Effects Of Libra Planets In The First House

I was asked to cover the impact of planets that fall in the house ruled by the opposite sign.  Libra planets in the 1st.  Scorpio planets in the 2nd. Sagittarius planets in the 3rd, etc.

I was specifically asked about how a stellium of planets in this condition, behave.  Well let me tell you, this is a book-length challenge.

This happens when a person is a late Virgo or Libra rising, depending on your house system. My son is a Libra rising so I’ve had a lot of exposure to this.

It’s the opposite of this situation:

Benefits Of Having Aries Rising (The Natural Chart)

I can’t take on the whole project but I thought I’d give some idea how to look at this; in part because I have a textbook example.

I’m talking about a man I knew who had Venus in Libra conjunct his ascendent.  Pure specimen see?  He was definitely attractive, but he was a lot more than that. He was favored. I’m telling you, it was almost impossible not to like this guy.  You just wanted to gift him. If you doubt me, check his story:

When this man was in his twenties, he was in pharmacy school.  He worked in a pharmacy, while attending school.  The pharmacy was owned by this older couple who liked this man very much. They also had no children, so when it came time to retire, they gifted him the store. YES. They gave him the entire business for no money at all.  He was twenty-eight years old.  Pennsylvania, as I recall.

He worked this store for a few some years, and then he sold it for a ton of money and he moved to the Colorado mountains. Once in Colorado, he bought another pharmacy, in one of the mountain towns; this was before Colorado, exploded in popularity. Needless to say, he became very rich.

I tried to date this guy.  I did date this guy, but honest to God, that Venus placement did us in.  It  had little to do with the man himself.   His Venus was pure veneer. He knew people nearly always liked him, nearly always favored him. He’s learned to use his quality, tactically. First house!

Now that’s not what did us in, either. My point the first house is the first house. Me, me, me.  If he’s armed with charm (Venus in Libra), is it surprising he’d weaponize it to get what he wants?

We talked plenty about astrology. He was fully aware what he was doing. I might have been mulling the morality of this –  he’d fake sugar yo’ ass. We talked about this, extensively. But that’s not what did us in either, because we got on like house on fire.  What did us in, was being in public.

This guy was always turned out, as you can imagine.  He looked like someone who must be someone. Warren Beatty in his prime.

I remember emerging from a coffee shop with him, in Denver.  We were in the middle of an intense conversation, so note the mindset. Some women started chatting with him, as we paused on the sidewalk in front of the shop.  He flipped into Libra mode, which was entirely appropriate.  What does this situation call for, if not a “first handshake”? But the way he engaged them…

Well, I looked pretty nice, myself and  I could have played, “spokesmodel” next to his leading man, but I just couldn’t do it.  Mars in Libra? Capricorn reality, integrity? Wrong movie, for Elsa P?

I don’t know but I dumped this guy and was I honest about why.  I cannot assert “veneer”, knowing who and how I really am. He could not /not assert veneer. We both understood this, so we said goodbye.

This is how these things work.  The house is the house and the planet is the planet. They do not cancel each other out. You have to think and observe. If you do this, you’ll see it.

Do you have planets in Libra in your first house?  How do they fire?