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Ruled by Venus.
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Sensualist or hedonist.
Fixed Earth. Physicality, practicality, stability, seriousness, all characteristics of earth, concentrate in Taurus, in its rich, deep, mature tones. Taurus is the bull plowing the new earth of spring, the pregnant heifer, the surging gardens. Taurus influences in the chart (Second house, or planets in Taurus) create an emphasis on worldy achievement and security. This can manifest as success, comfort and beauty.
Taurus (in its purest essence) is stable, patient, diligent, determined, long-suffering, kind, and gentle. Taurus creates beauty whenever possible, in its physical body, its home, its work, kitchen and garden. Taurus can also be overbearing, stubborn, dour, boring, staid, possessive, dogmatic, linear/inflexible or greedy. There is an emphasis on social approval, and desire to conform.
Taurus is concerned with propriety, that is, fitness, correctness, moral uprightness, decorum, suitability, delicacy, and even fastidiousness. Jupiter or Venus in Taurus soften this tendency, lending grace. Saturn, Martian or Plutonian influences in Taurus can produce lasciviousness, wanton waste, or deliberate affronts to piety.
Taurus, when active in the chart, can bring elegance, wealth, artistic power, care in speech, stamina, love of sensuality and pleasure. Taurus is direct, straightforward emotion. It is prudent, traditional, and articulate; it is attracted to literature, language, history, theater, and collecting.
Unfavorable Taurus aspects: indulgence, lethargy, missing opportunities, exorbitant, too passionate, con artist, overweight, mean, hesitant, difficulty in love, perpetual victim of love and work, controlled by older persons, self-isolating, impotent or frigid, sexually unorthodox or perverse, sex organ problems, taking too much leisure time.
Taurus, when active in the chart, can bring compulsive behavior, and a drive to control people and situations. Scorpio, Capricorn, and Cancer share these traits.
Like its opposite, Scorpio, Taurus enjoys having power over others. But Taurus' strategy is to permeate, while the Scorpio approach is to penetrate. (Taurus is Venus ruled - Scorpio is Mars ruled). In this sense, Taurus has an affinity with Pisces, when Taurus chooses to be adaptable. Earth mixed with water becomes clay.
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Taurus is symbolized by the bull, with its connotations of plowing, fertility, strength, endurance, stubbornness, and deliberate, steadfast determination. Taurus moves slowly, carefully, and with certainty.
Domains of Taurus are authority, banking, collecting, building, investing, the arts, music, culture, monasteries, or anything requiring commitment and patience.
Lessons for Taurus include flexibility, letting go, ready acceptance of change, learning to raise their values from an earthly to a spiritual aim.
Like all three earth signs, Taurus has a tendency to stay put, in one way or another. With Taurus, if afflicted, it's an immovable stress, but usually has some mitigating Venusian beauty. There is often a "cross to bear" in the life.
Tatanka Iyotanka (Sitting Bull) - Dakota
[1834? - 1890]
Taurus rules the throat and neck.
For Taurus, the Shadow takes the form of Other's being emotionally explosive or manipulative, and shattering your peaceful existence. You react by bearing down on it, flattening it with earthly logic, or ignoring it. Work with your shadow, and the people you project it onto, by learning to be quick on your feet, by understanding human nature, and by better planning. The more you deny your Shadow, the more it will manifest itself and attract what you will interpret as disruption or pain.
The Second house has the character of Taurus: planets in this house are concerned with Security, whether it be in achieving it, maintaining it, obsessing over it, or always losing it, etc. This is the house of wealth or "power in reserve;" helpful planets in the second house can bring prosperity, testing planets can bring difficulty with money, etc.
The Second House is said to be the house of money. This is a metaphor for comfort, and the security necessary to be able to afford going slow, taking time, and doing things in a stately, graceful, thorough, and well paced manner. Taurus is not quick on its feet, in that sudden changes are hard for Taurus.
The earth triplicity is Taurus (fixed), followed by Virgo (mutable), and then Capricorn (cardinal).