Sabian Symbols · Libra · Degree 10 of 30
Libra 10°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A canoe, having just come through a stretch of dangerous rapids, glides out onto calm, safe water.”
THE SYMBOL
“A canoe, having just come through a stretch of dangerous rapids, glides out onto calm, safe water.”
Libra 10° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
The hard part is already behind the boat, the water ahead is smooth, and the degree captures the exact exhale after danger, still close enough to feel, already far enough to trust. Libra's whole project is finding the calm water, and this degree shows what it actually looks like to arrive there, not by avoiding the rapids but by getting all the way through them intact.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real skill at navigating genuine danger cleanly enough to reach lasting stability afterward, not luck, method. Neptune or Mars here can favor someone who steers well under real pressure and knows the instant the water changes. On the seventh house, it can describe a partnership that survived its roughest water and now, provably, floats easily.
What rapids are you already through, that you haven't yet let yourself fully believe are behind you?
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