Libra

The scales of Tula appear in the Garuda Purana as Yama's instrument of cosmic justice. When a soul arrives at Yamaloka (Yama's court), its accumulated karma — the weight of every action, intention, and omission across this life — is placed on the Tula-danda. The soul's dharma is weighed against its adharma with perfect impartiality. No advocate, no wealth, no social position alters the reading of those scales. This cosmic function is why Tula holds Saturn's exaltation: the planet of karma, law, and discipline finds its highest expression precisely here, in the sign where justice operates beyond personal preference. Shukracharya's presence in this same sign teaches the other half of Tula's lesson — that beauty, harmony, and relationship are not distractions from dharma but its expression. The Mahabharata describes Shukracharya as the teacher who could restore life to the dead, whose knowledge of Mritasanjivani vidya gave him the power to transmute loss into continuation. Tula natives carry something of both: the weight of Yama's accountability and the grace of Shukra's renewal.