Libra Rashi

Tula weighs. Ruled by Shukra, it is the rashi most attuned to other people: what they need, what is fair, what the room can bear. Tula people are genuinely good company and genuinely good mediators. The difficulty is that a mind built to see both sides can struggle to choose one, and a person built to keep the peace can go a long time without saying what they want. Tula grows by learning that a stated preference is not an act of aggression.

Tula — known in English as Libra — is the sidereal zodiac sign of the Scales, ruled by Shukra (Venus). It is a air (vayu) rashi of movable (chara) quality: in Vedic astrology that pair describes how a sign begins things, holds them, or adapts to them.

In the sidereal zodiac the Sun passes through Tula from roughly 17 October to 15 November. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, where Libra runs from 23 September – 22 October. The two differ by about 24 degrees — the ayanamsa — which is why your Vedic rashi is usually the sign before your Western one.

Tula contains Chitra (Pada 3–4), Swati, Vishakha (Pada 1–3). Each rashi spans 30 degrees and holds two and a quarter nakshatras, so the nakshatra locates a planet far more precisely than the rashi alone, and it is the nakshatra that determines your Vimshottari dasha sequence.

In Indian and Nepali practice your rashi is your Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at your birth, not the Sun. The Moon governs the mind, and it is the Moon's daily transit counted from your rashi that a daily rashifal actually reads.

In traditional matching, Libra tends to find easy ground with Gemini, Aquarius, where the element and the ruling planets agree. Aries asks more work — not incompatibility, but a difference in pace and priority that has to be named rather than assumed. Ashtakoota Gun Milan looks at eight factors and not only the rashi, so treat sign-to-sign compatibility as a first indication rather than a verdict.