Sabian Symbols · Libra · Degree 16 of 30
Libra 16°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “After a storm has passed, a boat landing is left damaged and waiting to be rebuilt.”
THE SYMBOL
“After a storm has passed, a boat landing is left damaged and waiting to be rebuilt.”
Libra 16° · 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
Something that used to make arrival possible got damaged by conditions nobody controlled, and now the real work is rebuilding the place where people cross from water to solid ground. This degree is honest about aftermath: Libra prefers calm, but storms happen anyway, and this one is specifically about the unglamorous, necessary labor of restoring passage once the weather has already done its damage.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real capacity to rebuild connection or access after genuine disruption, patient reconstruction rather than resentment at the storm. Saturn or Mars here can favor someone who repairs what breaks rather than abandoning the crossing point. On the fourth or seventh house, it can describe a relationship or home rebuilt, structurally, after real damage.
What landing point in your life is still waiting on you to actually rebuild it, the storm long since passed?
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