experience both.  At the end of this ritual of transsexual initiation, he returns to his male form and is called before Zeus and Hera and asked which experiences the greatest pleasure - male or female.  At first he tries diplomacy, because whichever answer he gives he knows he is bound to offend somebody.  But eventually he tells the truth - that the female experiences the greater pleasure - whereupon Zeus, furious at this insult to masculine vanity, strikes him blind.   Now, blindness in Greek myth is often a symbol for inner sight.  All the great prophets and bards are generally represented as blind, either in one eye or both.  Oedipus, when he makes his great discovery about his origins, strikes himself blind - that is, he sees inwardly at last.  So, for Tiresias, the result of his experiences is that he now has inner sight, and becomes a prophet.  

What has this got to do with Libra?  Well, it's the polarity.  Male and female are as enigmatic a pair for Libra as good and evil, or perfect and imperfect.