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Fixed earth , feminine, receptive.
Ruled by Venus.
Taurus as the 2nd sign correlates with the 2nd house.
Venus is accidentally dignified in the 2nd house.
Body part: throat, tongue, lower jaw, voice.
Concept: custodianship of resources [divine or earthly], attachment to the land and possessions, appreciation of sensuality and fine living, amassing wealth; cultivating and conserving material things; conservation and application of energy for fruitful purpose, the building of foundations, learning spiritual truths from the material/natural world, the principle of slow careful development.
Qualities: slow, deliberate, composed, patient, caring, affectionate, helping, sensual, pleasure-loving, good taste, unchanging, steady, fruitful, conservative, sensitive, supportive.
Liabilities: stubborn, stuck, over-indulgently sensual, materialistic, possessive, can't let go. If anger finally develops, it is deep and hard to overcome.
Need to learn: detachment, change.
Handling Taurus: don't rush them, don't prod.
physical pleasure |
cautious |
sensual |
deliberate |
patient |
comfort-loving |
steadfast |
self-indulgent |
reliable |
stubborn |
methodical |
fertile |
artistic |
productive |
placid |
creative |
security-loving |
possessive |
• Taurus consumers love the finest. Buy them luxury. They go for beauty.
How is Taurus capable?
They can manage wealth and conserve and maintain things. They never give up.
How is Taurus fixed?
They are slow-moving, slow to decide, and particularly deliberate. Change is disagreeable to them, and they find it quite challenging to alter their innate behaviour – being guided by the force of entrenched habit. Taurus is a natural maintainer and enhancer of what it has.
Taurus psychology
Taurus takes on and contains whatever comes – and thus can have difficulty managing anger and clearing out negativity. They're slow to anger, but because it builds up over such a long time, when it happens it can be awesome. Taureans are the most emotionally steady of all the zodiac. Theirs is a gentle-giant archetype. They are magnetic in drawing people and things to themselves.
Mythic Taurus
Taurus is ruled by the feminine Venus, who is the archetype of the pleasure-seeking lover, the opposite pole of the mother type. Her ethics are the ethics of pleasure – of what she likes. In comparing this with the self-denying ethics of the Mother, Venus comes across as wanton and very ‘human” – her love is conditional. [See Neptune for unconditional love.]
In practice in the astrological chart, we can see how Venus indicates our values, for what are values [including economic values] but “what we like”? Money and wealth, as well as love, are provinces of Venusian influence.
Venus' mythic life was a succession of relationships of many sorts – for love, for alliance or for friendship. A Greek tale of her romantic meddling is the following:
The powerful King Minos of Crete sought affirmation of his greatness, and prayed to Poseidon/ Neptune, the god of the seas, to send him a bull as a sign of his regal status. Minos swore that he would immediately make a sacrifice of this bull to Neptune, to seal the sanctity of the affirmation.
Neptune complied with a magnificent creature, but the bull was so beautiful that Minos couldn't bear to part with him. He tried to cheat on the sacrifice, and replaced the white bull with another one, keeping Neptune's gift for himself. Neptune was most unimpressed, and asked Venus /Aphrodite to assist in revenge for this act of treachery and greed.
Venus caused Minos' queen, Pasiphae, to fall in love with the bull – so much that Pasiphae ordered Dedalos, the palace craftsman, to make her a wooden cow. This artefact was used to lure the bull into coupling with her. Pasiphae was impregnated by the creature, and she bore the fearsome Minotaur.
This beast symbolises overpowering animal lust [bull's head OVER man's body] which is a shadow of the Taurean nature. The Minotaur caused much grief in Crete because the youth of the island had to be sacrificed to appease its awful appetites. Eventually the great hero Theseus was sent to slay the Minotaur in his labyrinthine home.
This is a myth of lust and appetite – which is a negative Taurus theme. The story reflects the fixity of the sign in the desire of Minos to retain the prized bull. It also reveals something of the nature of Venus, who was willing to assist in an act of revenge – using the medium of lustful love, and one might say, quite without conscience.
In popular 20 th century lore , there is the Disney story of Ferdinand the Bull – a thoroughly placid and loving creature who luxuriates in his sumptuously green pasture, in love with the world – until the fateful day when he sits upon a bee. Thus is set into motion the rage of Taurus – difficult to activate, but awesome once it appears.
In American and Spartan myth Venus signified war when in the morning-star phase. The Mayan myth associated the morning Venus with the misdemeanours of their god Quetzalcoatl, who brought bad fortune to the nation through his illicit behaviour.
In Mayan myth, the evening star Venus is socially cooperative and refined; definitely considered to be a better citizen.
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