Taurus
(The Bull)
April 21 to May 21
The Taurean's characteristics
are solidity, practicality, extreme determination
and strength of will - no one will ever drive
them, but they will willingly and loyally follow
a leader they trust. They are stable, balanced,
conservative good, law-abiding citizens and lovers
of peace, possessing all the best qualities of
the bourgeoisie. As they have a sense of material
values and physical possessions, respect for property
and a horror of falling into debt, they will do
everything in their power to maintain the security
of the status quo and be somewhat hostile to change.
Mentally,
they are keen-witted and practical more often
than intellectual, but apt to become fixed in
their opinions through their preference for following
accepted and reliable patterns of experience.
Their character is generally dependable, steadfast,
prudent, just, firm and unshaken in the face of
difficulties. Their vices arise from their virtues,
going to extremes on occasion,such as sometimes
being too slavish to the conventions they admire.
On
rare occasions a Taurean may be obstinately and
exasperatingly self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid,
ultraconservative, argumentative, querulous bores,
stuck in a self-centered rut. They may develop
a brooding resentment through nursing a series
of injuries received and, whether their characters
are positive or negative, they need someone to
stroke their egos with a frequent, "Well
Done!" Most Taureans are not this extreme
though.
They
are faithful and generous friends with a great
capacity for affection, but rarely make friends
with anyone outside their social rank, to which
they are ordinarily excessively faithful. In the
main, they are gentle, even tempered, good natured,
modest and slow to anger, disliking quarreling
and avoiding ill-feeling. If they are provoked,
however, they can explode into violent outbursts
of ferocious anger in which they seem to lose
all self-control. Equally unexpected are their
occasional sallies into humor and exhibitions
of fun.
Although
their physical appearance may belie it, they have
a strong aesthetic taste, enjoying art, for which
they may have a talent, beauty (recoiling from
anything sordid or ugly) and music. They may have
a strong, sometimes unconventional, religious
faith. Allied to their taste for all things beautiful
is a love for the good things of life pleasure,
comfort, luxury and good food and wine and they
may have to resist the temptation to over indulgence,
leading to drunkenness, gross sensuality, and
covetousness.
In
their work, Taureans are industrious and good
craftspeople, and are not afraid of getting their
hands dirty. They are reliable, practical, methodical
and ambitious, within a framework of obedience
to superiors. They are at their best in routine
positions of trust and responsibility, where there
is little need of urgency and even less risk of
change, and a pension at the end. Yet they are
creative and good founders of enterprises where
the rewards of their productiveness come from
their own work and not that of others. They can
flourish in many different trades and professions:
banking, architecture, building, almost any form
of bureaucracy, auctioneering, farming, medicine,
chemistry, industry Taureans make good managers
and foremen surveying, insurance, education and,
perhaps surprisingly, music and sculpture. They
make an ideal trustee or guardian, and can attain
eminence as a chef. Some Taureans are gifted enough
in singing to become opera stars or to excel in
more popular types of music.
They
are more than averagely amorous and sensually
self-conscious, but sexually straightforward and
not given to experiment. They make constant, faithful,
home loving spouses and thoughtful, kindly parents,
demanding too much of neither their spouses nor
children. They can be over possessive and may
sometimes play the game of engineering family
roles for the pleasure of making up the quarrel.
If anyone offends their amour proper they can
be a determined enemy, though magnanimous in forgiveness
if their opponent makes an effort to meet them
halfway.
No
other sign in the zodiac is closer to earth then
Taurus. The main objective in leading a Taurean
life is primarily (though not entirely) to maintain
stability and physical concerns. Your inner spiritual
sense longs for earthly harmony and wholesomeness.
When you fully understand this, and work toward
this end, you will no longer need to blindly reassure
yourself with external possessions and comforts.
A realization that finding this inner peace will
cause all of the above mentioned positive things
will overtake you and your life will be very full.
Ultimately
the Taurean needs to discover their truest, deepest
and highest values. When they know what is truly
valuable, they are no longer chained to people
and to things that have to do with lesser values.
The greatest indication of value to a Taurean
is beauty, which cannot be owned, only appreciated.
Taurus governs the throat and neck and its subjects
need to beware throat infections, goiter and respiratory
ailments such as asthma. They are said to be at
risk of diseases of the genitals, womb, liver
and kidneys, and of abscesses and rheumatism.
Because their body type has an inclination to
physical laziness, Taureans can be overweight.
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