Separating the real from the unreal is the first order of business in Libra. But Venus ruled Libra shirks from discord. Beware of band-aid solutions, misappropriated diplomacy (or flat out denials) that appear to “buy the peace” during this cycle — in your personal life, in the larger issues that surround us. Abraham Lincoln (Sun in Aquarius but action planet Mars in Libra) wrestled with the people pleasing problem and concluded that poet John Lydgate had it right: “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” President during the US Civil War, Lincoln had to call some definitive shots! Resist beguiling another. Above all, to your own real self be true and then no one can deceive you! Libra mini-exercise: be truthful today in all things, to yourself and to others. Be kind but not insincere, diplomatic but courageous, astute but wise. How did you so?