Charubel opens Libra with pure geometry: a four-square figure, the original printing a small square diagram where words give out. A square is equality enacted, four sides matched, four right angles agreeing, the figure that cannot lean; it is the ground plan of rooms, courts and city blocks, the shape human beings build when they intend fairness and permanence. Set on the first degree of Libra it makes an argument about the sign, that balance is not a mood but a construction, achieved by measure and maintained by keeping the corners true.
Libra's scales weigh; the square is what the weighing is for, a world with its sides equal. The image also carries squareness in the older moral sense, the square deal, the square meal, dealing squarely, honesty as right angles. The shadow of the figure is rigidity, fairness hardened into the demand that all things match, spontaneity lost to symmetry, and the square's own vulnerability is instructive, since a frame stays square only while its joints are tended. On a natal Sun, Venus or Ascendant this opening degree tends to mark constitutional fairness, people who instinctively build even-sided arrangements, and its counsel is the builder's: check the diagonals, because a figure can look square long after it has quietly become something else.